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- [You Tuber] So for the last couple of weeks,
I've been testing out this new lens from Tamron.
And I will say it has been a while
since I've been this impressed by a lens.
I mean, the specs kind of speak for themselves.
I had to do a double take to really confirm,
does this is actually work on full-frame?
Does it really have this reach?
Is it this fast?
Now, I absolutely hate doing lens swap.
So I'm always looking for that one lens
that I can kind of do it all.
Now, there is no such thing as that perfect lens,
but this could be one of the lenses
I'm pulling out of the bag the most.
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Let me Lensplain to Dylan a little bit.
Okay, so the range of this lens goes from 35 to 150.
So this is at 35mm and we zoom all the way in
and we can get into a closeup at a 150.
So it has a good range.
Most of the time,
whenever you have a lens that has a wide reach like this,
it tends to be very slow,
meaning that it's gonna be harder
to take shots in low light.
And also if you like that shallow depth of field
where you're in focus, but the background's all blurry.
It's harder to get with a slower lens.
So when we're zoomed all the way out at 35,
we're getting an F/2.0,
and then when you zoom all the way into 150,
you get an F/2.8.
Which is actually really fast considering the range.
Now there is no image stabilization,
but a lot of times really fast lenses
don't have them image stabilization,
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How much would you pay for this lens?
- 1,800.
- Oh dude! You got it, actually..
- Shut up. - Right there.
It's like 17.99. - Okay, okay.
I was thinking close to 2000.
- I think if this was a Sony branded lens,
then it would probably--
- Would be like 4000. - be like $2600 or something.
- So, okay so we're at 35, 2.0
and then close to like 40 and we're already at 2.2.
And then now we're close to 70 and we're at 2.5.
And then at 85 we reached 2.8.
So from 85 to 150, we are at 2.8.
- So you're not gonna see much of that f/2.0
throughout a majority of the lens.
It's more of the wide areas of the lens.
But still, I mean, I like having the f/2.0 on the wide end.
The only other lens that I think is as impressive,
is one other by Canon.
But I feel like it's such a big, expensive, heavy lens.
It's like $3,000 for a zoom lens.
It's massive and heavy.
It's like, clearly you're just getting it
to compensate for something.
Only a total moron would actually...
Oh, Hey, what's that?
- I mean hear it is man.
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Speak of the devil, 28 and 70.
- I thought you were gonna interrupt me sooner but..
- 28 to 70, 2.0 lens.
It's a three-pound lens.
We're paying a thousand dollars a pound
because it's a $3,000 lens.
But as a wedding photographer, I love this lens.
This is my, do it all lens.
- If you thought this lens was ,
here, let's put it next to each other.
Oh my God, you can barely grab this lens.
- So this one only telescopes out for like about an inch.
- Oh, look at me.
Oh yeah look at that. (laughing)
- But this one, this one's a little bit thicker than yours.
I have camera A, with a 28 to 70
and then camera B with like the 70 to 200
or 16 to 35, right?
But with this, 16 to 35
and then from 35 to 150 with only two lenses.
Only two cameras.
- Love your channel by the way.
- Oh, appreciate it man.
What are you shooting on?
- GFX 100 S. - Medium format.
- Oh damn! Medium format.
- Yeah. - That's pretty serious.
- I do a lot of architectural work with it.
- What's the bigger pixel count on that one?
- 100 megapixels. - 100 mega--
- 102 megapixels. - Damn.
- Bro check out this lens
It's the 35 to 150 - Okay.
- And it starts at f/2. (beep)
And then it goes to f/2.8 on a tight end.
- Wow, how did they pull this off?
I mean, it's not even that big either.
- Considering the specs it's reasonably sized, right?
- Yeah, I mean look, it's not really that much big--
- Does it have image stabilization?
- No image stabilization. - No image stabilization.
- So you definitely wanna use it with IBIS.
Without IBIS it's very jittery.
- It's not even that much bigger than the GFX lens.
And it's got a hell of a lot more reach.
- If it had image stabilization,
that would be like the, the one and done.
- Yes, but it would probably be a lot bigger as well.
I mean, look at this lens right here.
It's only 28 to 70
and usually this kind of range starts at 24, 24 to 70
with IBIS--
- And no image stabilization. - No image stabilization.
Look how thick it is.
- I think once you get to the f/2.0 territory,
you just can't really reasonably have image stabilization.
Cool, man, what was your name?
- I'm Christian,
csantiagophoto is my IG. - Right on.
- Really cool running into you.
- Yeah, same man.
- So, hey Tamron, is this gonna come out for the RF mount?
Just curious.
- I actually emailed asking about it
and they're like currently there's no plan.
So I'm sorry. - No, its all good.
- This is only for our Sony people.
- I'm cool with this one. (laughing)
- So today it was supposed to rain.
So we were like, okay, perfect
we'll photograph Dylan in the rain
and make him look all cool.
But now we have a beautiful sunset.
On the days you're excited for rain,
a beautiful sunset will just be blessed upon you.
But now we're just like damn.
I think Frank even brought a trench coat
to try to make him look extra bad-ass
but now it's just like, sorry, dawg.
Just gotta have more beautiful sunset photos.
- So you gotta like wish for a beautiful sunset--
and then you go in. - And then you go in.
No, that's exactly what we should've done.
- Dude this sensitive killer.
- Here you try, what's it like holding a Sony?
- It's just good, it's it's nice.
- Seemed very genuine there.
And right now we're at 50 millimeter
and you're just chilling.
- Yeah, we're getting that sunset though.
That sunset important.
- Pretty cool, man 50 millimeter 2.2.
I like that.
- The last time I was really impressed with specs
on a zoom lens was probably the Sigma 18 to 35 f/1.8.
The range isn't anything crazy, but it's fast.
But also it was just an APS-C is not full frame.
Then there was also the 50 to a 100,
but again, APS-C only.
- Have you heard of the other Sigma lens?
The Art Lens, that is 24 to 35, 2.0.
All the way through it's for full frame.
- Yeah, you used to have one of those, right?
- Yeah, I sold that lens and then got the 28 to 70.
- So you really like having the f/2.0,
opposed to just getting the f/2.8 lenses?
- Yes, just to separate like the bride
and the detailed shots from the background.
- So, 24 is right here and 35 is that.
So that was the zoom range you were living with, right?
So that's not much.
- Yeah, and camera B was the 85 millimeter.
Is the lens weather sealed?
- Yep - Okay.
- And there is a USB-C port that's exposed,
but apparently that has sealing on it also.
Does it matter to you
how much you can close down the lens, f/16, f/22?
- Oh, no, not really.
- Not really, especially in photography world,
'cause you're usually in photography
rather than occasionally do video.
I almost only do video.
For me having f/22 is nice
if I don't have ND filters,
because I might want that one 150th shutter
and I need my shutter speed to be f/22.
Now this does get to f/22 but only on the tight lens.
So if you go to 150, then you could hit f/22,
but on the wide range at 35 mm, you could only hit f/16.
Now, f/16 is usually enough,
but if it's really bright, I want my shutter speed
to be around one 150th of a second for video,
then I need an ND filter.
- So is this less targeted
at videographers or photographers?
- I think a lot of times
that these lenses are photography first,
but me looking at it as a video camera,
I am very interested too, because of the speed and range,
but it is definitely harder for video
because you need to think about the stabilization.
And if you want manual focus for pro video,
then you definitely want hard stops,
which this doesn't really give you.
- The build quality seems good.
- Yeah, it definitely seems like Tamron's highest end lens.
For me, I hate doing lens swaps.
- That's why my favorite lens for traveling
is the 24 to 240 millimeter RF lens.
- How slow is that lens?
- It goes from from f/4, I believe to 6.3.
- Right. - Yeah.
- Which is nice that you get that range
but as soon as it gets around this level of light,
then-- - Then it's just paper weight.
- Could you take advantage of this fast speed
and try to take a few more lower lit shots?
- Yeah, yeah I think so.
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- Now if I wanted to do a 135,
I'd have to come back to the way the heck over here.
Maybe climb on this.
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That's actually my best.
- That range? - Yeah, that range
Yeah, I actually liked that,
especially cause we're keeping it at 2.8.
That's what I like.
- Do you wanna trade that for your a 28 to 70 f/2?
- No, I would not, never. (laughing)
- What do you think Sam?
- It's heavy.
- It's heavy but-- But it is impressive
that it's in the way and it's to--
- Have you seen that lens Rafael?
- I have not, that's fast.
And this big (beep)
Feels really good, it feels heavy.
It feels steady.
It doesn't feel plasticy.
- Now there is no image stabilization on there.
Does that bother you?
- I mean, not really-- - It's for blogging--
- Different world.
- Do you guys hate doing lens swaps?
- Yes.
- If you put the thing on a gimbal on a steady cam.
As soon as you turn,
the zoom is like, okay, give me 20 minutes--
- But Rafael, that's their problem.
When you're just like going somewhere
and you take this and a light if you wanna blog,
yeah, golden.
Imagine you're doing events,
like if you're doing weddings, this is (beep) awesome.
- Oh yeah.
- Well, yeah, when you said it was at 35 to 150,
I'm like, okay,
that's probably gonna be a 5.6 in the tight end,
but it's not, it's a 2.8,
that's like what?
- Whatever coding it has, it's just good coding,
very little flare.
- All right, so after having this lens
for the last couple of weeks,
I would say the biggest surprise I had
is that they're changing the Staples Center name
to Crypto.com Arena.
Apparently it's happening on Christmas,
so there's the harbor when it comes to the lens.
I would say no major surprises it definitely delivered.
Everything came out nice and sharp.
And it was just really nice having one lens
that can give me the wide, neat
and tight in shots all in one.
So I'm not fumbling around with lenses
and getting dust on the sensor.
Now, all this footage here at the auto show
is using the A7IV IBIS and I'm just handholding everything.
I did try one shot
where I turned off image stabilization handheld,
and I would not recommend it.
If you're going no stabilization on the tight end,
I would definitely say, tripod or gimbal or handheld rig.
And speaking of gimbals,
I did try balancing this all my DJI RS 2
and had no problems
even when it was fully extended out to 150mm.
We seemed to be getting pretty good macro
throughout the entire lens.
We also have a circular aperture,
Which makes it so that you can stop down by two stops
and still get a pretty circular bokeh, which is nice.
But if you do close down past that,
you do start seeing the shapes.
But overall, really happy with this lens.
Tamron actually let me borrow this lens
for a little bit and they're asking for it back now.
So I kind of don't wanna return it.
I might just skip go to different country.
Just have some pina coladas, delete my YouTube channel
and everything, I'll just disappear,
but at least I'll have this lens.
And I also wanna give a shout out
to our sponsor for this video, Santa Claus.
He's gonna be swinging by pretty soon.
So make sure you put out those cookies and happy holidays.
Goodbye.
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