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 Great Lens June 1, 2010
S. Martino
I recently purchased the Canon Rebel XS which I absolutely love to use. I needed a zoom lens and had purchased Tamron lenses in the past. I am very glad I decided to buy another because this lens is fantastic. So easy to use and the pictures come out great. Great lens for the price!
Great value May 30, 2010
J. Seal (Texas)
I am a novice, but I have been pleased with this lense. It is a great lense for the money. We have used it to photograph our kids baseball games, as well as various programs, and have been very pleased.
 Use a tripod for those zoom shots... May 23, 2010
Larry Sloan (Kent, WA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the second lens I've purchased for my T2i. I don't often take a lot of shots that require this kind of zoom, so I wasn't going to drop $1400 on a lens... mostly because I don't have that money to drop, LOL. But I wanted to have a zoom lens handy. I photograph trains, mostly model trains. And I've actually found that the 50mm 2.8 Canon lens does not do what I want to do that well. The depth of field I get, when I get close in, is so shallow that I can't get the whole locomotive in focus. That's one place where I found this lens to be more useful than I would have expected. I set the camera back from the subject, zoom in, and get more DOF... This would likely be the case with other zoom lenses, though. Photographing outdoors on mostly cloudy days here in Washington State, the lens does a fine job. If I'm zooming in, it really needs a tripod in those conditions. At the wide end it's not necessary. In the end, I would buy this lens again. I have taken some outdoor shots and it's not the sharpest, especially at the zoom end. But, on the rare occasion I need the sharpest, I'll rent the $1400 lens. I do plan on purchasing a better "Standard Zoom," and for that I'm looking at the Tokina 16.5-135mm that's more of a wide angle or the Canon 28-135... but the Tokina provides a larger DOF than at Canon lens.
Think about its price before think about its quality April 27, 2010
oneday (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
I have got this for half a year and I like it.
I am happy with it because I am not serious about long range shorts, I just need something that can get me something on the long range with the minimal cost, in this perspective, this lens is great.
[bad]
It's soft, unless conditions are perfect, but it's always soft above 200mm. Colors are pretty boring, saturation is low. The focusing speed is low but fine for me.
In most cases when you need this lens, it's aperture is not big enough, and to increase the sharpness you have to lower the aperture to F8-10, that means you better have low noise high iso capability on your camera, it's fine with my T1i. If your camera produce a lot of noise on ISO 800, then avoid this lens, you won't be happy.
[good]
The focus is accurate, the build quality is good, and it comes with a lens hood, it's small and light, easy to carry in your bag as a "just in case" lens.
And don't forget, it's cheap.
 Difficulty taking sharp photos April 5, 2010
Christopher W. Burke (Ashland, KY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I knew this lens did not have stablization when purchased, but even in best conditions I had difficulty getting clear, sharp shots.
The problem might be with my own skills or perhaps possibly a defective lens, but I didn't want to work so hard every time I wanted a decent picture.
I returned this lens and purchased the Canon EF-S 55 - 250mm lens. This lens is much better suited for me (although more costly and still not the best lens for extremely sharp telephoto shots but fairly easy to acheive clear shake-free pictures).
I gave the Tamron lens 3 stars because more skilled users no doubt will get better results than I.
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