hey guys what's going on welcome to another video today we are going to be taking a look at the new
veltrux 85 millimeter lens for the rf mount and what's really exciting about that is that rf glass
i don't know if you know this about the canon ecosystem rf glass is just ridiculously expensive
unless you're kind of getting the lower tier stuff so this is kind of an exciting lens because this
goes for just 500 canadian and it gives us the potential for what might be coming out kind of
from the other brands to support the rf system so i'm excited to test this out with you guys i have
done a bunch of shooting with it already so i've got some thoughts that i want to share
with you guys on the good things and some of the bad things that i'm not super stoked on
with this lens but then you get to take this information and do other research and decide
if this lens is right for you so we've got the canon r5 today we'll be shooting with which is
one of the best cameras on the market right now in my opinion this thing is just a freaking beauty
so we'll be slapping the 85 mil on here and we'll be doing some point of view shooting
around the car so i found a little bit of a cool location the canon r5 has a 50 megapixel kind
of sensor on it so i think it'll give us a good idea of the sharpness and image quality that we
can get out of this lens now i don't know if you guys can see this here but the glass is actually
seemingly really good quality we get an aperture of 1.8 so this thing gets pretty bright and left
a lot of light in and one thing that's really cool is that it's actually a really good build quality
seems like it's made of like metal or something really nice and it's still really
lightweight and the focus puller which i'm not sure if we really use that much these days
is super smooth but i think most of us these days are going to be using auto focus on our cameras so
it's more about how well this lens communicates with the canon r5 so with any car photography
you generally want to be using a cpl filter so i'm going to be using the one from freewell which is
in my opinion one of the best ones out on the market these have a 72 millimeter diameter so
i've got an 82 mil and i'm just going to use the newer step-up rings to slide that on there
and then we've got a sweet sweet cpl and one thing that's really cool about this kit which if
you haven't seen the video yet i think it's up there somewhere driving porsche cell mountains
showing off these but they're magnetic which is like super cool super easy to use and they
stick on there pretty good they've got some like good ridges on it but anyway we're gonna toss the
gopro on and do some shooting all right so we're rigged up here with the gopro so you guys can
follow along here but one thing you got to give me a little bit of grace on is that the car
is is decently dirty because here in calgary we get these crazy chinooks it's actually pretty warm
fortunately it's like one degree celsius so it's it's decently warm given that it's january if i
had to wait for a perfectly clean car to do any vlogs you guys would you wouldn't get any vlogs
during during the winter now i don't know if you guys can see this but one of the things i love
the most about the canon r5 is that it has vehicle detection when they made that update it was so so
sweet so let's see how well the 85 mil works this vehicle detection looks like
it's picking it up great we're just gonna make sure we get our exposure locked in here
now the crazy thing is look how far away you have to get from the vehicle to get this thing
in fully in the frame it's been our cpl around cut out the right reflections that looks good there
when you're shooting with an 85 mil and you want to shoot for instagram
portrait mode specifically you have to be quite a ways back to get that car in the whole frame so
that's something to note so it's pulling catching focus pretty good i guess we'll see in post
how well this how sharp it is and even for this i guess i want to even go a bit farther back because
when you're posting to instagram stories
you need that to be kind of as wide as possible so it doesn't get anything cut off but it's pulling
focus quite well i don't know if you guys can see this pulling focus quite well on the car
it's pretty bowling really just filling the frame with the car
all right let's go in and grab some details
like a wheel wheel wednesday not a shot
that's another great thing about the r5 is just tap to focus it locks on i absolutely love it
see if we can get wide enough
and if we can yes we can then uh we don't want the wheels turned away from us we want them
turned towards the camera it's kind of just like a general rule of thumb with the car photography
is that you want that front wheel to be turned and facing the camera so we'll adjust that real quick
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turn it's gonna scream at us because we left the headlights on but that's all right it's okay
so we're shooting wide open so i guess we'll see how sharp the images are
it's a wide open aperture really pushing it to get wide enough there
i wonder if we can use these you know i look stupid don't want to look stupid
it's pretty close we're cutting it edge to edge there
let's see how well it captures the detail here
nope too close
there's like pigeons everywhere just saying hi hey boys
enjoying the car yeah nice maybe we'll do some straight on shots we'll maneuver the vehicle
to be a bit more straight on
straight on looks pretty dope and the way that the sun's kind of cutting across those
it's pretty cool so i'm gonna try and back off a little bit more
of course my tripod's in the way
yeah it's looking nice i'm happy with that for sure let's go out the way again
and i mostly do my shooting for instagram that's why i'm shooting this way
more on the vertical side switch the cpl onto the windshield
um yeah it's a tough call on this one i'd almost rather cut the door panels off i guess it gives
like a worse reflection than the one on the roof but i guess we'll try meet in the middle
here
a little wider yet about the tripod's not in the way
it's one thing to note about the 85s is you're pretty limited if you want to get the whole car
in the frame you have to be quite a ways back and that's just the reality of the situation so
unless you love shooting landscape in which case maybe a bit closer to get the whole car in
now this angle is making me want that like carbon fiber duckbill spoiler for this thing
what do you guys think just a little bit more just a little bit more on here just
to touch nothing aggressive see if we can grab some interior shots well it's
got some light flares maybe hey see the sun's coming through there
in the way adds a bit of depth to the photo
so we're going to switch over to video and see how well the 85 mil handles auto focus
tracking the car those kind of things the first shot i think we'll just do kind of a
standard front on let's see how well this looks yeah so you can see one thing i noticed with this
lens is that there's quite a bit of focus hunting with the lens it doesn't really lock on super well
and i noticed it a lot when i was shooting my first kind of everything you want to know about
the brz i'll try and drop some clips in here but especially as you were moving towards the vehicle
and away from it it seemed to really have a hard time keeping track so i think for me
video wise this isn't my favorite lens it's not super dependable for video i think for for photos
it works super well really really happy with it i've got kind of mixed thoughts about it so
let's actually hop into the car and i'll go into a little bit more of the details of i think this
is a good lens and maybe why you wouldn't want to get it so i'm gonna take this silly thing off
let's hop back into the car and talk about the lens okay so what do i like about this lens i
like that it is lightweight it's fairly compact on the r5 body it's pretty nice to manage and
kind of feels good in the hand it does feel quality i believe that the image quality
is definitely up to par for the price that you're paying i have no worries about that
the quality of the glass is really good the quality of the construction is really good
one thing to note about it though is that it does not have any weather sealing on the bottom of it
so i do think that this is a good budget lens essentially but there are some downsides and
those downsides for me is that the focus ring is kind of useless if you wanted to do it in
manual focus i think even it kind of pulls the wrong way from what i'm used to at least
so going this way should go out and going this way should come closer and i think it goes backwards
the good news is is that it has a usbc connection in here which means it can get firmware updates
and if you follow these guys on instagram they do let you know when updates come out for their
lenses so that's actually a really good thing about it and especially with the autofocus maybe
not being that great for video hopefully that means that as updates come out this lens will just
kind of keep getting better which is kind of sweet um for a budget lens i think that's pretty cool
now one of the reasons you might want to look into the canon's version they have an 85 mil
f 1.8 and it's kind of like the lower end model it's a little bit more expensive but it does have
i believe macro capabilities meaning you can get a lot closer to objects whereas this one i
find the focus distance to be quite far and if you guys know me on the channel i'm actually a 35 mil
shooter so i tend to enjoy shooting a little bit wider so 85 for me is a little bit limiting
but if that's the focal length that you like like peter mckinnon for example he loves this
focal length for like the b roll king if you've already got a great kit if you've got a 24 to 70
a 35 mil prime which you know you want and maybe the 70 to 200 and you find that you landed 85 then
this would be a good option for a budget friendly lens and i'd say that's kind of who i'd say this
is for is someone that doesn't have a ton of cash to put out but knows they like an 85 and they
want to get that aperture of 1.8 with a little bit of a faster aperture then yeah i think it
will be good to you and it really actually is a lot of fun to use for photography specifically i
think this will stay in my kit when i'm looking to get those longer focal lengths typically the
70 to 200 for example is a huge lens and it's a big lens to carry around so for me
i like it i'm very happy that viltrox sent this to me to test out i think it's a great lens so
i'm hoping they'll actually come out with a 35 mil version that we can test out for the rf as
well it gives me hope that as these guys develop more and more for the rf that we'll just get more
options that are more affordable for us i hope this isn't blown out this is super blown out
all right boys we're gonna get out of here now it's a little sketchy because to get in here
there's like some snow ridge it's gonna scrape my car a bit yeah oh god oh god okay
we're good we're clear we're all clear
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