Tamron have offered a 28-300mm super-zoom lens of one kind or another for 35mm full frame cameras for quite some time now. This lens is the latest refinement, which sports optical vibration compensation, a silent piezo-electric focusing motor and a splash-proof construction.

Are you looking for a lens that is ready for anything? Well, Tamron recently released their 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 DI VC PZD lens and they are calling it the "innovative all-in-one zoom.

lens for full frame DSLRs, we admittedly scoffed a bit. How dare they try to simplify the beauty that is offered to full frame camera users! Traditionally, focal lengths like this have been very kit-lens like in design and quality.

Tamron have offered a 28-300mm super-zoom lens of one kind or another for 35mm full frame cameras for quite some time now. This lens is the latest refinement, which sports optical vibration compensation, a silent piezo-electric focusing motor and a splash-proof construction.

Consistent sharpness across the frame; Convenient 10.7x zoom range; Effective VC system; Good build and splash proof construction; Reasonably compact and lightweight; Piezoelectric focusing motor

Not much different in price between this and Nikon marque lens

The Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD is a love it or loathe it kind of lens. On the one hand, pixel peepers will have something of a field day when scrutinising images at 100% magnification, as there some quite obvious issues with the image quality.

Announced at the CP+ show in Japan in February, the Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD (Model A010E) lens initially went on sale late in June. Replacing the previous model (A20), the new lens is smaller and lighter, thanks to a new mechanical design with a multi-stack-cam layout that takes up less...

The Sony mount model does not include VC, since the bodies of Sony DSLR cameras include built-in image stabilization functionality. The name of the Sony mount model is "16-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II PZD Macro" without the VC designation

Excellent universal lens for landscapes, portraits and macro. 192.168.1.178

universal; compact

sharpness