this perfocals 17 to 28 millimeter wide angle lens with a Servo motor built in
is interesting but instead of trying it out here in rain in Chicago let's
pack our 50 pound backpack and go to Iceland and see how this lens performs
dji's new 17 to 28 millimeter wide angle zoom lens comes in reasonably fast
and sporting a DL mount for Native integration with the zenmue sensor head interestingly this
lens has back focus control so there's no need for gimbal recalibration when
zooming What You Do by the way using the build-in zoom server with a very decent
close focusing distance of 19 centimeters on the right hand you can get closer and
personal and this lens promises to be very sharp from the center to the edges foreign
to 28 millimeter lens competing with and for sure it's all the cinema cameras the
lower end ones like the red Komodo the Sony fx6 or the Canon C300 but one second
yeah
can I can I borrow your tripod I didn't know what you need oh yes
it's a great rental house in here that's great but many filmmakers are using mirrorless cameras
these days because they're smaller they're more Compact and more flexible and are easier to rig
up on a gimbal especially if you think about indie or smaller Productions lo and behold if
you rig out a an A7 S3 that I'm shooting on right now with a gimbal with a 16 to 35 lens it Nets out
roughly in the same price range as the Ronin 4D with that new lens that's why I think we should
just pit them against each other just like have a little bit of a image comparison while we're
here at gotafos it's a beautiful waterfall and we have this perfect sunlight right now it's
gonna set later on we're going to shoot a lot at that point but I wanted to get a little bit
of a camera plus lens comparison for you guys out before so that you can make yourself an
own picture of it if you go for for example an A7 S3 with a Gimbal and the setup or if you would go
other with a 4D and that new 17 to 28 millimeter lens so let's set up shop over there right at the
at the spot where the waterfall drops and you'll see it's very pretty
let's let's make this whole thing a little bit more fun and you guess which camera A or B is
the Ronin 4D with a 17 to 28 and which one is the A7 S3 with the 16 to 35 gonna keep it at
both the same focal lengths uh and same settings just let us know you guessed down in the comment
section below and I'll reveal it in a second so go go go and let's see who can get it right
also I didn't do a gimbal test because my backpack was already jam-packed with like 50 pounds of gear
and batteries and a laptop but if I would have to guess the off Ronin 4D is superior to an A7
S3 on an RS3 gimbal because you have that zx's stabilization that chicken heads but I
will let you be the judge eventually because it is subjective oftentimes at the end of the day
and you don't see uh never leave trash behind when it falls out of your pocket but yeah you
will you will also you don't what you don't see is what I do in the edits so that's always something
to keep in mind when you watch these YouTube comparison videos at the end of the day you
want to be happy with the image and I gotta say I'm pretty pretty impressed and as a red shoe to
myself like I'm pretty impressed about the Ronin 4D spits out also in terms of color science so
just putting it out there all right so yeah camera a is the Sony and B is the Ronin so I don't have
a price for you but congratulations on who got a ride and if you didn't
I don't know if it's a good or bad sign you you you decide yourself
thank you now I was looking for a lens that I can compare this DJI lens to and my G Master 16 to 35
is pretty close in terms of its focal length and speed so with the interchangeable mount on the
Ronin 4D I can just throw it on and compare the images actually that the interchangeable
amount is quite clutch because you can use loads of different lenses so well done DJI
foreign okay so I just threw the 17 to 28 now on this camera and let's
get some side by side shots in this epic location so you can form your own opinion
thank you
all right after reviewing those images first disclaimer obviously the conditions were not
scientific because they were always changing weather conditions like you would get in Iceland
but overall I didn't see like a discernible difference in terms of sharpness and contrast
between the Sony and the DJI Islands which I guess is great for for the DJI Islands but both have
slight focused breathing on The Wider end and a little bit more noticeable focused breathing
when you zoom in all to 28 millimeters which is to be expected on paper the close Focus distance
of the Detroit islands is supposed to be closer than the Sony lens but for some reason when you
switch over to manual focusing you can't get as close with the autofocus function you can
get close as close as the spec sheets is telling you but manually you can't that should be just a
software update fix overall while the DJI Islands may not have the same range as the Sony 16 to 35
it is the better choice for the royal opponent 4D system because of its integration from lidar
to zoom to the balancing aspect and this lens perfectly fits also the lineup of teacher eyes
the L Mount lenses in terms of its character very sharp lenses high contrast great for documentary
work for example now I wish they had some faster lens choices all of them are currently F 2.8 but
that may be something that comes in future right now you would have to resort to other
for example vintage lenses but this may be something we can explore at a different
point of time I'm very curious of what kind of lenses I can throw on the Ronin 4D and try out
all right what are my final thoughts on this lens it is actually an impressive first attempt
by DJI in a zoom lens it's lightweight and seamless integration with the 4D makes it
really stand out and its character is pretty clinical it's a very clean lens which doesn't
have necessary character which is great if you do shoot documentary nature documentary
work or even commercial work I wish it could get a little bit closer like the 16 to 35 but
you can also use the crop mode in the Ronin 4D the super 35 crop mode in order to get a
little bit of a tighter image I've used that before and obviously that's that's not a not
an issue and then you can always with a 6K footage crop and even further but yeah I got
another video around the Ronin 4D in combination with AI coming and much more from this beautiful
and very cold place of Iceland so if you want to get notified or if you want to have this
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good night whenever and wherever you are around this very very beautiful and frosty Planet bye