All Tamron 150-600 owners

I am considering purchasing this lens. Two local camera shops have had no returns or issues regarding the focus freeze-up problem. I am trying to get a sampling from those that own the lens on this forum.

If you own the Tamron 150-600mm please post and tell me if you haven't had any problems, occasionally, or it's a serious problem. Please include what camera body you've seen the problem on.

Thank you as I consider this lens and please mark the poll above.

No problems with this lens. I've only used it on the D7100 and have not tried it on any other body I have access to.

My wife and I both have this lens and use it on two 7100s. It does freeze occasionally on both. It doesn't really cause me a problem but YMMV. For me it's in the slightly irritating category but the images for the cost make up for it.


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I have had mine for about 2 months now, used only on the D7100.
I think it froze up once in the first or second week, it got me by surprise and I just turned the camera off and back on, has never been a problem since.

My only issue is it needs a lot of light. The only time I get to use it is late afternoon when the shadows are getting long, I don't like the noisy images I get at iso 2500+ .

I voted "from time to time" because "on occasion - not sure" didn't seem to fit, BUT "from time to time" seemed too frequent. So my freezes are probably in between that. Not a serious problem for me. I've had the lens for over a year, I use it a lot (on D7100) and it's frozen maybe 9 times total.

Hope that info helps!

90% of the time mine is on my d7100 or d600/610. I had a problem with focus lock not work (it would hunt for lock above 300mm) returned to service center for repair (3 day turn around). Has worked fine since. There are times when i need to shift the focus point to get a lock, which happens with my nikon lens also.

Has happened maybe 10 times since I got it on my old 5100 and new 5300. Happened once today, in fact, but I simple half turned to take off then relocked it, and it worked fine; this is what I always do and it has always worked.

I can go 4 or 5 hours in the field and not have it lock once. It happens very infrequently, and as some other have said, if I turn it off for a few seconds, then back on, I'm good to go. This is on my D7100. I've only had my new D7200 a few days, but no locks at all on it so far.

BTW, I highly recommend this lens.

Owned for three months and has happened three or four times on my D7000. Like others stated just turn it off and back on again. Not enough of an issue to discourage me.

Owners of this lens please chime in if you haven't already.

This is really useful information and developing a better picture of the severity and frequency of this problem.

I go out with mine 5-7 times a week depending on weather conditions,each outing can be 100-200 shots,it can freeze once or twice during each outing or not at all so i am hesitant to join the poll as i will be using mine more than most and so would expect it to happen more often.
When the dealer rang me yesterday i was having a nap so didnt grasp everything he said,it did sound like they had done the same things as last time and reported no fault found,there was though a statement at the end about something they had done,thats the bit that didnt sink in to my half asleep brain but will post the details when i have collected the lens.
I may be more demanding on this than some as this is a dream focal length for me and to have it in a zoom with OS is incredible,even with my moaning about it there is every possibility if its not cured i will keep it,need to just think a bit more about that,i know its not a camera fault as i have used the 50-500 sigma for three weeks with no freeze up.
What keeps coming back in my mind though is the fact the Canon users had this problem in the early days i heard of two cures for it,one was a firmware update on the lens the other was a setting in the canon camera that told it not to try if it couldn't get focus quickly but not been able to confirm either.
The only setting in the Nikon i can find is how much time the camera waits between refocusing,there is a default setting which you can extend the time or shorten,there is also a off setting that as i understand it removes all the wait time and makes it full time AF,if i still have problems i will play with that.

Mine is the D7100

Mine freezes with the D750 and D810 but strangely she doesn't freeze as often now the light is better. During the winter period it was a couple of times each shoot, now once every so many days.

It sure is a very strange issue.

Straight out of the box, fourth shot attempt it froze. I'm using BBF and don't always get the button fully depressed but on this occasion I tried several times. I also moved the focus ring manually twice with no affect. I waited a few seconds and tried again with success. I only fired ten shots total and it did not freeze again but that is not a fair sample number. A little disappointing at this early stage.

The problem with the freezes is not really the frequency. It's the fact this problem always annoys you immensely when it occurs since you want to take that shot and nothing is responding.

Afterwards when you calm down you realize once every so many isn't dramatic when you're shooting as a hobby but at the moment you want to do very bad things to the lens.

Just collected it will not get chance to test although a brief test will not prove any thing,the documentation says no faults found but as a precaution they have changed the USD assembly,which i take to be the drive unit and as the focus is driven by that i guess its a possibility.

Not had mine long but have been giving it a good workout, has frozen once so far which was a bit worrying for a newbie as I wasnt sure what to do, turned camera off and back on and all was ok again, not happened since.

D3200

Mine froze on my D610 pretty much at least once every time I used it. I now have D810 and to be honest it's the same on that . I have noticed with VR off it doesn't seem to freeze , or if VR is on and it freezes turning VR off n on again unfreezes it .. Maybe its just mine that does that with the VR .

No problems on the D800, D3, D3200. I dont use it that often though. I did lose focus with the teleconverter on though.

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.