Compatible with most Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras with smaller-size imagers such as: 50D, 40D, 30D, 20D, Digital Rebel T1i/XS/XSi/XTi/XT and Digital Rebel.
Di II: Lenses are designed for exclusive use on digital cameras with smaller-size imagers and inherit all of the benefits of our Di products. These lenses are not designed for conventional cameras and digital cameras with image sensors larger than 24mm x 16mm.
Tamron's high-power zoom lens is a photographer's dream come true — it is the result of Tamron's continuing mission to develop the world's most unique "one-lens-does-it-all" zooms to satisfy our customers' desire. While conventional 35mm film cameras required two lenses to cover 28-388mm, Tamron's new zoom is 13.9X, the world's most powerful zoom delivering enormous photographic freedom in a single compact lens. The life of a digital photographer has never been better.
World’s Most Powerful Zoom, at 13.9x
Tamron's high-power zoom lens is a photographer's dream come true — it is the result of Tamron's continuing mission to develop the world's most unique "one-lens-does-it-all" zooms to satisfy our customers' desire. While conventional 35mm film cameras required two lenses to cover 28-388mm, Tamron's new zoom is 13.9X, the world's most powerful zoom delivering enormous photographic freedom in a single compact lens. The life of a digital photographer has never been better.
Optimum Optical System Enables Ultra High-Power Zoom
Not an XR. Yet compact
While achieving the ultra telephoto capabilities of a 388mm lens*, this Tamron zoom features an extremely compact optical system. Unlike previous Tamron lenses, this lens optimizes the power distribution of the entire optical configuration without using XR glass, to achieve both ultra high-power magnification and compact size.
* 35mm format equivalent
High Quality Digital Images
This lens is designed exclusively for digital SLR photography, and provides high quality digital photos with outstanding resolution and contrast.
Packed with Special Glass Materials
In addition to LD (Low Dispersion) glass that eliminates chromatic aberration and sharpens ultra-long shots, use of special glass materials such as Hybrid Aspherical Elements and Anomalous Dispersion (AD) glass achieve three goals in at once: increased magnification, compact size, and improved image quality.
Great for macro photos, too. MFD = 0.45m (17.7")
Get amazing close-up shots with this digital SLR high-power zoom. The maximum magnification ratio of 1:3.5* (at f=250mm, MFD 0.45m) lets you fill the frame with a subject approximately the same size as a business card. You can easily and conveniently enjoy close-up (macro) photography of flowers, insects and more.
Counters Ghosting and Flare with New Technologies
Tamron has adopted various countermeasures against ghosting and flare, which are annoying factors in digital photography. “Internal Surface Coatings”* and new multiple-layer coating technology on ordinary elements are employed to minimize reflections that occur when light enters through the front element and to reduce image-degrading effects caused by the imagers themselves.
*Multiple-layer coatings on cemented surfaces of plural elements.