I just picked up a new lens and if you like me when you're looking on YouTube
at reviews of lenses and you want to see examples of that lens or in this case
video with that lens then you're welcome let's skip straight to it this intro is
shot with the lens and if you like this if you like the bokeh if you like the
way this looks in 4k then you might like this lens alright onto the review I
didn't tell you how much this lens costs 270 US dollars that's it $70 that's
cheap as fuck
if you don't know what it is by now is the seven artisans f 1.8 25 mil
hopefully you can see that right there it is a tiny tiny lens so why don't I
pick this lens up well it's seven US Dollars about 110 Canadian I think it
worked out to be shipped from Amazon of course and I wanted something to try out
something that was different something that was manual mostly for video but I'm
gonna use it for some photos as well and I've got some photo tests for you later
on to show you I wanted up a couple lens to play around with and this was very
cheap and very well reviewed I thought why not let's give it a go
this is a manual lens meaning basically you have to do everything yourself when
you connect it to your camera I think you even have to click a setting on in
your camera to allow you to be able to control this lens the camera won't
recognize it and it will think nothing is connected so you're basically
controlling everything yourself the only thing you can really control in camera
it is your shutter speed you set the aperture and the focus yourself on the
lens itself and with it being manual unless you have the eyes of wizard I
would recommend that you definitely turn on focus peaking that way you can see
actually what is in focus and you're not shooting what you think is in focus
using the tiny little screen on the EVF and then getting back later and
realizing actually wasn't in focus so just turn on focus peaking and that will
help you hugely to be able to get clear shots I've swapped back to using this
lens for this segment in the video so you can quickly see what I mean when I'm
going to talk about something this is an aps-c lens meaning it will only work on
an aps-c crop sensor body well you can use it on a full-frame but it'll look
like this and I don't think you want it to look like this this horrible thing
netting so we'll go back to the regular video so before you pick this up for the
first time you look at it in the box and you kind of feel like it looks just like
a toy you wonder if you really should have spent any money on this at all and
then you pick it up on your opinion completely changes because it's very
well made it's got good weight to it for the size and overall I would say yeah
it's it's solid it's definitely a good well built lens it is made of metal
everything is manually turned and the focus ring and the aperture ring are
very very firm and they're not loose and that's a nice thing I really do like the
lens actually for the amount of money yeah look how small is can I use to
compare it to one second alright so here is an Xbox controller hopefully you know
what size this is and here is the lens so as you can see very small so as I
said before everything is manual your focus ring is on the front here when you
turn it it does actually extend a little bit from the barrel there so you turn
this and you can see there that the top extends and you have all your ranges and
your numbers on the front there so if you want to reference distances you can
your aperture ring is actually right at the back and it's smooth it's called a D
clicked aperture ring meaning that the actually doesn't click when you turn
some old lenses the manuals it would click and that would be a method of
knowing you've changed your aperture with this it's smooth it's very far but
it's smooth one big thing I did see in a lot of other reviews is people said that
they accidentally turn the aperture ring instead of the focus I can see how you
could do that because it is very close together however once you get used to
using the lens after a little while you kind of just know it's at the back there
and you just go straight to the front to focus so after you've had it a little
while you won't have that issue I'm not gonna go into sharpness of this lens or
anything like that because that is a lot of personal opinion some people really
like a sharp look over lens and some people don't and they actually decrease
the sharpness in post I haven't done an intensive test with this yeah just on a
little bit of video and a few photos too which I'll show you in a second I will
tell you though that after a couple of tests I've done it does go down to an F
1.8 which is obviously gonna be really nice for bokeh but the F 1.8 isn't as
sharp as when you start to shoot at 2.8 and above so if you want those
crystal-clear images f 2.8 above is where it starts to get really crispy it
is obviously an F 1.8 meaning the bokeh is gonna be beautifully buttery smooth
which is what we like as I said though it's not quite as clear at F one point a
is still okay but it's not quite a sharp F 2.8 above supernate you're still gonna
get a nice bokeh reference back to the beginning and the end of this video
that's where I actually shot with this lens at F 2.8 if you want to see that
and that is about it for now really I haven't shot too much with this lens I
just wanted to give you my initial impressions of it it is only $70
I didn't knew that in the meantime here is some pictures I took just out and
about quickly with my dogs just gives you an indication of how if you really
do want to see it how sharp and how nice this lens looks how good the aperture is
how good the bokeh is and that kind of stuff so here's those photos
and now here's some more video shot with the lens well you're already seeing it
again I'm shooting the outro with this lens so here is another example of how
the bokeh looks how the image looks a good example of sharpness if you're
interested in that I'll get some more video this lens soon when I go out and
about some b-roll for you I lied by the time I go around to edit in this video
it turns out I've actually already shot some b-roll so ego
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