Introduction
The Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD is a flexible wide-angle to medium telephoto zoom lens for Sony’s vary of Alpha 35mm full-frame mirrorless cameras.
The optical components is comprised of 21 parts in 15 teams, together with 4 LD (Low Dispersion) lens parts to scale back aberrations and three GM (Glass Molded Aspherical) lens parts.
This lens has a minimal focusing distance of 33cm / 13″ with a most magnification ratio of 1:5.7.
It incorporates a rounded 9-blade diaphragm which creates a pretty blur to out-of-focus areas of the picture and an inside focusing mechanism which implies the lens barrel would not transfer.
The Tamron 35-150mm makes use of the very newest VXD linear motor focus mechanism for quick, quiet and exact auto-focusing, and full-time handbook focus override can also be doable.
There are two Focus Management buttons, Customized and Lock switches, a USB Connector Port, and it has a moisture-sealed building.
The Tamron 35-150mm was first introduced in August 2021 and it’s designed and made in Japan.
The Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD lens is obtainable now priced at £1599 / $1899 within the UK and USA, respectively.
Ease of Use
Given the quick and fixed f/2-2.8 most aperture and vast zoom vary, the Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD is unsurprisingly a fairly massive and fairly heavy lens, measuring nearly 16cms in size and weighing in at effectively over 1kg – 1,165g to be exact.
If you happen to contemplate that it might successfully exchange each a 28-70mm and 70-200mm lens in a typical occasion pictures setup, nevertheless, it is really considerably lighter, simply as long as you do not thoughts the discount in zoom vary at both finish.
Whereas you should utilize it on a smaller APS-C physique just like the Sony A6000 sequence of cameras, it will not steadiness notably effectively and the equal focal size may even change to 52-225mm.
As demonstrated by the product pictures, it is a significantly better match for a extra skilled full-frame digicam just like the Sony A7R IV that we examined it with, the place it simply feels higher balanced and extra “at residence”.
Construct high quality is great, regardless of Tamron historically providing lenses on the cheaper finish of the market. The Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD feels very strong in your hand, with the outer barrel constructed from high-grade plastics as in all of their current lenses.
In comparison with earlier Tamron lenses, although, the 35-150mm has a extra shiny, shinier black end, a redesigned sample on the main target and zoom rings, and a extra scratch and fingerprint resistant exterior.
The Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD feels strong sufficient in your hand, regardless of its principally polycarbonate building. It has a steel lens mount.
The zoom ring is vast sufficient , gives a clean motion and has a tactile ridged, rubberised grip band. The lens extends by about an additional 4.5cm when absolutely zoomed out to 150mm.
The 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD incorporates a Lock change which fixes the lens at its 35mm setting and prevents it from extending when it is pointed downwards, though we did not actually discover any zoom creep.
There are two focus management buttons, a characteristic that’s discovered on many different Tamron zooms.
The opposite important new characteristic is the USB-C Connector Port, which lets you replace and customise the lens immediately utilizing the TAMRON Lens Utility software program, fairly than by way of a digicam physique.
We’re a bit involved that this port is uncovered, although, and subsequently not shielded from the weather, though Tamron have assured us that it’s absolutely waterproof.
Within the customisation choices, the course and pace of focus will be modified. The main target ring can be utilized for aperture as a substitute of handbook focusing, whereas the main target maintain buttons will be customised for preset focus factors 1 and a pair of for video to be able to pull focus from one to the opposite at a delegated pace.
The focusing ring is positioned in direction of the top of the lens mount, which is the reverse of the 28-75mm F2.8 Di III VXD G2 that we not too long ago reviewed, making it barely unintuitive and more durable to find in a rush.
The Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD options the most recent high-speed VXD ((Voice-coil eXtreme-torque Drive) which is alleged to be twice as quick because the older RXD motors. It additionally permits for just about silent auto-focusing, making it well-suited to video use.
In use, we discovered the VXD focusing system to be very quiet and in addition very quick with the lens mounted on a Sony A7R IV digicam.
Importantly, the lens is absolutely appropriate with the “Direct Handbook Focus (DMF)” system characteristic of Sony cameras that allows the consumer to immediately change between autofocus and handbook focus.
Focusing is absolutely inside however zooming is just not, with the size of the lens altering as you zoom from 35mm to 150mm.
The Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD is not absolutely weather-proof nevertheless it does profit from a moisture-resistant building with 10 inside seal factors and a rubber gasket across the mount.
This helps to stop moisture from penetrating the lens, though we would hesitate to make use of it within the rain for a chronic time period.
The entrance component has a hydrophobic Fluorine Coating that’s extremely immune to fingerprints and particles.
The lens is provided with plastic lens caps and a plastic flower-shaped lens hood (HA058) – there isn’t any lens bag included. The filter dimension is 82mm.
Word that this lens is just not appropriate with Tamron’s vary of teleconverters. Additionally there is no such thing as a official tripod collar/mount obtainable for it, though a third-party one might be launched sooner or later.
Focal Vary
On the 35mm focal size the angle of view is 63°26′ levels.
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On the 150mm focal size the angle of view is 16°25′ levels.
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Chromatic Aberrations
Chromatic aberrations, sometimes seen as purple or blue fringes alongside contrasty edges, are effectively managed with this lens.
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Vignetting
With the Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD vast open at f/2-2.8, you may see some noticeable gentle fall-off within the corners. Stopping down helps, though to fully do away with this phenomenon, you’ll need to make use of an f-stop of f/5.6 or smaller.
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Distortion
Barrel distortion is effectively managed, however there’s numerous pin-cushion distortion evident at 150mm in each the JPEG and RAW information which you may have to right in post-processing till an acceptable lens profile is launched in your modifying software program.
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Sunstars and Flare
The Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD produces fairly good sunstars when stopped-down to f/16-f/22, as proven under, though it it a bit susceptible to flare when taking pictures immediately into the solar.
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Macro
The Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD is not claimed to be a macro lens, nevertheless it delivers fairly good efficiency nonetheless if you happen to zoom to 150mm.
The close-focus level is a powerful 33cm from the movie/sensor airplane on the 35mm focal size (85cm at 150mm) and it has a most magnification ratio of 1:5.7 on the 35mm focal size (1:5.9 at 150mm).
Bokeh
Bokeh is a phrase used for the out-of-focus areas of {a photograph}, and is normally described in qualitative phrases, corresponding to clean / creamy / harsh and so on.
One of many motive to purchase such a quick lens because the Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD is to have the ability to isolate the topic from the background.
Tamron was apparently very a lot conscious of this requirement, as they employed an iris diaphragm with 9 rounded blades for a delightful rendering of the out-of-focus highlights. Based mostly on what now we have seen, we are able to say that they largely succeeded.
Under you may discover some examples, however you’re additionally inspired to take a look at our pattern pictures.
Sharpness
With a view to present you ways sharp the Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD lens is, we’re offering 100% crops on the next pages.
