Landscape

With high optical performance, you can accurately depict everything in a scene, from the entire landscape down to the fine details. As the lens can gather a large amount of light even under low-light conditions, you can capture the desired images even on cloudy days or dark scenes from evening to night. Additionally, suppression of ghosting and flaring lets you clearly capture your subject even when shooting in backlit or sunset conditions.

When taking beautiful shots of starry skies or night scenes, you need to accurately capture faint sources of light. That is where a wide-angle trinity lens shines, as it features a small F-number and high resolving performance across the entire image.

Shooting indoors and moving subjects

There is often insufficient light when shooting indoors, requiring you to reduce the shutter speed or increase ISO. There are various benefits to using a trinity lens in these situations. Since it is easier to secure enough light even under those poor conditions, you can set as fast a shutter speed as possible to reduce camera shake, and avoid setting too high an ISO to minimize noise, for example.

Similarly when shooting fast-moving subjects such as pets and small children, you often need to set a high shutter speed, and encounter various shooting scenes such as backlit or shady conditions. Trinity lenses with small F-number values also work in these situations, making it easier to take brighter photos with high image quality.

As mentioned previously, trinity lenses also shine in shooting situations that demand high image quality from moment to moment across varying angles of view, such as wedding ceremonies, live concerts and other events.

Sports

In sports photography, zoomed-in closeups of the players, and wider shots that incorporate the background to give the feeling of being there are needed. If a photographer shoots using trinity lenses, they can also adapt flexibly under those conditions. In addition to shooting outdoors, a photographer may need to shoot indoors where there is limited light, such as inside a gymnasium. As a trinity lens allows you to set faster shutter speeds and lower ISO, moments can be captured in sharper detail.

Resolving performance

Many of those thinking about purchasing a trinity lens want to focus on taking photos with higher image quality. Generally speaking, many trinity lenses feature excellent resolving power and contrast, but differences emerge in other areas, such as color reproduction, sense of depth, and the texture of the bokeh.

While the performance of a lens can be confirmed by checking something like an MTF chart, we recommend checking sample images and reviews on manufacturer websites, in order to make sure that you will be able to take the images you envisage using the lens.

Weight and compactness

Trinity lenses are used in a variety of shooting situations including landscape photography, wedding ceremonies, parties, sporting events and travel. Depending on the specific shooting scenario, you may be required to carry this equipment for extended periods. That’s why it is important to check the weight of a lens to ensure that you can carry it for extended periods without tiring.

Due to their high-performance construction, trinity lenses tend to be large and heavy, but TAMRON lenses are known for combining high performance with light weight and compact sizes. To ensure you can capture those decisive moments smoothly, we recommend checking ease of handling and choose a type of lens that is easy to carry around.

MOD (Minimum Object Distance)

MOD is the shortage distance from a subject to the image sensor inside the camera at which a subject can be brought into focus. A shorter MOD means that you can get in closer to a subject, which allows you to take impactful photos similar to a macro lens. By combining those compositions with the large bokeh that trinity lenses are known for, you can take your expressiveness to another level.