When a single lens is capable enough to perform all your photography needs then why to carry a bag full of lenses. Tamron 70-300 Sony is a telephoto zoom lens with a long focal length of 70mm to 300mm, which means it is a multi-purpose lens for your Sony Alpha mount DSLRs and SLT cameras. Incorporating the amazing ‘Macro Switchover’ feature, this lens by Tamron wears the Di (Digitally Integrated Design) title that makes the lens fulfil all the demands of the advanced APS-C format DSLRs and SLT cameras by Sony.
Best suited for portrait photography at the minimum focal length of 70mm, this telephoto zoom lens caters to many different focal lengths and therefore it is also suitable for travel, sports, action and wildlife photography. When mounted on Sony Alpha mount APS-C format cameras, the focal further gives an extended angle of view that is similar to 112mm-480mm. When clicking images using this lens, the LD (Low Dispersion) lens elements in the lens leave no room for chromatic aberration. Moreover, it consists of 9 diaphragm blades that allow you to use the beautiful Bokeh effect while clicking, so that you can keep your subject in absolute focus.
Another great feature of this lens is the maximum Aperture of f/ 4-5.6, which means that with this lens you can click quality images even in very low light conditions. This product by Tamron comes with 2 year Tamron India warranty.
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Telephoto Zoom Lens
Tamron 70-300 Sony is a telephoto zoom lens which caters to various focal lengths and therefore enables you to click images in many different genres. The best thing is that, when this lens is mounted to your Sony Alpha mount cameras, you can choose to stand at a single place and even then you can click your subjects from different perspectives. This is a multi-purpose lens, which alone suffices your various photography requirements.
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Best for Portraits, Sports & Wildlife Photography
As it is a telephoto zoom lens with a very long focal length, Tamron 70-300 Sony is best suited to all your photography needs. The minimum focal length of 70mm allows you to click beautiful portrait images and as the focal length moves towards its maximum range of 300mm, it caters to various focal lengths. In other words, this lens by Tamron is best suited to click even the travel images, the stunning sports and action photographs and the wildlife images at its best. Another best feature is the ‘Macro Switchover’ function that further enables you to do best of your Close-Up photography. Therefore, now whether it is your best friend’s wedding ceremony or be it a Safari, the A17 70-300mm Di LD for Sony is enables you to fulfil all your clicking desires.
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Aperture
Lighting in photography can in no way be ignored. It is not that only the bright light makes the best images, even the low light produces the best imaging moments. But unfortunately, many cameras or the lens for that matter are not capable enough to click great images when the light is very low. But with Tamron 70-300 Sony this won’t be a problem. This telephoto zoom lens by Tamron comes with a maximum Aperture of f/4 at the minimum focal length of 70mm and f/5.6 at the maximum focal length of 300mm enables you to capture all those beautiful moments that the low light makes.
The lens also comes with a minimum Aperture of f/32, that great clicking experience even when the light is in excess. At the minimum Aperture, you can allow a very small opening so that only the required amount of light enters through the lens.
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Bokeh
Bokeh is widely known as Selective Focus by the photo enthusiasts worldwide. It is one such feature that is loved by every lensmen. Tamron 70-300 Sony incorporates 9 diaphragm blades with which you can make the best use of Bokeh. These diaphragm blades blur the background and the foreground to keep the subject in complete focus. It allows you to enhance your creativity apart from enhancing the beauty of the images. To tell you more about Bokeh, this term comes from a Japanese word ‘Boke’ that means to blur. This term is mostly used in photography only.
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Low Dispersion (LD) Lens Element
The perfect colour tone, brightness and sharpness in any image enhance its quality. But when the wavelength of any colour gets distorted it severely affects these important aspects of photography. Widely it is known as colour fringing and technically as Chromatic Aberration. But Tamron 70-300 Sony uses Low Dispersion (LD) lens elements that keeps the wavelengths of every colour converged so that you can click fine, bright and sharp images with rich colour tone.
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Focusing
This telephoto zoom lens by Tamron facilitates both auto-focusing and manual focusing. It is really easy to click with the auto-focus feature but the importance of manual focus has in no way dimmed. If you want to click in auto-focus mode, you simply have to press the focusing mode of the camera to the AF (Auto-Focus) mode and then lightly press the shutter while viewing through the viewfinder. The lens will automatically focus the subject. Similarly, switch the focusing button to MF (Manual Focus) but to focus you will have to adjust the focusing ring and you will see the subject getting in focus.
Macro Switchover
Tamron 70-300 Sony is comes with the ‘Macro Switchover, feature that enables you to click the beautiful Close-Up shots of the tiny little insects and flowers capturing all the details. To use this feature, turn the Zoom ring and make the zoom adjustments to 180-300mm and then press the Macro switch. With this you can click your subjects from a minimum focusing distance of 0.95m with the magnification ratio of 1:2. It is to be noted that when clicking in Macro Switchover mode, the zoom ring can only be rotated between the ranges of 180mm-300mm.
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Compatible Cameras
Tamron 70-300 Sony is very well compatible with all the Sony Alpha mount DSLRs and SLT cameras. This lens is suitable for all the APS-C size format, full frame format and 35mm film format cameras respectively. Mentioned below is a list of Sony Alpha mount DSLRs and SLT camera that are very well compatible with AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di LD MACRO 1:2 – Tamron’s telephoto zoom lens for Sony.
· A900, A850
· A100, A100/S, A700
· A200, A300, A300K/N, A230, A330, A330L/T
· A380, A500, A550, A450, A290,
· A390, A560, A580
· SLT-A99V, SLT-A99
· SLT-A33, SLT-A55V, SLT-A55
· SLT-A35, SLT-A65V, SLT-A65
· SLT-A77V, SLT-A77, SLT-A57
· SLT-A37, SLT-A58, ILCA-77M2
Two Year Tamron India Warranty
This telephoto zoom lens can easily be bought online at Snapdeal.com and that too at the best price available online. India’s largest online marketplace – Snapdeal.com also offers 2 year Tamron India warranty on Tamron 70-300 Sony. Therefore, you can be assured that your lens is protected against all the manufacturing defects. However, if any defect in manufacture turns up in the lens, you can always visit to any of the Tamron service centre in your proximity and the defect will soon be resolved.
