Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8 Di VC USD A012N

Tamron

Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8 Di VC USD A012N

📏 15-30mm 💡 f/2.8 🔌 Nikon F Mount 🔍 Zoom ⚖️ 1100g 📷 IS
MSRP $1,199

📖 Overview

The Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 is a wide-angle zoom lens prized for its fast aperture and excellent image quality. It's a great choice for landscape, architecture, and astrophotography where a wide field of view and low-light performance are essential. Its large size and weight can be a drawback for some users.

📸 Browse 39 real-world sample photos taken with this lens by photographers worldwide on SampleShots.

📋 Specifications

Focal Length 15-30mm
Max Aperture f/2.8
Min Aperture f/22
Lens Type Zoom
Mount Nikon F
AF Motor USD
Image Stabilization Yes
Autofocus Yes
Weather Sealed No
Min Focus Distance 28.0 cm
Max Magnification 0.2x
Elements / Groups 18 elements in 13 groups
Aperture Blades 9
Weight 1100g
Dimensions 98.4 x 142.5mm
Release Year 2014
MSRP $1,199

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🖼️ Sample Photos

Real-world photos taken with the Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8 Di VC USD A012N, sourced from SampleShots.

Two modern wooden cabins with large windows under a cloudy sky in a green countryside landscape.
Nenad Stojkovic
Modern living room featuring a wooden staircase, large windows with scenic views, cozy seating, and a stylish coffee table.
Nenad Stojkovic
Drummer performing on stage at night, surrounded by colorful lights and an engaged audience.
Nenad Stojkovic
Contemporary lounge featuring tufted brown leather seating, modular wooden coffee tables, dark textured walls, and floor-to-ceiling windows with sheer curtains.
Nenad Stojkovic
Wide-angle interior of a modern lounge with brown tufted leather sofa, teal ottoman, coffee table, stone accent wall with TV, illuminated niches, and a green vertical garden near sheer-curtained windows.
Nenad Stojkovic
Close-up of a weathered control panel on heavy construction machinery, with diamond-plate steps, exposed wiring, and a perforated exhaust cylinder to the right.
Nenad Stojkovic
Gravel heaps and machinery at a construction site during dusk, with warm sunset glow.
Nenad Stojkovic
Wide-angle view of stacked wooden planks and beams at an outdoor lumber yard, with a tall central stack and foreground boards leading toward rows of timber.
Nenad Stojkovic
Stacks of wrapped hollow-core construction blocks on pallets in an outdoor warehouse yard bathed in warm sunset light.
Nenad Stojkovic
Wide-angle view of a construction yard: rusted rebar lattice in the foreground and palletized bricks wrapped in plastic in the background.
Nenad Stojkovic
Red clay roof tiles stacked in rows at an outdoor construction yard beside a brick building.
Nenad Stojkovic
Coiled steel wire spools in the foreground of an outdoor construction yard, with wrapped pallets and stacked bricks behind a brick building.
Nenad Stojkovic
Foreground: stacked red clay tiles; background: tall wrapped pallets in a construction yard on concrete.
Nenad Stojkovic
Group of youths and adults posed inside the open rear ramp of a U.S. Air National Guard C-130 cargo aircraft on a sunny airfield.
Wyoming Air National Guard | Public Affairs
Group of people on the open cargo ramp of a U.S. Air National Guard transport aircraft, interior cargo bay and daylighted tarmac visible.
Wyoming Air National Guard | Public Affairs
Two men in casual shirts smile at the camera on a sunlit airstrip beneath a large military transport aircraft with an open left-side cargo bay; others stand and sit nearby.
Wyoming Air National Guard | Public Affairs
Portrait of a U.S. Air National Guard photographer in camouflage, cap, and glasses, smiling while holding a microphone-equipped camera on a platform with aircraft and spectators in the background.
Wyoming Air National Guard | Public Affairs
Wide-angle view of Wyoming Air National Guard open house: visitors around a silver trainer aircraft on the tarmac near a hangar, with a large aircraft tail on the right and a clear blue sky.
Wyoming Air National Guard | Public Affairs

View all 39 sample photos on SampleShots →

📷 Compatible Cameras

Native Mount

Nikon D750

Nikon D750

2014
 Nikon D5600

Nikon D5600

2016
 Nikon D3300

Nikon D3300

2014
 Nikon D7200

Nikon D7200

2015
 Nikon D5500

Nikon D5500

2015
 Nikon D810

Nikon D810

2014
 Nikon D500

Nikon D500

2016
 Nikon D4s

Nikon D4s

2014
 Nikon D5

Nikon D5

2016

+ 6 more compatible cameras

🔄 Via Adapter (19 cameras)

Nikon Z6III

Nikon Z6III

 Nikon Z8

Nikon Z8

 Nikon Zf

Nikon Zf

 Nikon Z5 II

Nikon Z5 II

 Nikon Z50 II

Nikon Z50 II

 Nikon ZR

Nikon ZR

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