Customer Reviews

Tamron SP Autofocus 24-135mm f/3.5-5.6 AD Aspherical (IF) Lens for Canon SLR Cameras

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Using a Canon Digital Rebel, sold my 28-135mm lens for this lens. Quality is superior. Is almost at the Canon "L" series level. It's lighter, more compact & weighs less. Very satisfied with the photos I've taken. A serious contender.

Although this lens is a bit on the heavy side, it makes a great walk-around lens for everyday shooting and vacations. I shot a roll of Agfa Precisa 100 and the results were remarkable. Very accurate colors and excellent contrast. If you have to travel light, this is the lens to carry. If you plan on using it on a digital camera, it's still fairly wide at a film equivalent of 38 mm at the low end of the zoom.

I purchased this for my new Canon XSI Camera & I'm telling you this is a AWESOME lens---it really takes fabulous pictures, WOW! This is a top notch lens and all I can say is I love it! I use it most all the time, great for portaits, macro, etc...If you get it you will not be disappointed.

Just get the lens for my XTi, Im telling you, this is great lens regardless the price, solidly build, Im still learning to master it.

If you are like many of us trying to get our collective juices going, this lens will not disappoint. It has an excellent zoom range that gives you the most used focal lengths and produces an excellent product. I recently compared this to a Canon 24-70mm L series and I must say that unless you are getting paid major bucks for you photos it really isn't worth money other than for bragging rites.

Now thats not to say that the lens is equal to L glass. Its not. But damn close. I would say though that this lens is equal to if not superior to the non L line of lenses from Canon.

You will not be disappointed.

I got this lens as a replacement for a Sigma 28-105 f2.8-4. The Sigma is no longer made and the one I had failed and I'll need to get it repaired. Meanwhile, I needed a lens that was in the same general range. I have 8mm fisheye, 16mm fisheye, 10-20mm aspherical, 17-35 aspherical, the 28-105 Sigma that this 24-135 Tamron replaces, 50-200 f2.8, 75-300, 120-300 f2.8 - so the range on this lens was a critical "hole" to fill in.

I read a number of reviews on this lens which were good. Even though it isn't wuite as fast as the Sigma was, it has a nice range (24-135mm). After getting it, I was very impressed with the super sharp pictures and extremely close focusing range I got with this lens.

I highly recommend it. I would have given 5 stars if it were an f2.8 lens so that's the only reason for the 4 stars, it could be a little bit faster.

I bought this back in 2002 and used it before the Digital age. I loved the range and the edge to edge sharpness.It sat in the closet when I went digital. last week a finally splurged and bought a 5D. The tamron is back and a PERFECT match for the 5D. I had the lens calibrated and aligned by Tamron for digital use.
This lens performs extremely well. Better edges than canons 28-105mm and better contrast. There is NO difference between this and the ef 24-105mm L. The L has the advantage of stabilization and f4, but the Tamron has sharper edges wide open and less corner falloff. At f8 the images are identical between these lenses!
The Tamron will save you $700 and give you 30mm more range.

I had researched a while for a good "walk-around" lens, and it was a toss-up between this one and the Canon. I honestly went with the Tamron because it was available at my local camera store whereas I would have waited at least a week for the Canon. I'm impatient that way.

It took me a while to get used to it. For one it's a bit heavy, although surprisingly well-balanced on my Canon Rebel XTi (400D). It's also the only non-Canon lens I own. Since it's more of a macro lens, and therefore the depth of field more narrow than I was used to, my other shots seemed to appear out of focus at first. With more practice (and several hundred shots), I discovered the problem was user error. Once I set the aperture to 8 or higher for landscapes and messed with other settings such as the autofocus points in the camera, the images improved dramatically.

The Tamron is sturdy, well-balanced, and the IQ is excellent. As one other person said, it's a sleeper lens and deserves more attention.

I've had this lens now for a few weeks and i bought it strictly to use as a 'walk around' lens. The lens is built solid; the entire frame is virtually made of metal and adds about 2 lbs to my canon T2i body. The images produced are pretty sharp from 24-100mm, better than the Canon 28-135mm lens. At 135mm focal length, the images are okay and has a little barrel distortion. Monochrome images look great at virtually all focal lengths from 24-135mm. However, the AF can be a bit slow at maximum zoom (135mm). Also, the zoom ring can be laborious. i'm not sure if its my specific model or every model, but this Tamron lens is harder to zoom in/out than my Canon zoom lens. Canon lens have a smooth and easy zoom, while this Tamron zoom ring is a bit laborious to turn. Overall, this lens gives you exactly what you pay for. I paid $298, which is the lowest price in its class. I did my research on [...]; Despite the laborious zoom ring, i still would rather have this lens than Canon's competitor 28-135mm IS USM "lower image quality" lens. Read the reviews on [...] for the Canon lens 28-135mm IS USM, and you will read that most people are giving poor reviews for the image quality and construction build. I've played with one before on a 40Dand 50D and thought it was just ok. Asthetically, the Canon lens looks cooler and more professional. However, the Tamron lens gives you better results and is more affordable. This specific Tamron lens is discontinued and you will have to purchase it used. Make sure you ask the seller that it has no or minimal dust in the barrel. Overall, I am happy with mine and my purchase i made with Amazon.