TAMRON

() is a Japanese company manufacturing photographic lenses, optical components and commercial/industrial-use optics. Sony is a major shareholder in the company.

Contents

Products

Photographic lenses

Optical components

Commercial and industrial-use optics

List of photographic lenses

Designations

Di Lenses

SP Lenses

Conventional Lenses

Discontinued Lenses & Mounts

External links

Products

Photographic lenses

★ Interchangeable lenses for digital and conventional SLR cameras, including compact high ratio zoom lenses of which Tamron was the pioneer in 1992 when it released the 28–200mm. The most current lens of this type is the 18–250mm, the world's first 13.9X zoom lens made for Digital SLR cameras. Tamron was the make of the manual focus Adaptall series which have interchangeable mounts for multiple camera brands. These replaced an older series of interchangeable mount lens, the Adaptamatic lenses, which offered less functionality. Tamron was also responsible for the development of the t2 or T-mount adapter system.

★ Fixed focal wideangle, telephoto and macro lenses

★ Zoom lenses of various focal length ranges

★ Teleconverters

Optical components

★ Camcorder lenses

★ Digital still camera lenses

★ Cellular phone camera lenses

Commercial and industrial-use optics

★ CCTV camera lenses for

★ # Surveillance

★ # Industrial vision

★ # Image-processing

★ Projection lenses, Test plates, High-precision molds, Injection- molded parts & components, Optical device units, etc.

List of photographic lenses

Most contemporary lenses are available for Nikon, Canon, Minolta/Sony, and Pentax mounts. It is rumoured that Tamron will start producing lenses for the Olympus/Panasonic Four Thirds mount in early 2008, and that they will be in retail shops by the Summer of the same year. An AF55-200mm Di II LD in the Four Thirds mount was recently spotted at Tamron's development offices being used on an Olympus E-400 digital SLR. It was originally believed that the source of this information was incorrect, and that the person using the Olympus E-400 had simply got a lens of a different lens mount, and was using some kind of adapter ring to mount the lens onto the camera body. However, it has been discovered that the information was indeed correct in the first place, and a selection of Tamron prototype Four Thirds lenses exists, if only in the testing stages. To this date, Tamron have denied any involvement in becoming a member of the Four Thirds System movement, and many believe this is due to the heavy involvement of Sony, who are are major player in Tamron. However, Sony have absolutely no control over what Tamron produce and sell as a company.

Designations

★ 'Di' — "Digitally Integrated", featuring coating optimized for digital SLRs, but still usable on 35mm or full frame

★ 'Di II' — Lenses for DSLRs with APS-C sized sensors only

★ 'SP' — "Super Performance", professional lenses

★ 'IF' — "Internal Focus"

★ 'LD' — "Low Dispersion" elements

★ 'XR' — Extra Refractive Index glass

★ 'VC' — "Vibration Compensation", in lens stabilization

Di Lenses

★ SP AF17–35mm 2.8–4 Di LD Aspherical (IF)

★ SP AF28–75mm 2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF)

★ AF28–200mm 3.8–5.6 XR Di Aspherical (IF) Macro

★ AF28–300mm 3.5–6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical (IF)

★ AF70–300mm 4–5.6 Di LD Macro 1:2

★ SP AF200–500mm 5–6.3 Di LD (IF)

★ SP AF90mm 2.8 Di 1:1 Macro

★ SP AF180mm 3.5 Di LD (IF) 1:1 Macro

★ SP AF70–200mm 2.8 Di LD MACRO (IF)

SP Lenses

★ SP AF24–135mm 3.5–5.6 AD Aspherical (IF)

★ SP AF14mm 2.8 Aspherical (IF) Rectilinear

Conventional Lenses

★ AF28–80mm 3.5–5.6 Aspherical

★ AF75–300mm 4–5.6 LD Macro
===Di II Lenses for APS-C===

★ SP AF11–18mm 4.5–5.6 Di II LD Aspherical (IF)

★ SP AF17–50mm 2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF)

★ AF18–200mm 3.5–6.3 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF)

★ AF18–250mm 3.5–6.3 AF Di–II LD Aspherical (IF)

★ AF55–200mm 4–5.6 Di II LD

Discontinued Lenses & Mounts

Adaptall 2 mount lenses (Adaptall 2 series discontinued 2005)

★ Primes

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★ 17mm f/3.5 — Model 51B

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★ 24mm f/2.5

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★ 28mm f/2.5 — Model 02B

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★ 28mm f/2.8

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★ 90mm macro f/2.5 1:2

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★ SP 90mm macro f/2.8 1:1 — Model 72B

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★ 135mm f/2.5

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★ 200mm f/3.5

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★ SP 300mm f/2.8 — Model 107B (non-internal focusing)

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★ SP 300mm f/2.8 — Model 60B

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★ SP 300mm f/2.8 — Model 360B

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★ SP 300mm f/5.6 — Model 54B

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★ SP 350mm f/5.6 mirror lens — Model 06B

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★ SP 400mm f/4 — Model 65B

★ Zooms

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★ 28–70mm f/3.5–4.5

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★ SP 28–105mm f/2.8

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★ 35–70mm f/3.5 — Model 17A

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★ 35–80mm f/2.8~3.8

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★ 70–150mm f/3.8 BBAR

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★ 70–210mm f/4–5.6

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★ SP 80–200mm f/2.8 — Model 30A

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★ SP 200–500mm f/5.6 — Model 31A

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★ 200–500mm f/6.9 — 06A

★ Adaptall 2 interchangeable mounts produced for:

To fit lens mount	Model
"C" mount (CCTV/16mm)	"C"
Canon EF	???
Canon FD	FD2
Contax / Yashica	CTX2
Fujica AX	FUJ-X
Fujica ST/AZ-1	FUS
Konica (Later type)	KE2
Leicaflex (for catadioptric lenses)	LF
Leica R4	R4
Mamiya ZE	ZE
Minolta Maxxum	???
Minolta MC/MD	MD2
"MS" mount (CCTV)	"MS"
Nikon F (original type with "horn" meter coupler)	NIK
Nikon F-Ai	N-AI
Olympus OM	OM4
Pentax/Praktica universal screw (M42)	PCS
Pentax ES/Spotmatic	PCE
Pentax K	PK
Pentax KA	PKA
Praktica Electric (screw)	LLC
Praktica B200	B200
Ricoh XR-P	XR-P
Rollei SL35 / Voigtländer VSL	RF11
Topcon RE-Series Super D	TO
Voigtländer VSL / Rollei SL35	RF11
Yashica / Contax	CTX2

Adaptall mount lenses

★ Primes

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★ 135mm f/2.8 BBAR — Model CT-135

★ Zooms
Adaptall interchangeable mounts produced for:

To fit lens mount	Model
Miranda bayonet	???
Nikon F (original type with "horn" meter coupler)	???

Adap-A-Matic mount lenses

★ Primes

★ Zooms
Adap-A-Matic interchangeable mounts produced for:

To fit lens mount	Model
Canon FD	???
Miranda bayonet	???
Nikon F	???

★ T2 screw mount lenses

★ Primes

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★ 135mm/225mm "Twin-Tele" f/2.8/f/5.5

★ Zooms

★ T2 interchangeable mounts produced for: (Manufactured by Tamron, as well as third party manufacturers)

To fit lens mount
Canon EF
Canon FD
Contax/Yashica
Exacta/Topcon RE
M42 (Pentax) screw
Minolta Maxxum AF
Minolta MC/MD
Nikon F
Olympus OM
Pentax K
Topcon/Exacta RE
Yashica/Contax

External links

★ Tamron official website

★ Tamron Europe website

★ Tamron USA website

★ Tamron Hong Kong website

★ Unofficial Adaptall-2 and SP Lens website

★ Tamron MF lens gallery