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Review of Tamron AF 18-270mm f / 3.5-6.3 Di II LD

Review of Tamron AF 18-270mm f / iii.5-six.three Di Two LD

A brusk digression into Tamron's super-zoom line of SLR cameras with an APS-C sensor:

Model A14 Tamron AF eighteen-200 mm 1: 3.5-6.3 (IF) Aspherical LD XR DiII Macro, February 2005. State of origin Japan or China. The Pentax version has a metal mount; for Nikon / Catechism / Sony / Minolta, the mount is plastic. In March 2008, an improved model appears for Nikon cameras Tamron model A14 NII with built-in focus motor, focus mode switch, 8 microprocessor pins and metal mount. Nigh likely lenses Sony AF DT 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 и minolta AF DT 18-200mm F3.v-vi.3D employ the same optical scheme and are copies of it.
Model B018 Tamron AF 18-200 mm F / three.5-6.iii Di 2 VCAugust 2015.
Model A18 Tamron AF 18-250 mm F / 3.5-vi.three Di II LD Aspherical [IF] Macro, September 2006. Country of origin Nihon or China. In December 2007 an improved model appears for Nikon cameras Tamron model A18 NII with congenital-in focus motor, focus fashion switch and 8 microprocessor pins. Nigh probable lenses Sony AF DT 3.5-6.3 / 18-250 и SMC Pentax-DA 1: iii.5-6.3 xviii-250mm AL [IF] и Samsung 18-250 1:iii.five-vi.3 use the aforementioned optical scheme and are copies of it.
Model B003 Tamron AF eighteen-270 mm ane: 3.five-6.3 Di Ii LD [IF] Aspherical VC MacroJuly 2008.
Model B008 Tamron AF xviii-270 mm F / 3.5-six.3 Di II VC PZD, December 2010. Well-nigh likely the lens SMC Pentax-DA 1: 3.five-six.iii eighteen-270mm ED SDM use the same optical pattern.
Model B008TS Tamron AF 18-270 mm F / 3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZDSeptember 2016.
Model B016 Tamron AF xvi-300 mm F / 3.5-six.three Di Two VC PZD Macro, February 2014.
Model B028 Tamron 18-400 mm F / 3.5-6.3 Di Two VC HLDJune 2017.

There is still PROMASTER DIGITAL XR EDO AF Aspherical LD (IF) 18-200 mm 1: 3.5-6.3 Macrowhich is a model Tamron model a14 under the brand Promaster.

2 lenses for mirrorless cameras stand separately:

Model C001 Tamron Microphone 14-150 mm F / three.5-v.8 Di III, blackness or silver, June 2014, for cameras with Micro four/3 mount
Model B011 Tamron 18-200 mm F / three.5-half dozen.3 Di Iii VC, blackness or silvery, December 2011, for cameras with Sony Eastward mount and Canon EOS 1000
Model B061 Tamron 18-300 mm F / three.5-six.3 Di Three-A VC VXD (E+X) [Model B061], July 2021, for Sony E and FujiFilm X

Simply Tamron 18-270mm 1: 3.v-6.3 Ø72 Di II VC B003 is written on the lens itself Assembled in china, the other prefixes in the lens name are taken from the inscriptions on the box: LD Aspherical (IF) Macro for Canon. What do these foreign letters mean, you tin find in the review of his younger blood brother Tamron AF 18-200mm f / iii.5-half-dozen.iii. Tamron 18-270mm f / 3.five-vi.three exists in various versions: Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax. This lens is simply suitable for cropped cameras APS-C type, it is undesirable to use information technology on expensive total-size cameras.

Sample photo. Macro, raindrops on a leaf

It should be pay tribute to Tamron - Tamron 18-270mm 1: three.5-six.three Ø72 Di Ii VC B003 lens with 15x zoom appeared in summer 2008 years and had the largest zoom ratio for all lenses from SLR cameras. I remember how in 2009 I saw an advertisement for this lens in the Kiev metro, then my friends admired the inscription "zoom ratio 15X", which was unprecedented at that time. And only later on 4 (four!) Years, Nikon was able to release something like in the face of the Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-300 mm f / 3.5-v.6G ED VR with 17x zoom. Outside the window in 2013, and Canon has not nonetheless been able to echo the Tamron feat and release either 18-250 or xviii-270, I am already silent near 18-300. In 2011, the Tamron xviii-270mm ane: 3.5-6.3 Ø72 Di II VC lens was upgraded to a version with a silent piezoelectric motor. Please do not confuse Tamron 18-270mm f / 3.5-vi.3 (model B003E) from this review with the new Tamron AF 18-270mm F / 3.5-6.iii Di II VC PZD (Model B008).

The difference in size of the two versions of Tamron 18-270. The new version is noticeably smaller.

The divergence in size of the two versions of Tamron eighteen-270. The new version is noticeably smaller.

Tamron 18-270mm i: three.5-half-dozen.3 Ø72 Di Ii VC B003 was a very interesting lens. It is large, heavy, with a metallic bayonet mount. Despite his huge zoom ratio, he showed a tolerable prototype quality. Perhaps the secret as a picture from my copy of Tamron 18-270mm f / iii.5-vi.3 is that I used a lens on the camera Canon 350D... This model is said to have 'large pixels', making information technology easier to go a precipitous image. In whatsoever case, the huge zoom ratio and built-in image stabilization make the Tamron xviii-270mm f / 3.5-six.three a very attractive option in the optics of many amateur photographers.

Sample photo. After the rain.

Sample photo. Subsequently the pelting.

The lens is crammed with special optical elements.that are designed to improve paradigm quality. In the optical scheme of the lens, which consists of 18 elements in 13 groups, one element is an AD-type (glass with anomalous scattering), two LD elements (depression dispersion glass lenses) and equally many as iii ASL elements (aspherical elements).

Optical design Tamron AF 18-270mm f / 3.5-6.3 Di II LD [IF] VC macro

Optical pattern Tamron AF 18-270mm f / iii.5-6.3 Di Two LD (IF) VC macro

Only with the focusing speed, Tamron eighteen-270mm 1: 3.five-6.3, Tamron 18-270mm 1: 3.5-vi.3 permit the states downward a chip. Lens focuses slowly, and fifty-fifty there are some problems with focusing in Alive View mode, including when shooting video. I cannot judge how disquisitional the problems with Live View are, since I used Tamron 18-270mm 1: three.v-6.3 just on the camera Canon 350Dthat does non have a live screen mode.

Portrait on the lens

Lens focus internaltherefore, when focusing outside the lens, zip rotates or moves. The front end lens likewise does not rotate when zooming. The lens has a born focus motor that buzzes, it is not analogous to Nikon SWM or Catechism USM.

Full-length portrait

The lens has an 'AF / MF' focus way switch. In manual focus mode, the focus band rotates approximately 45 degrees. The zoom and focus ring are rubberized and comfortable enough. It is very good that at any focal length the minimum focusing distance of the lens is merely 49 cm, while at the 270mm focal length, you can shoot macro with a magnification of 1: iii.5. The magnification is weak, but the 'Macro' prefix in the name of the lens is still there. The lens has a focusing altitude scale in meters and feet.

Camera view

Tamron eighteen-270mm ane: 3.5-half dozen.3 well assembled, weighs a little more than a pound. The diameter of the front filter is rather big, equal to 72mm. The lens looks solid on small amateur mirrors. The torso of the lens can spontaneously drive out nether its own weight. To prevent this from happening, at that place is a lens zoom lockwhich locks the lens at 18mm. The lens hood comes with a plastic hood that can exist worn backwards. Truthful, this blocks access to the focus ring. The hood is small, like shooting fish in a barrel to acquit. The quality of photos in the lens hood is not much affected.

This is how Tamron looks on the Nikon camera

Paradigm Stabilizer (VC) I was surprised - information technology works very, very well. I shot handheld with shutter speeds of 1 / 80s at 270mm focal length without any problems. The stabilizer in Tamron 18-270mm i: 3.5-half dozen.3 really does its job very well. Only the stabilizer makes a slight noise. The lens has a 'VC ON / OFF' switch. The only pity is that the 270mm lens is 'night' with maximum aperture F / vi.3. In the range from eighteen to 200 mm, F / 3.5-5.half-dozen values are bachelor, but from 200 to 270 mm the maximum aperture can merely be F / half dozen.3. Weak aperture may adversely affect focusing accurateness in poor lighting atmospheric condition. Anyhow, many DSLR cameras are but not designed to piece of work with eyes, the maximum aperture of which is less than F / five.6. When I was working with the Tamron 18-270mm 1: iii.5-6.3, it focused quite 'tenaciously'.

The work of the stabilizer on the face. Handheld, 270mm 1/30 second

The work of the stabilizer on the face. Handheld, 270mm 1/thirty second

Sample Photos

The lens is sharp plenty only in the center of the frame, the sharpness is weak. The lens has good contrast. At 270mm you tin accomplish a pronounced bokeh effect. True, in general, the paradigm does not stand out anything special. All the time I had a lens, it was pouring heavy rain, under such poor lighting the prototype stabilizer helped me a lot, and I was able to get a couple of photos for review.

The parameters shown in the photograph gallery:
All shot on Canon EOS 350D using protective filter Tamron 72mm MC UV Philippines. EGF lens on Canon 350D is 29-432mm (!). On-photographic camera JPEG Fifty, high quality (without any processing). Dissonance reduction at slow shutter speeds was turned off. Parameters: contrast correction - 0, sharpness - 0, saturation - 0, tone color - 0. Used white balance: 'Motorcar' and 'Cloudy', 'Daylight', 'Shadow'. Photos have been reduced in size.

Tamron 18-270 with an extended trunk

My experience:

I desire to add on my own that the lens suffers from the effect of a vacuum cleaner, namely: when zooming, it drives the air within the photographic camera, which can lead to rapid contamination of the camera matrix. This is not very scary, because many cameras take special systems for cleaning the matrix and systems for distributing the air menses along the mirror shaft of the camera. Normally, amateur photographers want one lens for all occasions and Tamron 18-270mm ane: 3.5-vi.three can come to their rescue. However, the higher the zoom ratio, the, in general, the worse the image quality, and so you should not expect that Tamron 18-270mm 1: iii.5-6.3 will create super-sharp images. Many have a dilemma - this Tamron, or the native 18-200mm f / 3.five-five.half-dozen. I would not contact Tamron 18-270mm, as it would be very disappointing if for 500 USD. a low-quality specimen will come up beyond - after all, many people know that from specimen to specimen the quality of budget Tamron walks a lot. Withal, if you lot tin can find a good one, the Tamron 18-270mm can be a very nice piece of glass in a hobbyist's trunk.

Portrait on the lens

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Portrait on Tamron 18-270

Alternatives

By alternatives, I mean universal super-zoom lenses for cropped APS-C digital SLRs with a magnification greater than 13X. There are not so many such lenses.

Beneath is a listing of all hyper-zooms for SLR or mirrorless cameras with an APS-C sensor and a range of focal lengths greater than or equal to the classic eighteen-200 mm.

Tamron (dissimilar mounts):

Model A14 Tamron18-200/3.5-6.3 AF (IF) Aspherical LD XR DiII Macro, February 2005. Country of origin Nihon or China. The Pentax version has a metal mount; for Nikon / Canon / Sony / Minolta, the mount is plastic. In March 2008, an improved model appears for Nikon cameras Tamron model A14 NII with built-in focus motor, focus fashion switch, eight microprocessor pins and metallic mount.
PROMASTER 18-200/3.five-vi.3 DIGITAL XR EDO AF Aspherical LD (IF) Macrois a model Tamron model a14 nether the brand Promaster. Japanese assembly.
Model B018 Tamroneighteen-200/3.five-vi.3 AF Di II VCAugust 2015.
Model B011 Tamron xviii-200 mm F / 3.5-6.3 Di III VC, black or silver, Dec 2011, for cameras with Sony E mountain and Catechism EOS Chiliad
Model A18 Tamron18-250/3.five-vi.3 AF Di Ii LD Aspherical [IF] Macro, September 2006. Land of origin Japan or China. In December 2007 an improved model appears for Nikon cameras Tamron model A18 NII with congenital-in focus motor, focus fashion switch and 8 microprocessor pins.
Model B003 Tamron 18-270/iii.5-6.three AF Di Two LD [IF] Aspherical VC MacroJuly 2008.
Model B008 Tamron18-270/three.v-6.3 AF Di 2 VC PZD, December 2010. Country of origin People's republic of china or Vietnam.
Model B008TS Tamron18-270/3.five-vi.iii AF Di Ii VC PZDSeptember 2016.
Model B016 Tamron16-300/3.5-half dozen.three AF Di Ii VC PZD Macro, February 2014.
Model B028 Tamron eighteen-400/3.5-6.iii Di Two VC HLDJune 2017.

Sigma (dissimilar mounts):

Sigma eighteen-200 mm/3.5-6.3 Zoom DC , February 2005.
Quantaray 18-200/3.5-6.three Dio Multi-Coated, previous lens under the delusion of 'Quantaray'
Sigma xviii-200/3.5-half dozen.3 Zoom DC (+ -HSM) Os (Optical Stabilizer)September 2006 velvet or polish blackness trunk. The HSM motor is only available on Nikon photographic camera lenses.
Quantaray xviii-200/iii.5-half dozen.iii Dio Os (+ -HSM) Multi-Coated, previous lens nether the delusion of 'Quantaray'.
Sigmaxviii-200/iii.5-half dozen.three 2 Zoom DC HSM Bone (Optical Stabilizer)October 2011.
Sigma 18-200/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM MACRO | C (Contemporary, Optical Stabilizer), Jan 2014.
Sigma18-250/3.5-6.3 Zoom DC HSM Bone (Optical Stabilizer)January 2009
Sigma 18-250/3.v-half-dozen.3 Zoom DC Macro HSM Os (Optical Stabilizer)June 2012.
Sigma eighteen-300/3.v-vi.3 DC Bone HSM MACRO | C (Contemporary, Optical Stabilizer)September 2014.

Nikon (F):

Nikon 18-200/iii.five-5.6G DX VRNovember 2005.
Nikonxviii-200/3.v-5.6GII DX VRJuly 2009.
Nikon18-300/three.v-v.6G DX VRJune 2012.
Nikon18-300/iii.5-6.3G DX VRApril 2014.

Sony ('A' or 'E'):

Sony xviii-200/three.5-half dozen.3AF DT mount A is likely to use an optical circuit Tamron model a14.
minolta18-200/3.5-six.3AF DT Dmount A is likely to apply an optical circuit Tamron a14
Sony eighteen-250/three.5-6.3AF DT, A mount, since 2007, nearly likely uses optical design Tamron model a18.
Sony 18-200/iii.5-6.3 OSSmount E + its copy in the face Hasselblad East 3.five-6.three / eighteen-200 OSS
Sony xviii-200/3.five-6.3 OSS LE, E mount
Sony 18-200/iii.five-6.3 PZ OSS, E mount

Pentax (K):

Pentax 18-250/3.5-six.3 AL SMC DA [IF], October 2007, nearly probable uses an optical circuit Tamron model a18.
Pentax18-270/three.5-6.three ED SMC DA SDM, September 2012, most likely uses an optical circuit Tamron model b008.
Samsung 18-250/ 3.5-six.iii, with Pentax KAF2 mountain, 2008, (virtually likely uses optical blueprint Tamron model a18.

Canon (EFS):

Catechismxviii-200/3.five-5.6 IS Zoom Lens EF-Southward (Image Sbabilizer)August 2008.

Samsung (NX):

Samsung18-200/three.5-5.vi ED OIS i-Functionmount Samsung NX

Conclusions:

The Tamron 18-270mm 1: 3.5-6.3 Di II LD (IF) Aspherical VC Macro B003E is a very high zoom lens, making information technology a lens for all occasions. A lens like this is slap-up for holidays, peculiarly when shooting in good daylight. It has slow internal focusing and an Image Stabilizer that comes in handy when shooting handheld. The image quality is not high, but information technology is quite suitable for simple apprentice tasks.

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