This lense is a lovely accompaniment to my other glass. Takes much clearer pictures than the 250mm Canon lense, and has further zoom. Great buy for the price.

This is a highly recommended lens for a TELEPHOTO user under a budget .I really like its results and its VR is quite impressive. TAMRON has built a QUALITY PRODUCT !!!

Fabulous lens. From beginner to advance this lens should be in everyone's camera bag!!! This lens is on my camera all the time. The zoom is great, and for everyday photos this lens is for all occasions.

The Tamron SP AF 70-300mm F/4-5,6 Di VC USD (for Canon Digital SLR) Lens is carefully constructed with 17 elements in 12 different groups to give you perfect pictures. The size and weight is not much, which makes it convenient to carry around. Overall, it is a good buy at the price.

The Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD performed fairly well in our full format test but it is a more desirable lens on an APS-C DSLR. The resolution figures are very high in the scope and that's, at least mostly, across the image frame.

Gary Wolstenholme takes a look at Tamron's first lens to include both an Ultrasonic focusing motor and Vibration Compensation.

Very good optical performance; Good build quality; Ultrasonic drive; Effective vibration compensation system

Focusing a little slower than other silent focusing systems I've used

Unlike the somewhat basic affair that is the Tamron AF 70-300mm Macro, the new Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD has all the latest bells and whistles, or at least their high-tech, optical equivalents.

The Tamron 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD Lens features a popular and useful focal length range, a nice design, USD (Ultrasonic Silent Drive) AF and VC (Vibration Compensation) for a very affordable price .

The Tamron 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC is a new telephoto zoom that covers a convenient and popular telephoto range. In Tamron terminology, Di means the lens is optimized for digital cameras and VC is vibration compensation, similar to Canon's image stabilization (IS) and Nikon's vibration reduction...

Tailor-made for wildlife and sports shooters, this third-generation 70–300mm full-frame telezoom in Tamron's SP line adds Vibration Compensation (VC) plus two innovations: an Ultrasonic Silent Drive (USD) focusing motor for near-silent AF, and an element of what Tamron calls XLD glass, a relatively...