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Yongnuo 23mm F1.4 DA DSM WL Pro Review | Best Bang for Buck 23mm?
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Feb 6, 2025
Photographer Dustin Abbott shares a deep dive review of the excellent Yongnuo YN 23mm F1.4S DA DSM Pro from their "Commander Series". | This video is sponsored by Fantom Tracker. Visit https://store.fantomwallet.com and use code DUSTIN20 to get 20% off | Read the Text Review: | Visit the Image Gallery | Purchase the Yonguno 23mm F1.4 @ B&H Photo https://bhpho.to/3W3dzBH | Amazon https://amzn.to/4a4krVa | Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/3DT8Tb6 | Amazon UK https://amzn.to/3Pnb3m3 | Amazon Germany https://amzn.to/40jrbev Purchase the Yongnuo 33mm F1.4 @ B&H Photo https://bhpho.to/4hYvrXN | Amazon https://amzn.to/3Omqg6g | Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/3OmqrhW | Amazon UK https://amzn.to/3OixY1o | Amazon Germany https://amzn.to/492c6Ri 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:
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hi I'm Dustin Abbott and I'm here today
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to give you my review of the yongo YN
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23mm
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f1.4 now this is the second in the
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direct Commander series that I'm
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reviewing right now I recently did the
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first in that series which is the 33mm
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f1.4 though that was a follow-up to an
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11 mm f1.8 that they released earlier in
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2024 the commander series is all around
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designed around the premise of having
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kind of these premium lenses in the apsc
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space with relatively fast maximum
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apertures of f1.4 but the ability to
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introduce some wireless control into the
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lens by using an optional adapter like
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this that's where the commander portion
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of the name comes in now as noted this
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is the second entry in the commander
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series so first of all I looked at a
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33mm f1.4 today we're looking at a 23mm
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f1.4 and then the third lens to be
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released in the series will be a 56 mm
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f1.4 now because of the crop factor of
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the cameras that these are for which is
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typically 1.5 times that means we're
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roughly looking at a 35 MIM a 50 mm and
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an 85 mm lens in terms of full frame
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equivalent so your typical Trinity of
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fast prime lenses now today I'm going to
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be reviewing on Sony e-mount I'm
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actually filming with the lens at the
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moment I realized when I got to my St
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Studio space that I hadn't brought
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another lens for filming so as a
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byproduct it's going to be filmed on the
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lens itself and but there's also a Nikon
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Z and Fuji X Mount version as well now
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we're going to find that this is an
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incredibly featur lens like the 33mm
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f1.4 before with a similar price point
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of right under
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$270 so it's going to be a very
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compelling option if you happen to be
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looking for a fast moderate wide angle
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prime lens for your apsc camera so we're
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going to dive into all of the details
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taking a look look at the build and the
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handling and the various features
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included in this lens so as mentioned
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this is a 23mm lens so when you use the
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1.5 time crop factor on Sony or Fuji or
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Nikon it comes up to 345 millim and so
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basically a 35mm fullframe equivalent
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lens now the full name of this lens as
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tends to be the case with Y noos lenses
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is fairly wordy it's a 23mm f1.4 SDA DSM
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w l Pro they kind of follow the same
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strategy as what Fuji does and that they
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really kind of give you a feature list
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to some degree in the name itself so to
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break that down F 1.4s the S refers to
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Sony or Sony e-mount da refers to the
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fact that this is an apsc lens DSM
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refers to a digital stepping motor which
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is the focus system here WL means that
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it has the wireless control as mentioned
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and then Pro means it is their kind of
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upscale line with better build and
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additional features than the nonpr
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series lenses now because you're getting
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both a fast maximum apture and a lot of
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features more so than what any of the
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competition has this is a fairly heavy
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lens for the class it's about 360 G or
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13 O however if I look at a lens like
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Fuji's 23mm f1.4 it is 375 G so about 15
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G heavier the other kind of main
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competitor would be the sigma uh 23mm
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f1.4 and it's 3 140 G so only 20 G less
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that puts this Yang no lens basically
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right in between those two and so I
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would say that for having as much
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features as it does that's kind of an
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appropriate space for the lens itself
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the other lens is 69 millim in diameter
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or 2.7 in 87 mm in length 3.4 in and
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there is a common 58 mm front filter
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thread that will be shared across all
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three of these lenses all of which will
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be roughly the same size and within a
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few grams of each other in terms of
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weight now you will note if you look at
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the front of this lens that you'll see
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something there you don't often see and
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that's the Wi-Fi logo and that reflects
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the fact that this can be in the
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commander series can be remotely
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controlled and so Wi-Fi is built into
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the lens itself and the ability to do
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kind of an ad hoc direct connection
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there the aperture is uh very robust in
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terms of the feature set you have the
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ability to either click or declick it
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and so that's always a very nice feature
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to have you uh have the ability
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obviously to put it in the automatic
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mode if we want to control within camera
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it has a function button that you can
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apply uh you know different functions to
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program from within the camera there is
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a custom switch there as well and so
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that can accomplish a couple of things
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it can serve just as a basic ammf switch
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if you're not really wanting to mess
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with the wireless control however it's
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also the means by which you can put it
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into the mode by which it can be
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remotely controlled via this little
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remote right here by the way this remote
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is going to be compatible with any of
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these lenses you don't have to have one
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for each lens very
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obviously price tag is going to be
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around $25 or so to purchase this but
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once you have it it gives you the
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ability to for example do Focus pulls um
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you could change it to where you're
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controlling aperture through the wheel
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here uh has buttons to where you can do
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ab Focus pulls and so if you want to
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program a preset Focus position in the
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second position you can just click and
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automatically move between those two
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Focus positions so definitely gives you
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some versatility and how you control
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that the aperture Iris itself has nine
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rounded blades with a reasonably but not
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exceptionally circular aperture size it
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does have a port for doing uh firmware
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updates so a USB C Port now it is with
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all of these lenses it is located near
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the Mount of the lens but on the side of
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the lens and there's a little rubber
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gasket that fits very tightly that you
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need to pry out before you can access
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that USBC Port I would prefer that the
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port itself was just weather sealed or
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just put it on the actual lens mount
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like vro does for example the reason for
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that is twofold first of all it is as
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noted it's very hard to pry that out and
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if you don't have like long fingernails
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which you know few men do uh then you
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happen to be male well you're going to
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have a hard time prying that out with
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just a fingernail I tend to use like a
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thin bladed screwdriver for example a
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pra that off but once that gasket pops
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out it's quite small it's black it' be
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pretty easy to uh to lose it somewhere
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and then of course you have an opening
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in your lens where it's no longer fully
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weather sealed because this is a weather
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sealed lens it does have a gasket at the
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rear of the lens flooring coating on the
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front element and some internal seals
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inside and so you certainly wouldn't
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want to compromise that weather ceiling
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at the same time I do appreciate having
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the USBC Port not with this lens but
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with the 33mm it did need a firmware
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update to ensure F full and proper
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compatibility with the camera body and
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so uh being able to do those firmware
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updates quickly and easily is great now
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thus far I've not been particularly
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impressed with the minimum Focus
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distance of this particular lens or this
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series in general and so in this case we
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have a minimum Focus distance of 30 cm
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and uh just kind of as your rule of
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thumb if your uh minimum Focus distance
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is roughly corresponding to your focal
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length or longer than it means your
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magnification is not going to be very
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good if it is considerably shorter than
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the focal length then there's a good
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chance you're going to have a decent
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amount of magnification so using that
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particular equation you may have figured
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out that this is not great and so you're
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going to get at best about a 0.10 times
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level of magnification which is quite
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low overall however this is a very
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featur rich lens it's got a lot to offer
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and so uh I think it exceeds any of the
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lenses in this class that I've reviewed
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and so uh for the amount of money that
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you're paying you're getting a lot of
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value there in terms of the feature set
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which really is isn't all that far off
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what you might find on a Sony GM type
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lens for example so let's talk about
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autofocus for Stills here initially as
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mentioned that it has a DSM or a digital
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stepping motor I'm not really sure what
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the difference between a digital
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stepping motor and just a stepping motor
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is but it's a decent Focus motor here uh
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autofocus for Stills is good it's fast
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it's quiet it's accurate I used it while
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traveling to Arizona recently and I shot
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in a variety of situations and I can't
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recall any kind of issue where I felt
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like autofocus wasn't serving me well
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and so I could lock on to human subjects
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uh onto animal subjects without issue
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and get very accurately focused results
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and so no problems there in all the
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various situations that I shot in
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autofocus just did the job and without
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any kind of drama without drawing any
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kind of attention to itself and so great
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marks when it comes to Still's autofocus
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on the video side of things also I would
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say I have very positive uh results to
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support the video Focus pulls as you can
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see here are good um there's not visible
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steps there's not pulsing but it's going
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from one subject to another and locking
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on with a good degree of confidence you
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will note some Focus breathing there but
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not too bad likewise when I did my hand
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test uh you can see here that it
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transitioned from my hand to my eye back
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to the hand uh fairly well without any
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kind of pulsing or any drama there and
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so in general my video autofocus was
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good uh no complaints over that as well
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and so again for an inexpensive lens and
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from a company that's not been doing
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autofocus for decades at this point I'm
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pretty impressed by the state of
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autofocus on these inexpensive lenses
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from yongo at this point so how about a
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look at the Optics I'm going to give you
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an overview here and then we'll give you
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a breakdown at the end of the video if
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you want a deeper dive into the optical
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performance we have an optical design
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here of 11 elements in nine groups that
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includes well more than half of those
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are exotic elements including three
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extra low dis dispersion elements and
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then four high refractive index elements
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so great to have you know good quality
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glass that is in there I found one
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taking a look at the MTF versus what I
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saw from the 33mm lens the MTF looks a
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little bit better here with this 23 mm
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lens and so it's going to be a little
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bit sharper with a little bit better
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contrast across the frame however it
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does share the same kind of basic op
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Optical issue with the 33mm lens and
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that is that there is a fair amount of
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fringing in certain situations it's not
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extreme enough that you're going to just
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see it in images when you're looking at
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the full image but very likely if you
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are zooming into 100% magnification uh
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you're going to definitely see it in
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certain kind of high contrast situations
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now for those of you that are interested
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in seeing whether or not this can cover
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the full frame image Circle the short
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answer is no there's a good portion of
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that image frame that has a hard
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mechanical vignette where there's
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nothing recoverable no light is reaching
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the sensor at that portion and what I
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found is if I took that image and then I
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cropped in I maybe got a millimeter um a
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millimeter and a half of additional
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coverage certainly not worth considering
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so as as per usual I recommend that if
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you want a fullframe lens buy a
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fullframe lens and don't try to use a
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lens like this to do that when it comes
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to the vignette and Distortion what I
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found is that there was a little bit
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more Barrel Distortion a plus 12 to
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correct for it but there was less
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vignette with only a plus 32 to correct
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that relative to the 33mm lens uh
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neither one of these things was huge
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factors even though the barrel
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Distortion was very slightly complex it
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it corrected well enough that there's
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probably very few real world world
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scenarios where you would notice it
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after correction I did find that in
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doing my chart test that even at 200%
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magnification which is how I look at
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this by the way I'm testing at a 26
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megapixel level on Sony if you're
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testing on the 40 megapixel level on
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Fuji or that's your camera you're
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probably going to see a little bit less
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apparent sharpness than what you're
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going to see here um if you're using the
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Fuji 26 megapixel sensor um or something
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similar from Nikon then you're going to
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see roughly similar results to what I am
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finding here so what I found is that uh
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there was you know good sharpness wide
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open good contrast though not extreme
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extremely good and so um you know kind
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of about probably very slightly better
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than average overall but not bad for
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f1.4 and an inexpensive lens you can see
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in this comparison to the 33mm lens that
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on my chart test as the MTF suggested
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the results are definitely sharper there
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I did find that there is a little bit of
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boost by f1.8 but a more noticeable
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increase of contrast by F2 I found that
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when stopping down to f2.8 by that point
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the corners were starting to get very
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sharp
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and at landscape apertures from F4 to f8
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I found that it was nicely sharp all
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across the frame even at uh smaller
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apertures f11 and F16 which is the
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minimum aperture I found that the
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defraction was there and I could see it
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but it was relatively mild on Sony it
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will be a little bit more obvious when
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you're looking at the 40 megapixel
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sensor on Fuji however the Boke quality
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here is overall I would say it is quite
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nice it's not exceptionally nice it's
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not like the uh vro Pro 27mm f1.2 which
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is really really gorgeous bokeh this is
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you know kind of the average good of
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these lenses and this particular class
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of lens uh Mo it's nice enough in most
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images that I don't find it OB
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objectional at all but neither do I look
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at images and just say oh wow that's
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just a really a gorgeous creamy
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rendering either I found that flare
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resistance was fairly good in most
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situations I did shoot quite a bit while
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hiking into very bright sun in Arizona
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and and I found found that overall the
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flare resistance was good there's a few
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angles where I could see a little bit of
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a light leak maybe down in the left
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corner a little bit of ghosting
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artifacts but the biggest thing that
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actually stood out to me is that when
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you stop The Lens down the St Sun Stars
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actually get really really strong I
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would argue maybe a little bit too
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strong the blades really can kind of
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dominate in there and so if you're
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shooting that kind of of shot with like
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as I did with the sun in the frame
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shooting more like f5.6 is actually to
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me a better result you still get a
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Sunstar effect but it doesn't just
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stretch across the majority of the
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frame and so overall I would say that
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while their Optical Glass isn't top tier
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colors looked okay I liked images just
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fine and I actually generally enjoyed
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shooting with the lens and so that says
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a lot for a you know a budget lens that
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is well under
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$300 that is really where my conclusion
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comes to I'm pretty amazed at how good
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budget lenses are these days again I
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reflect back to the fact that in 2016 uh
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I reviewed the Ron 21 m
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f1.4 um and so you know fairly close to
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this lens in focal length same maximum
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aperture that lens was manual o only it
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had zero features it had a you know it
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had a aperture ring and a focus ring
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that's all it had no electronics and so
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here we have a lens that is higher
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performing it has autofocus it has all
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kinds of features it's got weather
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sealing all of these things and it
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actually instead of costing more cost
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$180
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less that is just remarkable about how
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competitive budget lenses have gotten
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during that period And so really you're
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getting pretty much a GM feature set
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good autofocus and a fairly Strong
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Optical performance all for about
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$270 I would call us very fortunate to
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live in the era we do when it comes to
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photography so the Y no 23mm f1.4 all
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those letters after it it's a pretty
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great consideration if you're looking
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for a 35 mimish type lens for your apsc
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camera I'm Dustin Abbott and if you want
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more information you can check out
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either my thorough text review which is
17:08
linked in the description down below
17:09
there's an image gallery there as well
17:12
and if you want a deeper dive into the
17:13
Optics stick with me right now and let's
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jump into that together okay let's take
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a look starting at vignette and
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Distortion so you can see here that
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there is some Barrel Distortion here I
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used A+ 12 to correct you can see
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there's a tiny bit of Bulge this is
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about as much as I could go without
17:28
starting to cause a little bit of
17:29
inversion in the corners and so it's not
17:31
completely linear but neither is it very
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bad you probably wouldn't notice this on
17:35
anything but a chart with lines like
17:37
this you can also see the vignette is
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quite mild now this is a good thing
17:41
because I don't know that you'll always
17:43
get profile support in camera with Y no
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lenses so the fact that this is only
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about a stop a vignette in the corners
17:50
very easily correctable but you can get
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away with not correcting it either as
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noted previously there definitely is
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some longitudinal style chromatic
17:58
aberration and that's kind of the weak
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point for this whole series so far you
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can see some magenta before but more
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noticeably the green fringing afterward
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you can see it here as well on these
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shiny reflective surfaces and again it's
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mostly in the form of the green fringing
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before the plan of focus and there's not
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a lot in this shot before but you can
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see a little bit of the magenta there
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but it's mostly the green that you're
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going to encounter now when it comes to
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lateral style chromatic aberration not
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too bad here you can see a tiny amount
18:26
here but nothing that's really going to
18:29
mess up real world images this is a much
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higher magnification than what anyone
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would typically look at their images now
18:35
just to revisit for a moment the
18:36
fullframe image Circle covered so you
18:38
can see that definitely a good portion
18:41
of the fullframe image circle is not
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covered and when I cropped in I mean if
18:46
you eliminate that you know down to
18:49
about this point you're only adding on
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about 2 millimet of extra width on there
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certainly not worth messing with so for
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our resolution and contrast we'll be
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looking at the chart and at 26
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megapixels on Sony and this is at 200%
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magnification center of the frame you
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can see result looks good I mean not off
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the charts good but you know good
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contrast relatively good Detail no real
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complaints there mid-frame also looking
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really nice and strong down into the
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corners Corners are not bad you can tell
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they're not quite as sharp but looking
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pretty good overall if we pop up the
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other direction about the same mid frame
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result upper left corner looks actually
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quite good and down here into the lower
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left corner a pretty consistent result
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not bad in terms of centering now at a
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less critical 100% magnification with
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some real world images you can see that
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that's really a beautiful amount of
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contrast and resolution there like that
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looks really really nice you can see
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great deliniation and all of the various
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eyelashes there a very very nice result
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here's another shot f1.4 and you can see
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good detail and contrast I mean plenty
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for shooting portraits or whatever you
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might be doing uh with a a lens like
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this so a really nice looking result now
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if you go from f1.4 to f1.8 you'll
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notice a little bit of contrast uptick
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there a little bit sharper results but
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not a radical difference stopping on
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down to F2 gives a little bit more punch
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there and so um a more obvious boost in
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the corners you can see definitely
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looking brighter better contrast there
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and detail is starting to look better
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overall the shot of Ferrari at f2 if I
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punch in to 100% magn ification you can
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see that looks really really crisp and
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nicely detailed great contrast there you
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can see a little bit of fringing that
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remains at f2 but obviously again if I
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hadn't drawn your attention to it
20:39
there's probably a fairly low chance you
20:42
actually picked up on that or would
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consider that to be ruin us to the image
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by f2.8 our Corners are starting to look
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crisper here by F4 looking better still
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and by f5.6 looking really quite good
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you can see at a real world image
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looking at 100% magnification center of
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the frame you can see just great detail
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and all of that deep draw distance it
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all looks very good and even if we pan
21:07
over here towards the corners the
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corners right off into the extreme
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Corners are still looking quite good
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lots of detail everywhere I look inside
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the frame now defraction is going to be
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a factor on here on Sony at 26
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megapixels it's going to be more obvious
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if you're shooting on the Fuji 40
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megapixel body but you can see here f11
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still looking quite good it's a little
21:28
soft s at F-16 you can see it's just not
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as crisply delineated but not a huge
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drop off either so I wouldn't worry
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about defraction too much unless you're
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shooting on one of the really high
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resolution bodies now we've noted that
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the level of magnification isn't super
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high fortunately the performance even at
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f1.4 up close is really quite good you
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can see really good detail and contrast
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everywhere in the frame so that's your
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tradeoff it can't focus super close but
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what it does it does very nicely so how
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about Boke this is an interesting
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comparison right here because you can
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see on the one on the left it's the same
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scene just a slightly different
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composition same maximum aperture of
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f1.4 in this case I was a little bit
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lower and so the background is further
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away looks pretty soft and creamy on the
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right side I shot from a little bit
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higher angle eliminating more of the
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background it also just means that
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there's more in the transition zone and
22:20
you can see that this image by
22:22
comparison is considerably more busy and
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so it has a lot to do with what's in or
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not in the the transition zone here's a
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shot with some specular highlights so
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first of all uh detail and contrast
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looks good specular highlights your
22:36
biggest negative is going to be some uh
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green fringing around the outside of
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those so that uh is going to impact
22:43
things you can see near the corner is
22:45
going to be a little bit of cat eye
22:46
effect the Boke here it looks okay I do
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see a little bit more outlining than
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what I would like but again the image
22:53
doesn't look too bad this image without
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any specular highlights even though
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there are some
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various edges that are possible here
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actually quite like this image and maybe
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it's just the color palette that appeals
23:04
to my eye but the image itself I think
23:07
the bouquet holds up quite well here and
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this is another shot that I wanted to
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show two things here first of all I
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think that this one holds up pretty well
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as far as the transition to defocus also
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point out that in this case I think that
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the colors look good you know here um I
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think the colors look really great here
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it helps that there's great contrast in
23:27
the image but saturation levels look
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nice I don't always find the blues the
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blues to me can be just a little bit uh
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kind of oversaturated or just something
23:37
about them that I don't love as well
23:39
with Y noos glass but in general I you
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know I I was happy with the images that
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I got now finally let's talk a little
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bit about the flare resistance so first
23:48
of all as noted you can get some really
23:50
do if this is f11 you can get some
23:52
really dominant Sun stars because those
23:54
blades reach so far out now if you love
23:56
that then great um I find it a little
23:59
too dominant for my taste if the Sun is
24:02
right out of frame you'll get a ghosting
24:03
artifact that kind of looks more like a
24:06
light leak as you can see here but you
24:08
can also see that contrast is held up
24:10
fine in the image likewise here
24:12
obviously the sun is right in the frame
24:14
very intense but only a little ghosting
24:16
artifact here and if we punch in here we
24:18
can see that contrast is really holding
24:20
up well I guess there's a little
24:22
ghosting artifact right there but
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there's nothing really destructive to
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the image and so I think that this is a
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pretty acceptable amount of flare
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resistance overall I was not displeased
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well thanks for sticking around to the
24:34
very end and I hope that the Deep dive
24:35
into the optical performance has
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answered whatever lingering questions
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you have about the Y no 23mm f1.4 as
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always thanks for watching have a great
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day and let the light in
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