Tamron 35 150mm Lens Review

Hey everyone, I'm professional landscape and nature photographer, Ian Plant. And right now I'm exploring the icy fjords of Greenland looking to photograph epic icebergs. And I'm shooting with Tamron's new 35 to 150 millimeter lens. Greenland is an island that is almost completely covered in ice. You may not notice it when you're here on the land. But from above when you're flying in a plane, looking down and you're crossing over the glacier the ice just seems to go on and on for miles as far as the eye can see. The icebergs are floating in the water. So the best way to photograph the icebergs is to get in the water with them. So I've been using a motorboat to get out into the water to explore and find the most interesting icebergs and then get close enough to them to make the photographs that I want. I'm always looking for new lenses that cover a focal range that hasn't been covered before, that can be really useful to me. And I find that the 35 to 150 millimeter is actually perfect for a lot of the landscape photography that I do. Typically when I'm doing landscape photography I'll carry three lenses with me, a wide angle zoom, a standard zoom like a 24 to 70, and then a short telephoto like a 70 to 200 to reach out and capture distant landscape or landscape intimates. But with the Tamron 35 to one 150, I can take two lenses instead of three because it covers enough of the short telephoto range for most of the distant landscapes that I want to capture but it also goes wide enough so that it mates perfectly with my wide angle zoom like a 15 to 30mm. This new lens is optimized for full frame cameras. You can use it on a crop sensor camera as well. You're gonna get more reach on the longer end but you're gonna lose a lot of that wide angle capability. I actually find the 35 to one 150 millimeter to be perfect for photographing the icebergs. Sometimes the bergs are pretty far away, so I can zoom in to the longer end of the focal range and get a telephoto perspective. But a lot of times I can't get closer and I have to go wider. So being able to zoom all the way out to 35 millimeters really comes in handy. Now the boat isn't the most stable platform, it's often pitching up and down in the waves and moving around quite a bit. So Tamron's vibration compensation really comes in handy. If the boat's moving around a lot, I just flip on the VC and no matter what the conditions are, it's gonna help me get the sharp shots that I need. I'm really happy with this new focal range because it fills a gap that I didn't really know I needed before. But now that I have the lens, I can see how useful it really is. And that's what I'm looking for when I'm looking at new lens offerings. So as it turns out, the new Tamron 35 to 150 millimeter lens was perfect for me for this trip to photograph icebergs in Greenland. I'm Ian Plant and thanks for watching.