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Yongnuo 35mm F1.8 ART Review | High Quality on a Budget?
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May 6, 2025
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hi I'm Dustin Abbott and I'm here today
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to give you a review of the Yong No 35mm
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f1.8 Art lens now I want to preface this
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review by saying that I am disappointed
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in Yongno for in my opinion taking a
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step back in at least one area even as
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they've taken a step forward in another
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as far as far as taking a step back I've
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been praising them the last couple of
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years because their recent designs were
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innovative unique they were their own uh
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intellectual property development
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whereas early on my exposure to Yongno
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was that they were making clones of
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existing you know Canon EF designs and I
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remember probably 14 years ago that they
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came out with a a clone of the EF50mm
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f1.8 and so my that was my kind of early
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impression so I you know when I
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revisited them over the last few years I
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was happy to see that they were charting
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their own
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course using the art label while they're
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not may not be a copyright issue that
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I'm aware of that's obviously up to them
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it does feel like a bit of stolen valor
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in that Sigma has worked very hard to
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take that art label and to cultivate it
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as being a unique representative of
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their optical performance and they've
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been very successful with that and it
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feels like Yongo is maybe trying to
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steal a bit of that thunder and so I I
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do want to decry that because I I don't
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like that aspect of it at the same time
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I don't want that to overly prejudice my
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feeling of this lens itself which does
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take some strides forward in some
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optical areas that have been
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deficiencies in previous Yong no lenses
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this is an APS-C lens uh 35mm
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f1.8 and so we're going to you know that
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disclaimer aside we are going to step in
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and take a look at the overall
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performance of this lens now let me
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start with a disclaimer this lens was
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sent to me by Yong No for evaluation
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they have had no input in my review as
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you might expect from my intro here and
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they will not see this review before it
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goes to the public so now let's take a
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look at the build and the design here
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this is a 35mm lens but for APS-C i'm
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reviewing it on Sony E-mount i suspect
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there will also be at least Fujifilm X
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potentially Nikon Z as well and uh and
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so 35 mm with that 1.5 times crop factor
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on APS-C translates to a 50 52 1.5
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millimeter lens and so essentially right
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on around the normal range as we call it
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the full name here is Jeango 35mm f1.8
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SDA art and so S stands for Sony and so
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in this case Sony E-mount obviously if
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it was uh an Fujifilm Xmount there would
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be an X there instead of an S for
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example da is their way of referring to
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not to Dustin Abbott but to APS-C and
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ART is and I asked this is the first of
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a new series of lenses that they are
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using the art label much like Sigma to
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indicate a higher level of optical
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correction and also higher performance
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in general now as far as the physical
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design is a longer lens than what I
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typically expect seeing from an APS-C
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35mm f1.8 in fact it is nearly 80 mm
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long which is more than 25 mm longer
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than for example the Viltrox 35mm f1.7
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air so that's a obviously very
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significant difference and u so 3.14 in
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makes it a a reasonably long lens for
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something like this the diameter is far
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more typical it's 63.5 millimeters or
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about 2 and a half inches and it weighs
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in at 265 g or 9.34 oz it's a little
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heavier than the Viltrox Air series for
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example which I'm using kind of as a
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benchmark here because it is it's a
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great little lens the Viltrox
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weighs 70 g and so that means that this
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is about 95 g heavier now a big part of
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that is that rather than using plastics
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as used in the Vtrox lens we have got
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basically all metals here in the barrel
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it does feel like a nice construction
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and I will say on that point 52mm front
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filter thread another thing that's
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interesting when you look at the front
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of the lens something I've never seen
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before often there are there's different
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types of information that are given
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there but this lens actually has not
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only the minimum focus distance 35 cm it
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also has the maximum magnification of
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0.12 times which is the first time in
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the hundreds and hundreds of lenses that
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I've reviewed that I have ever seen the
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maximum magnification put right on the
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lens in any way but particularly right
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at the very front of the lens now as
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beyond that there really isn't much
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going on here in the feature department
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it is a bare lens barrel no switches no
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uh aperture ring nothing like that all
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we've got is the manual focus ring so
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you know you would think since that's
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the one thing on the lens barrel that it
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would be like flawlessly executed but at
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least in the copy I'm reviewing though
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it is metal and it's nicely built feels
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like there's just a little bit of rub
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inside there and so unfortunately it
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doesn't move quite as smoothly as what I
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would like it may loosen up with some
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wear over time but right now uh it isn't
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fantastic and so uh I also found that
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the the overall throw here is it's it's
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distinctly nonlinear and so it seems to
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be really sensitive to speed like
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particularly sensitive to speed and so I
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actually found repeating focus pools a
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little bit difficult because it just
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didn't seem all that predictable to me
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so unfortunately I don't love the manual
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focus lens or manual focus ring here and
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manual focus performance so it's a good
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thing that the auto autofocus
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performance is pretty good inside there
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are nine aperture blades and so it does
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a pretty good job of keeping a spherical
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shape as you stop it down but there is
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that kind of weird clipping at the
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bottom at the side of the lens fairly
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near the the base at the back there is a
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USBC port it's covered with a little
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rubber gasket i I don't love these
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designs because I find these little
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gaskets they're could be very easy to
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use now these are this one is easier to
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get out than some that I've used but it
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also means that if it rubs on something
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and pulls in just the right way it also
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could pull it out and you wouldn't want
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to lose that because it would kind of
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impinge on the weather sealing of the
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lens this is does have some weather
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sealing it has a gasket at the lens
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mount it has a flooring coating on the
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front element i'm not aware of there
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being any kind of internal seal so that
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makes it a bit like Sigma's IER lenses
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for example where you've got a gasket
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and some coating on the front but you
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don't have any internal seals but at
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least we do have uh some weather sealing
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and of course the fact that this is
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internally focusing and there is no zoom
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means that there's you know not a whole
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lot of uh ingress points into the lens
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itself to get moisture or dust in there
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so I think it'll probably hold up well
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in that regard it does include a lens
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hood and it's pretty decent here uh it
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is plastic but it is decent plastics uh
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it's got some rigidity to it it locks on
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in a nice precise way so no problem
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there as noted the materials here are
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nice i will say that the design itself
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because it's extra long it's feels like
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there's some empty space on the barrel
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that could at least use some branding to
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fill in there almost like a a space here
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where you could put a like a tripod
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collar on there and it feels like that
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could have been filled in with a little
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bit of something you know like an
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aperture ring would have been nice but
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nonetheless um it is a nicely built lens
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but it is very simple now when it comes
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to autofocus it's unique here previous
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Yongno lenses I've been reviewing more
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recently they always have DSM on there
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which refers to digital stepping motor
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in this case there's no reference to the
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focus motor and if I dig into the
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literature it says it's an STM focus
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motor so what's the difference between a
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digital stepping motor and a stepping
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motor i have no idea but the performance
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is basically identical to what I've seen
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from their DSM equipped lenses initially
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I did have a few firmware quirks that I
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had to report back to Yongno but this
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remember I'm I'm reviewing a pre-release
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copy of the lens they were able to do a
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firmware update that fortunately solved
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all of those issues and so now autofocus
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is really quite good and so that means
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uh quite good uh speed you know front
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and back no issues with that i had good
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precision overall no problem locking on
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to subjects and getting you know
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definite well focused results uh overall
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speed performance is fine it's quiet
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it's accurate you know it's it's good no
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reservations there on the video side of
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things again the same firmware update
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helped to you know iron out some tweaks
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or some concerns that I was having some
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bugs with the autofocus there and so
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before I was having a little bit of
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issue with focus pulls but now as you
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can see they move seamlessly back and
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forth no hesitation no visible steps all
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good on that front there is some very
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minor focus breathing but nothing
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excessive there and so about I would say
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typical or average for lenses in this
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class i also found that my hand test
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went fine with good transitions from my
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hand to my eye and back and forth and so
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in general I would say that video AF was
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fine and did all that I wanted it to and
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so no concerns there on that front so
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let's take a look at the optics and I'll
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give you an overview here for those of
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you that want more information i will
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have my deep dive kind of optical
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examination at the end of the video this
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is an optical design of 10 elements in
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nine groups i don't know the breakdown
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of of what elements are there i know
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that there's at least some aspherical at
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least a aspherical elements maybe more
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because there is aspherical as a part of
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the design there um I will say that you
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know it's a two-edged sword when it
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comes to using the art name uh yes you
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can maybe take some of the the credit or
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some of the the brand recognition that
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Sigma has created through consistently
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delivering very strong optical designs
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under the- art brand but it also means
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that when I see that word art I also am
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going to expect more in terms of the
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optical performance means I evaluate a
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little more carefully in regards to that
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i will say however that this lens mostly
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survives that um that that critiquing
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the MTF as you can see it looks quite
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consistently good uh very linear across
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the frame and only a minor amount of
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drop off towards the corners that's a
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great looking MTF chart one area of
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clear improvement over their commander
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series lenses all of those lenses did
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suffer from some chromatic aberrations
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and I found that I could definitely see
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some fringing uh lateral style excuse me
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longitudinal style chromatic aberration
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before and after the plane of focus you
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can see here in this comparison to the
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33mm f1.4 just how much radically
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different the 35mm f1.8 from Yong no is
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i did see a bit of lateral style
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chromatic aberrations near the corner of
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the frame nothing significant nothing
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that I consider to be too much of an
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issue there however for those of you
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wondering how well this covers the
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full-frame image circle the answer is
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not very well uh you might be able to
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get very slightly wider than the 35 mm
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um or the you know 52.5 millimeters in
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terms of the crop factor on fullframe
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but I mean you might be able to pull it
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back to maybe 45 millimeters but not
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worth doing if you're looking for a
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secret full-frame lens fortunately these
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days there's lots of great inexpensive
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full-frame lenses that you can choose
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from if that's what you're looking for i
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did find that distortion was very low no
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issue with that i saw I I dialed in a
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plus one to correct the tiniest amount
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of barrel distortion but you would never
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notice it uh vignette is about average a
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plus 55 is what I dialed in so near two
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stops of vignette in the extreme corners
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nothing particularly heavy nothing too
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bad there i found that chart testing
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results and this is at 26 megapixels on
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Sony which is the current highest
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resolution available there that it all
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looks it looks good it's consistently
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good across the frame um and so you know
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I have no reservations about that but
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what I did find and that is that this
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Viltrox 35mm
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f1.7 air series lens that it's just as
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good in terms of the optics and so if
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you know this was to be some kind of
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like kind of next level performance I
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don't know that that's necessarily true
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i mean the Viltrox is a very good lens
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but I wouldn't say that the Yongno is
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particularly better in any kind of
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category there however just you know
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moving away from the comparison I would
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say that real world results really were
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consistently great and what kind of
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stood out to me is that the micro
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contrast is quite good and so a lot of
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these inexpensive lenses and this is a
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lens that will cost they're telling me
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under $200 US dollars that a lot of
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these lenses they don't hold up as well
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when you're looking at kind of at a
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pixel level and looking at areas of high
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contrast a lot of times you'll see just
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some kind of haze around some of the
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textures they're not able to just nail
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down that high level of acuity that I
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like to see on higherend lenses this
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lens however is doing a really good job
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in those circumstances contrast holds up
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under careful examination that micro
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contrast that I'm referring to there you
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will see a little bit of boost at f2
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it's primarily seen in the corners and
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then just a little bit more as you stop
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down to f2.8 through you know f5.6 and
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up to f8 kind of your peak landscape
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apertures you're able to get nice crisp
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landscape type results there at that
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point in this case uh it has a smaller
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minimum aperture than what I often see
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in these style lenses usually it's f16
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this will go down to f-22 but of course
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that means that there is more potential
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at f-22 for defraction as compared to
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f-16 and so typically I try to use f11
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as my cut off point and anything after
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that you're getting diminishing returns
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and so only do that if you if absolutely
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necessary the bokeh quality was
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generally good and so when I put it in
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advantageous situations I feel like it
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rendered very nicely in some situations
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where there was a more busy background
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and andor a lot of it falling in what I
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call the transition zone before
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everything is fully out of focus i felt
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like there it you know it felt more like
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a budget lens it wasn't incredibly
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creamy in those situations but of course
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you know it is an APS-C lens with a
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maximum aperture of f1.8 so you can't
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expect you know f1.2 type results and we
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certainly don't get
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those the flare was a mixed bag uh
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directionally into the sun it did pretty
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good coatings held up pretty well but
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what I noticed is if the sun was right
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out of frame you or frame you get some
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of that flashing effect that could be
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quite disruptive to the image and so you
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do you will have to be careful in your
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composition just being aware of that
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another area where I did see some real
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improvement is that I suspect that this
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is using different optical glass than
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what we've seen in some of their
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previous lenses optical glass feels
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better colors are are nicer they're
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there's kind of a look that comes with
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some cheaper lenses where the colors
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they're just it's very hard to define
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but there's there's just something about
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them that feels cheap this doesn't fall
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into that category optical glass is
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better it reminds me of the leap ahead
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that Viltrox has taken to where they're
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just their optical glass is is
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demonstrabably better than what it was
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in their early years of lens development
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and I feel like this lens is taking a
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similar leap there where the colors
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really look quite good so my conclusion
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is is that I definitely like the optical
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improvements and I think that I will
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applaud Yongno for taking some steps in
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the right direction controlling
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chromatic aberrations better nicer
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optical glass and just a generalized
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more punch to the images and the
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resolution so all of that is good i
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don't like the use of the art name and I
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won't belleager that too much since I
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did hit it a lot in my opening but I
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really wish that they would have come up
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with something unique to them that that
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demonstrated that this was going to the
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next level of optical design but not
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take something that has been uniquely
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Sigma's for over a decade at this point
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and and so anyway I wish they hadn't
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done that this is a very good lens in a
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lot of ways and if you you know end up
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buying it you're going to get a very
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very nice lens i think the challenge for
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Yongn though is that the market
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particularly over the last two years has
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become very saturated uh I've referred
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to the Viltrox but into that space
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during that time we've gotten lenses
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from TT Artisan we've got lenses from
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seven artisans uh you know not to
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mention the other players that were
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already in the market there's just a lot
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of competition in that particular space
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and at these very common focal lengths
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and so you know there's not necessarily
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a lot to set them apart from the
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competition there's not more features
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the optical performance is great but as
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I said I don't know that it's better
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than what Viltrox's is i will give you a
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detailed breakdown and head-to-head
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comparison with the Viltrox in a
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subsequent video though it's going to be
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some weeks out just because my schedule
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is so full with new releases but stay
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tuned for that if you want more
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information in the meantime you can
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check out my full text review that's
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linked in the description down below uh
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there's also some buying links there if
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you'd like to purchase one beyond that
16:51
if you want that deep dive into the
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optical performance stay tuned with me
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right now let's jump into it together so
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we'll start our examination by taking a
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look at full-frame coverage you can see
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that we have this hard mechanical
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vignette here which shows that part of
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the image circle full-frame image circle
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is just not being covered now if we look
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at vignette distortion we can see that
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there's a really minimal amount of
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distortion i used a plus one to correct
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just a tiny bit of barrel distortion
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corrected nice and linear but I mean in
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99.9% of situations you could leave that
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uncorrected and you wouldn't have any
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problem vignette is moderate i used a
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plus 55 to correct here in the center it
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did correct nice and clean no odd
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discoloration left behind and so uh
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nothing to worry about on that front as
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I pointed out earlier longitudinal style
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chromatic aberration has really been a
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bit of a bugaboo for Yong No lenses
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we've really seen progress on that front
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here and so there is minimal amounts of
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fringing before and after the plane of
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focus that looks great nice and clean
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what that means is that in situations
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like this where previous Yongno lenses
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would just show maybe some blooming on
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the textures uh some loss of contrast
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maybe some extra fringing in these high
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contrast areas we can see here that
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we've got great micro contrast even at
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f1.8 and so it looks it's just a it's a
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real improvement on that front and as we
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look towards defocus we can see there's
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maybe a tiny bit of fringing here but
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for the most part there is just really
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minimal fringing in the image when it
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comes to lateral style chromatic
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aberrations you can see that there is a
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little bit uh as we get here towards the
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edge um where you're getting some false
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color on the sides of the black and
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white there uh not a necessarily a major
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issue in real world shooting but uh
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certainly that is the area where there's
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more of that style fringing than there
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is of the longitudinal style now when we
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get to resolution contrast this is 26
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megapixels on Sony which is the highest
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APS-C resolution currently available
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there uh 200% magnification so we can
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really see all the flaws here looking in
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the center of the frame good uh detail
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and contrast there not off thecharts
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contrast but good and a lot of crisp
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detail that's being shown there
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mid-frame is still looking very
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consistently good no problems there and
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as we move towards the edge I like to
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look here and here you can see that
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there's only minimal drop off from this
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zone to this zone as we move towards the
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corner and right here into the corners
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we can still see a very decent amount of
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magnification this is looking similar
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here on the left side up into the left
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corner again looking consistently good
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upper right corner also looking good
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good centering performance so at 100%
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magnification with real world shots to
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put that into perspective you can see
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there is lots of detail and very good
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contrast it's holding up very well in
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this this image here which allows you to
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have a very nice amount of detail even
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moving out towards infinity where a lot
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of these lenses fall apart uh these
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cheaper lenses like this it actually
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looks really good there's good detail
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and contrast there it's you know it's
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not the highest resolution that I've
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seen but a very strong performance and
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here at a little maybe more optimal zone
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here shot of Nala you can see there's
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great detail and contrast in the area of
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focus around the eyes accurate focus
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there and a pretty decent looking uh
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defocused background as well so if we go
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from f1.8 to f2 we really don't see a
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marketked difference i think there's a
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little bit more contrast darks look a
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little bit darker there but you know
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nothing that really stands out in terms
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of the resolution but you can see again
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here in the hair that it's just there's
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there's more contrast that's available
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there a little bit more contrast in the
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Canada here you can see it's just a
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little softer looking and so there is a
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mild amount of improvement there in
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terms of contrast however you'll see a
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more market improvement in contrast at
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f2.8 where uh all of the darks are
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starting to really darken up and so you
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can see that the text is popping more
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there's more detail there if we look up
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into the upper left corner we can see uh
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just a whole lot more contrast coming
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here you can see that more pattern
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starting to emerge because contrast is
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improved and just a whole lot more
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delineation of detail in the hair here
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in the text it all is looking much
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better between f2.8 and f5.6 even here
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in the corner you can see now that
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resolution is completely crisp all
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across the frame really great detail and
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contrast now you can see here that
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metering didn't remain flawless that uh
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you can see it's it's overexposed a
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little bit here at smaller apertures but
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we can also see that uh there is some
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effects of defraction here uh you can
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see that maybe the the text there isn't
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quite as crisp but I will say that even
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at f-22 it really doesn't look too bad
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and so I I think that this is an image
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on this maybe lower resolution point
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here on Sony you might see more
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defraction if on a Fuji X mount for
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example but overall here I would say the
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lens is holding up quite well even at
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small apertures so as we talked about
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earlier the maximum magnification is
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0.12 times which is not super high but
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it's a usable amount we can see that up
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close performance even at f1.8 is quite
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good though good detail good contrast
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nothing to complain about there taking a
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look at a real world shot at minimum
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focus distance contrast looks great um
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I've shot this chest piece a lot and I
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can tell you that this is holding up
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really well in terms of the overall
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contrast and detail you can definitely
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see there's a pretty strong amount of
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the cat eye deformation kind of shape
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and this is kind of the oddity here is
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just this little kind of like cutout or
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clip that is there in those specular
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highlights just a little bit odd we'll
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examine that a little bit closer here
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you can see it just here at f1.8
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stopping down to f2 it's
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um better um but there's still the the
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it's it's like they're the roundness is
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like a little bit lopsided in a bit and
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we can see that even stopping down to
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f2.8 we never get quite a round shape
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it's almost a little bit more of like a
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lemon shape so I don't love the shape of
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the specular highlights so maybe that
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not a strength necessarily in this shot
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uh great on the great front is the
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contrast and detail looks fantastic i
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mean that looks great the bokeh looks I
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think fairly good but it's not like
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super soft and creamy this shot here
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this is a pretty favorable ratio so
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detail on the subject contrast there
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looks good the background looks pretty
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soft where there's more defined specular
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highlights again you're going to see
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those cat eye effects uh you know a
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little bit more pronounced than what I
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would like but in this zone the bokeh is
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reasonably soft this shot uh again a
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pretty good ra ratio and mostly soft
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rather than hard edges and it looks you
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know I would say pretty good
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overall in this shot where we've got a
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little bit busier i still like the look
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of the image here right now this part
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looks great obviously in some of these
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busier things though you can see that it
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it doesn't handle that transition zone
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super well this shot you know it's it's
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a lot of difficult background and you
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can see it's not handling that very well
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a lot of outlining just looks very very
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busy to my eye and this is kind of
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somewhere in between it's not a super
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creamy or defocus background so I mean
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it's a 35mm f1.8 eight lens but I do
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think that the higher detail and
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contrast of the lens means that the out
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of focus backgrounds can also still have
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a little bit too much detail to them and
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so that is a potential downside for the
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lens now if you're shooting landscapes
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with this lens it's great i mean great
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detail great contrast that's all going
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to play to its strengths and so I think
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that it's going to handle this kind of
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image very well and as noted the optical
24:49
glass is looking better flare resistance
24:52
is only average at best you can see here
24:55
there is some loss of contrast there is
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a little bit of a ghosting pattern
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that's not too terrible we can see here
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that you're going to get some ghosting
25:03
if the sun is right in the frame and you
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know and it's kind of going diagonally
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however if the sun is at other certain
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points like kind of like right out of
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frame you can see you get more strongly
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pronounced uh ghosting and definitely
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some veiling in this image as well
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there's kind of like this whole zone
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where there's kind of a flare pattern
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you're just going to have to be careful
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with composition coatings are not off
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the charts good and so as you can see
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this is a nice lens not a flawless lens
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but a very nice lens optically so if you
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do choose to buy one you're going to get
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very nice performance out of it as
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always thanks for watching have a great
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day and let the light in
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