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TTArtisan AF 35mm F1.8 II Review | A Surprisingly Strong Lens for $125
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Jan 16, 2025
Photographer Dustin Abbott shares a deep dive review of the second generation 35mm F1.8 lens from TTArtisan. Is this second gen $125 lens for Fuji, Sony, and Nikon worth considering? | Read the Text Review: https://tinyurl.com/TTA35IIda | Visit the Image Gallery | Purchase the TTArtisan AF 35mm F1.8 II @ B&H Photo https://bhpho.to/3ZxY4T6 | Amazon https://amzn.to/49vboME | Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/3DTINFg | Pergear https://bit.ly/BuyTTA35II Check out the DA Merch here: https://bit.ly/TWIMerch | Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/dustinabbott | On the Web: http://dustinabbott.net/ | Sign up for my Newsletter: http://bit.ly/1RHvUNp | Instagram: http://bit.ly/DLAinsta | Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1nuUUeH | Flickr: http://bit.ly/1UcnC0B | 500px: http://bit.ly/1Sy2Ngu Follow Craig @ https://www.instagram.com/craigstoffersen/ Want to support this channel? Use these affiliate links to shop at: B&H Photo: http://bhpho.to/1TA0Xge Adorama: https://howl.link/nt4zdz1goa7ql Camera Canada: http://bit.ly/DLACameraCan Sony Canada: https://www.thesonyshop.ca/?ref=abbott Amazon: https://amzn.to/3HrY64d Amazon Canada: https://amzn.to/3qG1p18 Ebay: http://bit.ly/DustineBay Into the AM Clothing: https://bit.ly/intotheAMda and use code DUSTIN10 for 10% off Fioboc Clothing: https://tinyurl.com/FiobocDA20 and us code DUSTIN20 for 20% off Make a donation via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/dustinTWI ============================= Table of Contents: ============================= 0:00 - Intro and Concept
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hi I'm Dustin Abbott and I'm here today
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to give you a review of a somewhat
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unusual lens Not Unusual in the lens
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itself but the fact that we have a
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second generation 35mm f1.8 autofocusing
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lens from TTR Artis only about a year
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after the first generation was released
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very unusual to get such a quick
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turnaround but TT Artis obviously took
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in the criticisms of the first
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generation lens and they work to correct
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pretty much all of them not perfectly
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but mostly and so now we have a lens
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that is smaller and comp more compact
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has a more conventional and thus a much
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better lens Hood design has less
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fringing has a better minimum Focus
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distance and it is smaller and lighter
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and even a bit sharper to boot and still
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only cost a minimal $125 us which is
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pretty much the cheapest price that I've
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ever seen for an autofocusing lens
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particularly one that really works so
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well so is this a lens worth checking
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out for just 125 bucks well for this
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we're going to explore today's review so
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start by taking a look at build and
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handling this lens is actually going to
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be available in at least three different
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apsc mounts uh including Fuji X which is
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what I've reviewed on here Sony E Mount
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and then also Nikon Z all of those being
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apsc so this is an apsc lens and so on
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all three of these platforms all have a
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1.5 times crop factor so 35 mm becomes a
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52 1/2 MIM fullframe equivalent so
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pretty much a normal nifty50 type lens
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now as noted the lens is actually shrunk
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and it wasn't because the first
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generation lens was unnecessarily large
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I don't think that was the case at all
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but obviously they have found a way to
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cond it down further and that is always
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going to be welcome here so now while
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the lens retains a 60 mm diameter it is
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only 49 mm long so that's nearly 25%
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shorter than what the uh previous lens
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was it clocked in at about 65 mm in
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overall length so now we have a really
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compact lens not quite pancake compact
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but uh you know let's say a pancake and
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a half in terms of thickness and so
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really a very compact lens the weight is
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also dropped as a part of that it's now
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176 grams for the mark I version or 6.2
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ounces we retain the 52mm front filter
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threads up front and we have a similar
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metal body very nice feeling with an
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anodized kind of black satin finish on
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it all very nice certainly doesn't feel
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cheap in any kind of way now what we
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don't have is any kind of features here
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really there is no ammf switch or
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aperture ring you know custom button any
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of those things there the only thing on
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the lens Barrel is the manual focus ring
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itself now that manual focus ring like
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in the first generation lens is actually
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quite good it's a ribbed metal it feels
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good has a nice damping and weight to it
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so not a bad manual focus experience at
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all there inside we have nine rounded
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aperture blades though I say rounded it
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doesn't really do an amazing job of
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retaining a circular shape here even at
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f2.8 as you can see in this shot you can
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already see it uh somewhat of the
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aperture shape that is there those
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blades there now as noted we have a much
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improved lens Hood design the previous
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generation Hood it was made out of metal
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rather than plastic but that wasn't the
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problem with it the problem with it is
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that it came to almost what looked like
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an anamorphic adapter kind of a
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rectangular opening which means that
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number one you couldn't reverse it for
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storage number two you couldn't use the
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lens hood and filters at the same time
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and number three you couldn't even use
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the lens cap when you had the Hood
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applied so this more conventional design
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here it solves all of those problems you
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can use filters you can reverse it for
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storage you can use the lens cap and so
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a much improved design there now the
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actual rear lens cap is designed as has
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become kind of the standard for TT
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Artisan's autofocusing lenses to where
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there is a USB C port on it and through
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that you can do firmware updates I've
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already done the firmware update process
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it's just a matter of uh attaching it to
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your computer and dragging and dropping
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and the update file into the folder that
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will pop up for the lens when it's
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attached and allowing it to do its thing
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disconnect it and Away you go with the
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new firmware on there really quite a
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simple process one of the other kind of
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main critiques that I had had of the
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first generation lens is that the
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minimum Focus distance was a really long
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60 cm they've reduced that by 50% to 40
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cm now now the magnification level is
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still not exceptionally good that's
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still not really close Focus for this
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kind of focal length so I estimated at
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about 0.11 times magnification not
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exceptional but what is much improved is
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that if you're shooting video for
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example you're not going to run into
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that limit quite so often to where
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you're going along and you can't focus
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as closely as what you would like so
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definitely an improvement there overall
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this is a really nice package and
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doesn't feel like $125 lens at all so
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how about autofocus we have a lead screw
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type STM autofocus motor here and
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obviously there is a little bit of
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change at least in the implementation
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because we do have a new Optical design
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as a part of the lens itself now in
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terms of the raw Focus noise uh there's
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very little Focus noise itself what you
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will hear is if you kind of go on and
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off the shutter button you will hear a
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little bit of clacking from the
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apperture blades as they open and close
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and so outside of that however there's
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very little real Focus no noise I can
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hear a little bit of worring and whining
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if I put my ear right next to it but
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there's not enough there that's going to
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be picked up by onboard microphones for
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example so no issues with that as you
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can see here Focus speed is roughly
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average I would say it's not you know
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blazingly fast but neither is it slow
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the truth of the matter is it averag is
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much better than what it used to be and
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so I for most situations I suspect
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autofocus speed will be perfectly fine
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autofocus accuracy seems to be fine I
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used a Fujifilm xh2 body for this test
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and with the most recent firmware and I
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found that my autofocus performance was
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fine Fuji remains my least favorite
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platform for autofocus but even so I
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felt like the lens ruler did quite well
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and I've certainly used first-party Fuji
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lenses in the past that I felt like
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autofocus was a fair bit poorer than
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what I'm seeing from this lens here if
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seems to work fine all of those factors
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so no real uh concerns when it comes to
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BS now on the video front um there is
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the news is a little bit more mixed uh
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for one thing video autofocus is still
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relatively unsophisticated on any of the
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Fuji platforms that I've tested so as a
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byproduct what you're going to see here
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is some visible steps and as is very
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common on Fuji it takes the form of
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traveling most of the focus distance
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there will be a split set second
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hesitation and then a final Locker
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adjustment and in some cases coming back
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I noticed that there would be a a
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secondary kind of micro adjustment there
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and so unfortunately not like a
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completely smooth or cinematic process
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but you know goes part of the way pauses
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finishes it that's it's putting the step
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in stepping motor most definitely I
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suspect that if you're testing or using
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the lens on either Sony or Nikon you'll
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see less of that with my experience from
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having tested lenses on multiple
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Platforms in the past it seems like Fuji
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kind of exacerbates this problem because
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of the autofocus system there so I found
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the same to be true with my hand test
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that it did okay going back and forth
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but there is some visible steps along
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the way so again not really a cinematic
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process in pulling that so just be aware
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of those limitations and of course if
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you happen to be on one of those other
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platforms I suspect you'll see a little
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bit more confident autofocus performance
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in general but at the same time I will
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say this this is performing uh well
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within expectations for this particular
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platform form doing quite a good job
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overall now as noted uh they didn't just
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recycle the same Optical formula the
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previous lens had a design of 10
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elements in eight groups this new design
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is 10 elements in seven groups and so
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there's one less overall element in the
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design or excuse me one less group I
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should say in the design but what they
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have added is an additional extra low
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dispersion element so now there are two
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of those along with two HR or high
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refractive index elements that are in
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the optical design the MTF chart itself
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shows just a different personality and
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so what I what I'll show here is I put
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together a chart with the two MTF charts
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from the first generation and the second
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generation lens side by side and what
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you can see is that overall I would say
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that the Mark I lens is better however
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it's not like better in a consistent
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fashion in fact if anything the profile
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the signature from the new lens is a
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little bit more up and down uh and it's
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kind of an unusual profile in that there
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will be some fairly major dips that will
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be corrected and then dip again and so
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on and so forth but what I did find is
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that in terms of overall sharpness
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there's more of the performance wide
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open over the 80% threshold than what we
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saw in the first generation lens and
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also I noted when stop down that the
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lens is definitely consistently better
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with a fair bit above that line the
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other thing that's interesting is that
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the first MTF chart the stop down
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measurement was taken at f8 the new lens
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the stop down measurement was taking at
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f5.6 suggesting that possibly the lens
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is achieving a better performance faster
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than what the old lens did now other
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thing that's worth noting is that this
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is obviously a really inexpensive lens
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and it just so happens that I got it on
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Fujifilm and the Fujifilm camera that I
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own and I test on is a 40 megapixel body
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which is the most demanding platform
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that I've ever tested on it's the
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equivalent of over 90 megap pixs on a
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full-frame camera so really really
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demanding for the best of lenses much
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less a cheap lens like this so I want
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you to take my results as we move ahead
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with a bit of a grain of salt so here
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for example if I if I downscale the uh
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the result at 40 megapixels to a more
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typical 26 megap pixel resolution point
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you can see that the apparent sharpness
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and contrast at 100% magnification looks
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quite a bit better and that gives you an
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idea of how that the performance will
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kind of scale out
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if you uh you know deal with that in on
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a lower resolution platform so moving
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ahead I'll give you an overview here and
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then of course as always the optical
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Deep dive is available at the end of the
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video if you want that I found that
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Distortion was the same just a tiny bit
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of pen cushion Distortion quite
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negligible but the vignette
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unfortunately is actually worse on this
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new model maybe as a part of condensing
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the lens that's part of what gave in
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this new Optical design and so now I had
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to max out the slider to correct for
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that vignette now on a positive note I
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did critique the amount of fringing that
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was present on the first lens definitely
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reduced on this lens overall I found
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while fringing is not eradicated
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completely there is definitely less of
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it and I didn't find it to be any kind
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of real world issue in any of my actual
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photos outside of my test charts I also
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found that looking at resolution and
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contrast and again I'm I'm just I'm
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hitting this hard so we're going to see
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results at 200% magnification on 40
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megapixels and so it's a brutal place to
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perform and I would say that the results
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reflect that uh the center is decent but
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not exceptional the midf frame it
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depends on where you look in the
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mid-frame because there's a lot of that
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up and down roller coaster that's there
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some places looks quite good other
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places less good the corner is going to
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depend on that whether you're in that
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last few percentage points towards the
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end not terrible but not exceptional
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either if you stop The Lens down to f2.8
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you will some improvement improving
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contrast a little bit uh more consistent
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performance across the frame real world
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results by f5.6 actually look quite good
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and the truth of the matter is that I
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found out in the real world looking at
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results at 100% rather than 200%
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magnification that uh it really looked
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pretty decent uh not exceptional
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particularly at wide apertures but you
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know not bad either and so certainly I I
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felt like it was all tolerable as far as
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the performance it seemed like f8
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produced the peak results a little bit
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sharper than f5.6 then of course by f11
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and then more so by F-16 defraction will
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start to soften that image and that's
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particularly true again on a high
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resolution body like the one I'm testing
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on bouquet quality is okay it's not bad
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it's not ugly but it's not exceptionally
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creamy or beautiful either again this is
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a budget lens and I think the results
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are good for the price point but not
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great in an absolute sense
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I also found that an area of great
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criticism on the first generation lenses
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that was very flare prom this one is
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actually considerably improved
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particularly in certain situations like
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if I was catching window or window
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lighting sun coming through
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directionally I found that the other
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lens was quite flare prone I had to be
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very careful to not allow Sun anywhere
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near the frame in this case it handled
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that kind of scenario just fine now if I
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was shooting direct into very bright Sun
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I would see a bit of veiling and also
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then some kind of almost like flashing
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type look and as you stop it down that
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becomes a little bit more apparent as
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you can see here and so I mean codings
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are obviously not Sony G Master Level
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but it definitely is improved over the
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first generation lens to a not bad or
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acceptable category so my conclusion is
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this this really is a fairly complete
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little lens for
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$125 the only problem is that in that
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intervening time there have been some
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other options that have come on the
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market so there's more competition
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that's there now uh for example this vro
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35mm f1.7 air lens yes it is plastic
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rather than metal it's a tiny bit larger
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but it's also has a slightly brighter
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maximum aperture um it's optically I
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would say it's a it's somewhat superior
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to the uh TT Artis lens and it cost
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about $25 more at the moment so not
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exceptionally more expensive so
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obviously you're going to have to make
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some determinations based on that so
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there is a definite lot of improvements
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that have come over the first generation
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lens but in that intervening year
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there's more options that have come as
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well so I I'll leave it at this this is
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probably the best $125 lens that I've
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tested to this point and if you're on a
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very tight budget this is really quite a
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good lens and if that's what you can
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afford then I don't think you'll be
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disappointed with it I'm Dustin Abbott
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if you want more information you can
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check out my text review that's Linked
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In the description down below also link
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is there to an image gallery and some
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buying links and now if you want a
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closer look at the optical performance
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stay tune with me and we'll dive into
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the optical Deep dive together okay to
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start off we'll take a look at vignette
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and Distortion so as mentioned
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Distortion to be basically looks
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identical to what I saw with the
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previous generation of lenses so it's a
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very very mild amount of pincushion
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Distortion you can see it corrected very
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lineally in a manual correction anywhere
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betweenus 2 and minus three will do the
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job V that however is really really
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heavy and you can see that it's very
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very concentrated in those corners and
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you can see here at least as far as a
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manual correction it also almost leaves
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a little bit of a discoloration because
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it is so pronounced and so it actually
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almost causes an color imbalance there
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so you can see that a manual correction
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is somewhat imperfect now there is a
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lens correction profile that just came
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out uh yesterday I believe and it does a
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fairly good job of cleaning things up
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we'll come back to this shot but you can
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see this is a shot that's just received
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that manual correct or that automatic
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correction I should say and you can see
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there's bright Corners they look nice
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and bright and so it does a good job of
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cleaning everything up so how about
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fringing there's definitely less
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fringing this time around now you can
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see it's not entirely banished but it's
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more mild and what I found is that in
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real world shots it's definitely less
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extreme so for example this shot here
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lots of shiny reflective surfaces places
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for there to be fringing you can see a
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little bit of fringing here in this
16:57
particular frame here but overall a
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little bit I would say in some of these
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bouh highlights but nothing that you're
17:02
really going to notice definitely at a
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global level you just don't see it and
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it's really not particularly obvious
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even at a pixel level so that's definite
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signs of improvement now when it comes
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to lateral style chromatic aberration
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once again uh on my chart I can see some
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you can see them here in real world
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shots I really didn't notice it much and
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so it's only at extreme levels of
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magnification that you'll really notice
17:25
it this is the kind that's very easy to
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correct for so I don't think it's really
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a sign significant issue myself so
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before we jump into the resolution I do
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want to point out one thing just for
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those of you that are a little more
17:34
eagle-eyed before a firmware update this
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lens was not correctly identified in
17:39
Lightroom so it showed up as a to tokina
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33mm f1.4 so which none of that is right
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uh it's not a tokina it's not 33 MIM and
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it's not f1.4 fortunately uh there's a
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firmware update that has corrected
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things so now you can see it shows it's
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TT Artis 35 mm it's F1 1.8 all of that
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now correct so once again this is on a
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40 megapixel xh2 body it's shown at 200%
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magnification so extreme torture test in
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the center of the frame you know not bad
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detail contrast not off the charts and
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so it looks pretty good not
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exceptionally good mid-frame uh this
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Zone looks pretty good this looks a
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little bit soft here as you can see and
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that's kind of the nature of this
18:23
particular lens like there's some real
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ups and downs and so again this Zone
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looks good looks quite soft here the
18:29
weirdest thing to me is here where it's
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soft in this Zone but it's sharper right
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off near the edge of the frame and so
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it's a little bit of a weird Optical
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signature but the resolution wide open
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is what I would consider okay but not
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exceptional I won't spend a lot of time
18:44
in comparisons but here here's a
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comparison of some real world shots both
18:48
shot wide open uh like a minute apart so
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this is with the TT Artis on the left
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this is with the vro 35mm f1.7 air and
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so what you can see is that the vro is
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definitely the sharper and higher
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contrast of the two lenses um by a
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pretty obvious margin there out in the
19:05
real world I felt like you know the
19:07
resolution and contrast looked pretty
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decent there I mean there's nothing
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wrong with this shot this is at uh f1.8
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and you can see it's holding up pretty
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pretty much to the edge of the frame
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looking fine there another shot here
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this is shooting more at a distance so
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probably a little bit more challenging
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and so you can see that in this Zone it
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doesn't look bad it's not exceptional
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but it's certainly not bad and as we pan
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off this way you can tell it gets a
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little bit softer towards the edge of
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the frame just to give you a little
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perspective on how this lens is going to
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perform on another platform however on
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the left side I've got the full 40
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megapixel uh result on the right side
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I've got a downsampled version at 26
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megapixels which is both common on Fuji
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and on Sony as well so if we look at a
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similar point in the frame and I'll just
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line these up a little bit better so
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this is the exact same image but the one
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on the right has been down sampled so it
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gives you an idea of how the apparent
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and I want to stress the word apparent
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resolution and contrast is going to
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change on a lower resolution body the
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lens does not become higher performing
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but what you can see at a pixel level it
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definitely looks brighter higher
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contrast all of those things and so that
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is gives you an idea that you will get a
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more sharp looking result on a lower
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resolution body so if I compare f1.8 on
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the left to f2.8 on the right right we
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can see in the center of the frame that
20:30
while you're getting a more even
20:33
illuminated image it doesn't necessarily
20:35
look exceptionally sharper there by this
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point in the center of the frame however
20:39
if we look in this mid-frame result
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again while it's not like amazing in
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this Zone it's obviously getting better
20:45
a better contrast and then as we look in
20:48
this area just the detail of the writing
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and the contrast in this kind of graphic
20:53
design here all looking better down into
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the corners don't expect the corners to
20:57
look amazing yet still quite soft in
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this Zone but off towards the very edge
21:03
looking brighter looking better overall
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now between f2.8 and f5.6 we start to
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see some significant Improvement so you
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can see that contrast and detail is very
21:13
very improved in the center of the frame
21:15
looking nice and crisp there likewise
21:18
the mid-frame result it's not
21:20
exceptional in this Zone yet you can see
21:22
but overall it's looking quite good
21:24
overall down into the Ed the corners of
21:27
the frame again not looking amazing
21:29
there looking over on this side you can
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see a little bit more obvious
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Improvement um when it stopped down to
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f5.6 and that's true to some degree up
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here though not as significant looking
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now in the real world I felt like
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results were a little more favorable
21:44
than what my chart suggested so this is
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F4 um 100% magnification and again on 40
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megapixels you can see that the detail
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on the contrast in this image I think
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most people would be perfectly fine with
21:56
that likewise in this shot at F5 .6 in
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the center of the frame lots of detail
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and contrast that all looks good and if
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I pan off here towards the edge it's not
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as sharp here in the corner but I think
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I think again I think at 40 megapixels
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just about anybody could live with that
22:12
too this result I thought looked pretty
22:15
fantastic and so here on the area kind
22:18
of that I was focusing on the detail
22:20
looks really really great and we can pan
22:22
off towards the edges and again there is
22:24
a little bit of drop off there but I
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mean as I pan along here that's that's
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lots of detail and it's not until you
22:30
get to that extreme Corner that you can
22:32
see a visible softening Now by f11 and
22:35
then F16 defraction will start to soften
22:38
the image however it's counteracting
22:41
that by the fact that I think at f11
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we're seeing a more consistent result
22:45
here in the mid-frame and so and also
22:48
down into the corners looking fairly
22:49
good so I would avoid F16 but I wouldn't
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avoid F1 cuz I feel like the gains
22:54
you're getting from stopping down are
22:55
not fully offset by the effects of
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defraction now the minimum Focus
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distance as discussed has been reduced
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by 20 cm and so at 40 cm you're getting
23:05
a little bit higher level of
23:06
magnification we're not getting an
23:08
amazing result not bad but you can see
23:11
the contrast is still quite low and so
23:13
if you're shooting up close you may want
23:15
to stop down a bit to improve that
23:17
detail and contrast how about bokeh
23:20
quality you know it's going to vary it
23:22
this is not an expensive lens and so
23:24
probably at the extremes you're going to
23:26
see some diminished results but here I
23:29
mean contrast is just okay but and
23:31
Bouquet quality is okay there as well
23:34
this shot I like this shot I I like the
23:37
look of the foreground blur and all of
23:40
this I think is handled relatively
23:42
artistically no complaints there
23:44
actually really liked this shot it was
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just some child had lost their Boot and
23:48
it was left on a rail right at the trail
23:50
head going into these woods and I felt
23:52
like the background looked really quite
23:54
soft here it helped that there was a
23:56
little bit of fog this day and so that
23:57
makes the back background looks softer
23:59
but again I I think the image is Moody
24:02
and quite cool looking in this shot of
24:04
these gifts you can see a lot of the
24:06
geometric deformation but it does create
24:09
a little bit of a swirl type pattern and
24:12
for some people that's going to be a
24:14
look that appeals to him and in this
24:16
shot I think it works this shot here you
24:18
can see a kind of a a deep transition
24:21
kind of threedimensional transition
24:23
towards defocus and again there's some
24:25
edging and some outlining in all this
24:27
that's not amazing but again for 125
24:30
bucks that's a pretty cool looking image
24:32
finally we'll wrap up by looking at
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flare so a huge area of improvement is
24:36
in this kind of shop where there is lots
24:38
of light that's flooding through this
24:39
window but the Coatings are improved
24:41
enough that you can't really tell and
24:44
here stop down um this is I think f11
24:47
you can see a nice Sunburst effect
24:49
coming through there but contrast is
24:51
holding up well now in this kind of
24:54
scenario this is also at f11 you can see
24:57
that that as that Sunstar is kind of
24:59
growing there's some Prismatic stuff
25:02
that's happening we've definitely lost a
25:04
bit of contrast here and there's this
25:05
ghosting blob here at f1.8 it's not as
25:10
bad you got a bit of a flash here a
25:12
little bit of veiling across the image a
25:14
tiny but undefined ghosting pattern not
25:17
too bad there so flare resistance is
25:19
improved but it's not yet perfect so as
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always thanks to those of you that have
25:24
stuck around to the very end of the
25:26
video and I hope that the optical deep
25:28
Di is giving you a better sense of
25:29
whether or not this cheap little lens is
25:32
good enough for you as always thanks for
25:34
watching have a great day and let the
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light in
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