Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD Lens for Sony E APS-C Mirrorless Cameras (Black)

delivers sharp, detailed images even from a distance. Ideal for wildlife, sports, and landscape photography. Fast autofocus, solid build, and excellent zoom capabilities make it a reliable choice for both amateurs and professionals. Highly recommended!

I bought this to extend the reach of my already excellent Sony 18-135. Based on first impressions I'm quite pleased with the results. The extended 18-300 range is quite useful and will make for a great walk around lens for travel. Image quality looks great. One interesting feature of this lens is the minimum focusing distance at the wide-end. You can get within an inch or two of an object and still get focus, making it useful as a semi-macro lens.My only two quibbles are unavoidable for a lens of this type. First, focusing is a touch slow but that's due to the lens itself - a zoom of this range requires a large number of lens elements and moving them to focus is sometimes slow. Second, the lens is just plain big and heavy. Not nearly as big as a full frame lens but it's easily one of the bigger lenses for Sony's APS-C ecosystem.A previous reviewer stated they believed the lens was gray market, however the one I received (ships and sold from Amazon) is not. A holographic sticker was included on the box verifying it was an authorized sale under US warranty.GOOD:- Useful zoom range- Incredibly close focusing distance opens up possibilities- Good image quality and color rendition- Solid buildBAD:- Autofocus is a tad slow compared to smaller range lenses- It's big and heavy!If you're looking for a great all-purpose walk around lens for a Sony A6xxx series this is a great choice!

If I could have only one lens for the rest of my life, it’s this one.Things I don’t like:It’s large, so it doesn’t fit in my smallest camera bag.Things I do like:It produces amazing photos. WIthout that, the rest is meaningless. This lens delivers. I never feel like I could have gotten a better photo with a better lens.It has a decent aperture range for a zoom lens. I’m not married to the idea you can only get a good bokeh background with a super tiny F-Stop. Even as a beginner, this lens has enough of a range, I have enough tricks we can pull it off together.It has an amazing range. I can photograph birds in the tree across the street, a joust at a Renaissance Festival, and a friend sitting across a very narrow living room all with one lens. I don’t care for swapping in the middle of things, and being able to get good shots near and far is a top priority for me.It’s not that heavy. I can shoot handheld no problem.It’s easy to manual focus. Yes it has auto focus. No, there are no problems with that. But sometimes the camera wants to focus on one thing and I want to focus on another. This lens is easy to get the things I want in focus to be in focus.It’s a perfect lens for the Sony A6000.

I’m a retired pro photographer. I have lots of lenses. This one is super at what it was designed for. A one stop, compact, superzoom. It’s sharp enough, light enough, and feels good in the hand. I do wish the zoom was smoother, a little less work to zoom out to 300, especially when shooting sports where i’m zooming in and out all day. But aside from this issue, it’s a keeper.

Perfect lens for my A7ii. I got the body and the lens about 2 weeks ago and will realistically not change it for a very long period of time.

This was a great addition to my photography collection. I am an animal photographer, and this was a great addition. It snapped on my camera body easily, and it has great features. Pictures come out clear. The telephoto part works great, allows me take pictures from a distance.

It's really shocking how good this lens is for the price. I sold my Tamron 28-70 f2.8 lens, a powerful workhorse of a lens that does just about everything, so I could get this one. I knew going into it that it would be a slight downgrade, but I really wanted an all purpose lens that I could walk around with an do anything, and this one fits the bill. I don't think I'd recommend it for professional portraiture, but for what it does, it's a slam dunk.The biggest shocker with this lens is the lack of significant distortion at the wider focal length. It really keeps everything looking good and clean. It's not as tack sharp as I'm used to with more professional lenses, but I'm not sure that I care, I really like this thing, and I'm hoping that it gives me the excuse to just go out and use my camera more often.Attached photos taken on Sony A7Riii (full frame sensor with crop sensor lens)Flower: ISO 100, 129mm, f9, 1/640 (it was crazy bright)Skull: ISO 2500, 103mm, f5.6, 1/200Flowers looking through window (wide): ISO 100, 18mm, F10, 1/125Flowers close up (same angle looking through window ): ISO 100, 300mm, f10, 1/125

Lens has a great range: 18-300 is unbelievable range and sharp for the most part, but i had to downgrade rating because if the flareimages are sharp and autofocus is good.However there is a horrible magenta lens flare/ghosting that is very annoying and is seen in the videos, even with the sunlight to your back. It's worse when you are shooting against the light making this lens unusable between 18mm and almost 60-70m.My first and last Tamron lens