 Hey y'all, welcome to a new vlog. My name is Sonali. Today is Friday and it is currently 2 p.m. I was planning on vlogging but then I woke up and then it was a gloomy day and I just did not feel the motivation to do anything but I wanted to update you guys on some stuff and I also have a very freaking exciting package to open. Y'all know I'm the biggest tech geek. I love investing into my camera stuff. If you didn't know, I do freelance photography and videography on the side so it's very easy to justify my purchases because it's not only for YouTube but it also can be for my freelance career. So I actually bought a new lens and it is actually more for just vlogging so it's more for my YouTube but I mean I could use it for portrait sessions even though I don't think I would because it is a wide angle lens and basically what my thought process was is that I've been seeing so many vloggers have these really cool wide angle lenses and currently I'm filming on the Sony Ace, what? Sony A5-100 and I want to start filming on my Sony A7-3. Did you wanna say something, Ryan? So I shoot portrait sessions with my Sony A7-3 which is a way nicer camera, it has way better quality so I kinda wanted to start vlogging with that lens but the only wide angle lens I have with that camera is a 24 millimeter which, okay I don't know if this is gonna all make sense but right now I'm filming on the Sigma 16 millimeter 1.4 and basically this camera that I'm filming on is a crop sensor so it's like a point and shoot and a full frame would get like so much more like photo in or like video so basically a crop sensor would get just this picture right but a full frame would get this much of the picture so what I'm trying to say is that this lens is a 16 millimeter but it actually looks like a 24 millimeter because it's a crop sensor camera and unfortunately this lens is a APS-C which is a crop sensor lens so it can't even go onto my Sony A7-3 because it's a full frame camera so even if you try to put this on there it has like vignetting. I don't even know if this is all making sense to you guys I'm just kinda going on a ramble because I love this shit but I wanted to get a wider angle lens for my big camera I always carry two cameras around which is actually very excessive I carry this little one which is not so little because this lens is kinda big and then my big camera for the cinematic B roll and my vlogs I don't wanna do that anymore like I just wanna carry around one camera and just be done with it but the only thing is that this Sony A7-3 is a lot bigger, it's a lot chunkier and if I do wanna vlog like this in public and not just get like B roll and be like slick about it and like kinda just like do it like right here and I'll look too weird in public I'm gonna have to have a lot of confidence to vlog with this big ass camera in my hand so we're gonna test it out we're gonna see what it looks like another thing about this new lens is that it has a higher aperture than what I like to shoot with I love lower apertures because you can see the blurry background and the background's just not as in focus as like a 2.8 like I said this lens right now is a 1.4 so it gives that really pretty bokeh we're gonna try it out today please, please, please comment down below do you guys like this camera? Do you like this quality? Or do you guys like the quality that I'm gonna show you? Do you care about the blurry background? Does it make my videos look more high quality if I have the blurry background? Like let me know what you guys wanna see because I just need some input and I need for y'all to help me decide Okey dokey, time for an unboxing so I purchased this lens on Amazon because I noticed that they had a really cool bundle thing that was literally the same price as the lens itself on Amazon so I was like, I mean might as well just go for the bundle get all these cool little accessories so this lens with tax and everything I think it was like $970 Why is my heart pounding right now? Here it is y'all, this is the Tamron 17-28 millimeter F2.8 so like I said it is a much higher aperture but I actually went to Precision Camera I think two days ago and I just like going in there kinda talking about lenses cause I'm just like weird like that just like to find out you know what I can like save up for I just always like to think about how I can get better quality I've always been like that ever since I started YouTube which is great because like I said since I am freelance videographer and photographer maybe not this lens would be what I use but every other lens I use for the cinematic shots I use for my portrait sessions and so they pay themselves off which is great All right, should we unbox it or should we unbox the accessories first? I think we should do the accessories All right, so this says the inflatable camera air insert for your air bags backpack can be inflated oh I forgot, this is literally a backpack I got a full freaking backpack in this bundle that's pretty cool and then these things can inflate to be like I don't know holders in the backpack, that's pretty cool we have this little thing which is like an air blower so it can like clean your sensor and your lenses it came with this hand strap and then it came with this cool little tripod you can put your camera on here and like really just hold it to be really stable with those beautiful cinematic shots and then you can also crank it out to be a tripod for your camera All right y'all, it is time to reveal the lens I have never purchased a Tamron lens before because I will say it I'm a brand snob and Tamron just always sounded like a very cheap option and I was always really skeptical about it but when I went in to check it out and like, you know, I tested the auto focus and everything it was totally fine like I don't know why I was being such a snob this whole time so I got this baby let's put it on my Sony A5 III I'm currently filming on both cameras I have the Sony A5 100 with my 16 millimeter Sigma 1.4 lens and then I have the Sony A7 III with my Tamron 17 to 28 millimeter 2.8 so I wanted to show you guys that these lenses are very different in the fact that they have very different apertures this one is a 1.4 which means there's gonna be a lot more light being let in and it's gonna have a blurrier background and then this is a 2.8 which means you're gonna have to bump up the ISO and lower the shutter speed to get that bright light and it doesn't have the blurry background so why did I buy the Tamron? It's literally only because the wide angle like nothing else really because like I said, I just am a sucker for blurry backgrounds and honestly it's really hard to find a wide angle lens that has a lower aperture I did see a couple actually but either they were just way too heavy or they were prime lenses and since I do want to use this lens for my go-to everything like getting B roll getting the talking shots I wanted it to be a zoom lens which means that the aperture is probably going to be a 2.8 so another big reason why I bought this Tamron lens let's fix the lighting because I know it's probably dark I bumped up the ISO to 2,500 which I really never do that is kind of high for me just because I'm worried about graininess especially when I color grade it I just want all the information to be there but with this lens it's kind of inevitable that you're going to have to do that right now it is a gloomy day but most of the time I will probably not be in the best lighting situation so that is going to be very interesting don't know what I'm going to do in those situations another huge reason I got this lens is because of the weight a lot of the other zoom lenses that I was interested in like I was thinking about getting the 16 to 35 Sony lens but they were all huge and they weighed so much and so if I'm going to be vlogging with this camera I want it to be light enough so that my arm doesn't hurt but I mean honestly it is still kind of heavy it's a heavy setup I mean the camera itself is pretty heavy compared to my Sony a5100 but the weight of this lens is 14 ounces so it'll be interesting to switch from this pretty small and compact setup this lens is pretty long but other than that it is a pretty light setup to this setup right here this lens is kind of long too but I mean compared to my other lenses for this camera it is more compact and like I said just weighs a lot less for the rest of the vlog I'm going to try to use the Tamron 17 to 28 millimeter 2.8 and see how it performs throughout this vlog like I said please comment down below which one you like better do you like my old setup do you like the new setup do you like seeing a wider angle do you like seeing the mess in my freaking house let me know I just feel like it gives a cool vibe but I'm honestly still really torn I'll definitely be adding some test shots compared to a couple other lenses and thinking about maybe like the 24g master and then the old vlog setup just so you guys can really see how wide this lens is and I also brought to play around with the zoom let's check it out oh my god wait it wasn't even all the way at 17 millimeters okay now it's all the way I'm sorry about that but I mean it was like pretty close to it so this is 17 millimeters and then I'm kind of scared to zoom in on my face but here we go all right this is 28 millimeters don't wonder what you can see another thing about vlogging on this lens is that you can't see yourself I do have a tool from amazon it's basically this mirror contraption that you kind of like lift your screen like a 90 degree angle and then the mirror bounces off and then you can see yourself it's not like the biggest screen but it does help sometimes so I might have to use that especially for like vlogging at home and not in public that might be helpful I'll link that tool down below because it's literally like $20 and if you don't have a flip up screen this is very very helpful but if I don't get to adding the test shots today I'll definitely add them from another day because I do want to just compare them to other stuff so that will be easier for you guys to decide you know if you guys should get this lens I put y'all back on the 16 millimeter with the a5 100 because I wanted to show you guys the tool I was talking about earlier so you do have to take this what's it called like an eye cap thing you have to take that off in order for it to like actually show a lot of the area and then you just tilt this kind of like that and then this has like a hot shoe plate as you can see there's just like mirrors and this goes this way and then you just screw it on and there you go you can see the little image there I honestly have never really used it for vlogging but I only really used it for the purpose of seeing myself when I'm doing fashion hauls and stuff like that but this is really cool very helpful and I like the wide angle you can see the lighting you can adjust it which is going to be very helpful so this might be my new vlogging setup it's a little intense I will say but I feel like it will be worth it for the quality we'll see we'll see later on in this video but I actually just cleaned up my apartment at least the living room so I thought I would do a couple of test shots just of the space itself because another reason why I got this lens is because I actually have part-time job at a student housing company and I'm their content creator so I go and take photos and videos of the properties that they have and it would be very helpful if I had something wider than a 24 because I find myself in a bedroom and a student housing bedroom is not huge so it would be great to have a wider angle lens to get the whole space so I think that's going to be really really helpful so first impressions I'm really happy with the lens I'm really glad I got it I think it's going to be really versatile especially because it zooms I just got to get used to this like big ass setup I don't think I'm going to like really have it on the tripod especially if I'm out in public but honestly like this setup right here the Sony a5100 with the 16 millimeter I had to get used to because this lens is pretty like long this way so I thought that was chunky so I don't know I think it's just obviously you have to get used to anything you vlog with currently filming on the Sony a73 with the Tamron lens let's check the autofocus pretty good could have been faster I'm standing at the corner of my room right now and you get a pretty wide angle view now we are filming on the Sony a5100 with the 16 millimeter 1.4 lens as you can tell it is a lot closer and this is what I mean by it kind of looks like a 24 millimeter because it is just so much closer on a crop sensor camera like I said I can't put this 16 millimeter on my Sony a73 because it will give a vignetting kind of effect and you don't want that so this is what it looks like I'm standing in the same place and yeah it's very close up actually compared to that wide angle lens I honestly didn't realize it was this close up this honestly just looks like I'm using a 50 millimeter I feel like every Friday I am just like okay I'm going to create content today I'm going to make TED Talks I'm going to make YouTube videos I'm going to do all the things because I have Fridays off I only work a part-time job and then my other stuff is just like my freelance stuff and then YouTube but then Friday comes around and I don't want to do anything it always just ends up being so much computer work like emails from brands and then you know just booking photo sessions and everything I'm doing follow minis this Sunday so I was just kind of making sure everyone had a perfect time slot that they could attend and so then there's no time for creating content which is so annoying but I wanted to show you guys these leather pants that I got from Apricombie and Fitch I didn't get these at the time that I did my Apricombie haul so I wanted to show you guys here they're pretty self-explanatory but I really like the way they fit me I did order the short at first and then I had to exchange them for the regular because it was just a little too short for my legging because I want them to be like able to go into my dock martins or you know I didn't want them to be like too cropped or something so I went with the regular currently filming on the Sony a7 III with the Tamron lens I'm standing at the corner of my room right now and you get a pretty wide-angle view now we're going to switch to my old vlogging setup I wanted to do a quick clip in the car so that you can see how wide it is I feel like it looks good but like I said I can't really see I took that little tool off I just arrived at one of my clients' houses for a shoot but it's like only 30 minutes and we just needed to like knock it out so unfortunately I can't do any test shots on her but I promise y'all I'll get some test shots like I said if it isn't today then I'll do it like this weekend but yeah this is what it looks like in the car it is a pretty gloomy day so I did have to bump up the ISO pretty high but this is 17 millimeters and this is oh nope that was not the zoom okay that was the focus ring this is 17 millimeters and then this is 28 so yeah so probably a little too close but I'm home from a shoot I shot with a blogger and she was working with Whole Foods and she did this whole like Thanksgiving tablescape and apparently they gave her double the food so she sent me home with butternut squash, mac and cheese and a freaking green bean casserole and it was perfect because I literally had a whole freaking chicken from Trader Joe's that I've been meaning to cook and so now it's perfect I get to cook my chicken and have sides as you can tell it's obviously a little bit darker especially because it's like gloomy today it was just not very sunny for very long and these are all the light well I have the living room lights but these are all the kitchen lights that I have so this 2.8 situation you know I wish it just like was a 1.4 because it is already up to 2,000 iso and at a 100 shutter speed and I don't really like to go below like 125 or really like 200 shutter speed honestly just in case I ever need to do slow-mo you're supposed to have a higher shutter speed for it to be like a really smooth slow-mo I just wish the aperture was a little bit lower but I am going to cook all this heated up it honestly just came in these like pre-packaged things but this is huge I'm not sure if me and Ryan will even like finish all this but it was so nice of her to give it to us because we definitely would have eaten out tonight and there's this new restaurant called Abba I think that's how you pronounce it let's turn on these lights oh I forgot those lights don't freaking work okay I wanted to show you guys this little tool and I got it on Amazon and it is a mini ring light for your phone let's see how this can work beautiful but I don't know what to attach it to dang it it's like maybe I can use this for my vlog setup but that would be very aggressive I think dang it I wish I could just like flip it to something on this freaking camera I could probably buy something but yeah I don't know this is a little bit excessive but I will link this thing down below it's from Amazon literally like I want to say $15 so worth it especially if you guys like talk on your stories a lot I find it really helpful especially when I'm doing like stories in my bathroom and the lighting is just not very flattering it just like kind of evens everything out so check this out link down below seriously it's amazing and it hasn't run out of battery yet we'll see how long it lasts this is the first cold front it must be a cold front one on Monday this is really cold I'd like 20 more degrees we're having Thanksgiving early yes we're lucky because we didn't have you in the trailer oh yeah baby we got some bubbly I haven't tried this one we love us um sparkling water is that kombucha with the stuff did you buy that for you yeah interesting you know why yeah I want to know why I was listening to Matthew McConaughey on Joe Rogan's podcast Joe Rogan Joe Rogan Joe Rogan Joe Rogan kombucha out of a pickle jar so oh I thought you were gonna say wine glass that's what all the cool girls do these days Matthew McConaughey hadn't been in cool I had this chicken from Trader Joe so it was perfect that she gave us all sides but we're having an early Thanksgiving this is the wide angle and this is the 28 good morning y'all happy Saturday it's another freaking gloomy day but I'm headed to brunch with my friend Cicely so we're gonna go check out two hands it's a new place on South Congress and we're about to order avocado toast like some basic ass pitches but oh that's really cute that looks good this place is really adorable very Instagram aesthetic we love that we just got finished with breakfast and it was so good it was so good not only was it beautiful but delicious I got the SoCo toast and she got the regular avocado toast we obviously changed because we're gonna go take some photos have a little content day done shooting we shot so many outfits I'm so glad like I really need to contest this was amazing I'm just trying to you know get used to vlogging in public with this chunky ass camera we were just talking about the M50 the Canon M50 that a lot of vloggers have and I feel like it might be as chunky as this camera or like it's chunkier like I've seen it in person and it feels like the body's bigger the lens is the same got it but I feel like the body's bigger so I'm just like if other people can do it I feel like I can do it but if you zero with two people two yes one that you can't buy yourself yes I agree I agree but also like I feel like people aren't awesome just don't give two shits like they don't feel like okay just like you do you I'll do me kind of thing which is amazing honestly I realized I did not close out this vlog so I'm doing it today but I hope you guys enjoyed this video and the test shots please let me know what you guys prefer do you like this setup with the Sony a7 III and the wide-angle lens which is the Tamron 17mm to 28mm 2.8mm or do you like the Sony a5100 with my 16mm I was looking back on the footage and I did not realize that the 16mm was so close to my face it's actually kind of insane because like I said it's really not a 16mm since it's on a crop sensor camera but comment down below what do you guys prefer and also if you guys are in the market for a lens what lens are you going to buy next I think the next lens that I will buy is probably a macro lens that one can probably wait a while since I won't be using it on an everyday basis it's just something fun to use every once in a while for like product shots if I need to do something for a brand a while back I actually posted a video all about my old vlogging setup which is the Sony a5100 and all the lenses that I have used on it if you guys are a beginner vlogger or just want a really compact vlogging setup definitely check out that video because it's just a really good quality camera and it's really really affordable so like I said I'll have the link down below and I will see y'all in the next video bye