Tamron

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Tamron Co., Ltd.
株式会社タムロン

Type	Public K.K. (TYO: 7740)
Industry	Imaging
Founded	Saitama, Japan (November 1, 1950)
Headquarters	Saitama, Japan
Key people	Morio Ono, President & CEO
Products	Photographic lenses, Optical and other products
Revenue	66,000 million Yen (2004)
Employees	5,579 (as of June 30, 2007) [1]
Website	www.tamron.co.jp

Tamron head office in Minuma-ku, Saitama, Japan.

Tamron Co., Ltd. (株式会社タムロン, Kabushiki-gaisha Tamuron^?) (TYO: 7740) is a Japanese company manufacturing photographic lenses, optical components and commercial/industrial-use optics. Sony is a major shareholder in the company^[1] and the two companies have worked together on several Sony-brand lenses for the Sony α series of digital SLR cameras.

[edit] Products

[edit] Photographic lenses

The Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, a full frame f/2.8 constant aperture lens mounted on a film camera.

• 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 18–270mm, the world's first 15× zoom lens made for Digital SLR cameras. Tamron was the maker 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

[edit] Optical components

• Camcorder lenses
• Digital still camera lenses
• Cellular phone camera lenses

[edit] Commercial and industrial-use optics

• CCTV camera lenses for
  1. Surveillance
  2. Industrial vision
  3. Image-processing
• Projection lenses, test plates, high precision molds, injection-molded parts & components, optical device units, etc.

[edit] List of photographic lenses

Most contemporary Tamron lenses are available for Nikon F, Canon EF, Minolta/Sony α, and Pentax K lens mounts.

[edit] Designations

• Di — ‘Digitally Integrated’, featuring coating optimized for digital SLRs, but still usable on 24×36mm sensors (35mm, ‘full’ or double 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 image stabilization
• USD — Ultrasonic Silent Drive

[edit] Di Lenses

• SP AF17–35mm f/2.8–4 Di LD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF28–75mm f/2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF)
• AF28–200mm f/3.8–5.6 XR Di Aspherical (IF) Macro
• AF28–300mm f/3.5–6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical (IF)
• AF70–300mm f/4–5.6 Di LD Macro 1:2
• SP AF200–500mm f/5–6.3 Di LD (IF)
• SP AF90mm f/2.8 Di 1:1 Macro
• SP AF180mm f/3.5 Di LD (IF) 1:1 Macro
• SP AF70–200mm f/2.8 Di LD MACRO (IF)
• SP AF70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD

[edit] SP Lenses

• SP AF24–135mm f/3.5–5.6 AD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF14mm f/2.8 Aspherical (IF) Rectilinear
• SP AF300mm f/2.8 LD (IF)
• SP AF17-35mm f/2.8-4 Di LD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF70-200mm f/2.8 Di LD (IF) Macro

[edit] Conventional Lenses

• AF28–80mm f/3.5–5.6 Aspherical
• AF75–300mm f/4–5.6 LD Macro

[edit] Di II Lenses for APS-C

The Tamron AF17–50mm f/2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical f/2.8 constant aperture lens mounted on a Sony a200 dSLR camera.

• SP AF10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di II LD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF11–18mm f/4.5–5.6 Di II LD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF17–50mm f/2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF17–50mm f/2.8 XR Di II VC LD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF60mm f/2.0 Di II MACRO 1:1
• AF18–200mm f/3.5–6.3 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF)
• AF18–250mm f/3.5–6.3 AF Di II LD Aspherical (IF)
• AF18–270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC LD Aspherical (IF) Macro
• AF55–200mm f/4–5.6 Di II LD

[edit] Discontinued lenses and mounts

Adaptall 2 mount lenses (Adaptall 2 series discontinued 2005/2006)

Adaptall 2 interchangeable mounts produced for:

Adaptall (first series) mount lenses

Adaptall (first series) interchangeable mounts produced for:

Adapt-A-Matic mount lenses

Adapt-A-Matic interchangeable mounts produced for:

T2 screw mount lenses

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

[edit] See also

• List of Nikon compatible lenses with integrated autofocus-motor

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} TAMRON | Stock Information

• "History of Tamron", Adaptall-2.com.

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:Tamron

• Tamron official website
• Tamron Europe website
• Tamron USA website
• Tamron Canadian consumer website
• Tamron Hong Kong website
• Unofficial Adaptall-2 and SP Lens website
• Canon EOS System Overview: Tamron AF Lenses for Canon EF with technical data, comments and test references, including discontinued models