Good product who looking for cheap and best

cheap and best

little tight while zooming

I am using this lens since last 3-4 days. Nothing I can say about this lens except 'wow'. Not able test the lens completely as I am using it for only 3-4 days. What I have observed is the lens works nicely in daylight while taking portrait or landscape photo.

Andy Westlake takes a detailed look at a budget all-in-one superzoom for APS-C DSLRs

With the 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC lens, Tamron has taken the opportunity to add their VC (Vibration Compensation) for Canon and Nikon users, in a package that has an impressively low price. Let's find out if this new lens is up to the mark, despite its modest cost.

Impressive central sharpness; Effective and silent AF; Good VC system; Very low central CA; Good flare resistance; Excellent value for money

Lower edge sharpness; CA at edges

While there's certainly an element of truth to this, it overlooks one fundamental advantage – that you can cover a huge range of subjects without having to change lenses between shots. If you're out on your own, taking your time, this is no big deal.

In Order to get acceptable image quality in most focal leght, you have to stop down between f/8 to f/11, That's Quite Dark for such a tiny apeture, it would be nightmare for low light or indoor, but if you shooting in midday, you would be fine, that's typical superzoom lens.

Outstanding Low Price for Superzoom Good VC for 200mm; Acceptable Central Sharpness; Robust Build Quality; 5 Years Warranty; NO Zoom Creep; Fairly lightweight for Superzoom lens; Smooth Looking bokeh in 200mm

Autofocus mecanishm is dated; Poor Edge Sharpness; VC could be jerky; Imprecise manual focus (30 Degree); The Zoom Ring resistance little bit strong to pull off; Unimpressive Close up Image Quality; Macro Magnification is Not Great; C

If there's one kind of lens that tends to get a bad press, it's the all-in-one ‘superzoom'. Conventional wisdom states that zooms with a 3x range can be optically excellent, and 4x can still be very good, but extend that to 10x or more and the compromises become too great.

Tamron's AF18-200mm F3.5-6.3 XR Di-II LD IF was announced in February 2005 as an all-round 11.1x zoom lens. Featuring coverage from wide-angle to decent telephoto, it's ideal for a wide variety of situations – and for some photographers be the only lens they'll ever need.

Highly versatile 11.1x zoom range; Great value; Relatively small and light - great travel lens; Polariser-friendly internal focusing

Sigma version very similar; Pricier Nikkor version has anti-shake; Pricier Nikkor version is optically faster; Pricier Nikkor version has better build quality

I did not own this lens but one of my family member did foor less than a year. Indeed, even if the quality was not wonderful, even taking really great care of the gear did not prevent it from the lenses inside to move (it never fell or whatever) and gave a total ly blurry image.

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- No durability - Not so good for its price

As a novie in the world of DSLR I bought this lens as its focal lenth meant I could lessen the risk of getting dust on my cameras sensor through lens changing. I also wanted a lens that would limit the amount of kit I needed when taking my camera on a trip and this made this lens ideal.

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Soft edges at wide end