Tamron Will Fix Their 70–180mm F2.8 Lenses Affected by a “Floating System” Issue

Tamron has announced that some of their new 70–180mm F2.8 lenses may suffer from a floating system issue.

Here’s their statement:

We would like to announce that we found the performance of the floating system which corrects the field curvature may be insufficient (*) in a part of our 70-180mm F/2.8 Di III VXD (Model A056) products for SONY mirrorless cameras.

For affected products, we will inspect them and either readjust or exchange them.

How to check affected products
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The full announcement can be found here.

I have this lens myself and luckily it’s not affected by this issue.