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Kase AF 85mm F1.4 FE Review | Next Level Filter Integration
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May 30, 2025
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hi I'm Dustin Abbott case has long been known as a filter maker and that filter
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expertise comes in very handy as we take a look at what is their first lens the
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surprisingly excellent AF85mm f1.4 i'm reviewing it on Sony FE
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though I suspect other mounts will be coming now obviously on Sony the market
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for 85mm f1.4 lenses has been somewhat flooded in the past year in the last
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year alone we've seen the Sony 85mm GM Mark II the Sri Aurora 85mm the Mike
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85mm f1.4 and most recently the Viltrox Pro AF 85mm f1.4 these of course join
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already existing options from Sigma Samyang and Sony themselves so is there
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room for case in there well if your work includes using filters then you may want
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to consider the case lens which really brings some very unique approaches to
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implementing filters as a part of the workflow and you probably should consider this lens we'll explore why in
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in I do want to give you my disclosure this lens was sent to me uh from Case for review they have had no input in my
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review they will not preview this video before it's released to you the public my findings are my own so let's dive in
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and take a look at the build and handling of the lens first the price the price is
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$738 that's about midpack that's close to the price of the Samyang it's a bit
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more than the Viltrox Mike or Siri lenses and it's considerably less than the Sigma or Sony option so somewhere
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there in the middle this really actually has a beautiful build quality and I would say that of the existing lenses I
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would say it reminds me most of the Sigma Art series it's got some of the similar ribbed textures a combination of
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some glossy sections along with some lightly flocked it's a actually a really
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nice looking lens and they've managed to keep it quite compact and so I appreciate that the design here is it's
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beautifully implemented and it does include weather sealing they call it uh dust and um moisture seal and so I can
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see the gasket at the lens mount but I'm sure that there are other gaskets throughout the body itself as noted it
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is nicely compact it's about the same size as the Samyang it is much smaller than a lens like the Viltrox Pro AF it's
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It's a tiny bit longer than what the Sigma is but it's also narrower in diameter and so I think it hits kind of
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a sweet spot of maintaining a nicely compact size and a reasonable weight while also having a very high grade of
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of build here the lens is 82 mm in diameter that's 3.2 uh 2 in and it is 99
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mm or 3.89 in in overall length it weighs in at 580 g which is 20.4 oz so
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to give you a little bit of perspective the Sigma weighs 625 g the uh GM Mark II
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weighs 642 g but on the lighter side you've got the Siri which is 540 g or 40
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g less i would say however that that is a very reasonable weight for a lens that
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really has got a lot going on and is using metal alloys in the build itself
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so it's it's tough it's durable and still reasonably lightweight so well done on that that point up front we have
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a 72mm front filter thread but here's where things start to get interesting
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because Case obviously has a lot of experience with filters and not just ordinary screw-in filters but also with
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their magnetic design filters and so what we have got here is similar to their Revolution series for example
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we've actually got that what they call the magnetic inlaid ring that is a part
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of the design here near the front element and so that means it's already set up for use with magnetic filters and
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they include a protection/ UV filter you know I'm not a huge fan of these type
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filters however it's going to be fully compatible with variable ND filters um
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with circular polarizing filters so on and so forth and actually found that while the magnetic isn't quite as good i
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reviewed a Freewell magnetic filter series a while back and my circular
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polarizer it will work on there the magnetic pull isn't quite as good however it is able to go on there and it
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is able to freely rotate as it should and the reason why it can rotate as it should is that this inlaid ring is
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actually it will rotate itself and so that allows you to use slimmer filters because the actual rotating portion is
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actually incorporated into the lens itself very very cool and in recognition
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of the use of magnetic filters like this you've actually got two options in included when it comes to the lens caps
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and or front cap you've got the traditional pinch design that also has the center pinch that can go on like
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that and by the way if you're using a hood that remains the most logical one
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to use because you can pinch in the middle to remove it however if you're just working with filters and you don't want to mess with that they also have
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included a magnetic uh front lens cap and so that works very
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nicely as well and so you can incorporate all of that and the nice thing about this too is that if you wanted to work without the filter you
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just pinch a little bit further you can grab both the filter and the magnetic cap and pull that off and by the way yes
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the magnetic cap works with no filter in place very very cool implementation on all of that also for Sony shooters they
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have included what they call their magic filter which is a little drop in filter that goes actually in front of the
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sensor itself it's actually a really cool design they even include a little what looks like a guitar pick for
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cleanly getting it free so you don't get your fingers in there to get fingers on anything and so uh really cool design
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and so what they include is it's somewhere like an ND ND2 ND4 just a you
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know a stop or two in terms of what's included but obviously you can also get other filters in that as well so really
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really cool execution of that design as noted the lens hood is included and I do appreciate relative to for example a
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lens like the Sigma Sigma has a huge uh hood this actually has quite a compact
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hood which shows some confidence in the actual flare resistance but uh it's a
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nicely made hood and a nice part of the package as well now the lens also has
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some other features outside of filters we do have what is now becoming somewhat ubiquitous in the better lenses where we
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have both a clicked and then a decllicked option when it comes to the aperture ring my only complaint on this
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is that in the d-click mode there is it removes even the click in between f-16
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and automatic and so if you're not careful you can rack all the way into automatic mode which kind of defeat the
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purpose as you can see here I was able to do reasonably good uh aperture racks
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but you can see a little bit of a of stepping process through that and I'll also note that while there are 13
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aperture blades I typically love high aperture blade counts it doesn't keep a very circular shape when you stop it
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down and I do note that when you've got it stopped way down as this photo shows that at least in the copy I'm testing
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the aperture isn't fully centered and so it's it's just a little bit deformed and
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that might contribute some to some of that odd geometry that we see and so maybe an area for improvement there we
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do not have an iris lock and as noted because of that losing that detent
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between uh f-16 and automatic an iris lock would actually be really really nice because that would solve that
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problem but anyway that's the one feature that I would say that we don't have relative to a lens like the Sigma
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or the Sony GM lens we do have an AFMF switch which
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works nicely uh has good feel to it good precision and we've got actually two
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function buttons and a cool design here the top function button or our FN1 that
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function button works just like a focus hold button so whatever you've got programmed within the camera you click
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that and it's going to achieve that assigned purpose the function two button however has dual purpose to it so the
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default purpose is that it will automatically bring focus back to minimum focus that can be very useful
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because sometimes you don't know exactly where minimum focus is and so if you're trying to get as much magnification as
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possible clicking that will get will shift focus over to that closest point and then you can kind of visually see
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where you should be in relation to your subject so that's cool but the second thing that it will do is that if you
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have another focus distance you want to program you can hold that down and it will actually use use that as a preset
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and so it will preset that focus distance you can click that and instantly return to that focus position
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now I did note that when um when I turned the camera off briefly that programmed position stayed there if I
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removed the lens it actually would reset to the minimum focus distance and so that's the way that it seems to work
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here at the moment they have incorporated a USB C port into the lens mount and so that will allow you to uh
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easily do firmware updates and by the way I I did need a firmware update for
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my uh A7R5 it every now and then I would get just where autofocus wouldn't work and
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so uh that needed to be updated it worked fine from the beginning on my Alpha 1 but the fact that you can easily
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do firmware updates allowed them to fix something like that the focus ring itself uh has nice rim it actually has a
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really nice damping it moves beautifully so it's a great focus simulation however
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it um it's not linear and so if you're looking to do repeatable focus pulls you
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need to be moving at the same kind of speed and doing that because if you go faster or slower the focus position will
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change and so it is is it is speed sensitive when it comes to that there is
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no built-in image stabilization nor is there in any of the competing lenses so just know that what you can do also here
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is focus down closer than any of the competing 85mm lenses on Sony most of
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them you can focus only as closely as around 85 mill centimeters some of them
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you know maybe down to 80 centimeters here you can focus down to 70 cm however giving you a higher 0.14 times level of
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magnification and so you can see relative to a lens like the Sigma for example it can give you noticeably
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higher magnification however it is lower contrast at f1.4 so not as good as as a
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Sigma up close stop it down to f2 and you can see here that that does improve the contrast and give you a little bit
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uh better result also included is a little basic lens pouch not as nice as
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the zippered case that the siri the Sony or the Sigma include overall however
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this is a beautifully built lens it has a lot of great filters or excuse me features filters as maybe the good
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fidian slip there it also has that great execution when it comes to filters and so I I think it's it's huge if you're
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someone who likes to use filters as a part of your workflow this is easily the easiest way the best way to do it that I
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have seen moving on to autofocus autofocus is is good not great and so they've got the
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STM focus motor which is pretty common amongst the you know the lower to mid-tier lenses however you've got some
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lenses like the Sony GM obviously that are exceptional when it comes to autofocus and even the recent Viltrox
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Pro AF instead of using STM has their hyper VCM VO voice coil motor which is
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faster and smoother and all of those things so if you're looking for top tier autofocus performance this isn't going
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to be it not that autofocus is bad autofocus is quiet and it's confident but as you can see here the big focus
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changes they're more deliberate you can see focus moving from point A to point B rather than it just kind of instantly
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happening like that and so even relative to the SDM equipped Sigma for example it doesn't focus as quickly as that that
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being said it's not like some lenses that I've seen where they also just lack focus confidence and so if you have a
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moving subject they can't really lock this lens could pick up on a you know slow to medium moving subject and could
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lock focus just fine and deliver really really nice results and so accuracy in
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general was good i found that I could do had no problem in shooting portraits even when backlit uh got very
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consistently focused results nicel looking results i also found when shooting just in the house with my new
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little nephew that I could nail focus no problem and and really get well focused
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results now obviously with any of these third party lenses burst rate is going to be limited to 15 frames per second
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and uh if you're going to have autofocus but that's probably less of a case here than if you're using a more
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sportsoriented lens on the video side of thing I actually found that the slightly
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slower focus that I saw for stills is really not a factor when it comes to video focus pools are smooth and there's
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no pulsing or settling and so I actually really liked the confidence of these focus pulls however the um the fly in
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the ointment is that focus breathing is quite obvious and so you get this real sense of of movement from one point to
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another and so it's not particularly cinematic my hand test it went fine uh
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with good transitions and good confidence of going from my hand to my eye and and back and forth i also found
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that real world autofocus was good for static shots you can see in this little clip it stayed locked on even at f1.4
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not moving around however in some other shots where there's going to be obvious focus changes that focus breathing uh
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makes those focus changes a little more abrupt and obvious and less cinematic
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than if there was lower focus breathing in the lens so and unfortunately again as a third party lens Sony does have
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focus breathing compensation in a lot of their newer cameras but it only works with Sony lenses and so whereas we could
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have eliminated some of that through software that's not the case because of being a third party how about image
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quality i'll give you an overview here with the deep dive to follow this is an optical design of 13 elements in 10
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groups five of those are extra low dispersion two of them are high refractive index elements uh the MTF
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looks really really good and one of the reasons why I said yes was on the merits of the MTF chart and so it's good in the
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center good in the mid-frame you know a little bit of a dip back up in the corners there's a little bit of a drop
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off and so comparing the MTF to the recent Viltrox lens which is is you know
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Viltrox is pretty top top tier when it comes to optics as has become their brand that but I found when comparing in
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the real world whereas it looked like a little bit of an advantage for the Viltrox in the center of the frame Vtrox
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has you know a little bit more contrast so it's a little bit better there the midframe they're about equal and that's
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about what the MTF dart chart says however the difference in the corners is uh is goes different from what I would
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see from the MTF chart the Vtrox at least in the two copies I compared was noticeably better in the corners and and
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also that it kind of retain that advantage even as you stop the lenses down however if I look at a kind of a
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less superior lens like the Siri Aurora 85mm f1.4 I found that the case lens has
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much better sharpness and higher contrast it's slightly better than a lens like the Samyang so it's really
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positioned in a pretty good spot I would say in terms of sharpness and contrast particularly when we get to the
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rendering which we'll get to in just a moment now there is a little bit of ping cushion distortion much less than the
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Sigma for example but a little more than a lens like the Samyang or the Viltrox
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so a minus4 to correct that vignette however is the lowest that I've seen out of any of these 85mm lenses i only
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needed a plus 31 to correct for it pretty impressive considering it's got a relatively small you know front element
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there so great job on that also exceptional job in containing longitudinal style chromatic aberrations
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i don't really see any fringing before or after the plane of focus on my test chart and in this shot of the SLR that I
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use as a secondary test it's clean nothing there and so great job there i saw a tiny bit of lateral style
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chromatic aberration in the corners on my test chart but it's low enough that in the real world at lower levels of
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magnification you know like 100% i didn't really see it so I don't consider that to be a problem at f1.4 wide open
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as we've already seen it's sharp in the center and in the mid-frame very good there the corners are obviously softer i
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found that the contrast improves at f2 and as a general observation I found
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that the closer I was to the subject the lower the contrast was and so contrast seems to improve once you get out to a
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many medium range let's say uh 3 m plus around 10 ft or more you'll start to see
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uh just improved contrast in general and at those ranges I mean it's it's great like nice sharpness there's nothing that
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I'd really complain about i would say in general that real world sharpness was was fine it's not like amazingly sharp
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like the GM Mark II however as we're going to see I actually like the rendering of this lens easily better
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than the GM Mark II uh the corners remain soft till about f5.6 on my chart test out in the real
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world I felt like the corners looked better and so it could be a bit of a field curvature thing at the closer
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distances to my test chart and again I don't feel like this lens is optimized for those close distances anyway you're
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going to see the typical pattern of defraction starting at f11 and then more pronounced at f-16 which is the minimum
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aperture where this lens really stands out is in the bokeh quality and the
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overall rendering i I think it's actually produces really gorgeous looking images i really really like the
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overall rendering from this lens really my only complaint about the bokeh is is what we've already seen when it comes to
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those specular highlights if you're looking for perfectly round bokeh balls across it uh that's not its strength
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however it's great with transition zone rendering which is the key to images
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looking great in my opinion and then as you get to the the fully defocused background very soft very creamy and I I
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tried to look for a bad bokeh image where I thought like the bokeh looked a little bit busy and frankly outside of
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those specular highlights I have nothing to complain about and so this lens does a really good job of of combining
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sharpness and softness probably more on the softness than the sharpness there are sharper 85mm lenses but I don't know
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of any of them on the current market that have nicer bokeh rendering than this i also found that the colors looked
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really good their long experience with optical glass has paid off here as I do
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feel like the optical glass is good definitely a cut above a lens like the siri or the mike 85 millimeter uh this
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is nice optical glass i would probably take it over pretty much everything
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until you get into the you know the Viltrox Sigma GM levels i mean it's it's
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pretty close to that class of the optical glass as far as flare resistance overall it was quite good i did notice
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here a bit of a light leak in the corner um it was not a persistent problem and I
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saw it more at large or or small apertures i think f11 for this shot but
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I mean not really a big deal and and overall I didn't notice any issues with flare in general I would say optically
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this is a very mature first first effort a lot of good things going on and that
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leads to my conclusion which that is kind of my consensus on the lens for being a first lens this is a shockingly
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mature lens i mean I think it vaults right into consideration with a number of the better 85 millimeter lenses on
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Sony and considering how many we have and how good many of them are that's pretty impressive frankly I love the
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unique thought when it comes to the filter integration because I think it's it gives this lens something to set it
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apart from the many other alternatives that are available even an 85mm f1.4 four lenses you've got probably at least
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eight to choose from on Sony all autofocusing all decent lenses and so
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this filter integration and the fact that they do throw in uh at least a filter with the lens so you're going to
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get the uh the UV type filter there and along with the magic filter if you're buying the Sony version but of course
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there is a full range of filter options available that are going to be that fully magnetic and allow you to use it
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like that i think that's really cool and then of course the fact that the rendering and the bokeh is so lovely out
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of it uh makes it a really interesting lens to me now this isn't the cheapest
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lens uh in the group if you're if cheap is your your top um consideration you've
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got lenses like the CRI or the mic i would take this any day of the week over either one of them i and I think that
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really for me this would come down to you know in this price zone i think I
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would be looking probably between the Viltrox and this case lens in this this zone so it's a little more expensive
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than the Viltrox $729 however it is considerably smaller
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and lighter so that might be a consideration for you so it's far from being the most expensive it's not the
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cheapest but because of its clever design it is well worth considering even this if even if this is a brand new lens
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company they do give you a three-year warranty so a little bit of peace of mind there and so I think it's well
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worth consideration now if you want a deeper dive into the optical performance stay tuned with me right now let's dive
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in let's take a look all right we'll start by taking a look at vignette and distortion you can see a very mild
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amount of pin cushion distortion by the way pin cush cushion distortion is often quite flattering for um portraits makes
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the subject look a little bit slimmer which many people don't seem to mind however you can easily correct that i
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used a minus4 it's a very linear correction no problem there vignette is
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very low for this type of lens and just right over 30 to correct for that so
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that's only just a hair over a stop in the corners the great news here is that you could leave both of these things
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uncorrected which is important in a new lens like this as I don't know what kind of inc camera support they'll have there
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is very little longitudinal style chromatic aberration a tiny bit before the plane of focus very little afterward
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that's nice and clean likewise in this which real world shot really shows off
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and I'm going to show you at 200% so we're really really looking you can see a tiny bit again of fringing before the
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plane of focus but after the plane of focus ah there's basically nothing very very neutral very clean around the
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specular highlights specular highlights themselves are very clean though the geometry isn't amazing as we've already
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seen i do see a little bit of lateral style chromatic aberration you can see
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here and here it's not particularly strong in this zone but there is a little bit of it there this is at a very
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high level of magnification however and out in the real world I really didn't notice it so I don't think it's a big
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deal so how about resolution and contrast this is f1.4 on a Sony A7R Mark
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I so 61 megapixels and this is 200% magnification center looks very good uh
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contrast not off the charts but strong good great detail a lot of good
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information there as we move towards the mid-frame mid-frame looks excellent uh no concerns there as I scroll down
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looking here it's pretty close you can see it's just getting a ever so bit lower contrast here in the lower right
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corner however as we pan down towards the far corner we see there is definitely some softening there we see a
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pretty consistent performance in terms of centering with you know roughly equal
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amounts of softening everywhere uh overall a not a bad performance at all
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so how does this compare to some of the top competitors well as we look at the Viltrox here on the right we can see
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that the Viltrox is very slightly sharper very slightly higher contrast
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and it delivers a little bit brighter an image uh at f1.4 but there's not a radical amount of
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difference here in the mid-frame you can see that there's a little bit better contrast on the Viltrox you can see it
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in some of the textures here and you can see it's a the contrast isn't quite as strong on the case so the Viltrox is a
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little bit better there and most obviously it is a little bit better in the corners and you can see here that it
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just looks crisper and up into this left corner a more obvious win there in the
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middle of the frame the Sigma wins for having higher contrast the detail is close but there's definitely more
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contrast on the Sigma lens as we pan towards the mid-frame it is equally true
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there and down into the corner the Sigma is you know it's better it's not
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radically better but it is slightly better in the corner uh less as strong
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relative to like the Viltrox viltrox is really really good up in this corner sigma is very slightly less good but
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also very very good now if we compare it to a cheaper option like this siri we can see that it's kind of night and day
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this is the case is much stronger in terms of detail and contrast in the
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center of the frame you can see already that it's much better in the mid-frame
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and looking at the edges you know it's it's definitely got better contrast in the corners and also a little bit finer
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detail looking up into this corner where it's the weakest it's pretty close but the Sarrii is showing some really strong
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lateral style chromatic aberration and so I mean again looks stronger here and I'm almost positive yes it's going to
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look stronger up in this corner so overall it's clearly sharper so it gives you a little bit of perspective now
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what's interesting is that here's a real world image at f1.4 and so in the center
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of the frame you know it looks nice and crisp however if I pan right over here to the edge it still actually looks
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really good right off to the corner in the area of focus so that weak corner
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performance may be more of an issue when it comes to depth of field and some field curvature here i mean this left
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corner it's out of focus and so it's uh because of the depth of field and so it's it's less relevant but up here we
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can see that it's delivering a nice performance there uh here in terms of real world contrast this at this is at
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that medium distance f1.4 looks great i mean you really couldn't ask for more detail and contrast there again at about
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10 or 11 ft I think that the detail and contrast looks really good it's really only up close that you see a reduction
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in contrast now we find that this contrast starts to improve even by f1.8
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and you can see here now that the the center is looking really fantastic mid-frame is looking really fantastic
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there's a bit more improvement as you stop down from f1.8 on the left to f2 on
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the right and more as you stop down from f2 to f2.8 if we go down to the corners
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however we can see that that improvement hasn't affected them to the same degree for portrait work however here at f2.8
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frankly I don't know that you would want any higher detail and contrast than that i mean that is a great amount of detail
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corners are looking better by f5.6 and f8 we can see here um looks
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really really crisp there most of these kind of edge type performances are looking really good if you're looking at
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kind of this zone which is frankly it's more more relevant place to evaluate for most landscape style images so no
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problem there we're getting good good amounts of uh information and detail there defraction starts to soften the
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image a bit by f11 and then by f-16 you'll see it's a bit softer still now
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as we noted previously the uplose contrast isn't off the chart it's not
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bad as you can see but there definitely is room for some improvement i found in real world shots that if I stopped down
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to f2 and shot at minimum focus distance you can see that contrast is improved there and of course depth of field is
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still so tiny that it's stopping down is probably a wise thing anyway now the bokeh is really fantastic as I mentioned
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previously you can see here at close focus distances that you know there's almost no transition and so it just
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immediately goes to completely creamy background uh an image like this even though we've got some hard edges some
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you know bare branches in there the overall effect is just really really soft and creamy and you know sufficient
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detail and contrast to make the subject look nice but then the background is just fantastic if I intentionally
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defocus here even at f5.6 you can see just how soft the rendering is even
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though that puts a little bit into transition it's really really nice and even if I then focus further down the
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path and so you know here's more to focus here's putting more of it into transition it still looks really really
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nice i also found that I I felt like the three-dimensional cutout was actually pretty decent here this is f1.4 so you
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can see that the subject stands out pretty nicely with a good three-dimensional type pop and so overall a nice performance there in this
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case I mean beautiful looking contrast on the subject and just look how soft and creamy that background is looks
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really nice here you're getting a little bit of that you know bubble bouquet effect with all of these drops but what
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I noticed is as we transition towards defocus just how smooth that transition
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is and you can see it just falls off to where it's utterly creamy i really really like that the only thing I don't
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love is is some of the geometry when it comes to specular highlights so here at f2 you can see that it's just it's it's
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a little lopsided and we saw the reason for that when we had a look at the actual aperture iris hopefully that's
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just specific to the copy I'm testing and it's not a general observation uh here's another image with a lot that
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could be in the transition zone but yet I think it's just really nicely handled and here where it's a little more
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pleasing it just all the defocus looks really fantastic colors are also really
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nice nice looking optical glass here i I really found with people type shots that skin tones looked really nice and clean
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this image in general that's kind of the impact that I get is just the colors are really clean it doesn't seem to have any
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kind of casting towards being overly red or overly yellow this is an uncorrected
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raw image and so you can just see it comes out of camera really nice and clean the final thing to observe is that
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when it comes to flare resistance you can see there's a little bit of localized this is at a smaller aperture
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a little bit of of localized impact very little loss of contrast it's just this
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kind of light leak in the corner i don't think that it's really much of a deal breaker overall this is a pretty nicely
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balanced optical performance so at the end of the day I think you can agree that this is a pretty intriguing lens
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it's a great package in general and hopefully the deep dive into the optics has helped you to decide if this is a
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lens that you personally should be interested in as always thanks for watching have a great day and let the
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light in