Customer Reviews:
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 Excellent photo quality - AF not compatible for D3000 May 29, 2010
Brian K. Klein (Houston Tx)
Right away I was impressed and disappointed with this camera. The picture quality, when there's ample lighting, was incredibly sharp. In low lighting, the photo quality gradually degraded as it got dimmer. With this lens, I can take good pictures of people in a small to medium sized auditorium, gymnasium, or a small stadium (compared to my kit lens of up to 55mm).
My major disappointment was this lens is not autofocus compatible with the lower end Nikon DSLRs, such as my D3000. I have to upgrade to a lens with a different type of motor for that function. However, the major trade off is price (literally over $100 difference). Since I love using manual focus on my kit lens, it's not that bad, but the convenience is nice.
I do recommend this lens to anyone looking for a good deal, but if you own a D3000 or D40 and want auto-focus, you'll have to pay more.
 Not bad. February 2, 2010
M. Spring
I bought this Tamron lens for a Nikon D70. I can't really judge this lens too much because my i have not tried too many Nikon or Nikon based lenses. I needed something on a budget. I read some reviews on different lens ,and it came to trying this one. It's a good lens for the price. I mean, C'mon, it's not even sixty dollars. I haven't found the sweet spot, but so far F8 has been giving me good results. I'm not happy with the results F5.6 and below. Focal 3.5 seems blurrier than F8 most of the time. I don't know if it's the lens, or just my lack of skills that is causing it. Probably my lack of skills. Overall, if you need something cheap and simple to carry around this will do ok.
 Good June 1, 2009
Jeffrey Travis
Very good starting lens i got this lens for my first DSLR the nikon D60 I reccomend you buy this lens.
Great lens at an affordable price, amateur oriented! March 29, 2009
A. Mendez (FL)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Lens delivers for its price tag.
Yes its true, it will not capture front cover National Geographic photos nor pocket camera mediocre results.
The main advantage is the additional zoom range, making good for portraits and has some wide angle for those spontaneous group photos.
The lens tends to get lost in details at its widest range of 28mm when is very sunny and focusing to infinity, the Nikon D60 meter does not adjusts well on these light conditions. I leave the wide angle nature photos to the 18-55 giving better results.
I did some testing at a birthday Playground party (sunny, cloudy day), +1 in sharpness, WB to partly cloudy set at zero. I played every now and then with Under Over exposure; +0.3,.7 when cloudy and -.3-.7 when very sunny. This lens likes to give very saturated colors so try to leave it on Normal, not vivid colors or will be super rich reds, greens.
Portraits: I find this lens does well in this category, if the light is right good details, tones can be achieved with blurry backgrounds at 80mm, remember to use the lens hood. The lens delivers well on portraits, I love it for such a cheap lens, colors come out very good. I retouch many photos on Elements 6 and Camera Raw giving it darker values to shadows and highlights to white areas. Good details are revealed by lowering saturation and contrast with no weird out of focus backgrounds.
It may be me, but I have experienced adjusting the Image and quality to Medium instead of Fine gives better results, I guess less is more in this case.
Close ups with the built in iTTL flash are extremely good, details are excellent, I found the lens to deliver easy and without any much processing with flash and set on Auto, piece of cake.
Overall: very good lens, feels sturdy. I have heard bad comments about plastic lens mount, but the Nikon 18-55 is also plastic. I wish the focusing ring was smoother and zoom be linear instead of rotational, makes it hard to manual focus on moving objects like sports etc. I recommend this lens
This lens gives a very pro look to your camera especially with the lens hood on. Do not worry, this lens DOES NOT look cheap or in other words, it does not look like a 70 dollar lens. I replaced the Tamron lens cap for a Nikon one :-)...
Standard January 15, 2009
Alex Geller (Monterey Bay, CA)
Lens arrived on time with fine packing. The lens so far is doing what I ask it to do. On a few night time shots the light source (Street light) appeared to be star shaped. Like a twinkle but I'm not positive if that's the lens or not.
I needed a versatile lens for cheap and that's exactly what I got. I'm happy with it so far.
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