it's not a light winds lens and so is it worth carrying that extra size and weight to achieve what you can do with this lens that's what i want to try to answer here today and so i recognize people have different tolerances for weight you know i hear sometimes people complain about the weight of a certain lens that i consider to be relatively lightweight and transversely if you're someone who regularly packs out a NUMBER_TOKEN millimeter f NUMBER_TOKEN well you're gonna find a lens like this probably be pretty lightweight so as i said you know your experience may vary from mine today's episode is brought to you by phantom wallet the minimalist modern wallet that sets you free from a bulky traditional wallet while also making it easy to access your cards and money when you need them thanks to their unique fanning mechanism visit URL_TOKEN to check out their unique sizes styles and finishes that span from aluminum to wood to carbon fiber you can even customize your wallet with new accessories like a money clip cache holder id display and even the chipolo tracking integration if you're the kind of person who loses their wallet use code dustin NUMBER_TOKEN for NUMBER_TOKEN off when you're ready to check out so one of the things that i love to do when i'm air is in arizona is to go out hiking on the you know various trail systems that are there into the foothills around the phoenix area particularly around scottsdale and fountain hills is the place where i did my hikes so i did about a half dozen four to six kilometer hikes and so i carried the lens on a sony alpha one and i used this peak design slide light strap and and so i and i carry that when i carry this i carry it in what you would call a sling position so across one shoulder and down under back across my chest like that so what i found is that you know somewhere in the hike i would start to feel you know some pressure on that trapezius muscle there and so what i do is i just switch around to the other side between those two things i never had to do that more than once during any of those hikes and for myself i felt comfortable with that and obviously as far as a carry solution i did travel uh i traveled with this in my carry-on bag this is a you know a cube so i had the you know that set up here and then i brought a couple of other lenses along one of which i would just happen to be testing the other was uh the samyang NUMBER_TOKEN millimeter f NUMBER_TOKEN a really lightweight lens um that has that you know wider angle of view that i thought complemented this lens nicely and it's a lens that i also really like as well so as a byproduct of that i was really happy with the kit for travel so as far as the actual convenience of carrying this you know there are smaller and lighter options and one of those you know really excellent ones i find is tamron's own NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN millimeter uh that is also you know designed for sony fe and so it's a great alternative but there are a couple of areas that i want to highlight through photos and through observations to where this might be for some people a better choice so it does add some versatility because of that larger maximum aperture
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