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Our Tamron 150-500mm Lens Review Has Been Tested on Nikon

Chris Gampat
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10/27/2023
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The Tamron 150-500mm f5-6.7 lens is one of the best lenses for birding, sports, and a variety of other things. And recently, it received an update to allow it to be compatible with Nikon Z mount cameras. As such, we’ve updated our review to reflect the testing of the lens on the Nikon z9.

Here’s the text from the update. You can see it in our full review, linked here. Want one? Check them out on Amazon.

Update October 2023: on Nikon

The Nikon Z mount has been working very closely with Tamron recently. In the case of the Tamron 150-500mm lens, it’s now available for the system. This lens has some of Tamron’s highest-end technology inside of it — like the autofocus motors and the optics. For what it’s worth, it performs admirably on the Nikon z9.

Specifically, this is a birding lens. And so we tested it for just that. With the Nikon z9, it did quite a good job. Here’s summary of what we did:

  • We used the Nikon z9 in AF-C mode and with both with autofocus point control and wide-auto area selection.
  • In the automatic subject detection mode, the combo couldn’t easily find birds amongst branches and leaves.
  • When given a bit of assistance by switching to bird or animal detection, the combo did a better job.
  • When selecting the autofocus area, the combo didn’t have any issues at all.
  • The autofocus performance is just as fast as you’d see with the Nikon lens.

I’ve genuinely got no doubt in my mind that the Nikon z9 is capable when using the Tamron 150-500mm f5-6.7. Birds are such small subjects, but the lens does a great job when using it in both DX and FX modes. Surely, it can do the same when photographing humans doing sports.

Across three camera systems, it’s tough to complain about the Tamron 150-500mm lens.

To see images shot with this lens on the Nikon z9, please head to the image quality section.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.