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We did very first look of Tamron 17-28/f2.8 Di RXD lens for Sony E mount in last few days
We do not keep you guys guessing. let's start with our conclusion.
It's a very good performance, With superb image quality
and the user experience was super cool
I think you should now turn off the video and put your order immediately before its sold out
But if you want to know more detail of the lens
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Do you always feel struggle when choosing yourself a wide angle lens?
It's a hard decision...
the high-quality wide-angle lens, It's too expensive to buy
And then you looked at the affordable one it doesn't feel right...
The Tamron 17-28mm f2.8 is the good one also you can afford
And it's a little funny to use 16-35mm f2.8
Every time it will be in my suitcase
But there's very little chance of using it
The reason
It's because the ultra wide angle lens really relies on the environment
First of all, it must be not too messy at the background
Secondly, The lighting ration can't be too high
That cause the image light and colour looks so ugly
The most important thing
If you want to take an ultra wide angle photo and you must look for a good foreground
there were numbers of conditions and the fact you should consider during your trip
So use ultra wide angle lens becomes soooo difficult
If you want to take a nice picture You have to get up early and chasing decent light.
Oops But as a trip, You can't miss ultra wide-angle perspective
So carrying a big 16-35 f2.8 lens are a very, very embarrassing
And the other thing is that the 16-35 f2.8 is way too heavy
We can't put it on our gimbal stabilizer
So we have to compromise to Batis 18mm f 2.8 Or SONY 24 f1.4 GM
These two light lenses
We are able to use a portable stabilizer gimbal to work with
This is a very, very friendly lense for the videographer
And every time we're talking about the lens we always start with the focal length
it covers from 17mm to 28mm
From ultra wide-angle all the way down to the normal the human eye natural view
as a video photographer, This is very common focal length
First of all If you're a Vlogger like me who talking to the camera
The 17mm gives you a very wide angle Even if you don't need to flip the LCD
You can also confident put yourself in the centre of the frame
And it gives the audience what's going on behind you
But if you want to present it with the first perspective
What do I see so easy Just zoom it to 28mm
It can be very subjective . A comfortable angle to shoot
If you're A73 A7R3 users You can active crop mode function
So the lens becomes a 40mm close-up It's very convenient
The other thing to say is this lens is lovely small
The size can fit in your parm as a little bit shorter than 28-75mm
Just over 400 grams I can easily hold it in my hand
28-75mm with new 17-28mm These two lenses perfect combined
You can take landscape, You can shoot portrait
then you'll get the fast aperture There's a little bit of a macro as a daily Vlog
It's a very convenient setup, Lightweight solution
most video producers focus on the focus and the performance on the stabilizer gimbal
First focus capability, you don't have to worry at all!
The experience of the 28-75mm years before the Tamron
You can say that Sony's autofocus system is the best
It's good that they've been modified
You can do it well Accurate focusing in any environment
Whether it's the human eye tracking or the recognition of faces
Again, continuous autofocus can do its job very well
It works well in any of these light conditions
And that's another thing about the performance of this on the stabilizer
First of all, this lens is small and light in weight
So it's very easy when you're levelling off
Most time just simply put it in the middle
Because it's small So it works in a large range.
You can set it at a high and low position. simple like that
And then the other cool thing is this lens
Because it has an internal zoom design
So when you zoom in and out 17-28 its centre of gravity will just change slightly
And that means that even if you use lightweight or most of the stabilizer gimbal
You don't have to re-adjust it after you zoom Quick and easy
Generally speaking, 16-35 is very typical ultra wide-angle in most camera's traditional factory
It's been used in event/documentary/ photojournalist
16-35mm can cover from an ultra-wide angle to a common way of looking at like normal person eyesight
It's good But Tamron set focal length in 17mm to 28mm
I think Tamron made a decision for all the photographer
Either You want to be smaller and lighter ? or you still going to use 28 to 35mm focal
For me This focal length of 28mm If you want to take a closer picture
You can just get closer to it, you can do it
And most of them are like the A7III There's also crop function you can activate.
You can crop it into 40mm and it becomes about 35mm It's very convenient
Compact size It's a very high probability that you bring it out
And as we said at the beginning this wide angle of the focal length is actually not used it all the time
I think this lens is positioned as a complement to a 28 to 75mm wide angle
It's not like the primarily ultra wide lense The idea of design
And then we'll come back and look at the performance of this lens
we'd like to thank Australia Blond Robot They have provided us with this lens for a test
Actually when we see this 17-28 f2.8 lens What's the biggest thing to bring our attention is the big aperture of 2.8
We are pretty confident Because the 28-75 lens been very good Provence in image quality
Let's find out what it looks like on the computer screen
the coating and colour basically the same as 2875
We take some photo against strong light, not much glare and glaze
Colour representation We are basically satisfied
The distortion of this lens is 17mm There's a little bit of a barrel distortion
Because now Lightroom hasn't updated its database So there is no calibration data at this point
I guess in the near future It shouldn't be too big a problem
And then there's the dispersion We are very satisfied with the dispersion
Under different focal lengths and different apertures It's not obvious or even invisible
So this dispersion right here is really a real positive one There's not a lot of good pictures of dispersion
So let's talk about that the landscape photographer cares about Starburst
We tested it At the most wide angle The starburst start from f16 and it's gonna be the most beautiful at f22
So compare the landscape lense like Laowa 15mm they could get nice starburst at f8
f11 become very already pretty
I'm a little bit of a disappointment in Tamron in this point. But we asked optical design professionals
This starburst and background bokeh is actually two different directions of this design
And if you want to get a good starburst The edges of the lens aperture should be straight
But the tradeoff is when you open your aperture The edge is not so smooth
And of course, this is a question of lens design But if we're going to take a lot of pictures
What about when aperture fully open?
Let's put it this way 2.8 aperture You can't expect silky bokeh
But you can still do super sharp.
We even looked at 28-72mm lens in 28mm f2.8 I think maybe 28-75 is a little bit better,
Conclusion: Tamron 17-28mm f2.8 compare to the Sony 16-35 F2.8 G master
You can see both of them are 2.8 fast apture At maximum aperture setting
That's not bad But The G master lens weighs 50% more than this lens
And it's the price that's twice as expensive
Which lens to choose You must have the idea in your mind
So let's compare 16-35mm f4 I think the biggest advantage is that the ZA lens with optical stabilization
Using the Sony IBIS to make the shutter speed achieve of 1/8 second
hat's pretty much the same thing as the 16-35 ZA that we were able to hand held
So what I'd rather choose the 2.8 lens
the lens defect
First of all If you're very specific about what you're doing with an ultra wide angle lens
I don't think this is the best of the best And even you have a lot more of a better option
For example If you are infatuated with this super wide perspective I think the 12-24mm of Sony's original will give you a wider range
it has a more aggressive perspective
But if you're an astro or a fan of the landscape Like Laowa15mm, Sigma 14mm These two lenses have a larger aperture
Bigger aputure always better in those applications
So as a serious landscape or astrophotography Professional lenses
If you have a crush on the background bokeh
So I think the 24 f1.4 G master That must be a little bit better than Tamron
What about this lens Well, It's a 28-75 wide angle supplementary lens for me
You can do anything but There's nothing particularly remarkable about it
Like Panadol
But if you're a video photographer I still strongly recommend the use of this lens
Compact, Portability, Convenient for gimbal stabilizer
The point is that the quality is good And its performance is really very stable
So you have good Autofocus and friendly interface
And one of the things that are gonna be a little bit more is the price of the lens
In Australia, they sell for nearly 1,600 Australian dollars
The price on the Tamron China website is 6800
But Tamon has again announced that there is not enough production capacity, Again!
I think it will at least 7-8,000 CNY when they got stock
I'll suggest you might need to get it as early as you can before the price goes up
We really like this lens.
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