Tamron SP AF10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 Di-II LD Aspherical [IF]

I purchased this lens last September and absolutely loved it until about one month of use, it stopped working. My Canon camera gave me the following error message: "ERR 01: Communications between the camera and lens is faulty. Clean the lens contacts." Well, I did just that, only to continue getting the error message after turning my camera off, then on, and taking a shot. So I sent it to warranty repair and got it back very promptly. They had to adjust the aperture. It has worked very well and takes some fabulous shots but then it happened again this month (6 months after purchase. Sent to repair and will have it back shortly but they had to do the same thing! Two warranty repairs in 6 months! Service was very good and they told me that after 3-4 repairs they consider replacing the whole lens. Unfortunately that doesnt help me much here in New Mexico and I am 100 miles from home and this problem occurs. Hope this last repair is it, otherwise I will be providing more updates on my repairs.

so my research for a wide angle lens wend like this. ohh crap i need a wide angle to shoot the pro firework show tonight we need to stop buy a camera store. so i went through there selection of wide angle lenses the tamron 10-24 looked like a nice lens. it was also there only lens. so much for me only buying canon lenses. so i get it and take it out of the shiney box with all the letters. a lot of people dont know this but the letters in the lens title are old tribal marking of an unknown language meaning buy me im fancy. thats a fact so you cant say anything about it. ok so i get to the shoot and im shooting fire works with my 7D. so i set the iso to 200 and set it to f8 or f11 in bulb setting focus set to infinity. and poof perfect fireworks that make all my friends think im the greatest photographer ever. we printed out all the shots to 20x30 in posters. the lens worked great. i have only used it at 2 other firework shoots. and it worked great. i dont really know how soft the lens is cuz i have onlu shot the lens at f8 so of course it with be sharp. this this is wide though feels good on my camera and hasent gotten in my way yet. so i cant say how fast it focuses because i shoot it in manual. but i like this lens would not have been my first choice but for what my needs were it was great.

I haven't ever had the money to get a wide angle lens until now. Boy, I didn't know what I was missing. This thing is great!! The angle of view and the resolution seem fine to me. I haven't notice any softness in the corners as some have said. I suppose if you were making blow-ups to say 20X16 you might notice some, but in my opinion this is a fantastic lens - especially anyone on a limited budget.

This is a nice addition for landscape and interior shots. Image quality is decent, but this is not the sharpest lens. For what it is, it's totally acceptable. Flare control is rather poor, with big purple rings appearing when the sun is in the corner or just off to the side of your image. Straight-on, it's not too bad. WIth a lens this wide, you'd expect some barrel distortion, and there is. However, it's totally controllable in Lightroom, and even without correction the effect is somewhat pleasing depending on the composition. The 10-24 zoom range is surprisingly versatile, making some portrait work feasible. Bokeh isn't anything special, however, since the depth of field on a lens this wide is huge. Focus is fairly quick and not too noisy. Construction feels solid. Quality all-around is good. The zoom and focus rings are comfortable. I had the lens in zero-degree weather outside and it performed fine. Granted, it was in a totally dry desert with no possibility for condensation, but even in the cold weather, the focus worked well and the zoom was smooth. (My Sony a77 also did very well). The lens also endured a dusting with sand with no ill effects. So I'm confident that this is a solid lens that can take some real-world abuse. It's weight is good. It's not so heavy as to be a burden. The problem is the huge lens hood, which is hard to fit in a bag or case. The 77mm filter size is convenient for Sony users since it's commonly used. I can share filters among lenses. A word of advice though, polarized filters don't work so well on a lens this wide since they'll leave some portions of the image darker than others.

Lens was beyond what I expected at the price! Light weight, focus not exceptionally fast, but fast enough for 98% if the shots. Condition given was spot on - only a small scratch on the hood.