Customer Reviews

Tamron 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens with 0.25x Fisheye Lens Kit for Sony Alpha A230, A290, A300, A330, A350, A380, A390, A450, A500, A550, A850 & A900 Digital SLR Cameras

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I am new to photography and this allows me to explore at a reasonable price. I could not justify paying $700+ for a fisheye and not know how to use it. I was happy with everything that came with it as well. I did not have a tripod and I was outgroing my camera case.
All equipment was in great shape, packaged nicely and was shippied on time.

I'm an amateur photographer but I was not intent to spend 600$ on a wide angle lens. I was trying to have fun and try around. Nothing fancy. Got this very nice 28-80 lens. Works great with in autofocus, clean image, and nice body. The fisheye is very simple but very effective and has a clean image too. It steels A LOT of light, so you have to compensate. Couldn't make it work on a 75-300, but I don't know if I was doing something wrong... will try again, but works fine on close range lens. Tried on a sony 18-55 too, very satisfactory.
About the rest of the kit... the bag is small, no ziper, bad material. The tripod is a really crappy one, and seems that it will brake at any minute now, but I knew all that already, nothing that cheap could be good. The rest is ok... nothing different. Overall I'm very happy, the lens is most important and it is very good. The rest is a rent, use 'till it fades for 20$

For the price this item is ok. I have a Sony A200K DSLR camera and Im glad it came with an extra 3.5-5.6 lens that allows me to use it as it wont screw onto my Sony lens. However I was hoping to get a full circled fisheye on my pictures and it only puts the sides in a circle shape. Thats ok if I want to take a panoramic view of my room or get my whole house in the picture. Also, if there is low light the lens shows up as a shadow on the bottom of the picture. I suppose that can be taken care of with a better flash though. The product is a bit heavy on my camera and after a few pictures I have to either take off the fisheye itself or take out my tripod. The tripod it comes with is just a tabletop one and wont support the weight of my camera. Maybe be useful if I had a Kodak Easy Share. I am just starting out, have never had classes and Im super amateur in this so its a good product for starting out and getting a feel for what you can do. I guess Im mostly disappointed that it doesn't bubble the whole picture and I get a shadow when there is low light.