Hello my blog fam, I promised you all I will be talking about cameras, Lenses, and photography in general on this blog. So here we go.
Tamron India approached me few days back requesting to use their E- mount lenses and give them a feedback based upon my experience.
I own a Sony a6500 for two years now and use it as my main camera for personal and professional requirements. I have used full frame cameras in the past but still love my a6500.
I always wanted to use a 35mm lens, even though on my crop sensor camera it becomes 52.5mm. The Tamron 35 mm is so light in weight that you won’t even realise its on your camera body.
I had this lens during Diwali and used it to click some family portraits, some low light shots, and completely without much fanfare of flashlights or external steady lights. To check the versatility I clicked half pics on single shot mode and later on burst (multiple drive) mode. I clicked around 100-150 pics, out of which only 2 were unfocused and unusable.
At f2.8 this lens perfectly captured the face followed by shallow depth on the clothes to give all the more focus and importance to the portrait.
What I really loved about this camera was the minimum distance this lens can go towards the subject giving an advantage to be used as a decent macro lens. I wish I had more time with this lens to experiment some macro shots of flowers.
I shot majority of pics on f2.8 to check the dynamic range and overall sharpness of the photos produced. I was not disappointed in this department.
This lens is priced at 32000 INR but you could easily find it for 28k on Amazon and offline stores.
I really had great time pairing this lens with my Sony 6500 and added it to my wishlist for when I go back to lens shopping.
P. S. I decided to not go in detail about how many elements this lens has etc etc as all those details are already available on the information tab of Tamron and other various selling sites. What those sites can’t tell you is how it feels to use this lens and how the pictures actually look.
I would love to hear from you all. how I did for my first lens review blog?? Are you in the market to buy a new lens? Is there a lens that you are eyeing and would like me to review it?
Lemme know in the comments.
You can find more pictures taken from Tamron 35 mm on my Instagram account
IMPORTANT NOTE : This review is for Tamron India but the views mentioned are completely mine. No part of this post is biased or inspired.
Bhakti Motta 