Tamron SP 24-70MM Di USD Lens for Sony DSLR Cameras AFA007S700 (Model A007S)

Great lens! The built is solid and the sharpness is at its best! However, the hood is extremely cheap, made in Philippines (while the lens is made in Japan) and it's actually very hard to fix it on the lens! That is the only disappointing thing about it!

OMG, This Lens is from another planet! I LOOOOOOVE this thing! Very sharp and takes great portraits! My go to lens for almost everything. I was outdoors about 60 yards away taking pictures of my son playing basketball and the images were sharp. It was like i shot them with a 70-200. Goes very well on my sony A7!

What to say? Best Class Lens !!! instead of spend thousand dollars more in a ZEISS Original lens for Sony, which is also amazing, this lens provide everything you need thinking on 24-70 range !!!

Amazing. Weights like a super pro lens. Corners lose a little bit of sharpness but it's ok.

Love this lens! I wish it would allow me to use all the auto focus feature on my Sony Cameras but I am very pleased with the performance of this lens

i am a wedding photographer and I have 4 tamron lenses all which perform flawlessly. This was my second tamron lens I bought 2 years ago and this is still performing flawlessly. I have used the lens in a variety of shoots and I absolutely love it. It has always worked and has never let me down. This has become my favorite lens with the tamron 70-200 a very close second. The distortion is a bit heavy on the wide end and at 35mm it is a little better but still there. For big group shots I try to keep people away from the end or use a longer focal length because you will see them start to stretch towards the end. Sharpness I don't feel is a problem at any focal length. At f2.8 It is not what I would call critically sharp until f4 but it is not what I would call soft either. I would say it is sharp but gets sharper as you stop it down. You will notice that as you move out towards the edge of the frame it gets less sharp but will will only see this at 100% crop. Unfortunately even stopped way down to f11 it still looses performance at the very edges of the frame, however I have only ever noticed this when I photograph big groups of people where I fill the whole frame with people and then I view the image at 100%. Any other time I have never noticed any sort of issue with lens sharpness. Vignetting is a bit on the heavy side, but it fixable and has never been anything that has really bothered me or that I have even noticed. If I don't like it i will just fix it in post. Flare control is very good. It has the best flare control out of any lens I own. And sometimes I find myself trying to creat lens flare but being unsuccessful. Overall very impressive in this area. Ca control is also a great strength of the tamron. I think out of the thousands of photos I have taken with this lens i think I have only ever noticed ca in 2 photos and it was a very heavy backlight and very dark subject type situation both times. I wish I could get this type of ca control in a prime lens. Also I use flash a lot and I have never once seen ca show up in the catch lights. It does every time with my sigma 50mm 1.4 at larger apertures. Focus speed and accuracy have never left me down or feeling like I want more. This lens is very fast quiet and accurate. I never miss a shot because of the lens. Bottom line is that weather your a professional or and amateur. If you are looking for lens in this focal length this is the one to get. Now is the canon a little better. Yes it is except in lens flare and ca control. That is the same for the Sony zeiss lens and I have no clue about the Nikon. But the real question is would it be worth it to save around $1000 and get this lens which is %95 percent as good as the canon? My answer is yes. You could buy another lens for that amount of savings. I got this lens with some rebates for $1175. You could buy a couple of prime lenses or flashes with that kind of savings. It has a 6 year warranty too! Based on my experience with tamon lenses I don't know why anyone would spend the extra money on the manufacture lenses. Except maybe pride, or a red ring, or a white or grey lens.... Let me add to that statement by also saying that I have never owned any of tamron's older lenses and from what I understand they had some issues, but out of all the ones that i own I have not had a single issue. I have the 70-200, 70-300, 24-70, and 90mm macro. All the most current ones. So I can tell you that all those lenses have been very reliable and have worked perfectly.

I am the owner of a busy wedding photography business, Golden Era Photography in Salem Oregon. Shooting weddings puts my gear to the test each time out, so its important to have the tools that are up the job. The 24-70 focal range is where I do the vast majority of my shooting throughout the day, so this is the most important piece of glass in my bag. I had purchased the Sony Zeiss 24-70 2.8, but to be honest, I was less than impressed with this lens on my Sony a99. The 16-50 2.8 kit lens that came with my a77 is sharper. Now, maybe I just got a bad copy, but after reading the glowing reviews on the Tamron, I decided to check it out. I haven't looked back since. This lens was $700 cheaper than the Zeiss and is tack sharp throughout the focal range, even wide open. I do quite a bit of studio work where I shoot at 70mm between f5.6-f9, and the detail that this lens resolves on the a99 is tremendous. I have done side by side tests comparing the a99 to the 5d mkIII, and there is basically no way to tell them apart (until you start working with the raw files and discover that the Sony has a much better dynamic range, but that's not part of this review, I suppose). There is a small, but noticeable difference in AF speed between the Tamron and the Sony lenses. The Sony is simply quicker. However, I have not missed a shot due to af speed from this lens. It may not be as lightning quick as the Sony, but is still very, very fast, and dead silent, which is critical during a wedding ceremony. My advice, save the $700 and get the Tamron. I know a lot of people say that the Sony 24-70 is amazingly sharp, so I can only assume I just got a bad copy. That being said, even if the Sony is as sharp as the Tamron, I would still opt to save the $700 and use that money to buy something like the Sigma 50mm 1.4 and still have a couple hundred left over to spend on extra batteries and memory cards. If Sony lowered the price of their lens to match the Tamron, I would probably buy it (assuming the sharpness issue I had was a result of a bad copy)...maybe the rise of this Tamron lens will push Sony to become more realistic about the price of the Zeiss 24-70??? Ren and Jennifer Murray Golden Era Photography Wedding photographer Salem, Oregon

I got the Sony A7Sii earlier this year, and to save money, I initially purchased this lens along with the LA-EA4. As a novice, I don't know much about cameras, but this lens was recommended to me by a professional photographer, so I figured I was in good hands. I really enjoy this lens (until recently getting the Sony 24-70 2.8 GM, which is more than double the price). Since it's designed for A-mount cameras, and also designed for full frame cameras, the Tamron is really specifically designed for just a few cameras: The Sony A900 (very old), Sony A99 (four years old), and now, the Sony A99ii (just announced). It works on other A-mount cameras, but those are the only three that have full frame sensors. When using it on an A-mount camera that uses the smaller APS-C sensor, it's no longer 24-70. I don't know what it changes to, but either way, those numbers are higher, since you lose a significant portion of the image that hits the sensor. This is a great lens. So great that instead of selling it when i got a Sony lens the other day, I've decided to pick up an A-mount camera, to keep using this lens. But which camera to get…. The A900 only does photos, no real video, the A99 is still pricey at about $1K, and the new A99ii will be at MSRP for a good while, and appears to be about $3.1K, so that's definitely out. The A77ii is a great APS-C camera, but as this lens will be used on a backup camera, I figured the A77ii, running at about $850-$950, is still too pricey for me (I'd rather get another Sony GM lens for the FE mount) The A68, the newest Sony A-mount camera just prior to the recently announced A99ii, is still selling for about $598-700, and it’s hard to find good deals. But....as luck would have it, the A58, which gives up the top deck data display, gives up phase detect AF, and gives up about 4MP in resolution, can be found on that famous auction site for about $150-200. Considering it retailed at about $598 vs. the A68's $698 not too long ago, the A58 is a steal, AND better yet, the A58 has both the IBIS image stabilization (which is magic), and does 1080P at 30fps, which is plenty good. Heck, I generally set my A7Sii to 1080P at 30fps anyway, because even though it can do more, the files get too big and slow to deal with. But...I digress. Anyway, this lens, along with the LA-EA4 adaptor, was a real bargain. I found one of these on that famous online auction, brand new, for $600. That's 1/4 the price of the Sony GM, so at the time, it was a no brainer. The images are very nice, with barely noticeable chromatic aberration at the edges, and just the slightest vignetting when shot at 24mm (wide open). Professionals might have a problem with that, but I sure as heck don't. The images were more than amazing from a novice's perspective, and even as smart phones keep getting better, this lens coupled with the A7Sii through the LA-EA4, did some amazing things for me. There's no way that a person like me with no photo and video talent, could take the great shots I took using this lens, using a mobile phone, so I’ve been happy with this setup. Not only is the wide angle great, but the bokeh at 70mm is also very smooth. The background blurs look clean and round, not polygonal. Just stunning for closer portraits. The features are as expected. There is an AF/MF switch, and a zoom lock switch. As an A-mount, it is much shorter than the Sony 24-70 GM FE-mount, but still hefty, all metal, and wider than many other 24-70's out there, like the Vario Sonnar (Sony's 24-70 f2.8 A-mount). When coupled with the LA-EA4, there are a few caveats though.... First, if you use the A7Sii camera, you have to use the LA-EA4 to use the Tamron’s AF features, because the Tamron can't talk to the AF on the A7Sii. The LA-EA4 has it's own auto-focus, which steals about a third of a stop of light, so a 2.8 becomes a 3.2, but it's barely noticeable. Also, there is no AF lock button on the Tamron like there is on the Sony GM lens. The AF on the LA-EA4 is based on the same AF system used on older Sony cameras, like the A57 (or A58), which uses a 15 point contract mechanism, and only focuses down to EV-1. Finally, when in manual focus mode, turning the focus ring does not auto-digital zoom the image on the viewfinder or the LCD, but, then again, you can set one of the custom buttons for digital zoom to help focus, or use zebra/peaking. I have heard some say that A-mount lenses coupled with LA-EA3 adaptor would work with A7Rii's phase detection hybrid AF system, but I can't verify that. The LA-EA3 apparently passes through AF commands when using the A7Rii, but it might be the case only with Sony A-mount lenses so might not work with the Tamron. For the price, this lens is awfully hard to beat. It is beautiful, rugged, has barely noticeable vignetting/distortion/CA and much less than on other cameras, and priced significantly lower than many other lenses of the same level of quality. One thing I'm excited about is how it will work on the A58. Since it ups the angle numbers a bit, It might give me more space for portraits. Sometimes, I find that 70mm is still a tad close, so something closer to 80-85mm would give me a more comfortable distance and still not worry about shaking too much as the A58 has IBIS. As a backup, it’ll be a high quality setup for me. Is it ideal for professionals, probably not. Hard core hobbyists? I think so, though not sure. But damn, it is one great lens for the money. It's good enough, in fact, that a professional photographer friend of mine used it and liked some of the resulting photos enough to use in her collection of photos. She stated a number of times that it rivals lenses costing far more, and effortlessly exceeded many similarly priced zoom lenses. If that's not a a glowing recommendation, I don't know what is.

Not covered under manufacturers warranty. Very misleading purchase. Lense is as expected.

Nach dem ersten Shooting binich richtig begeistert von diesem Objektiv. Wenn ich es mit meinem 24-105 f4 original Canon vergleiche, kann das Canon nicht mithalten. Klar gibts auch ein Canon 24-70 f2.8, aber das ist mir einfach zu teuer, auch die erste Generation. Bin auf jeden Fall rundum zufrieden :)