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Photos taken with a Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD Lens | Sample Images

A collection of photos I've taken with the Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD under various settings and conditions to give a sense of how it performs in real-world shooting conditions.

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Categories: Lenses, Sample Images
Tags: Tamron, Tamron 28-300mm Zoom Lens
Last updated about 1 month ago // Originally published about 3 years ago

Tamron’s 28-300mm lens is designed as a versatile all-in-one zoom for full-frame sensor cameras, the type of lens you might leave on your camera most of the time for things like travel photography.

Tamron AFA010N700 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD IS Zoom Lens for Nikon (FX)...
Tamron AFA010N700 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD IS Zoom Lens for Nikon (FX)...
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There are versions with Nikon, Canon, and Sony. It has a maximum aperture of f/3.5 to f/6.3, depending on which end of the zoom range you use it. So it’s not the fastest lens out there. But the Nikon and Canon versions include vibration reduction (or vibration compensation, as Tamron calls it) that helps recover a couple of stops in lower light shooting.

It’s constructed of 19 elements in 15 groups with seven blades, has a filter size of 67mm, and weighs 19 ounces (540 grams). It comes with a lens hood.

Tamron’s lens aims to be an affordably priced competitor to Canon’s and Nikon’s own 28-300mm lenses. I’ve been shooting with the Tamron alongside the Nikon 28-300mm and will be posting a side-by-side comparison review shortly.

In the meantime, here’s a set of sample images I’ve taken with this lens under various settings and conditions to give a sense of how it performs in real-world shooting. These were all shot on a Nikon D810 and lightly processed in Lightroom. You can click on each image to open a full-size version for a closer look.

Sample Images Shot with the Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD Lens

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 200mm and f/8.0 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/3.5 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 110mm and f/5.6 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 220mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 55mm and f/9.0 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/8.0 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 180mm and f/6.0 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 55mm and f/4.5 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 145mm and f/6.0 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/16 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/16 on a Nikon D810. As you can see, there’s quite a lot of flaring if you decide to point straight at a bright light source like the sun. The flares going out about 4 o’clock from the sun looking natural enough and not too hard to remove with a clone tool in Lightroom or Photoshop, but the concentric rings at around 10 o’clock are pretty distracting and difficult to remove.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 35mm and f/10 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 210mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/9.0 on a Nikon D810. Two things to note in this one. Firstly, there’s some ugly flaring and reflections off the edge of the lens at top right. Secondly, notice the bend in the Washington Monument from the barrel distortion even though it’s relatively close to the middle of the frame.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 90mm and f/5.3 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/5.0 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/16 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/5.0 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/16 on a Nikon D810. You can see quite a bow of barrel distortion here in the roof line.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 100mm and f/5.3 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 100mm and f/5.6 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 35mm and f/5.6 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 55mm and f/4.5 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/5.6 on a Nikon D810. Some odd barrel distortion going on here.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 65mm and f/5.6 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 220mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 165mm and f/6.0 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/8.0 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/3.5 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 46mm and f/8.0 on a Nikon D810. There’s quite a bend in the roof line at top.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 38mm and f/11 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 110mm and f/10 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/13 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 95mm and f/5.3 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/3.5 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 240mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 220mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/5.0 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/11 on a Nikon D810. Taken from the same spot as the previous photo. The center of the frame is reasonably sharp, but it gets quite soft as you move away from the center. There’s also purple fringing that you can see in the lines of the buildings on either side.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/11 on a Nikon D810. Again, an example of the zoom range. This and the following photo were taken from the same spot.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/4.0 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810. Taken from the same spot as the previous photo, this time zoomed to 300mm.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/3.5 on a Nikon D810. Zoomed out.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/11 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/11 on a Nikon D810. More examples of the zoom range.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810. Standing on the same spot as the previous shot, this one is zoomed in.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/3.5 on a Nikon D810. Zoomed right out.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 165mm and f/7.1 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/7.1 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 60mm and f/7.1 on a Nikon D810. These three shots were all taken from the same spot.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/3.5 on a Nikon D810.

Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image

Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/11 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 46mm and f/5.0 on a Nikon D810.

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Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 78mm and f/5.0 on a Nikon D810.

Zoom Range of the Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD Lens

Here are some shot pairs that illustrate the zoom range of this lens, from 28mm to 300mm.


[caption id="attachment_22061" align="aligncenter" width="678"]Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/11 on a Nikon D810. Another example of the zoom range. This was taken while standing on the same spot as the following one.[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_22062" align="aligncenter" width="678"]Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/11 on a Nikon D810. This was taken from the same spot as the previous photo, this time zoomed in to 300mm.[/caption]


[caption id="attachment_22071" align="aligncenter" width="678"]Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/3.5 on a Nikon D810. Zoomed right out.[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_22072" align="aligncenter" width="678"]Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810. Standing on the same spot as the previous shot, this one is zoomed in.[/caption]


Tamron 28-300mm Zoom Range

Tamron 28-300mm Zoom Range


[caption id="attachment_22082" align="aligncenter" width="678"]Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/11 on a Nikon D810. Again, an example of the zoom range. This and the following photo were taken from the same spot.[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_22083" align="aligncenter" width="678"]Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/11 on a Nikon D810. Taken from the same spot as the previous photo. The center of the frame is reasonably sharp, but it gets quite soft as you move away from the center. There’s also purple fringing that you can see in the lines of the buildings on either side.[/caption]


[caption id="attachment_22077" align="aligncenter" width="678"]Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 28mm and f/3.5 on a Nikon D810. Zoomed out.[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_22078" align="aligncenter" width="678"]Tamron 28-300mm Lens Sample Image Photo taken with a TAMRON 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010N lens at 300mm and f/6.3 on a Nikon D810. Taken from the same spot as the previous photo, this time zoomed to 300mm.[/caption]

Find Them At

You can find them at B&H Photo. There are versions for Nikon, Canon, and Sony.

Tamron AFA010N700 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD IS Zoom Lens for Nikon (FX)...
Tamron AFA010N700 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD IS Zoom Lens for Nikon (FX)...
  • Circular diaphragm
  • Vibration Compensation system
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Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD Zoom Lens for Canon EF Cameras
Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD Zoom Lens for Canon EF Cameras
  • Circular diaphragm
  • Vibration Compensation system
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Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di PZD All-in-Zoom Lens for Sony Digital SLR
Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di PZD All-in-Zoom Lens for Sony Digital SLR
  • Circular diaphragm
  • Three aspherical elements
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Last updated on December 14, 2020

Categories: Lenses, Sample Images
Tags: Tamron, Tamron 28-300mm Zoom Lens

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