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| Vintage Tamron
Product Brochures |
Shown below are thumbnails of various vintage
Tamron sales brochures, advertisements, catalogs and flyers. Brochures for a
particular lens series are listed first. Individual lenses, starting with the
shorter focal lengths, are listed next. And finally, Tamron's various
teleconverters are listed. More vintage brochures, catalogs and flyers will be
added to this page in the near future.
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| Adapt-A-Matic
Lenses (circa early 1972) |
| A very small and simple spot color brochure
(2-7/8" x 5-7/8" when folded) from early 1972. Some Adapt-A-Matic lenses which
were introduced later in 1972 are not shown. |
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| Adapt-A-Matic
Lenses (circa 1973) |
| A simple folded spot color brochure from
1973. |
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| Adapt-A-Matic
Lenses (circa 1973) |
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| F-System Lenses
(circa late 1970's) |
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| SP and
Adaptall-2 Lenses (circa late 1979) |
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| Adaptall-2
Mount System (circa 1979) |
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| SP Adaptall-2
LD Lens Series |
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| SP Adaptall-2
17mm F/3.5 Model 51B |
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| Adaptall-2
35-70mm F/3.5-4.5 Model 17A |
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| SP Adaptall-2
35-80mm F/2.8-3.8 Model 01A |
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The Tamron SP 35-80 is one
of my favorite zoom lenses due to its fast aperture and much better than
average macro performance. These advertisements are circa 1980. Resolution and
contrast charts for this lens are excellent and are only slightly exceeded by
some OEM optical designs which were not nearly as compact. The only major
inherent optical defect within this lens is 2.5% barrel distortion at the 35mm
zoom position. Optical performance is good even when shooting wide open at
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| SP Adaptall-2
70-210mm F/3.5-4 Model 52A |
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This specific advertisement
for Tamron's SP 70-210 F/3.5-4 zoom lens ran in the June and July 1979 issues
of Popular Photography. It is the advertisement which started my love affair
with Tamron lenses. My first zoom lens was Vivitar's 80-200 F/4.5 which,
although fairly sharp, was plagued with two problems: First, the Vivitar was
hard to focus with my Minolta SRT-201's split image viewfinder due to the slow
F/4.5 maximum aperture. Second, the zoom crept whenever I focused the Vivitar
lens. The Vivitar zoom also lacked a macro feature. The Vivitar was sold and I
received the Tamron lens as a birthday present in March of 1980.
Look
closely at the photo of the SP 70-210 which shows a focus ring which reads 20
feet and then infinity. The early version of the model 52A had this "quick"
focus ring which rotated just 1/2 turn from infinity to the minimum focus
distance of 30 inches. Tamron quickly introduced a revised model 52A which
featured a 3/4 focus rotation which is distinguished by a focus scale which
reads 30 feet and then infinity. Personally I found the fast aperture and the
"snap" focusing of the earlier version very quick to get used to. I shot many
excellent sports photographs for my high school yearbook with this lens. |
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| Adaptall-2
80-210mm F/3.8-4 Model 103A |
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| SP Adaptall-2
90mm F/2.5 Model 52B |
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| SP Adaptall-2
180mm F/2.5 Model 63B |
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| SP Adaptall-2
300mm F/2.8 Model 107B |
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| SP Adaptall-2
300mm F/2.8 Model 60B |
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| SP Adaptall-2
300mm F/2.8 Model 360B |
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| SP Adaptall-2
350mm F/5.6 Model 06B |
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| SP Adaptall-2
500mm F/8 Model 55B |
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| SP Adaptall-2
2x Tele-converter 01F |
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| SP Adaptall-2
140F and 200F Tele-converters |
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