p.2 #1 · Samyang or Tamron 35-150mm: who has the better performance?
ajmiller32 wrote:
Thanks for the notes! I was playing around with the idea of this being a "consolidation" of sorts, but it may just be an option for car shows and car shoots instead of my usual 35 & 135... and obviously, pets.
I would say by and large, it's pretty great, and you can use it for almost anything (with limitations).
Absolutely a Jack of all trades. If they could improve the focusing while zooming and tracking a bit more, it would be a 9/10 lens in my book. Nearly perfect.
Here's another shot. You probably cant see it, but it's a little soft, focused between defenders face and the kid going to the basket. Probably user error? Wrong focus setting? Not sure, but I'm pretty sure I recall it showing locked on to the kid dunking.
Also have to take into consideration I'm not using a sports body, and was shooting on H+. Maybe it does better on an A1 or A9?
p.2 #2 · Samyang or Tamron 35-150mm: who has the better performance?
Figured I'd try this lens since it's currently going for such a low price new--turns out the QC horror stories aren't so far fetched. The rendering is beautiful for a zoom, nicer than the Tamron's, and the lack of distortion is inpressive... but the autofocus is really bad, shooting a simple event last night with my A1 locking on eyes without issue and still most of the shots are just slightly off focus. And then there's a weird issue I've never encountered before: this lens incorrectly transmits the focal length to the camera, so zoomed all the way out to 150mm reads as 137mm or 140, etc. Not a huge issue except for it messing with IBIS and potentially reducing sharpness shooting on the long end. I got that stupid lens dock and will see if a firmware update does anything...
