Tamron 35-100mm f/2.8: Who Actually Needs This Focal Range?

If you shoot events or weddings and never touch anything wider than 35mm anyway, Tamron just made a case for ditching the 24-70 entirely. The 35-100mm f/2.8 gives you that extra reach into portrait-to-short-tele territory without going to a second body, and at under $930 it undercuts the Sony and Nikon first-party zooms by a significant margin. The catch is real though: you're binning the wide end permanently, so this only works if your shooting style actually lives in that tighter range. Not a lens for everyone, but for the right shooter it's a smarter single-lens solution than the default 24-70 most of us default-grabbed years ago.