I don't have the 60-250, but you also asked about 70-200, which I have the Tamron. I use it for the obvious, sports, but actually it's pretty versatile as a low light telezoom. Yes it's a big heavy lens but I've found no need to use a tripod with it, it's balanced pretty well. I'll have to say that I've not used it as much as I thought I would by now (I've had it a little over a year), but some unforseen interferences with photography (including sending my K-30 in for repair and getting caught up in the repair center fiasco of last summer) kept me from several events I had planned using it at. Anyway, some of the uses I've done have been soccer, basketball, a nephew's wedding, and landscapes. It does a nice job on landscape where you need to compress things and show a nice big moon or sun.