Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today we're going to take a look at these two Viltrox lenses for the EF-M system.
It's nice to see more lenses for this system.
Viltrox did send me these lenses to try out and make a video on, so keep that in mind.
With this video I'm going to focus more on these two lenses, the different focal lengths...
things like that.
But in future videos I will be comparing them to other lenses I have.
Gonna take these out, do photos... do videos...
You can see what a large aperture does for you here.
60 frames a second, 1/125th of a second shutter speed.
And they are still over exposed at f/1.4.
It's a decently bright day, but it's not super bright.
So that gives you a lot of range for those large apertures.
In this case we're at f/2.5, which gives us a nice exposure... it looks like.
Do the autofocus test at 2.5...
Looks pretty nice!
Let's hold it out...
The 23 might give you a little bit of possibility to do some type of vlogging, but it's just
not a wide enough focal length, in my opinion.
If you do have some type of selfie stick, it could work.
And you can see from my action camera what distance I'm at, what it looks like...
Get a feel for the different focal lengths.
Which one might work well for you in these situations.
Of course, in video mode it crops a little bit.
It comes with a hood, which is actually metal!
Don't see that very often, but this back piece is plastic so it's a two piece hood.
Nice to see EF-M right on there!
Now I'm gonna do some photo tests with these two cameras, go around take pictures.
You can connect both lenses up to the computer through the micro USB port on the back.
It's basically integrated into the mount.
When I connected it to the computer, it shows up as a drive.
Inside there, there is a text file that you can read and see what version it currently
has... a few other details.
Both lenses currently have version 1.0.5.
I think this is the initial first release version.
They have the STM motors inside, which is quiet and it works pretty quickly.
However, I do think the 33mm is slower than the 23.
The manual focus rings are large and smooth.
I did do a test with those just to see if it functions properly on the M50, didn't have any issues...
I'll do a video now letting it do fully automatic settings, so you can get an idea of what it
might be like in that situation.
Allows the camera to decide what it wants to do using the Viltrox lenses.
See how it's doing with the exposure changes...
I can tell it's adjusting quite a bit...
When I have the lenses adjust to a manual aperture...
You can see that there's some type of pulsing going on when you have automatic video mode.
So something to think about.
Maybe in firmware they can check that out...
Let's see if changing it makes a difference.
f/4... still doing the pulsing.
Right now it looks okay at f/8.
So there are some quirks with video modes on these lenses at the moment.
So I think your best bet is to go into manual mode for video.
At least right now to use f/1.4 in video mode, we're going to 1/1000th of a second shutter
speed.
Now we're at 1/1000th of a second shutter speed, f/1.4, ISO 100.
It's not a super bright day, but you've got some light...
See what it looks like with the nice background blur.
Of course when you're in full manual you're not going to get any weird pulsing of the
video.
I'll have to test that with my other lenses and see if it's specific to the Canon M50
or if it's the Viltrox lenses...
Nice background blur on there with the 23.
I assume the 33 is even better.
You can get a feel for what you might get at f/1.4 in video modes with this setup.
You will have to adjust your shutter speeds unless you have ND filters available.
So far with photos they're working pretty nicely.
Aperture adjustment...
I have it in the auto setting, which means controlling it through the camera.
Now I'm in digital stabilization with the two lenses.
Do some b-roll stuff, but I'm gonna try to hold it out here for a second.
If you have something long enough it could work to do some type of vlogging stuff.
Gonna have to be pretty extreme to want to do that!
What's that?
Yeah, I make YouTube videos about photography and camera equipment.
Gonna do a stabilization test real quick with these lenses just to make sure that they work
with the digital stabilization.
60 frames a second, 1/125th of a second shutter speed, f/8, ISO 100...
Here we're in standard digital stabilization.
1/125th of a second, 60 frames a second...
Here we are in enhanced stabilization.
60 frames a second, 1/125th of a second second shutter speed, f/8, ISO 100...
And you're doing this because?
I make YouTube videos...
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Photography and gear...
What kind of stuff?
Uhh, camera gear!
Let's go over some of the common aspects of these lenses.
They have a 52mm filter thread on there, which is easy to find.
They go from f/1.4 to f/16, which is very standard for this type of lens.
They have the metal construction on there and the lens hoods themselves are metal with
the plastic back on it.
You also have internal focus on both of them.
They do have compatibility charts in their store website.
You can check that out to see if your specific camera works in photo and video modes with
these lenses at the moment.
The aperture ring is very unusual.
It does not does not have any clicks except for at f/16 between the 'A' mode and that
aperture.
5.6...
f/4...
2.8...
f/2...
1.4...
I do think they're a pretty decent size for the M50, the M5 type cameras in the EF-M system.
Now I'm going to do a quick portrait test with the two different lenses.
I have the phone app here so I can focus right on my eye.
You've seen the photos and the video tests that I did.
You can decide for yourself if these lenses will work out based on the focal length, the
performance of autofocus in photos and videos.
Of course, I kinda just scratched the surface of what's possible.
In the future I'll definitely be doing more videos on these lenses.
There are things to consider.
I'm going to go over some of the things I think Viltrox could improve on with these
lenses and also the things I see currently that are very good about them.
First off with the improvements, firmware is something that you need to improve on related
to video.
Fully automatic video is something where there's like a pulsing of light.
You can set the aperture manually and that will help the situation, but it is something
to consider.
I've also noticed in photo and video that the two lenses will reset occasionally.
I'm not really sure what's going on, but you can see in these clips what happens in the
video.
And of course in photos it's not a big deal, but in video if your are recording and it
happens... it's going to go out of focus.
You'll get that bright burst from the aperture changing.
So hopefully that will be resolved in firmware.
I don't think this aperture setup is really needed for these lenses.
There might be a niche group of people that want that smooth aperture adjustment, so definitely
for them that's a good feature.
But a lot of people... maybe, especially the photographers would just want a standard clicking
aperture ring.
Or actually, we don't even need it if the price were reduced.
Now I'm going to go over some of the positives I see of these lenses right off the bat.
Nice size to them.
They fit well with the M50 body.
They're not too large.
They have a good build quality on them.
Nice metal exterior.
The hoods are metal with that plastic back on there, which seems fine.
The ring here for the manual focus is smooth and it works well in the camera, so that's
a good point for the current firmware on that.
Definitely a good build quality, construction, especially for the price.
You get that large f/1.4 aperture.
Again, in EF-M lenses there is a limited selection of large aperture autofocus lenses, so adding
more to that... especially at these prices is really nice.
While using these lenses on a tripod, doing photography with them...
I had no issues.
The autofocus feels quick... feels prompt.
That was a look at the 23mm f/1.4 and 33mm f/1.4 Viltrox lenses for the EF-M mount.
Again, keep in mind that Viltrox send me these lenses.
I will be keeping them and I will be making future videos hopefully on them as well.
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