TAMRON 28-75mm F2.8 G2 (Model A063) for Sony E-mount x travel snap by Itsuka Yakumo

There is one thing I always stick to no matter what trip I take: To avoid things that sacrifice animals whenever possible. That applies to everything, from food and clothing to recreation. During this trip to Hawaii, I had a number of fascinating encounters, including with the chef of a vegetarian restaurant, with lovers of dolphins and whales, and with people helping old dogs and injured birds. And those experiences gave me the opportunity to take various photographs.

For this trip, I took just one lens, the TAMRON 28-75mm F/2.8 Di III VXD G2 (Model A063).
The versatile 28-75mm zoom and F2.8 wide-open aperture allowed me to capture everything, including people, landscapes, flowers, and food. But at the same time, I was also amazed how many more moments I could capture thanks to the considerable improvement in performance over the 1st-generation Model A036.

I especially wanted to shoot moving subjects, and even when tracking surfers or children chasing bubbles, I noticed the stunning advances that have been made, with the fast and precise autofocus like nothing I have ever seen before. At this level, you can get more than enough performance out of the latest cameras.

When it came to shooting flowers and food, I realized that the Minimum Object Distance was also shorter. So much so that the Model A063 allows me to take photos as a macro lens, and people around me would ask what I was photographing so close-up. Even when you get so close that the tip of the lens hood is about to touch the subject, the AF still works.

On the improvements to the resolving power around the edges of images, the difference was easy to see once I enlarged the images while editing later on. While it might not make headlines, this is one of the most important elements of landscape photography, especially aerial photography.

When I first shot with the 1st-generation Model A036 I thought it was a perfect lens, but with the degree of finish on the Model A063 easily surpassing it, I think I could describe it as a "super-perfect lens."

The subjects I shoot change depending on what interests me, and when I decide to take something with a particular purpose in mind, the scenery appears in a way that reflects that. This time that purpose was to capture Hawaii from the perspective of a vegan, and this lens let me take pictures freely no matter what I encountered. I'll report from my next trip on what I could see and photograph with the Model A063.