what's going on guys I've literally just landed in London after my long flight
from Australia and I'm gonna go out and spend some money I'm heading to the
camera shop because Canon just launched the RF 15-35 mm F 2.8 with
image stabilisation and for me seems like a game-changer Lens so let's go
spend some money
you might be wondering why I'm buying camera gear in the UK when camera gear
here is usually really expensive but it's actually not that much more
expensive and maybe not even as expensive as a foreigner because you can
actually claim a VAT refund when you leave the country in fact buying camera
gear out of your home country can actually be cheaper than buying it in
your home country so I don't have the numbers offhand but I'm gonna maybe put
up like a graphic thing so you guys can see what I'm talking about but if I was
to buy this lens in Canada depending what province amend I have to pay the
sales tax so in Alberta it's 5% here in the UK the price is like two thousand
three hundred and forty nine pounds or something like that
but that includes the vat the tax and I'm not sure what the tax is I think
it's like seventeen point five percent but when I leave Europe I can actually
claim a refund on that so it works out to whatever the price is that unlist in
this graphic and whatever that price difference is so it's not really that
bad and honestly if you're buying camera gear and you can get a VAT refund
sometimes it just makes sense to buy the gear out of your home country so get a
head to the camera store spend some money
kindly ignore the massive mess in the background of the room like I said I
just got in so everything's a mess um this is the RF 15-35 f/2.8 l is usm
lens it's a 15 to 35 millimeter I'm gonna unbox it quick but that's not what
this video is about I'm actually gonna use it can annoys sends these stupid
cases does anybody ever use these lens cases if you do I'm not insulting you I
just don't use them don't understand them there they seem like cheap it's
like a $2,000 lens and they put that thing in ha lens cap I don't use lens
caps either and this is the lens and it's big it is really big that's the
lens and I'm actually gonna get this is the 16 to 35 f/4 it's big but actually
when I put the two together it's not that bad especially considering you
don't need the adapter so you put it on and you put that on top it's like the
same length exactly the same length so yeah let's put that on so I'm in London
because I'm on assignment with monograms travel which is a their a tour company
they're kind of like I don't know how you would describe them they're a
self-guided or semi self-guided tour company so basically instead of like
being you know handheld around a destination they give you an itinerary
and then they have like some optional tours you can join and there's some like
there's like a local guide that's here that's responsible for you and it's kind
of like the best of both worlds so I'm on assignment for them and what I wanted
to do on this episode is wow that's beautiful lens never buy a lens for
aesthetics but that's beautiful anyways like I was saying on this episode
basically what I'm gonna do is on day one here in in London I'm just gonna
take you around with me from now on all the b-roll and all the photos on today's
episode are gonna be taking on the 15 -35 F/2.8 is lens
from Canon yeah wow what a beautiful lens I'm excited to shoot this let's go
make some pictures
so I slept in this morning to catch up on jetlag and also because the weather
forecast said it was going to be garbage this morning and then the light was just
incredible never trust a forecast in the UK we're
off exploring today again with monograms travel and we're just doing like a brief
city tour in the morning and then going to Windsor Castle in the afternoon so
hopefully I can start making some photos most of the photos obviously on this
episode are going to be a handheld kind of snapshot
images rather than really well set up shots because I kind of just want to
show you what this lens can do so yeah let's explore I should mention that I
didn't use a gimbal nor my stabilizing any of the footage in post-processing I
want to give you guys a true representation of what this fifteen to
thirty five millimeter lens can do straight out of the camera
and so I filmed the journey to our first stop Buckingham Palace and know the
Queen wasn't there but there were couple test shots to make first a frame shot of
the Union Jacket f/5.6 to test the Boca oh so buttery and the corners are pretty
sharp too later another framed image in front of the doors at f/11 sharp as a
penguin in a tuxedo
then a street-style shot at 15 millimeters to test distortion and yeah
at 15mm there's distortion but amazingly the corners are still sharp
and finally I rush to capture an image of the coolest cyclist in London and
though the framing could have been better
it's almost as sharp as the dude in the photo
so we're being toured around by monograms travel and doing a bit of a
city tour and it's funny because I've been to London like I don't know a dozen
times maybe more and I'm learning so much and seeing so many things I've
never seen before even though we're just kind of like driving around the touristy
area so I think it's good to do like these little city tours even if you've
been to a place a bunch of times you just see so much we're now heading to
st. Paul's Cathedral which is like my favorite site in all of London I
photographed in a number of places but I've never photographed it from the
inside so yeah we're heading in again it's 15-35 video and photos coming up
and yeah this should be cool there were a couple photos before we even stepped
inside I frame this image at F 5.6 the contrast and detail is oh so sexy and
that touch of bokeh on the edges just adds to the depth I wanted to again test
the distortions of fifteen millimeter and a vertical image of the straight
Cathedral columns is as big of a test as any wide-angle lens could take and yeah
there's distortions but not nearly as bad as I expected inside the Cathedral I
wanted to put the lens to a test wide open both physically and from an
aperture standpoint and even at F 2.8 focused right on the foreground it's as
sharp as nails throughout the frame
this image is the first I've managed to find softness it's as sharp as a witch's
scorn in the middle but at F 2.8 it's a little soft in the corners still totally
manageable I'm impressed not only by the sharpness
but the contrast of colors places like cathedrals where light and shadows can
play a harsh game are often a challenge but the combination of the RF 15 to 35
millimeter lens and a Canon EOS R seem to handle it with class both in photo
and video
actually probably couldn't pick a better place to test the canon 15-35mm started
filming on the inside mega told off by a by a preacher that I can't film inside
that was cool I can't think of a better place to to test out the 15 to 35
millimeter lens than somewhere like that where you can get so wide open both at
like f 2.8 and just in general at 15 millimeters I've heard lots of rumors
that the lens is super sharp right to the corner so I'm excited to see if
that's true and now I think it's time to get some lunch but then we're actually
off to to Windsor Castle from a video perspective the Canon 15-35
millimeter RF seems to hold pretty well from an image stabilization standpoint
every now and then there's a little jump but well not even attempting to make
really smooth footage it is pretty smooth I can't imagine how good the
footage will look on this lens once Canon gets its stuff together with an
in-body stabilized arm mount camera it'll be butter at Windsor Castle I
decided to mess around with the extremes of the lens
I took a handheld photo of the entrance at f/22 and one fifteenth of a second
still it's sharp even though it really shouldn't be cam that Windsor Windsor
Castle and I've got the grad filter on let me take that off they made me take
the mic off because they said no commercial filming and apparently mic
means your commercial filming I am getting really really really tired like
so tired from this jet lag I have my bag and tripod and I'll probably end up
using other lenses in real life because I am on assignment here so I need to get
real shots and hopefully it comes out good it just stopped raining actually
and the sun's come out and there's actually some really nice skies so even
though it's like 3:30 in the afternoon I might get some photos
I'm definitely jet-lagged look at my settings on this shot
oops still it came out fine and look at that it's as sharp as a piece of Lego
your kid left out after playtime that you just stepped on later I found a
queen's guardsmen and had the chance to mess around with some portraits I don't
think I need to say it anymore but I will the images from the Canon 15-35mm
are as sharp as a panda in pyjamas
okay that was a really good day in London though I am tired super tired I'm
not gonna give my full review of this lens until I get back home and I see
what the footage looks like see what the photos look like would be totally
ridiculous for me not to do that so that's where I'm gonna take you next and
I should also say I'll probably not do a full full full review of this lens until
I've used it for a couple months so if you're not subscribed the channel be
sure to subscribe because at some point I probably will do a much more in-depth
version of this video where you know after I've used it for a couple months I
don't think you can give a true true review after just a day so yeah let's
cruise back into central London and I'll talk about the lens and the photos and
the footage a little bit more after a review um and maybe after I get some
sleep
okay a couple days have passed and I've edited the video from today I've also
shot photos for a couple days on the lens and I have to say I am blown away
by it I I think every single image of taking on this lens has been sharp and
that includes the day after I filmed this video shooting like long exposures
hand held at about a half a second they still came out sharp most the time the
image stabilization is great the bokeh looks really nice and buttery and most
of all it is sharp as hell I think in the church in the cathedral when I was
shooting at f 2.8 really wide some of the corners were a little bit soft but
considering it was f 2.8 and at 15 millimetres
it was way sharper than it should have been so I'm beyond impressed with the
sharpness of this lens I have shot for a couple days as I mentioned and I found
that with the filters I'm getting just a bit of vignette incandescent been able
to fix really quickly and easily in Lightroom but a little bit of vignetting
I think part of that problem also is that Lightroom doesn't yet have like a
profile correction for the Canon 15-35 millimeter and once that comes you'll
just be able to correct that every single time I'm assuming but I have only
had the vignette in with filters without filters there's been very very little
than getting like I said I'm super super impressed with the 15 to 35 millimeter F
2 point 8 RF lens from Canon it might be my new favorite lens and it's gonna be a
challenge to convince me to take this off of my camera I like I said I'm gonna
do a big full review probably at some point where I maybe after a month or two
months share some of my images and give you a little bit more an in-depth review
on how it holds up so yeah if you're looking to pick up this lens I will go
do it and if you want to know what other camera gear I use there's a link in the
description of this video that takes you over to my website and a post that has
all my gear listed so go check that out if you want and as for me I get another
full day in then tomorrow I'm gonna walk you through
a day in a life as a Travel Photographer on assignment so I'll see you guys there
peace