Tamron Co., Ltd.
株式会社タムロン

Type	Public K.K. (TYO: 7740)
Industry	Imaging
Founded	Saitama, Japan (November 1, 1950)
Headquarters	Saitama, Japan
Key people	Morio Ono, President & CEO
Products	Photographic lenses, Optical and other products
Revenue	56,650 million Yen (FY2010)
Employees	7,198 (as of December 31, 2010) [1]
Website	www.tamron.co.jp

Tamron head office in Minuma-ku, Saitama, Japan.

Tamron Co., Ltd. (株式会社タムロン, Kabushiki-gaisha Tamuron^?) (TYO: 7740) is a Japanese company manufacturing photographic lenses, optical components and commercial/industrial-use optics. Tamron Headquarters is located in Saitama City in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan.

Sony Corporation maintains an 11% share hold in Tamron, making it the second largest shareholder below New Well Co., Ltd. with 17.34%.^[2]

History[link]

• 1950 November – Taisei Optical Manufacturing Company founded.
• 1952 October – Taisei Optical Industries established with a capital of 2.5 million yen.
• 1958 – “Tamron” trademark registered.
• 1970 April – Trade name changed to Tamron Co., Ltd.
• 1979 April – Tamron Industries, Inc. (presently Tamron USA, Inc.) established in New York City.
• 1982 September – Tamron Vertriebs GmbH established in Germany.
• 1984 February – Optech Tamron Co., Ltd. is established in Namioka, Aomori Prefecture.
• 1984 August – Shares listed with Japan Securities Dealers Association (currently JASDAQ) in Tokyo for over-the-counter transactions.
• 1985 December – Tamron Fine Giken Co., Ltd., a plant for making precision metal molds is established.
• 1986 January – Injection molding plant is established in Owani, Aomori.
• 1991 June – Optech Tamron Co., Ltd., is absorbed by Tamron Co., Ltd.
• 1995 February – Tamron acquires 75% capitcal of Bronica Co., Ltd., entering into the medium-format camera business
• 1995 April – Tamron (UK) Ltd. is established in the U.K.
• 1997 May – Tamron Industries (Hong Kong) is established in Hong Kong.
• 1997 July – Tamron Optical (Foshan) Co., Ltd. is established in Foshan, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China.
• 1998 July – Bronica Co., Ltd. is merged into Tamron Co., Ltd.
• 2000 June – Tamron Fine Giken is merged into Tamron Co., Ltd.
• 2000 June - Tamron France EURL is established in France.
• 2005 October – Tamron Optical (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is established in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.
• 2006 November – Tamron listed on the 1st Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
• 2009 July – Tamron Co., Ltd. India Liaison Office opened in Haryana, India.
• 2009 November – Tamron Europe GmbH. Moscow Representative Office opened in Moscow, Russia.

Products[link]

Photographic lenses[link]

The Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, a full frame f/2.8 constant aperture lens mounted on a film camera.

• Interchangeable lenses for digital and conventional SLR cameras, including compact high ratio zoom lenses of which Tamron was the pioneer in 1992 when it released the 28–200mm. The most current lens of this type is the 18–270mm, the world's first 15× zoom lens made for Digital SLR cameras. Tamron was the maker of the manual focus Adaptall series which have interchangeable mounts for multiple camera brands. These replaced an older series of interchangeable mount lens, the Adaptamatic lenses, which offered less functionality. Tamron was also responsible for the development of the t2 or T-mount adapter system.

• Fixed focal wideangle, telephoto and macro lenses;
• Zoom lenses of various focal length ranges;
• Teleconverters.

Optical components[link]

• Camcorder lenses
• Digital still camera lenses
• Cellular phone camera lenses

Commercial and industrial-use optics[link]

• CCTV camera lenses for
  1. Surveillance
  2. Industrial vision
  3. Image-processing
• Projection lenses, test plates, high precision molds, injection-molded parts & components, optical device units, etc.

List of photographic lenses[link]

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Most contemporary Tamron lenses are available for Nikon F, Canon EF, Minolta/Sony α, and Pentax K lens mounts.

Designations[link]

• Di — ‘Digitally Integrated’, featuring coating optimized for digital SLRs, but still usable on 24×36mm sensors (35mm, ‘full’ or double frame)
• Di II — Lenses for DSLRs with APS-C sized sensors only
• SP — ‘Super Performance’, professional lenses
• IF — ‘Internal Focusing’
• VC — "Vibration Compensation" -- in lens image stabilization
• USD — Ultrasonic Silent Drive
• PZD — Piezo Drive
• ZL — Zoom Lock

Optical design

• LD — "Low Dispersion" elements
• XLD — "Extra Low Dispersion" elements
• XR — Extra Refractive Index glass
• AD — Anomalous Dispersion
• LAH — LD + ASL hybrid lens element
• ADH — AD + ASL hybrid lens element
• HID — High Index, High Dispersion glass

Di Lenses[link]

Tamron SP AF180mm f/3.5 Di LD (IF) 1:1 Macro

• SP AF17–35mm f/2.8–4 Di LD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD
• SP AF28–75mm f/2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF)
• AF28–200mm f/3.8–5.6 XR Di Aspherical (IF) Macro
• AF28–300mm f/3.5–6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical (IF)
• AF70–300mm f/4–5.6 Di LD Macro 1:2
• SP AF200–500mm f/5–6.3 Di LD (IF)
• SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di 1:1 Macro
• SP AF180mm f/3.5 Di LD (IF) 1:1 Macro
• SP AF70–200mm f/2.8 Di LD MACRO (IF)
• SP AF70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD

SP Lenses[link]

• SP AF24–135mm f/3.5–5.6 AD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF14mm f/2.8 Aspherical (IF) Rectilinear
• SP AF300mm f/2.8 LD (IF)
• SP AF17-35mm f/2.8-4 Di LD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF70-200mm f/2.8 Di LD (IF) Macro

Conventional Lenses[link]

• AF 28–80mm f/3.5–5.6 Aspherical
• AF 75–300mm f/4–5.6 LD Macro
• AF 200-400 f/5.6 LD

Di II Lenses for APS-C[link]

The Tamron AF17–50mm f/2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical f/2.8 constant aperture lens mounted on a Sony a200 dSLR camera.

• SP AF10–24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di II LD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF11–18mm f/4.5–5.6 Di II LD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF17–50mm f/2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF) a.k.a. Tamron A16
• SP AF17–50mm f/2.8 XR Di II VC LD Aspherical (IF)
• SP AF60mm f/2.0 Di II MACRO 1:1
• AF18–200mm f/3.5–6.3 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF)
• AF 18–200mm f/3.5-6.3 Di III VC – for Sony E-mount MILCs
• AF18–250mm f/3.5–6.3 AF Di II LD Aspherical (IF)
• AF18–270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC LD Aspherical (IF) Macro
• AF55–200mm f/4–5.6 Di II LD
• AF18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD

Discontinued lenses and mounts[link]

Adaptall 2 mount lenses (Adaptall 2 series discontinued 2005/2006)

Adaptall 2 interchangeable mounts produced for:

Adaptall (first series) mount lenses

Adaptall (first series) interchangeable mounts produced for:

Adapt-A-Matic mount lenses

Adapt-A-Matic interchangeable mounts produced for:

T2 screw mount lenses

T2 interchangeable mounts produced for: (Manufactured by Tamron, as well as third party manufacturers)

See also[link]

• List of Nikon F-mount lenses with integrated autofocus motors

References[link]

1. ^ TAMRON | IR Tools
2. ^ Annual Report 2010 p. 25

• "History of Tamron", Adaptall-2.org.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tamron

• Tamron official website
• Tamron Europe website
• Tamron USA website
• Tamron Canadian consumer website
• Tamron Hong Kong website
• Unofficial Adaptall-2 and SP Lens website
• Canon EOS Technoclopedia: Tamron AF Lenses for Canon EF - a lens chart with technical data, comments and test references, including discontinued models

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