Tamron SP AF11-18mm Zoom

Gain added wide-angle capability for your small-format digital SLR

Rob Sheppard

Published September 1, 2005
Updated July 1, 2016

A steady complaint about small-format digital SLRs is that they lose wide-angle possibilities. With their smaller sensors, they take lenses that we’ve known and loved from 35mm work and cause them to gain a telephoto effect. Focal lengths that worked great for wide-angle shots in nature lost that wide-angle feel.

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