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reelfilmgeek

What Travel lens: Sony 24-50, Tamron 20-40, Thypoch 24-50, or sigma 28-70

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So I'm looking for a light weight travel zoom. Mostly for more casual use, light weight B cam, or gimbal use for video. I generally use Primes for a lot of my work unless its event coverage than the zooms come out and on the long end i have the Tamron 70-180 G2. Its nice and light weight and can fly on a gimbal if needed for long shots.

All the focal lengths have their own trade offs of course and I'm shooting on an A1 so I do have the mp to crop on stills, and can enter s35 mode for a little more reach for video so I'm mostly trying to find out how these lenses compare not just optical quality but ease of use in both still and video mode. I can find a ton of info on autofocus for stills but its harder to see how well some of these lenses work when shooting video.

Open to other lens options but Right now these are what im considering (and they all are light enough to work with the DJI 4D which I sometimes work with)

Posted Jul 4, 2026, 6:31 PM UTC

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