Tamron SP 60-300mm F/3.8-5.4 Model 23A Owners Manual

fatdeeman · Joined: 13 Jun 2009 Posts: 780 Location: UK

With proper handling and care, you Tamron lens will give you many years of beautiful and exciting pictures....

I wonder if they had any idea just how true that would turn out to be at the time!

HaoleBuilt · Joined: 02 May 2010 Posts: 87 Location: Oregon

Thanks for posting this. I have fun with this lens all the time.

Farside · Expire: 2013-12-27

Thanks for that, very useful info there.

cooltouch · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 9096 Location: Houston, Texas

I own two of these lenses, and bought another new back in the day. Needless to say, I like the Tamron 60-300. It's a great zoom.

calvin83 · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 7568 Location: Hong Kong

Thank you for sharing this menu! I regert I sold a mine copy of this lens a year ago.

cooltouch · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 9096 Location: Houston, Texas

My experience with this lens and eBay is that it is often priced rather high, but if you're patient, you can find copies for cheap prices. That's what I did with one of mine. I don't know why it didn't get much bidding activity, but I was the winning bidder at about $20. The deal included a hood and an Adapatall-2 mount for Canon FD. Ironically, I was mostly interested in the mount and hood, since I already owned a 60-300, but for that price, I didn't mind picking up another one.

I picked up the other one at a local camera shop for $40 -- still a great deal, far as I'm concerned.

ManualFocus-G · Expire: 2014-11-24

It's an incredible lens when stopped down to f8, but gives way too much CA (at the 300mm end) wide open Sad

ManualFocus-G · Expire: 2014-11-24

Many thanks for menual BTW, I've never used the macro mode (mostly because I didn't know where to find it!! Laughing

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wupdigoj · Joined: 18 Mar 2010 Posts: 85

Thank you!!

Javier

cheekygeek · Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 183

Thanks for sharing this!

I now have two of these also. Anybody need one? Wink

sdjensen · Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 29 Location: Denmark

Weeeeeeeee many thanks!!

I just bought one on ebay and did not know about the macro settings so thank you!
Very Happy

cooltouch · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 9096 Location: Houston, Texas

After I bought the first one of the two I own now, I couldn't recall anymore how to get that lens into macro mode. I sold my original one about 19 years before, and this later one hadn't come with directions. It took me probaby a good half-hour of fooling around with it before I finally hit on how to put it into macro mode. And then, of course, the memories flooded back in. Cool

It required a pretty firm grip and twist to engage macro. I suspect it had been quite a few years since it had been engaged, if ever. After putting it in and out of macro a few times, it became a bit easier to do.

So . . . just passing this along in case anyone is surprised by the amount of force needed to engage the macro mode. Even when new, it required a fair amount of grip and twist to get it to engage.