This is the topic for today.
Oh my god.
This is just chaos.
Actually it’s already past... what time?
but I still have to work on this review.
I’ve been tidying up this space for a whole day,
that’s why it’s this late.
Well, seriously this is just a mess.
Too much work before start shooting.
Especially down here.
Oh, yeah, let me show you.
Oh my goodness.
Let’s clean up first.
This clamp, this is from Manfrotto,
it’s actually very good to have one.
There are 3 joints, can grip the desk like this,
Useful for still life photos.
Finally we can get started.
The topic for today is this lens right here,
Telephoto zoom-lens from TAMRON,
it will be on sale from May 14th.
Here I completed all 3 
zoom-lens brothers from TAMRON.
If you want to know about other 2 lenses,
please check my reviews on them.
I’m glad that many of you decided
to buy one of them after watching my reviews.
I got many comments that you actually enjoyed them,
so, that’s why I guess many of you
were interested in the last one.
How it looks is almost the same 
as other lenses of the series, just a bit bigger.
I’d say this is the biggest one of the 3 brothers.
If you are new to videography,
you’ll probably get a wide-lens and a standard lens first.
And some of you may not have one or not even touch zoom lenses before.
It’s true that I don’t often use the zoom lenses,
I mainly use standard or wide lenses.
But what attracts me to the zoom lens is its great compression effect.
For those who don’t know about a compression effect,
let me explain it first.
First of all, you may think zoom lenses make us feel like
we can get close to the subject that stands far away from us.
But you should think in this way,
it’s more like the lens draws the subject near us.
And the compression happens, compress everything in between the subject and us.
This is very cool effect. Let me show you an example photo.
I shot this in Asakusa about a year ago.
Do you see the big shrine at the far end is drew up toward the camera
and makes all the people walking on Nakamise St. like compressed.
I strongly recommend you to try it. It’s definitely cool.
Now, let’s talk about what options do you have on telephoto lenses.
For Sony cameras,(Full-frame capable E mount)
there are 2 genuine lenses.
One of them is right here with me,
70-200mm G lens
This is F4.
The other one is in higher G-Master series,
the same 70-200mm but F2.8.
This is how they look side by side.
Tamron is pretty short in size,
And GM is quite big as you can see.
As taller it gets, the weight and the price gets high.
The price of Tamron is less than a half of GM
Comparing with their price,
Tamron and Sony G lenses will be your options.
They don’t have much difference in size and weight,
But the point is Sony G lens has an inner-zoom system.
It’s very smooth,
and the center of balance doesn’t change.
On the other hand,
Tamron extends and slide out like this,
But this lens is not mainly used on gimbals,
So I don’t think it’s a huge problem.
And, there is another important difference,
Sony G lens has many switches around the body
to easily operate while shooting.
For example, switching AF / MF,
Optical SteadyShot; it’s an image stabilization,
focus-hold switches, and so on.
But Tamron has no switch on itself.
Not one switch at all.
So let’s say you need to switch AF to MF,
then you have to do that on your camera.
Well, I think they should have put at least
that AF/MF switch on the lens,
but this simple design is reflected to its price.
Now, let’s see Tamron’s AF performance.
Actually, the new AF system is applied to this lens.
Very fast AF speed on both photo and video,
with almost no motor noise, very quiet.
Since a highest new AF system is applied,
I think the AF performance of Tamron is much
higher than that of G lens.
Also, it supports Face Tracking AF of Sony,
works just as genuine Sony lenses.
You know, sometimes the camera clearly detects the face
but the AF of the lens doesn’t fully work.
This kind of problem would never happen with this Tamron.
Especially for those of you who wants to try it on videography,
you’ll be happy with the result.
Shooting vlog with a telephoto zoom lens.
What are you doing?
Sunscreen? For what?
Because I gotta do something on the balcony.
“Perfect UV Spray Waterproof”
I have no idea about sunscreen.
I can’t live without sunscreen.
I’m zooming in to your face.
Why can you do that?
Sunscreen spray is easy to apply.
Oh yeah?
I’m not gonna stay out for long time
So this is enough for now.
This is handheld shooting.
I don’t see too much camera shake,
at least I’m trying not to shake it.
But it’s quite heavy.
And, AF is perfectly working, I guess.
It keeps focusing on her face.
What’s next?
This is my first time trying this thing.
She’s starting to do something.
“Cleans leaves for natural gloss”
Oops. Crows everywhere.
Tamron lens doesn’t have a stabilizer in it
where Sony G lens has.
It’s inferior in that respect.
But it works just fine with handheld like this.
It’s not a kind of lens to mount on gimbals,
but still you can use this for videography with no problem.
Alright, the next is comparing their tele end, 180 and 200mm,
then, difference of F2.8 and 4.
The difference of 20mm on tele side
doesn’t make a huge difference, I think.
However, the difference in brightness is obvious.
It’s the difference in F-stop.
Now, one more important difference is
the shortest focus distance.
This Sony G lens has the shortest of about 1m.
So you can’t get any closer than this.
Talking about Tamron,
When shooting at 70mm (MF),
the shortest focus distance is 27cm.
Shooting at 70mm from only 27cm away from the subject,
it’s almost like shooting with macro lens.
This is one of great points which Sony doesn’t have.
I couldn’t finish this up yesterday,
so, I took a short nap and starting it again.
Let’s wrap it up.
So, this Tamron 180mm telephoto zoom lens is
definitely a rival of Sony G telephoto zoom lens.
It is light-weight, small, and bright.
very fast AF speed, can be used as semi-macro.
Almost like telephoto-zoom lens and macro lens
are combined together as one lens.
And the most important is the price.
I thought at first that some specs are inferior,
like a bit shorter tele-end of 180mm,
and no built-in stabilizer in the lens.
However, I felt like they’re not huge problem.
On the other hand,
the positive points of Sony are
these switches around the lens itself
allow you to smoothly control the image.
And, the difference in tele side.
If you need this 20mm by any means,
Sony lens will be the only choice for you.
That’s about it, I think.
Tamron let me try this lens beforehand,
but I have to tell you that this video is NOT sponsored by Tamron.
They are NOT forcing me to say anything,
I’m just telling you my honest opinion.
No lie, no doubt, in all sincerity.
So, if you are thinking about to get one of
Try both of these at the store if possible.
Tamron and G or GM lenses.
It’s very fun to have a telephoto zoom lens.
So, you should try one if you don’t have yet.
Hope this video will help you out then.
And one more thing,
Recently I started a new chat group in Discord.
It’s free, so check the description below if you’re interested.
Okay, that’s it for now.
Thank you for watching.
