Is This the Most Versatile Lens You Can Own?

It used to be that lens design was generally a tradeoff between convenience and excelling at a specialized purpose. However, in recent years, we have seen some absolutely remarkable lenses that upend the traditional defining factors that characterize prime and zoom lenses. One such lens is Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD, and this excellent video review takes a look at the sort of performance and image quality you can expect from it in practice. 

Coming to you from Chris Turner Photographer, this great video review takes a look at the Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD lens. Lenses like the Canon RF 28-70mm f/2L have rewritten the paradigm of what a zoom lens offers in relation to a prime, and it seems like Tamron is following suit with this lens. By offering a tremendously useful focal length range that covers everything from reasonably wide shots out past portraits and into short sports and wildlife focal lengths and combining it with an aperture range of f/2-2.8, Tamron has made a lens that could potentially take the place of several more specialized lenses, and it looks like it lives up to the promise. Check out the video above for Turner's full thoughts on the lens. 

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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I will rent this when I have a chance.

That seems like a really wonderful zoom range! Great to see 3rd parties innovating.

You may have a point with the f/2-2.8... But as a hobbyist I carry the FE 24240mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS (360 in APS-C) combined with FE 1224mm f/4 (2.8). Both super sharp and I find sharpness is best at +2 f/ above wide open or f/8 to f/11. While out and about I carry camera and lenses in a plane teardrop bag and am ready for anything day or night.

Great shots 😊

+1 Nikon had top tier lenses. It’s nice to see some sites seeing that.

"the most versatile lens?"
a lens is versatile if you can use it under most conditions and most places.

A lens that requires a pickup truck to haul around and a tripod in all but the most favorable conditions isn't "versatile"

much like the overbuilt tanks in the US army, if you can do everything well, you can't do anything really wonderfully