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Tamron 17-70mm f/2.8 Di III-A VC RXD Lens for Sony E APS-C Mirrorless Cameras Black

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Good range - Perfect budget lens

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2023

I have been using this Tamron on my Fx30 rig for a couple months now and its been wonderful!

While I first used a 24-70, I was seeking to use a lens that was a bit wider, however, I didn't want to switch lens on the go. This 17-70 is perfect for my work in weddings and conferences. I have even used this for some interesting shots in real estate.

If you're looking for a flexible, budget, and solid lens for your APSC camera, you can not go wrong with this. Its clean, sharp, decently light, all for a good price. Try this lens!

9 people found this helpful

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Not bad, but not for me

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2021

While I agree with everyone that the lens was pretty sharp, as a nature photographer I found the bokeh extremely distracting and the chromatic aberration issues to be enough to make me return it. My $250 Sigma 30mm f1.4 is better in all three of these categories. I also looked back on a few weeks of shooting with it and found that I was always shooting at 17 wanting it to be wider, or 70 wanting more reach. I will be replacing the lens with the Sony 10-18, and a dedicated telephoto, which will suit my needs better. It may be a better lens for indoor portrait work.

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Good range - Perfect budget lens

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2023

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I have been using this Tamron on my Fx30 rig for a couple months now and its been wonderful!

While I first used a 24-70, I was seeking to use a lens that was a bit wider, however, I didn't want to switch lens on the go. This 17-70 is perfect for my work in weddings and conferences. I have even used this for some interesting shots in real estate.

If you're looking for a flexible, budget, and solid lens for your APSC camera, you can not go wrong with this. Its clean, sharp, decently light, all for a good price. Try this lens!

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9 people found this helpful

Very good all around lens

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2021

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There are many well done professional reviews of this lens on YouTube and elsewhere- this is just from an amateur user’s perspective. I got an a6000 a couple of years ago. It’s the first camera I’ve used in manual or different priority modes. I’ve learned all of what I know about photography with this camera and am pretty competent with it at this point. Early on I realized the image quality from the kit lens wasn’t great and I started searching for lens upgrades. First purchase was the Sony 50 f1.8 and it’s noticeably much better in terms of sharpness and bokeh. It was a learning process though, and it was through experience with the 50 1.8 that I came to understand the crop factor of apsc format and that the 50 was more like a 75mm equivalent. Too tight for anything indoors where I was doing a lot of family (mostly little kid) photography. After some more research I found the “Sigma trio” and over the course of a year a year I picked up the 30 1.4 and the 16 1.4. I pretty much used the 30 for everything outside- hiking, sight seeing etc and the 16 for all the birthday parties and kid stuff inside. I also splurged and got the 70-350 Sony telephoto for birds and wildlife in general. Also got the Rokinon 12mm. With this collection of some of the better Sony apsc lenses I was pretty well covered for all situations I encountered and was perfectly satisfied. Until I kept reading more about the the Sony 16-55. It seemed to cover the range of several of my lenses which I often switched between and had equivalent optical performance. But it is so expensive.. so I held off. And fortunately this Tamron came out. It covers a larger range and was well reviewed early on. For $500 less than the Sony I cashed in all the gift cards and credits I had and picked it up. I’ve found it to be a very convenient and good quality all purpose lens for 60-80% of the pictures I take. It will definitely be the go to for hiking and casual outdoor and sightseeing sort of stuff. It’s sharp, focuses really well, and is easy to use well. I have noticed the loss of f stops from the Sigmas (1.4 vs 2.8) for low light and less bokeh, but it’s really good overall and no regrets about the purchase. There are times when I still use the Sigmas and I’ll hang on to them but I’ll probably part with the Sony 50 at some point. I haven’t touched it in a couple months. Overall happy with the lens and would recommend to anyone with similar usage as me- casual family shooter, some outdoor stuff, just a good quality general use lens that produces really good results. And this in on an a6000- I understand the autofocus is better on the newer a6xxx bodies and I’m excited to see the difference when I eventually get one. (This photo hobby, as I’m sure everyone reading these reviews knows, can be a slippery financial slope, but no buyers remorse with this lens).

67 people found this helpful

More than decent

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2023

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I’ll start by saying I shoot JPG only currently. I haven’t put it through any real trials but so far so good. It takes sharp photos and the autofocus is quick in my experience. I prefer this over Sigma’s 18-50 for the added range and equal image quality. All this being said, this Tamron has an almost cheap feel to it. I don’t get bothered by plastic lenses but this lens does not have the premium plastic feel I get from Sony or even Sigma. Not a deal breaker and I’m not gonna sweat it until I have a reason to, just something to know. Also, I can feel the autofocus components moving around when handling the lens. Multiple reviews and reddit posts have assured me this is nothing to worry about. Just know that these are the areas Tamron chose in order to keep the costs down. I still think this is by far the best option for f/2.8 constant zoom lenses available for Sony’s APS-C ecosystem.

4 people found this helpful

Great pics, great quality

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2024

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Only complaint is weight and size, which is noticeable but doable. Works quickly and quietly. Takes gorgeous pics.

One person found this helpful

One of the best Sony APSC lenses

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2023

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This is a great lens! It's light, has stabilization (which is a must for every Sony APSC camera) and takes sharp photos.

All the photos I shot are unedited and straight out of the a6300 with the Tamron 17-70mm in Aperture Priority.

This lens worked really well when I needed to get close shots of an actor when I was granted a media pass to a travel show in Dallas. I was able to keep my distance and allow the actor to meet with his fans but still able to get some intimate shots of them interacting.

The zoom range is perfect for really close and wide shots, and zoomed out shots with nice bokeh with a portrait look. I've yet to try it on the street but I'm sure it will work great.

If you want this lens, watch for a price drop now and then. I sat on the fence when it was at $599 and then it went back to $699. A few weeks later it dropped to $599 and I snatched it up. For that price it was a no-brainer and I don't regret adding this to my lens collection. I have it all covered now with my 16mm prime, Tamron 17-70mm and the Tamron 70-300mm.

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9 people found this helpful

My go to portrait and wedding lens for my a6700

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023

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I have two a6700s and I use this Tamron lens now as my main lens for shooting portraits and weddings outdoors, It is very sharp in the full range, Focus is super fast and tracking is dead on with the a6700.
I make my living shooting and was using two full Frame cameras but not moved to using the two Sony a6700s as the focus and tracking is just fantastic. I dont need to shoot in super high ISO so the a6700 and this Tamron lens are great. Now days a full frame camera is just not needed as much as it was in the past with all the newer better cropped lens out now and the better high iso shooting of the cameras. A cropped camera can match most things now to give the same look and image quality. But in a smaller lighter package that cost less.

3 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2023

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Fantastic lens. Fantastic value.

Very Pleased with Tamron and this lens.

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2022

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I have been looking for a good "all around" lens for my a6100 and a6500. I have the Tamron 17-28 f2.8 and the 28-75 f2.8 that I use on my A7iii, and I have loved them. I am impressed with the image quality even compared to my Sony G lenses.
I had a very hard time choosing between this and the Sigma 18-50mm f2.8. I read so many reviews, and watched so many videos. I eventually ordered both the Tamron 17-70 and the Sigma 18-50. I did my own testing with lots of side by side images. I ended up keeping the Tamron 17-70. Yes its bigger and heavier, but I really love the extra 20mm at the end. Also my test results were not quite the same as the reviews that I saw. My 17-70 was sharper than the Sigma both at 17mm and 50mm, so much so that I thought the Sigma may have been a bad copy. I sent the first one back and bought a second copy of the Sigma. It was better, but my Tamron 17-70 was still sharper at 50mm, and still quite sharp at 70mm, and the Sigma doesn't have 70mm. Interestingly my copy of this 17-70 is just as sharp as my Sigma 56mm 1.4 around the same focal length. Another thing that I like about the Tamron is the color rendition. I find that I was always gravitating to the images from the Tamron as it has a slightly warmer tone. That is actually the same as my other full frame Tamron lenses. I find the Sigma, and even my Sony lenses to be on the cool side, and I think the Tamron lenses compliment the colors coming from my Sony cameras.
When I ordered these lenses, I though for sure I would be keeping the Sigma 18-50, but this Tamron surprised me so much. It is easily one of my favorite lenses.

30 people found this helpful

Might recommend this for photography but for motion video some caveats

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2023

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This is a great focal range - tried this on a Sony zv-e10 so my review is based on using this combined with the video features for the most part. Photos are fine- hard to screw up a picture with this lens spec combo IMO, but I found some focus features a bit slow combined with Sony using this. The lens itself is heavy. I figured the focal range combined with the optical stabilization feature would make up for that but I found the OS quite underwhelming. Combine this with slower focus features witnessed with video, it's hard to justify keeping a lens of this weight in pack.

2 people found this helpful

Perfect for the 6000 series Sonys

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2023

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For years I shot with primes on a couple of my Sony apsc cameras. Finally got the Tamron and am not looking back. Just so easy and takes great pictures. It is not as small as the Sigma but I would really miss the 70mm top end. I do still keep the Sigma 16mm for shooting in low light or astro. Love that lens but 95% this lens is on my camera. I recently picked up the Sony 70-350 . It is a great lens but thought I would use it a lot more. Having the constant 2.8 on the Tamron is really nice.

3 people found this helpful

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