All Tamron 150-600 owners

Tamron 150-600mm freezes?

  • Never froze up

    Votes: 4 26.7%

  • Might have froze up on occasion - not sure

    Votes: 2 13.3%

  • Freezes from time-to-time

    Votes: 9 60.0%

  • Freezes quite often

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    15
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mikew_RIP

Senior Member
Vixen said:
Mine has done it but I can't say how often. Not many times anyway, and like the others I just turn it off and on again or turn the lens in the mount, and all is good. As far as ISO.....I don't much like the graininess of the high ISO shots but I only find that happening in deep shade or on really overcast & dull days.
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Really though it shouldn't freeze in those conditions,it should hunt and then stop.
 
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Ronnie Sue

New member
can someone please tell me what "locking up" means?
i ordered the lens last week and it will be delivered today...i was very excited, but now am a bit hesitant..
i will be using it on a d750 and try it on my d80 to see what 900mm looks like!

also curious-has anyone used a teleconverter with this lens?
thanks
 
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cbay

Senior Member
Ronnie Sue said:
can someone please tell me what "locking up" means?
i ordered the lens last week and it will be delivered today...i was very excited, but now am a bit hesitant..
i will be using it on a d750 and try it on my d80 to see what 900mm looks like!

also curious-has anyone used a teleconverter with this lens?
thanks
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Quits focusing. I wouldn't get too worried about it; it's not a frequent occuring thing and the lens performance makes up for it.
 
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TommysG

Senior Member
The lens has never locked on me in three months but it has trouble locking focus as it approaches 600mm. Using on D7100.
 
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Ruidoso Bill

Senior Member
I have not had mine lock up yet on my D800/810. I just had it out in San Diego and went to the zoo, I shut my camera off between shots and it was flawless with me, did sever hundred shots and it never locked up.
 
Bourbon Neat

Bourbon Neat

Senior Member
On the 5500 the focus did not match spot-on anyway. With that body there were "no focus" and "freezes" quite a bit. Mated to the 7200 (twice) and the 700 zero.

I can say that I probably contributed to the aforementioned issues in two ways; Swinging it like a shotgun after woodcock & using the entire zoom length.

Setting the selector switch to the 15m and swinging a smooth arc is much better.
 
Bourbon Neat

Bourbon Neat

Senior Member
Well now.

I have had severe freeze mated to the D7200. Freeze, turn camera off and back on, still no go. Turn off camera, remove replace the Tam, still no go, repeat this procedure and back in business. Moments later, freeze again, turn off camera, turn on camera and working again. Moments later......................All of that was with Vr turned off, set to 15m and out, af on. Cleaned the contacts with alcohol and set it on the shelf for now. Nothing like this with any other lens of any manufacture on any camera body. This lens is 90 days old.

I truly did not appreciate Mike's frustration until now.
 
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mikew_RIP

Senior Member
Bourbon Neat said:
Well now.

I have had severe freeze mated to the D7200. Freeze, turn camera off and back on, still no go. Turn off camera, remove replace the Tam, still no go, repeat this procedure and back in business. Moments later, freeze again, turn off camera, turn on camera and working again. Moments later......................All of that was with Vr turned off, set to 15m and out, af on. Cleaned the contacts with alcohol and set it on the shelf for now. Nothing like this with any other lens of any manufacture on any camera body. This lens is 90 days old.

I truly did not appreciate Mike's frustration until now.
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Just had a thought after mine did a nasty freeze on me today and if you get the chance you may want to find out,when it freezes before you do any thing point the camera and lens at its closet focus point and then slowly move and point it along the ground and see if its in focus at any point,it could be the lens is OOF at all points.
 
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