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Viltrox AIR 25mm F1.7 Review | The Best AIR Lens Yet?
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Feb 17, 2025
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hi I'm Dustin Abbott and I'm here today to give you my review of the vro air series 25 mm
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f1.7 my late winner for the budget apsc lens of 2024 which you can see in my
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2024 da Awards was actually the vro Air 35 mm f1.7 the air series and I'm
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showing the PSC models here is vtr's lineup of simple yet tough lightweight
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lenses that come with an inexpensive price tag usually around 175 bucks but with a surprisingly robust Optical
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performance and really that's been true across all three of these the 56 mm came first then the 35 then the 25 they've
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kind of been working in backwards order but really all of them have been really exceptionally optically and the newest
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in that series is the 25mm f1.7 and it is frankly it is awesome I've been
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impressed repeatedly during the part of my review and just kind of Blown Away by how good an inexpensive like lens like
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this can be so today I'm going to share with you why the air 25mm f1.7 is
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probably the best widish we'll get to that in a moment Prime that you can get for your apsc camera under $200 we'll
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out so let's start by taking a look at the build and handling 25 mm is a bit of an odd focal length it plays out to uh
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to 37 12 millim on the various apsc platform it's available for I'm
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reviewing it on Sony emount but it is available in Fuji or will be available in Fuji X Mount and then also in Nikon Z
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Mount and so um you know it's not it doesn't correspond kind of perfectly to the 35 mm focal length that's what 23 mm
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the role that 23 MIM typically plays on apsc I kind of Wonder after the release
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of the 56mm f1.7 they already had an existing 56 mm
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f1.4 and here we had this kind of contradiction in which the faster apture
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lens was actually the worse lens optically this lens had fewer features
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but yet in many ways it is the better lens and I wonder after that confusion Market confusion that would create for
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those that maybe are a little less informed than what you might be someone who obviously watches reviews that maybe
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it made more sense for them than rather than having a 23 33 and 56 mm kind of
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typical lineup they've instead altered these the formula on these two lenses a little bit to where we've get 25 mm and
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35 mm maybe thinking that that makes a little bit more sense for the market to
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understand either way it doesn't correspond perfectly to 35 mm but frankly it's kind of in a pretty decent
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spot I actually found the focal length to be a lot of fun to be to use out in the real world like all of these air
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series lenses which are pretty much identical other than the change up from the initial Hood to what we see now on
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the 25 and 35 millimeter lenses they are all Plastics but you can tell that they
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are tough Plastics that's true even of the lens Hood itself it's thick um it doesn't Flex it's obviously wellmade
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these lenses although they're lightweight they do feel really tough you can squeeze anywhere and it just
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feels like it's a very rigid construction the series in general kind of reminds me of samyang's tiny series
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but the actual Plastics that are used here feel much much tougher and more durable I could always squeeze say like
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the I love the 45mm f1.8 I still have it years and years after its uh
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introduction however you can squeeze on that thing and it'll Flex all over the place it feels kind of cheap these lenses really
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don't um all around they are built around a metal lens mount as well and so they have they're tough and they're
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durable now f1.7 kind of like the focal length f1.7 is a little bit of an odd
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maximum aperture you don't often see f1.7 lenses but essentially where it falls is that it is one half stop slower
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than f1.4 the the full stops are f1.4 and F2 so halfway in between that is
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actually f1.7 the more typical kind of Maximum apture you would see for a lens
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like this would be f1.8 f1.8 is 2/3 of a stop slower than f1.4 this is one/ half
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stop so it's it's not a big difference but it is going to be brighter and frankly that is one of the advantages
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that a lens like this has relative to some of the competition who will have a an f1.8 aperture is you're going to get
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just a little bit faster shutter speeds just a little bit more blurred out backgrounds uh it works
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and so I and obviously it's been the formula that they've stuck with through this you can see that particularly if
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you eliminate the actual lens hoods here these lenses are really very very
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similar in their overall size they all have essentially the same exterior Dimensions uh which is 64 mm in diameter
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and then they're 54.4 or 50.3 or 54.5 you know all within a fraction of a
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millimeter of each other and so that is 2 .6 in in diameter by 2.15 in in length
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the weight here is 170 G or uh that's 6 o which makes it pretty much identical
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to the 35 mm and just like a gram lighter than what the 56 mm is of course
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Optical elements would be a little bit larger in the 56 mm lens all of these share a 52mm front filter thread making
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them kind of triplets in terms of their appearance but I love the filter sharing because it means you can buy one set of
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filters and use it across all three lenses it does come with a little pouch for storage and again it's not a huge
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amount of protection value but to be fair I mean this is a very very inexpensive budget lens and so to get
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any kind of pouch is kind of a welcome addition the barrel itself like all
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these lenses has no feature no aperture ring that's going to be a big loss particularly for Fuji Shooters all you
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have is the manual focus ring here there's no switches no buttons nothing like that so it is featureless on the
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outside there are nine rounded blades inside and that produces an 18p pointed
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Sunstar when stopped down as you can see here on the actual uh Mount there is a
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USB C Port there that can be used very simply for doing firm or updates and I have found the process to be pretty
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seamless with vro lenses so that's great of these three lenses the best of the bunch for minimum focus and
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magnification was actually the 35 millimeter 25 millimeter is a little bit
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regressed from that it has a minimum Focus distance of 30 cm and it has a
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maximum magnification of 0.11 times by the way the 23mm f1.4 vrox lens it
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already existed it also has a minimum Focus distance of 30 cm but a little bit lower magnification because it is 2 mm
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shorter in focal length 23 mm versus 25 mm the air series does not have a
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weather sealing gasket but what it does have is an HD Nano multi layer coating on the front element that gives you some
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protection from scratches but also from moisture and oils antifouling they call it and so I mean not weather sealed but
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again it's there's also not a whole lot of Ingress points on the lens itself so
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I probably would use it definitely have used them in light rain and have been fine there but you know you're going to
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have to test your own limits so overall these have no bells and whistles but
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they are nicely made manual focus is actually quite good here there's a good amount of damping I found good Precision
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when focusing on Sony I find when focusing on Fuji this isn't an XF Mount here Fuji focus and it has more to do
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with the focus system it tends to focus more in little blocks whereas this is a little bit more of a smooth linear but I
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am assuming that if you got the emount version of the 35 mm it would be the same in terms of that nice smooth linear
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process with all of these I found that the overall damping on the the focus ring itself is good and I like the feel
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of it so I mean nothing fancy here but again the price tag is $179 you can get it even less by using a
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coupon code that is referenced in the description down below so I mean obviously that's a huge value
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particularly when as we're going to move ahead for a lens that is really really high performing so let's talk about
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autofocus for Stills like all of these it uses a lead screw type STM Focus
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motor again I see benefits from testing on Sony here because Sony's autofocus system is more sophisticated than it is
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on Fuji so this lens feels better in terms of autofocus compared to the 35 mm
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I'm sure in real life the difference is probably minimal if you're doing e-mount versus emount or X mount versus x-mount
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so on Sony the focus is very Snappy as you can see here very quick major Focus changes that are very close to
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instantaneous both indoors and Outdoors plenty of focus speed for all the situations I used it I think it would be
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perfect for Street I found for example in this few shots here where I came from behind a P I've been shooting some video
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came around and wanted to just snap a shot um there in this walkway and focus
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was instantly just there and nailed no hesitation I could just take an instant shot and and so uh great responsiveness
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on that point I found that autofocus was accurate in general whether it was shooting human subjects um like in these
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shots or shooting animal subjects great results there and then of course just shootting shooting some
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three-dimensional real world objects again Focus was no problem I even took some shots in a sequence of Nala moving
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and what I found is that while it kept up pretty well it wasn't perfect but it
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did seem to be able to keep up with that on Sony I found that on Sony I am able to track action reasonably well uh Fuji
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more limited and I'm assuming that zount is going to fall somewhere in between those two I haven't actually tested any
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of these particular lenses on zount however I have tested the fullframe 20 mm f2.8 and fullframe 40mm f2.5 also
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from the air series and they focused well on Z Mount and so I'm not expecting any kind of issues
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there now when it comes to the video side of things I found mostly good
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results autofocus pulls here are relatively fast smooth without any kind of visible steps I do see a little bit
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of a micro pulse at the end a micro adjustment as it settles particularly on that foreground object and so I would
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like that to be smoothed out my hand test did go well I felt like the transition from the hand to the eye for
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a budget lens did really quite a good job so no concerns there actually my only negative that I saw is in this shot
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of Nala kind of moving towards her I found that while focus is actually fine
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it is doing a little bit of micr pulsing which you can see in the background where it's not quite settling and uh
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just being a little jittery and so I didn't love that however I did notice in static shots where the subject wasn't
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moving and I wasn't moving with the camera I didn't get that they were nice and stable so overall I just in general
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I would say the autofocus was good so how about image quality I'll give you the overview the breakdown here and then
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we'll go into the deep dive at the conclusion of the video for those of you that are so inclined Optical formula
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here is 12 elements in 10 groups like all these lenses there's a surprising amount of exotic elements and so in this
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case we've got five total including extra low dispersion aspheric and high refractive index elements that are part
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of that that produces an MTF that is surprisingly good you can see it's very
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consistently flat across the image frame uh comparing the mtfs on all these
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lenses I find that the 25 mm looks a little bit better than the 35 mm and a
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hair worse than the 56 mm but all three of them are really excellent very good
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contrast very good uh detail and a really consistent performance edge to edge and that's true here as well so I
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mean really really great now as always when I have an Em Out version I'm always just kind of interested in seeing how it
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does in terms of full frame coverage in this case the answer is surprisingly decent uh you can see that there's
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definitely some very hard mechanical vignette near the edges of the frame but it doesn't intrude very far into the
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frame and so if I crop all of that out for example here I'm actually ending up out of an A7 R5 out of 61 megapixels I'm
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ending up with 48 usable pixels out of that you could safely say without any
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kind of vignette at all you get easily 45 megapixels and so you're really not using a ton of of image space in fact in
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this shot I shot full frame and because the edges are already kind of darkened you can kind of get away with it without
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any kind of crop and if I crop it in just a little bit to about 49 megapixels you can see that it is fine what's more
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I found that if I looked at in my crop even in those far Corners not only are they not covered by vignette it's
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actually being resolved fairly well and so uh definitely usable for those of you that might want to play with this lens
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for a few other applications and obviously because you're eliminating those corners for video work if you're
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shooting like uh even if you're shooting full frame or a minor crop like a you
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know a 1.2 times crop or whatever you're actually going to be able to get pretty much full frame coverage or you know APS
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H type coverage out of the lens pretty easy easily so anyway for your consideration I found that the vignette
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was low here I there is a little bit amount of barrel Distortion but I only needed a plus4 to correct and you can
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see in this shot with a lot of straight lines and zero correction it looks fine
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uh and so I was pretty impressed by that there's a moderately heavy amount of VG yet it's a plus 65 to correct so a
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little over two stops you know nothing severe I found very very little fringing in my test that's something that really
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I feel feel like they've done just so well that there is uh such good
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correction of aberration on all of these lenses and so very little fringing to see uh in real world or in my charts
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also very little lateral chromatic aberration near the edge of the frame as I begin to look at resolution and so I
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am looking at Sony at 26 megapixels that's the resolution Point here and looking at a 200% magnification in these
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crops you can see that there's really consistent performance center mid-frame and right off into to the Far Corners
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furthermore I found that unlike the recent um TTR Artis 23mm f1.8 that I
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review there's very good centering in this vro lens both sides look great very
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consistent all four corners in fact look consistently good now we saw on the MTF chart that there's not a lot of room for
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improvement as you stop The Lens down what I did find is that I get a very slight contrast boost when I'm stopping
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the lens down so a little bit better at f2 than the was at f1.7 a little bit better at f2.8 and then four and 5.6
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being about the same f8 all being about the same you're getting very good consistent sharpness for Landscapes so
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for example in this shot shot on a very cold day while ice was forming along the river you can see that in the middle
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crop it looks good but then all the way up into the upper right corner lots of fine details to be resolved in all those
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bare trees and it resolved really really well so does it's a great very sharp little lens defraction will start at f11
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and become more pronounced at F-16 obviously if you're shooting at higher resolution points like Fuji's 40
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megapixel you'll see stronger defraction at both f11 and F-16 than what we see here on Sony since vrs changed their
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Optical glass they changed it for all of their lenses including these inexpensive air series lenses and so I find that
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they now produce really really nice color and so I shot in a um an art museum it I felt like the gallery I got
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really good shots in there just in general purpose shooting I got really nice colors even this Moody shot shot of
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parliament on a crazy cold day and you can see it in the shop but even the colors themselves they look just kind of
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cool I like the look of the image I like what I'm able to produce furthermore the obviously with a 25mm lens the maximum
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apture of f1.7 on apsc you're not going to get crazy shallow depth of field and
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so you're not going to get a strongly diffused def focused background but I do find that the bouquet quality is
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actually quite good you can see here with specular highlights that while there is some deformation at f1.7 if you
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stop down even to f2.5 you got nice circular nice round Boke balls all across the frame and I also find that in
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just other shots where the background is just blurred out it doesn't look jittery again it's not always strongly blurred
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out but the actual quality of the blur looks quite good I also find that the
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micro contrast is really amazing for such a budget lens furthermore I saw good results when in resisting flare
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with little issues with Flare artifacts or loss of contrast and even when shooting the night sky I saw coma was uh
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not non-existent but low enough that you really wouldn't notice it so overall a really strong Optical performance so my
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conclusion is this I think that the air series is really hitting a sweet spot for a lot of buyers they're confident
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they're lightweight and at such a low price point Point makes them really useful they're the kind of lenses that
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you are happy to reach for because you can put it into your bag without adding a lot of weight or taking up a lot of
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space and if you actually use them you're getting results that feel like they're from a lens that is several
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degrees higher in in price the performance the price to Performance ratio is fantastic with the air series I
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would say it would be really hard for me personally to consider a lens like the TTR Artis AF 23mm f1.8 actually like the
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lens that lens it has a lot of character but this lens is just so much better on so many levels that it's just it would
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be hard for me to buy that and certainly it'd be really hard for me to justify on the Fuji space spending basically two
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and a half times as much for the Fuji 23mm F2 yes that lens does have an
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apture ring and it had weather ceiling but this lens is actually better optically it's got a faster autofocus
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motor it's got a faster maximum aperture and it costs so little and so that's going to be a really compelling option
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there it's a great addition to the air series The 25 35 and 56 millimet lenses
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are all great and I hope vrox has got more up its sleeve in this series a nice
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wide angle would be really great maybe a longer lens you know something around 90
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or 100 millimeters with even if they slow the app apture f2.8 it'd be pretty cool so anyway I'm looking forward to
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what they have to offer in the future you want more information you can check out my text review that is in the description down below there's
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buying links there also links to an image Galler if you want to see more photos and now if you want a deep dive
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into the optical performance stay tuned let's jump into it together all right let's start by taking a quick revisit of
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the fullframe coverage here so on the left side I have what would be the typical apsc crop and so you can see on
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the right side there's a lot of extra image that is there if you shoot on the full frame you can also see however
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there is what we call this hard or a mechanical vignette where you can see that there is part of the image Circle
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image frame that is just fully obscured and so nothing can be recovered in that
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corner I mean there's just no light that's reached the sensor however I if I crop most of that off you can see
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there's a little bit of darkening here but I could correct that through standard vignette correction and furthermore we can see that if you're
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looking in here while the resolution isn't perfect in this area it is still resolving that part of the image and so
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doesn't look too bad at all likewise in this shot where I've actually cropped in a similar kind of way you can see that
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this corner looks plenty bright no issue there furthermore we can see if we zoom into here that while maybe this isn't
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fully resolved here I mean it's still decent you can see just a little ways in that we actually have really good
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resolution and in the image itself if we kind of pan through it you can see that the resolution actually looks really
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fantastic up there so I mean right here to the edge of the frame it's dropping off some a little bit right near the
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edge of the frame but frankly that's I mean that's still better than a lot of competing lenses in the corners even
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though we're going much further out into the corner like this area right here seems to be resolved quite nicely so
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anyway uh it's it's definitely worth considering if you shoot it on a full-frame camera there is at least some
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potential there if you're in a situation where you need wider Framing and you don't mind doing a little work in post
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to crop some of it out now in terms of vignette and Distortion you can see here that there is a mild amount of barrel
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Distortion not strong at all uh it's you know you can see it bulges a little bit but the lines are still relatively
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straight and because it's linear you can see it corrected very easily this is a plus five here on the right vignette is
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heavier there in the corners but again it's pretty easy easily correctable a plus 65 corrects all of that so a little
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over two stops nothing too bad this shot right here has had zero correction so there's obviously a lot of geometry in
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this a lot of lines and I'm sure that if you looked very carefully you might find
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some evidence of barrel Distortion but as I'm sitting here looking at it I don't really see it and so overall it
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goes to show you that this is a lens that can be used for those straight lines without a lot of concern or need
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need for correction likewise vro has been killing it when it comes to their correction of aberration and so even in
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this very inexpensive lens There is almost no longitudinal style chromatic aberration there here we can see very
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very good contrast even up close here and as we look towards the defocused
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area I mean there's tiny bits of uh chromatic aberration a little bit of green fringing in some of this Zone but
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again not enough to really negatively impact the image and so again great job there lateral style chromatic aberration
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yes you can see there is a little tiny bit here uh for the most part however it's a pretty clean correction and if I
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take this image real world shot and I look up in this area in the real world where I'd really expect to see the
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fringing you can see here along the edges of the frame particularly around these bare branches ah there's just
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really nothing to see so not a problem now typically when you're seeing low amounts of aberration and then also very
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good contrast can expect to have pretty crisp results on a chart test and that is what we see Center is looking very
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good this is 26 megapixels on Sony 200% magnification mid-frame also looking
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very strong there and as we work down this way we can see pretty consistent between upper left and lower right right
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down into this corner looking actually really really strong if I look over on the left side looking strong upper left
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corner looking great even right off into this Zone here and then the upper right
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corner we can see also looking really fantastic a really incredibly consistent performance from such an inexpensive
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lens here's a quick snap uh shot here just almost from the hip and you can see
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again F1 .7 detail is just really crisp there uh if we zoom into the image
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itself in the shot of Nala here you can see number one quite a nice fall off
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here the background is not strongly to focus but the transition from very very sharp in Focus very high contrast and
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then the overall fallof it actually falls off quite nicely again for such an inexpensive lens now because the lens is
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so good wide open means that there's not a ton of room for improvement stop down that being said you can see how much
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darker the shadow area looks here at f2 compared to at f1.7 and likewise with
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the text which looks a little bit darker and crisper if we look up in this Zone you can look at here it just again the
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darks being darker allows there to just be more contrast and thus the details to pop off the page a little bit more if
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you look at the writing right through here it's you know a little bit uh a little more kind of hazy there and a
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little bit crisper here so definitely some improvement though it's not m massive likewise if we stop on down to
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f2.8 you can just see that that same pattern kind of holds there's just a little bit more contrast and if I look
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at a similar Bill up here in the upper left corner you can see that again that
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the detail is just getting crisper the writing is standing out more if you look at the Canada here at f2.8 it just pops
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a little bit more and speaking of Canada here is Canada's parliament buildings which are under construction this is the
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Parliamentary Library uh you can see even though I'm shooting through glass and I shot at f2.8 to avoid any of the
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imperfections of the glass you can see so this is obviously not Peak sharpness but you can see that it looks really
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quite quite good all throughout the image there's lots of detail you know a lot going on in this particular scene
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but everywhere I look I can see good detail that's been captured even at f2.8 from f2.8 to F4 we can see a little bit
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more boost of contrast in the corners here and even from f Ford
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f5.6 contrast is very slightly improved but I think that just the overall detail
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is maybe just a hair better and then f5.6 to f8 I would say that f5.6
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probably represents a peak and there's just the mildest drop off at f8 again
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turning to the real world shot here for a moment this is f5.6 and so it just means that at landscape type images you
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can look anywhere in the frame up here in this upper left corner you know detail is really really good right off to the edge of the frame and likewise
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here uh you can see the same thing and it becomes apparent when we have looked at the full frame image to realize that
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this lens can actually resolve pretty well even outside of what's being cropped here by the apsc crop and so
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that means that its performance they've kind of over engineered it a bit which is great which means that you're going to get really strong performance right
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to the edge of the frame so we'd seen a mild softening at f8 that in continues
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due to defraction at f11 as you can see f11 just contrasts a little bit lower and then 16 minimum apture you can see
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it looks you know considerably softer maximum magnification as we've already noted is not particularly High however
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the Redemption here is that contrast and detail is really strong even up close and we can see a fairly flat plane of
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focus so not bad in that regard I did find that up close images had nice
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detail on them here you can see wide open that you're going to get some of the lemon type shape to the bouqu um as
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it squeezes near the edge of the frame stopping down a little bit here at f2.5 you can see that you've got nicely
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circular shapes all across the frame so you know if you're in a particular situation where that's a priority for you stopping down just a little bit
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helps to resolve the uh lemon shape there continuing the examination of the bokeh first of all you can see that
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detail and contrast is holding up really nicely here on the subject I mean that's great the bouquet quality I would say
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looking at some of these things there's maybe a little bit more outlining than what I would like and you can see that
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there's just a little bit of busyness um inside the specular highlights themselves overall however looking
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pretty good and this shot really kind of stands out to me that just coming back for a moment you can see the foreground
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Boke you know looks looks fine but the contrast and actually three-dimensional pop there looks really quite good so the
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micro contrast on the lens is just so strong for a budget lens again here
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background is not very strongly defocused but we're shooting wide open you can see that the detail looks really
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good but I I think that the septic actually stands out pretty well there's a decent three-dimensional quality to
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the image and of course really really awesome contrast which I love another up
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close shot here and so this is minimum Focus distance detail looks really really crisp you know the area that's in
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focus and you can see that the fall off is fine you're not going to strongly blur out backgrounds but it looks pretty
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good again here subject detail looks great background really doesn't look too
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busy to me and you know obviously there is going to be some minor outlining but that looks relatively soft you know
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another similar type shot you can see that really the background particularly in this zone is really quite creamy and
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so put it in an optimal situation and it will do quite a good job also as noted I feel like V trx's colors are really good
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now and so this is very accurate to what I saw in the art gallery and you can just see I this uh particular painting
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really kind of to me I love the just really bold contrast in the painting itself and you can see that the lens has
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captured it well likewise in this shot you can get you know a sense of the really rich colors and then I was
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intentionally focusing at the end of the hall and you can see that while the foreground at f1.7 isn't like strongly
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defocused you can see that the detail there in the plan of focus is really great this also stood out to me because
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I I've shot this kind of scene unfortunately because I have to a lot in the winter it was extraordinarily cold
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like 20 below plus here plus wind chill and and so in that kind of extreme cold
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colors are really kind of intense and often I find with cheap lenses shots
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like this become really kind of garish looking they just look kind of artificial I really felt like this was a
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pretty nuanced performance there and so I was happy with the color rendition there uh looking at coma you can see
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that star points are crisp in the center of the frame and as we move off towards the edge you know you can't hardly see I
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mean there is a little bit this one's bright enough you can see a little bit of coma smear but it's really not too
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bad overall the general impression is that star points are crisp all across the frame flare resistance will be our
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final thing we'll look at and so here wide open we've already seen like the pan you know at certain zones you'll see
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a little bit more of the ghosting artifacts but it's mild enough that instills image even shooting right into
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very bright very intense Sun uh you can see that there's just minimal uh effects there as you stop The Lens down I I
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don't love how long these Ray become like of the kind of Sunburst effect you
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can see that a few of these ghosting artifacts are a little bit more pronounced but frankly contrast is still
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good it's still holding up fine very intense sun coming through through the window I don't see any kind of negative
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impact and finally this image there's a little bit of a warm glow to it frankly I like that and so here the sun would be
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kind of just out of frame but I did want to give you a look at that you can see the contrast is still held up fine
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detail looks great just a little bit of an overall Warm Glow to the image which I think most people will find you know
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flattering so I think you can conclude after that section that this lens has got a lot of bang for the buck it's a
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really strong little lens optically and I hope that that Optical Deep dive has
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helped you to determine whether or not it's a lens that you're interested in adding to your own kit as always thanks
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for watching have a great day and let the light in [Music]
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