My favorite lens. No joke. The all-around workhorse works for just about everything. It is the PERFECT walk-around lens and it's held up to it's great reviews. I’ve been using it for professional gigs as well as a personal travel lens which has saved me tons of weight management from carrying G lenses. In fact, I love it so much, the only reason I’m selling it is to get the latest version.
It has been babied so works perfectly.
The only issues are all cosmetic and don’t affect the picture/function of the lens at all:
-The mm markers on the lens are faded towards the longer side. The 28 is great, but as it gets towards the 200mm, you can still see it, but it fades out decently.
-I don’t have the original lens caps (both back and front), so it has a replacement lens cap on the front and an OEM Sony lens cap on the back
-There is a tiny fiber or dust on the first element, but it doesn’t affect the picture at ALL. In fact, I didn’t even notice it until taking the pictures for this listing
It comes with:
Lens
Back & Front Lens Caps
Lens Hood
I know I have the box somewhere as I save them all, will try to dig it up if I can find it, but no promises on that part! We’ve moved since so things are all still a bit all over the place.
As far as details of the lens itself, here are manufacturer specs/info:
Unprecedented blend of optical performance and versatility New, innovative all-in-one lens that does it all All of Tamron’s technical know-how regarding all-in-one zoom lenses has been distilled to create this 28-200mm F/2.8-5.6 Di III RXD (Model A071). The lens has a large maximum aperture of F2.8 at 28mm, a world’s first* for all-in-one zoom lenses, and delivers high-level performance from 28mm wide-angle to 200mm telephoto. Although covering a wide range of focal lengths, the lens is lightweight and compact. Tamron has taken an uncompromising approach to optical performance, making liberal use of special lens elements—including LD (Low Dispersion) and XLD (eXtra Low Dispersion) lens elements—to greatly suppress chromatic aberrations, making it possible to achieve high image quality from edge to edge. This innovative all-in-one zoom lens vividly captures virtually all possible scenes, from landscape photography to portrait photos and snapshots.