there's the moon which is going to be a lunar eclipse
so i thought it'd be cool to film it or time lapse it with the tamron 35 to 150.
all right it's uh like eight or minus ten but it's it's pretty if you can see back there
um so we're going to take a little walk with the tamron 35 to 150
and see how long we can last taking some photos with this uh this lens
so this is a great spot to take pictures it's included trail race
except for them when it's like you know 15 below zero or whatever it is right now
but it is a beautiful spot to take pictures a great spot to test this lens probably not
going to stay here too long just because it's really cold uh but yeah i got the sun hitting
the mountain back here which always makes for a really spectacular super contrasty dynamic scene
so we'll snap a couple of those photos and then try and just for disclosure tamron sent this
lens to me but it's just on loan they don't get any input in this video that pay for this video
and these opinions are my own i will say right now just because i'm trying to shoot
everything on this lens i don't want to take the lens off and switch it out with my other
lenses because it's so cold um it is a little hard to do this on 35 millimeters
but it does work if you uh if you can get around it a little bit like i am right now it's not bad
uh but yeah so we'll snap a few pictures and then we're gonna move on to the next location
so far i'm really impressed by this lens the images are really nice really sharp
not surprising considering how well tamron's been doing with their lenses lately it's performing
well at minus eight which sometimes can be a real challenge minus eight for those of you don't know
is about minus uh 21 i don't know whatever it is celsius will be right down here it's cold
and shooting on a day like this is where a lens like this really is nice because you have that
extra stops of light because it goes all the way to f 2.0 at the wide end at 35 millimeters which
is what i'm shooting this on now i mean i'm at f9 because it's bright sunlight background and all
that but having those extra stops of light having a lens that lets that much more light in is really
nice if you're shooting in conditions like this 35 to 150 actually is a fantastic kind of not all in
one lens but a really good sort of covers almost everything you want to cover because if you're
out running around and you want to have that extra reach to get into 150 millimeters that really does
give you a lot of reach and now it's not wide enough to do some of the other stuff i do where
you get the really wide end uh 24 millimeters 16 17 millimeters is a little bit better for
some of those really wide angle shots but at 35 millimeter you can capture some great landscape
shots and some great pictures and also some really nice portraits of people because it has
really very low distortion let's go see how well the autofocus system works because tamron's done
a really good job with their vxd motors in the 180 70 to 180 and the 150 to 600 curious to see how it
works in this and especially at these temperatures at minus eight because it is very cold and nothing
myself included likes to work well at these temperatures and something i'm very curious about
and tamron has done a great job on their other lenses is how much focus breathing this lens has
this will be a great spot to test the focus and the focus breathing
so i'm going to run down there run at the camera see how fast it focuses and then um
yeah we'll test the focus breathing out for manual focus two
for the focus breathing it is almost non-existent in this lens that was really really an impressive
performance for the you know follow focus or how well it focused on me and how quickly it
focused it was i'm again really impressed of how quickly it locked on me how quickly grab focus
i did have to ramp my shutter speed way up and run that at f2 because i want to get the most amount
of uh you know that would be the most difficult for it to lock focus on and the most difference
between going from infinity to really close and the lens performs super well another thing
that's impressive about this lens is it's nearly par focal and what that basically means is you
can focus on something at 35 millimeters in the wide open keep it on a manual focus and then zoom
in and it will keep that object or that plane basically in focus and that doesn't happen very
often unless usually those types of lenses are very expensive but this lens actually delivers
something very close to a really good par focal performance because this lens is f 2.0 on the wide
end f 2.8 on the the long end when you're at 150 millimeters f 2.8 but because it's f2 on the wide
end the real question i have is how well does it do in low light here we are lit by the moon
not quite a full moon but uh three quarters of a moon or so i got the iso set at 80 000 which yeah
that's really high but it is pretty cool that you can shoot with this lens in this low of light now
i wouldn't recommend doing this all the time but the fact that it does go all the way down to f2
is really great if you want to do some low-light photography and specifically
i'm going to try out some astrophotography and see how the stars look stars are a great
way to challenge a lens because it really shows off how sharp or how good the lens is out in the
corners how good the chroma is and how well the lens handles some really bright pinpoints of light
granted shooting astrophotography with
a nearly full moon in a bright snow lit area is not a great idea all the time but i still
think we'll be able to get something that's usable and something that looks pretty cool
it still kills me that i can film myself in the moonlight at iso 51000 and get a usable
video we are here there's the moon which is going to be a lunar eclipse so i thought it'd be cool
to film it or time-lapse it with the tamron 35-150 so that's what we're going to do and it looks like
the eclipse is starting so we're going to can't this camera set up and start time lapsing it
time to go back to the studio and we'll break down a little bit more about what this lens is
really great for and some of the things it's not so great for but yeah let's let's go back to the
studio because it's freezing this might be one of my favorite lenses that i've used so far it's
really different and really somewhat unique the focal range the 35 to 150 didn't really make sense
to me when tamron first sent it but after using it for the last month or so i'm really impressed
by how well this lens performs and the versatility that you get being able to go from 35 to 150 now
you know obviously on the wide end 24 or 20 is a little nicer for when you're doing handheld
type shots or talking to the camera so all the shots you saw i just locked it off on a
tripod and stood about four or five five-ish feet away maybe six feet away to get those shots but
uh it's certainly usable and the thing that really impressed me was the f2 aperture at
the wide end being able to use this in moonlit situations i mean can we just take a second
and marvel at the fact that we have tools now that enable regular people like you and me to be able
to record ourselves in unbelievably low light when you pair this lens with something like the
iii or the a1 or the upcoming a74 i would assume uh i mean just absolutely phenomenal so a lot of
things i had to do i had to do because this is an 82 millimeter filter thread i didn't have any
nd filters so in the day light situations i had it clamped way down to like f 16 or
you know i'd rate my shutter speed up a couple of times but overall the lens this lens the
performance is just absolutely incredible the one complaint i have about it is that the zoom
ring is a little tight it's a little stiff um so you see some extra wobbles in my footage but
but other than that the construction quality is great the fact that you get four uh or three
different positions of this programmable button is great you get this customizable switch here
which you can use for three different settings and then an autofocus autofocus manual focus switch
to turn it off and on and this is where tamron is doing something that i really hope a lot of other
lens manufacturers take notice of there's a usbc port here and via software that tamron provides
you can program this lens to do a lot of different things pretty much anything you want so if you
want the focus ring if you don't ever use manual focus and you'd rather use this to change aperture
or iso you can do that you can make these buttons do pretty much whatever you want you can make
this switch kind of like put the lens in three different modes so you want this to be manual
focus there you go that's manual focus you wanted to change aperture there you go that's aperture
i mean it's just it's incredible the fact that we can uh program this lens to be set up the
way you want and one of my favorite things that i didn't really do a lot with but i did test it is
the fact that you can program this focus ring to be you know like what do you say force sensitive
that it will uh change based on how fast you change it or it can be linear and
in my brief testing it was nearly perfectly linear as far as i could tell every single time i
did it it did it exactly the same which is phenomenal if you do primary video primarily
video shooting and you want to be able to rack focus but repeat your rack focus that is crucial
having a linear focus and tamron's done an amazing job programming that in the other thing about the
construction of this it is weather sealed it's got a nice little rubber gasket there and uh
yeah having it out in the elements like i did i was really glad that it is weather sealed now i've
had a lot of other tamron lenses they've all been weather sealed and they've all withstood some very
harsh conditions and testing sometimes where i was a little bit worried if my camera would survive
or not but um they all have done really well so tamron's constructed an excellent lens
it is heavy it definitely is a heavy lens it's much heavier than the other tamron lenses but
what you get out of this with the optics which are just incredible and we'll jump into that here in
a second um i think makes it worth it and on the optics i was i mean frankly blown away i couldn't
believe how sharp this thing is wide open at f2 shooting i mean it just is sharp all the way out
in the corners the very edges and the one thing that if you see these photos here these are some
of the stills i pulled from the astrophotography time lapses that i did the one thing that really
impressed me was how well it handled the stars a lot of times a lens will smear stars or they'll
get big long streaks or tails on them because of the way the optics work out on the edges but this
is very clean very nice very usable images for stars which are i mean just
it really shocked me and that's at f2 normally you want to stop down a lens uh stop or sew just
to get a little bit better performance but i really wanted to push this so i left it at f2
and the result is just in my opinion nothing short of incredible the biggest downside of this lens is
the price it's 1899 us dollars so that's much more expensive than most tamron lenses that at
least the ones that i own but the performance the value that you get from this lens i think makes
it well worth it because this lens competes with lenses that cost significantly more and
yeah i'm gonna have to figure out how to sell some stuff so that i can purchase one
of these for myself because i can see this lens easily replacing my 28 to 75 and my 70 to 180 in
most situations that i shoot i just absolutely phenomenal performance out of a lens like this
i really didn't know what to make of it when i first got it when i when tamron first sent it to
me i just i wasn't sure what to do with this lens and then after going out and shooting with it i
really really enjoyed shooting with this focal range that's built into this lens so
yeah you have to figure out to sell something if you're interested in other lenses that work
really well for sony cameras a lot of them are tamron lenses because i shoot with a lot
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