 Hey what's up guys welcome to your training reviews. So if you saw my previous video I reviewed this Tamron lens It's the 17 by 28 millimeter zoom lens for Sony E-mount cameras It's a full-frame lens if you want to check out the full review Then click on the link in the description below or click on the card icon here on the top corner of your screen and Today I'm going to be reviewing taking this out in nighttime conditions So I wanted to see the capability of this lens in very low lighting So I've asked one of my friends to come out with me and take some pictures around my area And I wanted to give you guys a highlight of how good this is in those types of conditions And I've tested a little bit about the video quality and a bit about the autofocus as well So what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you a series of pictures And I want you guys to have a look at how good it performs check out the lighting how dark the subject is how Colorful the backgrounds are all this kind of stuff and let me know what you think and then at the end I'll give you my review and I'll give you some voiceover of some of the other videos. I've taken as well So let's just get straight into it All right guys So I just wanted to start off talking a little bit about the depth of field So when you do take pictures of the subjects close up Then you do get a good blur in the backgrounds and you got the bokeh effect of lighting in the background as well But I've noticed that in very low lighting conditions The subjects is not as sharp as most of the lenses I've used in the past You do get a good image But the more closer you get you start to get a distortion and a bit of blurriness of the actual person itself So as you can see here, it's not the sharpest one But it does do a good enough job if you wanted to use this lens Now if you do look at this picture here If you are going to be using this lens for portrait photography Then you have to make sure that especially when you're using this on auto To make sure the subject has a bit of brighter lighting on either side of the body or the faces Just so that you can get a clearer image coming through if it is quite dark And the lighting is not picked up correctly by the lens itself Then you'll have to make a lot of adjustments and you'll probably lose a bit of the Sharpness in the colors in the depth of field behind the subject as well Now if you take a look at this picture, my friend is a little bit blurry And the focus of the lens has moved to the trees in the background And it's probably picked that up based on the lighting that's coming from this tunnel as well And the people walking behind But I've tried to focus as much as I can on my friend here But you can see even then with the lighting coming from the tunnel He hasn't been lit up that very well And you can see it's very dark in terms of getting any type of sharpness coming through So I wanted to check to see how the quality of the lenses for moving objects So I took a picture of this water fountain and you can see my friend in the background as well Now there's a variation of lighting effects here So the water fountain as well It obviously wasn't taken on any fast shutter speeds Or any specific modes to capture fast movement Because this was also taken on auto like all the other pictures in this video And as you can see the fountain is a little bit blurry And the light coming from it has washed it out a little bit But the darkness of my friend in the background is not as clear as I like it to be But at the same time it's not as bad as I thought it would be as well But the trees in the background with the lights on them Then they've actually come out very well And I was quite impressed with that So one thing I also wanted to try with the lens Is also take pictures of food at restaurants When you're in very low lit restaurants So it was very dark in here And I've taken a picture here of the food And it wasn't as bright as I'd like it to be It didn't come out so strong But I can still see the quality in the picture It did create that little bit of depth of field But there's no specific food mode that I actually selected the lens on Or any other specific modes to sharpen the images and adjust it manually So as I mentioned in my previous review video This lens does not have any stabilisation inbuilt So as you can see from this clip I'm just walking with the lens and it is quite shaky Next I wanted to check the autofocus speeds So when I'm really close up to an object like this branch Then I wanted to pan away, get as close as I can Pan away and the autofocus is quite well But when I go back It didn't pick up the autofocus So I had to move back slightly And then sometimes I had to move backwards and forwards Just to get the autofocus to automatically get back into place And then I can move away and get the focus off of the subject as well So it wasn't the greatest speeds But nonetheless it did do a job when it did work well Now I tried the same thing again But with my friend So panning between his face and away from his body You can see that the autofocus it struggled a little bit At one point here you can see that it just kept it blurry And it took a while for it to pick up But if I pick up speed and do it a little bit faster Then you can see it still takes a couple of seconds to get focus back on his face But it's a little bit quicker to pick up the focus of the background in the distance So overall I would say in conclusion I wouldn't use this lens specifically to do nighttime photography I can see that there will be very much a lot of dark areas Especially when it comes to taking pictures of people Or if you're out and you want to take pictures in restaurants I would definitely recommend a different lens to this one As you can see in this picture The colours are not as vibrant as they are in real life But you can see the dark areas on the ground And the two bushes on the right hand side I think there's not enough definition there And you can see from the pillars on the right hand side as well The darkness just sort of fades into it And from when I was looking at this When I was standing there in real life It looked a lot different to as you can see in this picture So I wasn't super impressed from the low light photography capability Of this lens But I will use this going forward for wide angle videos And also for portrait photography in daylight conditions And also for various other architecture and landscape photos Alright guys, so thanks for watching I hope you found that review very useful If you did have any other questions about the Tamron 17-28 Then drop a comment below Otherwise I'll put some more pictures up Of the capabilities of this lens on my Instagram So do check it out at Trending Reviews And if there's any other lenses that you want me to try For Sony E-mount cameras, then do let me know Otherwise I hope you like this video I hope you subscribe And I will catch you guys at the next one Take care