Still The Precious: 100 Men In Black Goes Out To The Ballgame & The Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD.

Subtitle: Supporting A Youth Chorus Member.

I stated some time ago,…

RNF: Not here to start anything… but it is mostly about the lens isn’t it?

…when most rational cameras have reached and many have surpassed my use case specs, it becomes about the lens.

Sidebar: What do I mean by rational? I am glad I imagined that you asked. Full frame is the chosen performance/price compromise by the masses and market. Anything one needs to do can be done by them. Rational. But cameras come into play when larger and smaller sensors come into play. That is not what I am talking about in this post.

For a while, I had dubbed a very fast and capable 50mm as “the precious”.

Wedding Duty: The Lens I Always Wanted. Sony FE 50mm f/1.2 GM.

But on the same day I wrote that post about another lens stole its thunder…

Wedding Duty: The Only Lens I Needed. Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD.

…and never gave it back.

The Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD.

I could ramble on about this or that reason, but in summary, it comes down to two things.

It is the lens to bring when I do not know what lens to bring.
It never disappoints.

Ok. One more thing.

When used alongside prime lenses, I prattle on about, I struggle to distinguish between the photos taken with one or the other.

Exhibit A:

When reviewing these wedding reception images, I was convinced that the image above, in cave lighting, was taken with the Sony 50mm f/1.2 G Master. But nope. Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 thank you very much.

As a result, I have sold the Sony G Master, and the Tamron is not going anywhere. Sold on and freed me up to acquire a much less expensive, much smaller, but still optically excellent nifty fifty that I adore.

Viltrox AF 50mm f/2 Air (Very Longwinded) Preview: So All New Lenses Are Good Now Then?

Back to the task at hand. First, the baseball game.

Preface/disclaimer:

I have the attention span of a gnat. I once chaperoned a youth group to a Yankees game in NYC many years ago. We had great seats and my mind still wandered off for most of the game. It was no different this day. JP can rest assured that I am driven to support him so I set all of that aside. And I am glad I did. I had a great time.

The pictures with thoughts after.