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Hi,

I'm fairly new to photography and I'm trying to improve my skills via different methods. I am looking at getting a Telephoto zoom lens for my EOS 500D. Whilst I was looking in Jessops over the weekend I came across Tamron Lenses (this one in particular - http://www.jessops.com/online.store/products/66320/show.html). I've never heard of this make before so was fairly dubious about it. Has anyone used a Tamron lens in the past? If so, what were the pros and cons? The main thing that immediately put me off was the lack of IS which would be a disadvantage if shooting hand-held at 300mm.

Any advise would be grateful.

Cheers,
Richard

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Tameron as a make are fine to use.

They arnt as solid feeling as canons own stuff, but its still a good make, the optics are sharp.

I have a tameron 90mm 1:1 and am well chuffed with the quality of the shots and how fast it can focus

Cant comment on the lack of IS though ... never shot anything bigger than 200mm
 
for £100 it's a great lens but is bettered by more expensive ones incl. Tamron's own SP 70-300 VC USD.
 
I have this lens, and it isn't the greatest. IQ at over 300mm is soft, but keep it around F11 / F16 and below 200mm it can produce some acceptable results. I purchased it as part of a deal from Jessops when I bought my EOS450D.

Other Tamron lenses are good value for money, but not this one. Mine stays in my camera bag most of the time.

As you are a Canon user I would consider the 55-250IS lens, all the tog's on here that have that lens seem to say good things about it.
 
hamster100 said:
I have this lens, and it isn't the greatest. IQ at over 300mm is soft, but keep it around F11 / F16 and below 200mm it can produce some acceptable results. I purchased it as part of a deal from Jessops when I bought my EOS450D.

Other Tamron lenses are good value for money, but not this one. Mine stays in my camera bag most of the time.

As you are a Canon user I would consider the 55-250IS lens, all the tog's on here that have that lens seem to say good things about it.
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Yup, the 55-250 IS is great :D

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I just gave this lens away as I've purchased the Sigma 150-500mm.

Gotta say I loved that lens and giving it away was hard as hell but unfortunately I needed a new computer and got a good deal out of it...

You're right that it's basic, but in good light or tripod use, results can be lovely!
 
IMO avoid it. I've had that Tamron, the Canon 100-300 (non L) and Canon 55-250 IS, which second hand are all around the same price and that Tamron was the worst of the lot by a country mile.
 
I used to have this lens but for Nikon. It was good for the price and if you stopped it down to about f/8 the IQ improved a bit but overall it wasn't great at the longer end so I sold up. Still think it was worth owning though.
 
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