Re: Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD Image Thread
ruthenium wrote:
This post perhaps loosely belongs to this thread. Nevertheless, hopefully someone might find this interesting.
Lens discussions often involve mentioning their rendering, color cast, etc., somewhat akin to the discussions of vines by the vine connoisseurs. The observations of different rendering are no doubt valid. However, when it comes to travel photography, the pictures are often taken in the less than ideal (and sometimes ghastly) light. Too often, the photographer has to react on impulse, with no time to change the aperture, shutter speed, or the ISO. Therefore, arguably, a prized quality of a lens for travel is its versatility (plus decent optical quality), rather than some special rendering. The Tamron 35-150 is an excellent travel lens, with the only drawback being its size and weight, but I am digressing. The point here is that it is not unusual for the raw travel images to require significant changes in post. At the end, I am not sure how much there is left of the lens rendering. Postprocessing can dramatically change almost every aspect of an image. Unrelated, it is probably not surprising that one can recognize the authorship of certain contributions on this forum simply because of the distinct individual style of their contributors, which seems to be independent of the lens they have on their cameras.
I couldn't agree more - post-processing often dramatically changes the final output, especially with landscape shots involving focus stacking and pano/HDR merging, etc. It just happens to be icing on the cake that this lens also renders extremely well for a 4x third party zoom and with great AF to boot.
Re: Tamron 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD Image Thread
ruthenium wrote:
This post perhaps loosely belongs to this thread. Nevertheless, hopefully someone might find this interesting.
Lens discussions often involve mentioning their rendering, color cast, etc., somewhat akin to the discussions of vines by the vine connoisseurs. The observations of different rendering are no doubt valid. However, when it comes to travel photography, the pictures are often taken in the less than ideal (and sometimes ghastly) light. Too often, the photographer has to react on impulse, with no time to change the aperture, shutter speed, or the ISO. Therefore, arguably, a prized quality of a lens for travel is its versatility (plus decent optical quality), rather than some special rendering. The Tamron 35-150 is an excellent travel lens, with the only drawback being its size and weight, but I am digressing. The point here is that it is not unusual for the raw travel images to require significant changes in post. At the end, I am not sure how much there is left of the lens rendering. Postprocessing can dramatically change almost every aspect of an image. Unrelated, it is probably not surprising that one can recognize the authorship of certain contributions on this forum simply because of the distinct individual style of their contributors, which seems to be independent of the lens they have on their cameras.
I couldn't agree more - post-processing often dramatically changes the final output, especially with landscape shots involving focus stacking and pano/HDR merging, etc. It just happens to be icing on the cake that this lens also renders extremely well for a 4x third party zoom and with great AF to boot.
Feb 09, 2022 at 11:40 AM
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