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Title: awful
Review: I bought two of these because I found a crazy deal somewhere, $40 each. Even with this terrifically low price, the lens is really lackluster.First of all, with "macro" in the title, I expect it to be a macro lens. Look up "macro lens" on wiki and it'll tell you that it's for extreme closeups (which generally requires you to be able to focus on things extremely closeby. Looking at the lens itself, it says its min focus distance is 3 feet. What gives?So my entire reason for buying this lens is nulled. Oh well. How's it do otherwise? Well, compare it to Nikkor's 55-200, list price is only $50 less and it doesn't have VR and doesn't have Nikkor's quality level.Autofocus on this lens is obnoxious, it sounds like there are little gnomes inside, cranking 100 year old gears.Sorry Tamron, I'll stick with Nikkor next time unless you can win me over with another one. I will probably end up just taking these apart to play with the elements and come up with a science project.
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