Hey this is Scott of Photography Banzai. Here today with this Rockstar 10 millimeter f/8
lens. Super super compact. The interesting thing about this one is that it does
focus. There's a ring on the front you can rotate it all the way this direction
counterclockwise to go to infinity or 0.3 meters on the other end.
Actually takes quite a while to rotate it all of the way.
Let's try some close-ups.
Just trying to guess as to where the focus will be. I was curious about this
lens because of the focus. It's about as small as the 7artisans one, but I can tell already it's
probably gonna be nicer, photo wise.
I'm also curious to see how it will work in video situations, but
at the moment I really want to get as many photos as possible.
Lenses like this are pretty exciting because they're something different. A major manufacturer
probably won't make something like this. Except for Olympus with their body cap lenses. Have to
go to these third parties to get some really interesting lower cost fun to use lenses.
This type of thing on the trees happens when there's fog
that freezes on the branches. So you get a really interesting look.
All I'm doing at the moment is rotating it fully one way or the other. It's just too hard
to tell what it's doing, but try different things out and we'll find out later on.
I'm going to do a quick video test here. See what it looks like with 0.3 meters. Distance maybe
like that... I would think this could work for
vlogging to hold it out all the way. Let's get closer and closer.
I'm gonna head over to a different area. Probably have more trees that are
covered in snow. All right, I'm in a different area now you can see lots of traffic over
here. That's a highway. This is normally a street, but they block it off in the winter.
I can already tell this lens is going to be pretty
fun. Here I'm using the grid lines on the camera to frame things up.
This thing feels like the ultimate point-and-shoot. I think I need to be careful
with my hands, so I don't cover any of the visible area. Not sure what the field of view on this is.
I can see a good amount of vignetting on the screen.
Given the curvature of this lens it
is challenging. You need to consider where you position elements in the frame.
I'm starting to hit the downside of this lens. At f/8 I'm already at iso 320, 160 of a second...
and it's still quite underexposed.
This is a good spot to quickly test out the video again. No stabilization, see how it looks...
Here is standard digital IS. See if it's in focus.
It's all the way at the 0.3 meter mark. Enhanced stabilization same settings...
now I've got auto level enabled. That disables any digital stabilization, but it also
kind of stabilizes itself.
This gives you a lot more room, plus it does something
digitally to the frame. As long as you're not using gloves I think this will work
nicely. You just have to be mindful of where your hands are positioned.
Just a little bit of sun over here and some of the ...snow.
Obviously at this point I haven't seen what this lens can do visually. You have seen that
and I mean you can decide for yourself if it looks decent. F/8 I think is a good compromise
for a lens like this. Especially outdoors it's just going to work decently well. I
don't know about the vignetting. The size is great. Being able to focus even a little bit
is great. I don't know if it works well in practice. I'm going to probably do
some actual tests to see. Overall really interesting lens. It has a nice build quality.
The focus is smooth.. ultra smooth. Just super interesting. I like lenses like this, especially
when they're so compact. The seven artisans one, I'm not super thrilled with that. Especially
there's no focus ability and it has a huge amount of vignetting. F/6.3 I think that was a bad idea
to have the lens fixed to that, but in this case f8 I think it was a smarter move. Anyways,
hope you enjoyed this video on the Rockstar 10 millimeter f/8 lens for the EF_M system
I'm Scott of Photography Banzai Thans!
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