I just got this lens... It should be the perfect travel camera. 20mm is great for those wide landscape/architecture pics and 40mm is super ok for portrait, putting people in front of the landmarks. I will prob simply bring my 85mm prime for those 10% occasions where a narrow view is required. These 2 lens with the A7C should make this an unbeatable travel combo.
I never could get excited enough for the 17-28 because 35mm is my favorite focal length. The 16-35 gm is way too big and expensive so this is really marketed to people like me who are focused on portability, usefulness, and value. This lens paired with the 28-200 and you're ready for anything! Thanks for the great review as always Pav!
I am cinematographer cum photographer my budget is not so much planning to buy 20,35,85 and 28-75 Bt now i am moving to 20-40,50,85,135 i can get 2 extra lens 50 and 135 due to this lens
I can't tell you how happy I am to see manufacturers making lens like this. So, hats off to Tamron for investing in these lenses for production. I hope it's a huge success for them. With that being said. I think they missed the mark a little, "at least for me" I wish they could have made this lens at 20 - 50 f 2.8 In my mind the prefect travel/vacation lens would have been 20-50mm 2.8 - But maybe they choose 20-40 to keep it smaller and lighter. I'm not sure how the math of making lenes is and how much that would have affected the final product.
Another great review. This lens is amazing for what it is. I just wish Tamron pushed the narrow end to 50 or 60 instead of 40mm. Totally understand the compromise but to me 50mm f2.8 is where portraits start to look amazing.
I haven't been disappointed with Tamron lenses for some time now. I used the 35-150 on my Nikon D750, and the 18-400 on my Nikon D5300. On my Sony A7riii and A7Riiia, I have used the 17-28 f2.8, 28-75 f2.8, 70-300, 28-200 f2.8-5.6, and now the 20-40mm f2.8. I haven't had the opportunity to shoot for about six months due to a back injury, but I plan to this weekend for the first time with the 20-40mm that I bought a few weeks ago. Your review helped me with my latest Tamron purchase.
Great video. This lens is on my camera most of the time while travelling and always filming my family. It is portable and amazingly very sharp. The picture quality is outstanding. The other lens I carry around is the Tamron 35-150mm that is perfect for places of interest like zoo and parks where zoom is needed. Both of these lens combo are the only lens you need while travelling on holiday.
I would prefer prime lenses like 20, 28 and 35mm and could be f/1.8 or 2.0, so they are a good point between compact size, weight, price and a nice background isolation. But this 20-40 although 2.8 seems very interesting to a kind of walkaround. It's not easy to decide. Nice review!
The Zeiss 16-35 f/4 has always been my go-to for a wide angle zoom but this lens really intrigues me for all the reasons you mention in your video. I've been wanting something faster and I'm thinking this is the one. I've always referred to Tamron as "the Toyota of lenses": solid, reliable, good value, etc. I've loved my 28-200 much more than I ever thought I would. Great review, beautiful footage, keep up the good work!
THANK YOU for this review. I feel like you covered a lot of good points. The only thing you should have done to add more value to the vid, is mention other lenses in comparison. You could have went a little deeper with that part but besides that, this vid was perfect, sir. Liked and subbed. 📸💯💪
Thank you! It is very difficult to cover everything and talk about everything. I try to go with a feel I have about any given lens at the moment of making a review and see what comes out.
Pav, great stuff my man. If it's not too much trouble, could you indicate what focal length the photos were taken at in your zoom lens review videos (e.g. 20mm, 35mm, 40mm, etc.)? It would be really helpful! Thanks for all of your work.
Thank you! I can add that info now. all the photos in the video were taken at different focal lengths. Adding that info to every single photo in edit takes really long time - I only do it if the zoom setting is crucial to the lens' performance. Not the case here.
I bought this lens too, can't seem to be able to take it off my camera tho 😅 It's good enough for dinner shots with my family as well as some landscape photography
I would love to see a lens with a very slightly larger range on the long end. Additional weight would be ok in that compromise. 50 or 60 mm would be perfect. I just don't know that this would be great for portraits.
oh thank you very much! it was filmed with Sony a7sIII in s-log3 onto Atomos Ninja V in Apple ProRes and graded in Adobe Premiere. Lens used was Sony 50mm f1.2 G Master
thank you! It was not in the woods but just outside of my house 😂 This was filmed with Sony a7sIII and Sony 50mm f1.2 GM lens: ruclips.net/video/FNhZ8s0hmI8/видео.html
This is much more than a kit lens to be honest, I bought it just to mainly use it with my gimbal, for which I think that it is just the perfect gimbal lens for my DJI RS3, and I tested it against my GM 35mm and to be honest it is pretty close in terms of sharpness to that GM 35mm. This is crazy that it can compete with a GM, a prime no less.
They should make it 16-60 instead of cutting on each end . Wide not enough for landscaping,long end not tele at all at 40 .just too short a range with a relative big lens .i think u can just get a prime 20 & switch to ApsC 32will be fine & lighter .
16-60 would be a totally different lens. 20mm is more than wide enough for landscape photography and 40mm puts it in the 'standard' lens zone. Very small lens for a zoom with f2.8 aperture. Using 20mm and cropping to get reach might be ok for some but cropping will reduce the resolution.
Im a pixel peeper guilty as charged and a sucker for sharpness and cropping compositions on my a7riv..would sharpness of this lens be enough for me?didnt like cropped shots of the tamron 28-75 at all..
The one frustrating thing that isn't really Tamron's fault is on modern Sony video centric bodies, Dynamic Stabilisation has a 1.3x crop, so it turns the 20mm into a 26mm. This means the older Tamron 17-28mm F2.8 is a better choice for vlogs, or when ironically you need a 20mm with good stabilisation.
there are other forms of stabilisation, like gimbals. Also I think that standard stabilisation is good enough most of the time when vlogging. It's just acceptable to have some shake in hand held footage
This is by far one of the best lens reviews i have seen! Im going to hong kong and bali on vacation this year with my a7c.. for that camera i have the 28-60 kitlens, the sony zeiss 24-70 f4(with broken autofocus), a canon fd 28mm f2.8, a pantax 28mm f2.8, and lastly a helios 44-2 (58mm) but i want a wide lens to film in hong kong (mostly at night with low light.. im really torn between the new viltrox 16mm f1.8 and the tamron 17-28.. but this review makes me want to just buy this 20-40 and take only this lens and the helios... man i still cant make up my mind😂 anyway, GREAT REVIEW!
I own the Tamron 35-150 2,8 and thinking for a lens for gimbal work, wondering if the sharpness in video is enough for professional work ? coz I was hesitating with the Sony 16-35 f2,8 but the price and the weight.. don't know if its worth
i own 70-180 which is a great lens but for my gimbal work i used to have 14mm 2.8 from samyang which used to struggle a lot to focus thats why i sold 14mm for 16-35 f/4 pz by sony
that depends how you define "sharp enough for proffessional work". If you mean if it does auto focus well, then it is as good as any sony lens in my opinion
I think my photo samples speak or themselves in my review. I really like it and I found no problems with it photo performance wise at all. Solid performer
how long is a piece of string? They both are great lenses. Only you can decide which one is better for you based on the price and what you are going to use it for
there is only zoom and focus rings but you can change the focus ring to change the aperture via the Tamron Utility software, the lens has got USB-C socket on it to connect it to your computer. I talk about it in my video
why would any lens look too small? I guess if you don't like small lenses than this is not for you but .... it is not that small, there are smaller lenses out there
there is no right answer to your question. yes, maybe, no. It all depends on your shooting style and the wedding venues. I have seen videographers making 24-70mm work for them just fine.
I got this lens yesterday. I have it attached to a Sony FX3 on a Zhiyun Crane M3 gimbal. The lens is light and the external zoom is quite minimal so it doesn’t mess with the balance on the gimbal at all.
"This is the one lens everyone wishes their kit lens to be" - This basically is the most accurate description of this lens.
it's true
I just got this lens... It should be the perfect travel camera. 20mm is great for those wide landscape/architecture pics and 40mm is super ok for portrait, putting people in front of the landmarks. I will prob simply bring my 85mm prime for those 10% occasions where a narrow view is required. These 2 lens with the A7C should make this an unbeatable travel combo.
That was my thought - curious on the photo performance
yes, this and a telephoto and you have pretty much every angle covered
I never could get excited enough for the 17-28 because 35mm is my favorite focal length. The 16-35 gm is way too big and expensive so this is really marketed to people like me who are focused on portability, usefulness, and value. This lens paired with the 28-200 and you're ready for anything! Thanks for the great review as always Pav!
I am cinematographer cum photographer my budget is not so much planning to buy 20,35,85 and 28-75
Bt now i am moving to 20-40,50,85,135 i can get 2 extra lens 50 and 135 due to this lens
Thank you!
I could never get excited about Tamron 17-28. The only lens that I have owned and not reviewed. This is ace
I can't tell you how happy I am to see manufacturers making lens like this. So, hats off to Tamron for investing in these lenses for production.
I hope it's a huge success for them.
With that being said. I think they missed the mark a little, "at least for me" I wish they could have made this lens at 20 - 50 f 2.8
In my mind the prefect travel/vacation lens would have been 20-50mm 2.8 - But maybe they choose 20-40 to keep it smaller and lighter. I'm not sure how the math of making lenes is and how much that would have affected the final product.
I believe it is only 20-40mm f2.8 to keep the size down.
Agreed with you, we still can have 60mm at crop mode but if it was 20-50mm then it could be super awesome.
20-50 f2.8 will be heavier and longer
Got mine yesterday. I love this length more than a 16-35. And the fact that its 2.8 this is unbeatable.
Best event photography lens. Isn’t stupid big and heavy like the 24-70 2.8. Thank you Tamron
it is awesome
Another great review. This lens is amazing for what it is. I just wish Tamron pushed the narrow end to 50 or 60 instead of 40mm. Totally understand the compromise but to me 50mm f2.8 is where portraits start to look amazing.
me too but this would surely make this lens much bigger and heavier
I haven't been disappointed with Tamron lenses for some time now. I used the 35-150 on my Nikon D750, and the 18-400 on my Nikon D5300. On my Sony A7riii and A7Riiia, I have used the 17-28 f2.8, 28-75 f2.8, 70-300, 28-200 f2.8-5.6, and now the 20-40mm f2.8. I haven't had the opportunity to shoot for about six months due to a back injury, but I plan to this weekend for the first time with the 20-40mm that I bought a few weeks ago. Your review helped me with my latest Tamron purchase.
"35-150 on my Nikon D750"???? this lens is only available in e-mount
Are you using gimball or it just handheld? 2:17
handheld
Great video. This lens is on my camera most of the time while travelling and always filming my family. It is portable and amazingly very sharp. The picture quality is outstanding. The other lens I carry around is the Tamron 35-150mm that is perfect for places of interest like zoo and parks where zoom is needed. Both of these lens combo are the only lens you need while travelling on holiday.
I could live with just those two lenses and nothing else
I would prefer prime lenses like 20, 28 and 35mm and could be f/1.8 or 2.0, so they are a good point between compact size, weight, price and a nice background isolation. But this 20-40 although 2.8 seems very interesting to a kind of walkaround. It's not easy to decide. Nice review!
thanks!
It's the convenience of not have to change lenses all the time
Amazing video. I'm watching while I wait for mine to arrive in the mail! You mentioned all the reasons why I wanted to get it!
it's a great lens!
wow! what a lens!
I absolutely would love to see such a lens on apsc. Like an 13-30 f2.8 :D
that would be nice - there is 11-20mm ruclips.net/video/q_ME5O-sFLs/видео.html
The Zeiss 16-35 f/4 has always been my go-to for a wide angle zoom but this lens really intrigues me for all the reasons you mention in your video. I've been wanting something faster and I'm thinking this is the one. I've always referred to Tamron as "the Toyota of lenses": solid, reliable, good value, etc. I've loved my 28-200 much more than I ever thought I would. Great review, beautiful footage, keep up the good work!
haha "the Toyota of lenses"!
Thank you!
Amazing focal range and lens! I should go back to Sony 😂 Tamron is doing a great job!
Great review Pav, loved the sample photos!
Thanks Luca! I couldn't give up on Lumix, that's why I shoot with both!
Yes, Tamron are really smashing it right now.
THANK YOU for this review. I feel like you covered a lot of good points. The only thing you should have done to add more value to the vid, is mention other lenses in comparison. You could have went a little deeper with that part but besides that, this vid was perfect, sir. Liked and subbed. 📸💯💪
Thank you!
It is very difficult to cover everything and talk about everything. I try to go with a feel I have about any given lens at the moment of making a review and see what comes out.
Pav, great stuff my man. If it's not too much trouble, could you indicate what focal length the photos were taken at in your zoom lens review videos (e.g. 20mm, 35mm, 40mm, etc.)? It would be really helpful! Thanks for all of your work.
Thank you!
I can add that info now. all the photos in the video were taken at different focal lengths.
Adding that info to every single photo in edit takes really long time - I only do it if the zoom setting is crucial to the lens' performance. Not the case here.
I bought this lens too, can't seem to be able to take it off my camera tho 😅
It's good enough for dinner shots with my family as well as some landscape photography
YES!
I would love to see a lens with a very slightly larger range on the long end. Additional weight would be ok in that compromise. 50 or 60 mm would be perfect. I just don't know that this would be great for portraits.
that would make this lens much larger and heavier
Pav I absolutely love your colour grade on this film
thank you so much!
@@PavSZ Keep up the great work
damn this video really impressed me production wise. looks stunning. congrats.
oh thank you very much!
it was filmed with Sony a7sIII in s-log3 onto Atomos Ninja V in Apple ProRes and graded in Adobe Premiere.
Lens used was Sony 50mm f1.2 G Master
@@PavSZ awesome! thank you so much.
Nice photos of Warsaw. Cheers.
Glad you enjoyed it 😉
what a wonderful and very useful focal range, and a lovely review as always
it is and thank you very much
Perfect kit lens for a7c, or FX3 if power zoom isn't needed.
it is!
Awesome review as usual! What lens did you use to film yourself in the introduction (in the woods :)) the bokeh is outstanding!
thank you!
It was not in the woods but just outside of my house 😂
This was filmed with Sony a7sIII and Sony 50mm f1.2 GM lens: ruclips.net/video/FNhZ8s0hmI8/видео.html
@@PavSZ thank you for your reply, great to have such a nice backdrop just behind your house!
Thank you for the excellent review!!! May I ask what camera you used to shoot this video? I love the color tone of the video.
thank you.
This video was filmed with Sony a7sIII and Sony 50mm f1.2 GM lens
Thank you for the confirmation!!!
damn, this lens got me thinking about a system change to sony. Nothing compares to it!
Yup. Lenses are for sure helps me to love my Sony. Overall Sony is excellent but these lenses are unbeatable.
there is certainly huge choice when it comes to Sony-E mount and Tamron are doing something different for sure
Panasonic 20-60 ?
This is much more than a kit lens to be honest, I bought it just to mainly use it with my gimbal, for which I think that it is just the perfect gimbal lens for my DJI RS3, and I tested it against my GM 35mm and to be honest it is pretty close in terms of sharpness to that GM 35mm. This is crazy that it can compete with a GM, a prime no less.
it is a very good lens and so much more versatile and cheaper than 35mm gm
Just bought it yesterday in HongKong (HK$5,840; US$750) for my a7 iv. Initially quite happy with it. Will shoot a lot to test on it.
it is a nice lens
They should make it 16-60 instead of cutting on each end . Wide not enough for landscaping,long end not tele at all at 40 .just too short a range with a relative big lens .i think u can just get a prime 20 & switch to ApsC 32will be fine & lighter .
16-60 would be a totally different lens.
20mm is more than wide enough for landscape photography and 40mm puts it in the 'standard' lens zone. Very small lens for a zoom with f2.8 aperture.
Using 20mm and cropping to get reach might be ok for some but cropping will reduce the resolution.
interesting Canon made (almost) this lens ages ago for SLRs, which was 20-40/2.7-3.5
almost
Im a pixel peeper guilty as charged and a sucker for sharpness and cropping compositions on my a7riv..would sharpness of this lens be enough for me?didnt like cropped shots of the tamron 28-75 at all..
Is this lens suitable for indoor real estate photography ?
Beautifully executed video, BTW.
Absolutely.
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Which camera + lens did you use for your video with the greenery on background ?
It looks really nice !
thank you!
This video was filmed with Sony a7sIII and Sony 50mm f1.2 G Master onto Atomos Ninja V in Slog-3 and graded in Adobe Premiere
Debating between this and the old Sigma 24-35 adapted to an A7RV
this!
concise factual review. Helpful. How new is the lens in the market ?
Thanks!
it's just come out
Wow, about to sell my 24 and 40mm can't believe I never saw this...
it is a smashing little lens
If I didn’t already own the 16-35 GM I might have considered this one.
you could sell it, but this and something else
The one frustrating thing that isn't really Tamron's fault is on modern Sony video centric bodies, Dynamic Stabilisation has a 1.3x crop, so it turns the 20mm into a 26mm. This means the older Tamron 17-28mm F2.8 is a better choice for vlogs, or when ironically you need a 20mm with good stabilisation.
there are other forms of stabilisation, like gimbals. Also I think that standard stabilisation is good enough most of the time when vlogging. It's just acceptable to have some shake in hand held footage
Thanks for your excellent review.
Thank you for watching!
This is by far one of the best lens reviews i have seen! Im going to hong kong and bali on vacation this year with my a7c.. for that camera i have the 28-60 kitlens, the sony zeiss 24-70 f4(with broken autofocus), a canon fd 28mm f2.8, a pantax 28mm f2.8, and lastly a helios 44-2 (58mm) but i want a wide lens to film in hong kong (mostly at night with low light.. im really torn between the new viltrox 16mm f1.8 and the tamron 17-28.. but this review makes me want to just buy this 20-40 and take only this lens and the helios... man i still cant make up my mind😂 anyway, GREAT REVIEW!
we need 20-60/70 2.8 😊
yes please
Hi would you say this is better than the Sony 16-35mm Vario-Tessar T FE F4 ZA OSS ?? (I shoot more video)
I own the Tamron 35-150 2,8 and thinking for a lens for gimbal work, wondering if the sharpness in video is enough for professional work ? coz I was hesitating with the Sony 16-35 f2,8 but the price and the weight.. don't know if its worth
i own 70-180 which is a great lens but for my gimbal work i used to have 14mm 2.8 from samyang which used to struggle a lot to focus thats why i sold 14mm for 16-35 f/4 pz by sony
that depends how you define "sharp enough for proffessional work". If you mean if it does auto focus well, then it is as good as any sony lens in my opinion
really good review, thanks!
Thanks for watching!
First, great review. Second, you talk a lot of the video performance, any thoughts on photo performance? Gerald Undone didn’t seem very impressed
I think my photo samples speak or themselves in my review. I really like it and I found no problems with it photo performance wise at all. Solid performer
i need help, im confuse which between 17-28 and 20-40 mm , which one shlould i get. focus length doesnt matter. which one is better for videography.
how long is a piece of string?
They both are great lenses. Only you can decide which one is better for you based on the price and what you are going to use it for
It looks nicer than tamrons other lenses. Although this shows that Sony aren't at Panasonic's IBIs level
how does it show?
@@PavSZ it's simply not as stable. Jitters, moving around isn't as smooth.
Does this lens support/work well with active steadyshot?
yes
What SD card did u use for all ur camera.?
I use Lexar 128Gb v60 in most of my cameras. They are fast enough for photos and I record video always externally to Atomos Ninja Vs
Great review 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you! 🤗
Is this lens needed if I already have the Tamron 11-20 f2.8 aps-c lens that I use on the ff Sony A7C? Talking about video work only!!
probably not
Can you configura one of the rings for aperture or is it just for manual focus?
there is only zoom and focus rings but you can change the focus ring to change the aperture via the Tamron Utility software, the lens has got USB-C socket on it to connect it to your computer. I talk about it in my video
Perfect lens to pair with a 85 1.4 prime... . what more will you need?
Just hope it opens to the Nikon Z system 🙏
maybe they will make it with Nikon Z mount in the future
I’m hoping these too! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Oh wow, now finally I can recommend something like the Panasonic 20-60 for people without Panasonic bodies.
why?
@@PavSZ Because the 20-60 (I have it) is a phenomenally useful focal range, especially for travel.
How albout sony 20-70 F4 bro
Just got it today
NICE!
The video looks a bit redish to me. Did you do this or is this a sony color profile?
I've used my own teal and orange LUT, that was my own preference a the time of making this video
Look super.
thanks
I love and always love your content. I also like the Lut and presets of this video and the pictures. Please can you share it with me? Thanks
thank you
They will be available to buy soon
Do you think af performance is better in this lens or 17-28mm?
totally! I have sold my 17-28 as the quality wasn't there when comparing it to many other lenses in the same class
@@PavSZ ok thanks man i appreciate your answer. do you think getting 40mm over 28mm is more important than getting 17mm over 20mm?
Looks smallish for a7cii?
why would any lens look too small?
I guess if you don't like small lenses than this is not for you but .... it is not that small, there are smaller lenses out there
@@PavSZ ah sorry maybe my comment was not well articulated. I mean its looks quite a compact lens ideal for a7cii.
Help Me Out.... Will 20mm Be Enough For Indoor Wedding Video Shooting....
there is no right answer to your question. yes, maybe, no. It all depends on your shooting style and the wedding venues. I have seen videographers making 24-70mm work for them just fine.
Looks super.
thanks
Interesting lens, but to be honest, I personally prefer the 16-35 to the 20-40.
yes but ... when it comes to price, size, weight and the spec ... this might, just might win
If your camera has dynamic stabilisation, the Tamron 17-28 is more useful as it effectively becomes a 22-36. Whereas this becomes a 26-52.
This or the Tamron 28-75 2.8?
only you can answer this question
Bring it for the fuji mount.. then we will talk..
maybe they will
Im hoping Nikon get it now that they've done a deal with Tamron
let's hope so
Is the image quality similar to the 28-75?
in my opinion, yes
FIRST! this looks like a killer lens for sure! "poop, Poop, Poop"😂
It certainly is a great little lens!
I wish this lens was avaliable for Z mount. Hopefully, one day...
maybe one day
A $699 lens should be £750 maximum in the UK - even taking account of taxes. £900 they’re charging here is absolutely not worth it.
that's life. They can charge whatever they want. Sad but true
20-40 is so little of a zoom it's basically a prime
nearly
Sigma 16-28/2.8 seems to be better because of internal zoom.
I got this lens yesterday. I have it attached to a Sony FX3 on a Zhiyun Crane M3 gimbal. The lens is light and the external zoom is quite minimal so it doesn’t mess with the balance on the gimbal at all.
It's larger, more expensive, and a bit too wide for a kit lens.
it is only 28mm zoom and this lens doesn't change the balance of the gimbal at all when zooming in, even though it extends a tiny bit out
"Tamrom is breaching the market with this lenses"
-Tokina, Nikon and Canon wich have done the 20-35mm 2.8 lens in the pass 🤡
I'm talking about current lenses for mirrorless cameras
It could have been better if it was 20-70/2.8
17-70mm is still available
it would also be much larger, heavier and more expensive
More like €999 in Europe.
A big pass...
yep, a bit pricey :(
W biednych stanach 3000zł w bogatej bolsce 4500zł. Socjalizm kosztuje.
życie
Canon sucks. They don't let third party make lens for them. Otherwise this lens would be awesome on the R6 Mark II.
it might change in the future. There is a first Tamron for Nikon Z and Sigma is going to make them too so there is hope for Canon too