On 24 March 2022, I bought a Tamron 18-400mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD lens to replace my Canon EF-S 18-200 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens that I had fallen with. The 18-200mm still worked but I no longer trusted it, so the Tamron replaces it.

My first impression of the Tamron was its build quality was better than I expected, quite solid actually, and all of my later impressions of the lens were equally as good. It obviously can't compare to Canon 'L' lenses, but for my non-professional needs the Tamron is certainly good enough and at my advanced age is far better than lugging around a bag of lenses (not to mention avoids having to swap lenses, which I try to avoid).

The images in this gallery are my typical low resolution sizes except for the last four which are full size for the purpose of comparison and processed to match each other as closely as possible.