A Creative Test of the Tamron 18-270mm That’ll Give You the Zoom Creeps

You’ve probably seen a good number of sample photos and videos from camera and lens tests before, but probably not quite like this. Filmmaker Anders Øvergaard puts a creative twist on the idea of “test videos” with this sample footage shot with only a Canon 550D/Rebel T2i and Tamron 18-270mm lens.

Øvergaard writes,

A new autumn means another trip to my cabin, and a new film! This year I hadn’t time to make a short, but I thought I would test a new cheap lens called Tamron AF Di II VC 18-270 PZD. It’s a nice all round lens, but how well will it work when filming handheld with a DSLR? The entire video is shot handheld, using only the Canon 550D/Rebel T2i, and the Tamron AF Di II VC 18-270 PZD. I have added smoothcam in Final Cut in some shots, and colorgraded in Color. I have tried to vary the shots as much as possible to test the lens in different settings and angles. The shot of the girls walking along the road, is shot handheld from a car.

Continue reading for a spoiler. Otherwise, go ahead and watch the lens test above.

It’s like DPReview meets Blair Witch Project. Now your job is to share the video with all the gearheads in your life without telling them the twist.

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