Tamron AF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras
- Dedicated to Nikon SLRs
- Rotational zooming
- 75 to 30 degrees angle of view
- Aspherical elements in the front lens group
- Lightweight and portable
Product Description
A standard zoom lens from a wide 28mm to a medium telephoto range of 80mm. The use of aspherical elements in the front group reduces the number of elements required, and the use of strong engineering plastic in the barrel makes the body a light 237g. Consequently, it is easy to carry.Amazon.com Product Description
By using aspherical elements in the front group of the Tamron AF28-80 f/3.5-5.6, the number of elements is greatly reduced. The AF28-80 lens is … More >>
Tamron AF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras
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
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Rating: 3 / 5
Very good starting lens i got this lens for my first DSLR the nikon D60 I reccomend you buy this lens.
Rating: 5 / 5
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.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a great lens. I use it with a nikon SLR camera and although I am a beginner in photography, this lens makes it easy to look like a professional. What I like most about this lens is the the feel. The lens is very sturdy and has a rubber piece for easy control. Highly recommend.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is a very good (and cheap) multi-purpose lens. It is the lens I tend to use most of the time for general photography. The 1.5x factor of my Nikon D80 makes the lower end rise to 42mm, but that is not the lens’ fault. The only negatives I have is that the AF is a bit slow and since it is a conventional lens, light effects can be noticeable in bright light.
Rating: 4 / 5