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Hi, this is Jay P. Morgan.
Today on The Slanted Lens we are out here shooting with a new 70-200 millimeter Tamron
lens, that G2 lens, fabulous lens.
Gonna put it through the test and see what it's got.
See how it reacts out in the sun, and the flares, in the shade.
Just gonna see what it does.
So the VC modes on this lens are really fabulous.
So you turn it on or off.
When you turn it on you have mode one which is best for video and just your standard shooting.
Mode two is for panning.
So it's not going to try to stabilize when you pan.
It's going to allow you to pan.
Mode 3 is great for shooting stills because if I've got a camera lens on a tripod and
I'm shooting stills, I don't want to try to stabilize constantly.
I want that motor running constantly so I can turn it to VC3 and that's going to stabilize
the image as I shoot it, which is really perfect for stills.
So there's three different modes there, which is fabulous.
It's very comfortable in my hand.
I love this new plate they put on the bottom of it because it's got an Arca-Swiss plate
on the bottom and it sits right on my hand.
It doesn't hurt my hand like the plate on some of the other lenses do.
But anyway it's just nice because I can throw this right onto a tripod now.
I don't have to worry about putting a plate of any sort on it, which is really nice.
So for autofocus, you've got from full to infinity to 3 meters.
Basically what that does is just limits the area that the autofocus is trying to search
through.
That means it's not trying to search that low end.
But if you go full to infinity, then it's going from 1meter, about 3.1 feet, to infinity,
so it's got a longer area it has to search.
So if you're not going to be shooting really close up, you can put this thing on infinity
to 3 meters and that'll make the autofocus run even faster.
The bokeh on this is fabulous, it has this kind of circular feel on the lens.
I love the look of it.
It's really pretty.
Everyone asks well what about the focus breathing?
Is there focus breathing?
So focus breathing is just the change of angle of view.
When you change the focus so defocus to foreground.
You get a shift in the angle of view.
You can see things start to change in the image.
I mean sometimes in some lenses it just comes alive.
The image is changing.
It's like breathing.
It's like a change of perspective, so I'm checking that right now.
I'm focusing on her.
I'm pulling the focus way to the back and I'm going to pull the focus way forward.
I'm not seeing it.
I'm just not seeing it.
I'm gonna run a little video of that right now.
I'm on summer, I'm gonna focus way to the back and things are not moving around her.
I've got all the columns in the background and everything kind of stays put.
I'm not seeing any kind of breathing issues at all.
No, I'm just not seeing it.
The columns don't move out of the frame or move in, which a lot of times what you'll
see happen, things start to push in or push out as you change the focus.
I'm just not seeing it.
I'm going in all the way from infinity to out so that's at 70mm I don't see it there.
Now I'm going to now go back to like 200 and see if it happens there.
I'm not shooting this on a tripod, my Vanguard tripod that I love so dearly because I left
it in the truck and the sun's going down and this is our last shot.
So here we go.
Focus breathing handheld.
It's not the first time.
Okay so at 200mm I see just a little bit of breathing.
It's just, the frame is widening a little bit and collapsing just a tiny bit but not
enough that would concern me in a video situation at all.
It certainly doesn't affect still situations in the least bit so I think it's a pretty
clean lens.
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So I absolutely love this lens.
It's a huge step up from the first generation.
I love the design, the build of it.
The lens performance is wonderful because it is sharp.
It loses a little bit of sharpness at 200mm but overall it is a fabulously sharp lens,
right up into the 2.8 range which is wonderful.
The autofocus on this lens is fabulous.
It's quick, you do have the ability to limit it, which makes it even faster if you're not
going to be shooting in too close.
The fact that this lens gets the end of 3.1 feet is wonderful because you've got a very
close focusing range at that 200mm lens which is wonderful.
It's a great thing.
My only complaint is it focuses like Nikon, not like Canon.
I wish they had changed that but it's not a deal breaker for me because it is a great
functioning lens.
In fact, I'm going to try and get a hold of another one because on set they are fabulous
to use when you're just shooting, they're just a wonderful go to the lens at 70-200.
These are sharp and ready to go.
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