I've never been a fan of emptying your wallet on the greatest latest
piece of kit in the hopes that i will bring you better pictures,
i think it's far more important to learn how to use the basics
the very fundamental tools of photography before moving on from there.
However, in the case of these babies
there is an argument to be had.
Now in every film we make to date
i have only ever used a consumer lens, I've never used a fast
professional lens ever, and the reason for that was i wanted to make sure
you guys, i saw don't necessarily need to spend those big bucks.
now with the price for a consumer lens sitting around two hundred and fifty
pounds whereas a fast pro lens is about one and a half thousand
i thought it would be interesting to see what you get for your money should you choose to invest.
The first and most noticeable thing is
size.
but does this matter?
and both of these lenses
Now both of these lenses are in the same kind of focal range, we're talking seventy to two hundred
millimeters.
This is my old lens, this is the lens that many many of these pictures
which you would have seen in different films on our site
i used this lens to take them.
this is a seventy two to two ten millimeter lens.
This goes back to my days of thirty five millimeter
and the reason i'm using it is that i bought a new Nikon eighteen to two hundred
super zoom, i was experimenting with that because
all the time i'm not changing lenses i'm shooting pictures so i'm not wasting any time.
The new eighteen to two hundred mil lens was nothing like
this good quality as this old lens back to my old one.
both of these lenses are full frame
that means that they cover the area of a piece of thirty five millimeter film,
that is an old thirty five mil lens
but this baby here, is a full frame lens.
that's for an Fx sensor, don't get hung up about sensors
this is a seventy to two hundred zoom as i said, but what are the differences?
Now i'm not going to go into all that how many element its got and whatever tolerancy stuff
because i'm not really interested
what i want to know is,
what difference is it going to make to the final product the photograph at the
end of the day?
well, we're gonna find that out in a minute, right now here we go, this lens is quite light
it's kind of not very big, it's fairly light,
it does the job, it's got a push me pull you to zoom the focal length on it.
Where as this one is
considerably more heavy
this also has lots of nobs and buttons and things going on.
This funny-looking thing here
is what you use to mount it onto a tripod
i just kind of
undo that and turn it around
and do it up again
and then you put your tripod mount onto here
and mount it like that.
why would you do that and not put it in the bottom of your camera? it's weight,
this lens weighs a lot
and it's much better to let the weight of the camera sit on the back of the lens
than to have the weight of this lens
bearing down on the mount.
So that's why you have these little feet.
This is whats called a fast lens, that means it has a wide aperture
this one is not a fast lens, the old one, that
has a maximum aperture of F five point six whereas this has a maximum aperture of
F
two point eight.
Remember
the smaller the number, the bigger the hole.
Now that big aperture allows lot's of light to come
blasting out through the lens
so you can use a faster shutter speed and that's why it's called a fast lens.
it's got nothing to do with the lens itself it's actually got everything to do
with the shutter speed.
So a fast shutter speed allows you to freeze motion obviously
but it also means that you can start shooting pictures in lower light
without getting camera shake, you don't want blurry, fuzzy pictures because your
shutter speed isn't fast enough
to freeze the motion that you make as you take a picture.
now on the subject of sharpness
this lens also has vr
vibration reduction
many modern lenses do.
In fact they, er the consumer version of this lens
which would be the fifty five to two hundred millimeter
that has vr as well, it's nothing new.
But this one has got
two different Vr modes,
normal mode, it's just kind of it is neutralizing
it detects it and it neutralizes it, i don't know how and i don't really care how as long as it does it and it does it well.
In the active mode here
this is supposed to be used when shooting from a moving vehicle
don't really know why
but it must be super duper vibration reduction mode.
Apparently this Vr also knows if you're panning
if you're chasing a grey hound round a track or
or a car going past or a cyclist or something.
Apparently this some how knows
and it doesn't try and cut out sideways movement.
Don't know how it does it.
But i have to say the Vr works very very well.
I've also got much much faster auto focus with this sort of lens,
it will focus incredibly quickly
where i'm focusing
on full auto-focus
it will focus across
the entire range of the lens.
whereas when i have it on
infinity to two point five meters
it's only going to photograph from two and a half meters away to infinity.
that means that if i'm shooting in that range
the focus hasn't got far to hunt and it will focus in an instant.
This parole lens whilst the qualities good, it's a bit of an old clunker.
this focuses very very slowly, that's brilliant our foods arrived
thank you very much indeed.
There's no point being in a cafe if you're not going to have something to eat.
There you go there's yours.
thank you, cheers.
Put that to one side for a minute,
bad timing, now then
I've forgotten where i got to. so that's really about all there is physically between the two.
one's bigger and heavier,
it has faster auto focus
we've got manual focus on and manual focus off which
you'd expect to have
we've got a big super duper lens hood to protect from lens flare.
what we need to do now is to go and take a couple of pictures and
compare the difference, because that's what we're really interested in.
how will my pictures look
if i spend an extra twelve hundred pounds on a lens