a few months ago I made a video talking about the Sony a7 3 and which lenses I
use for it well since then I've changed around might use a little bit perfected
it if you will trim the fat göran of what I'm not using and added a couple of
things back into so I want to use this video to talk to you about which
full-frame lenses I use maybe which ones you want to consider using and why use
them their purposes what they're used for if there's any negatives involved
with those lenses and which potential lenses I could have got instead of those
ones but opted for these ones instead so let's talk about it
so each one of these lenses has their own specific use I use every single one
on a regular basis if I didn't I'd end up selling it why bother holding on to
something that you're not going to use it can give you money and you could put
towards other stuff a quick recap of who I am and what I shoot if you're new to
my channel and you have no idea if you are new to my channel as well welcome
it's good to have you I shoot weddings a little bit of
commercial stuff some small business things travel films family shorts that I
do for myself a lot of martial art events my Thai boxing anime that kind of
stuff some basic vlog in and of course YouTube videos talking head segments
whatever these are called I don't know but stuff content for
YouTube so that is what I shoot and what use these lenses for so if you shoot
stuff similar to that then this might be of use to you also it's getting really
dark let's brighten up a little bit there we go let me preface this by
telling you something that you probably already know if you start to look at
Sony for friend lenses they ain't cheap before I bought all these lenses I did a
ton of research like any normal person now before you buy something you don't
just go to the shop and buy it you go online that you read articles you read
reviews you watch videos you absolutely research the ship a bit because that's
how we buy stuff now in 2018 so I wait up a lot of the pros and the cons to
spending more money to getting different quality glass or better quality glass or
different features compared to saving a little bit money and maybe not getting
quite the same quality quite the same features so I'm always looking to spend
less but get the same quality features or as close to the same quality as
features as I can without having to spend any more if that makes sense
I'm sure you're all in the same boat as I am now also I am talking about basics
here just using these lenses in a basic form I'm not doing pixel peeping reviews
or anything like that so if you are looking for that and sorry head back up
to the search bar and maybe search someone else there's a lot of people
that do good stuff like that just not me alright let's get started so
I've got to swap the lenses out quickly because the first lens I'm going to talk
about is the one I use all the time and I'm filming on it right now
so let's swap to that right now the Sony 1635 F for I use this for a lot of
different things but the main thing that I use is for is when I'm on a gilmore
stabilizer I don't wish nice and wide when I want to gimble so I
can go all the way to 16 for super wide and you can go into 24 even if you want
to go to 35 you can do that with this it gives you the flexibility to go between
I also use this lens for document in the day and for vlogging so if I'm using the
lens and pointing at something and talk into the microphone vlog in 16 is really
really nice wide field of view for vlogging all of the videos I shoot like
this apart from this one because I have the lens right here I'm using me 55
right now but I use this for all of my youtube
videos I like to have it nice and wide sometimes it's 16 sometimes a little bit
closer at 24 YouTube videos and for talking hood stuff that works really
good another great use for this lens it's a run-and-gun photo lens if you're
out about any one lens for the day this is the one you want to take with you if
you shoot an architecture landscapes pretty much anything wide which is a lot
of what I like to shoot 1635 at 16 everything is super wide and everything
looks really nice those landscape shots and looking up at buildings that kind of
stuff at 16 perfect lens for this and of course for port traits are 35 to 35 is a
very natural-looking length popular length for portrait photography if
you're out about street photography that kind of thing this lens gets that too I
call it the everything lens before because you can use it for everything
there is no limit to what you can use this lens for put on your camera take
out for the day and it will cover everything you needed to cover em all
it's the everything lens I can guarantee you if I'm traveling if I'm out for the
day this lens is gonna be on my camera 90% of the time I can get everything I
want to get with this lens so let's talk about the cons of this lens the reason
you might not want to get it a lot of people gonna say f4 is not great for
low-light shots and a lot of people will be right however if you're using the a7
3 you can crank the ISO all the way up to 10,000 and you really don't have any
issues there's not gonna be a lot of noise and everything is completely
usable in my opinion being able to use the ISO up to ten thousand or getting an
EF 2.8 version and spending a lot more money give me F for now people going to
say the boat was not going to be as good on the f4 compared to
point a and you know what that's right when you buy a 1635 you're not buying it
for its crazy amount of Boca so really do you need that little bit of extra
that being said Boca does exist on this you just have to learn how to use it
properly separate your subject a lot further away so I have your subject
close and have your background a lot further away that's going to give you
better bokeh so you can get on this honestly if you can live with those two
cons it's gonna save you a lot money go with the f4 the f4 is 1300 us the 2.8 is
2200 that's $900 it's a lot of money 900 bucks that is a trip somewhere you can
use the money you saved by this lens to go on a trip and make some awesome
content why not do that instead take my honest opinion go with the f4 and very
happy with it I haven't once regretted getting this and wish I got the EF 2.8
instead yeah just go with your 4 save that money okay on to the next lens
which I shot this whole segment with the Sony 55 F 1.8 so this is my newest and
quickly becoming one of my favorite lenses I'm starting to use a lot more
and more on a lot of different projects this lens can be used for anything where
you have ability to move around and what I mean by that is moving in and out
instead of having to zoom because obviously it's a prime lens so great for
portrait shots both photo and for video fantastic for b-roll if you want to get
some really nice b-roll segments just blows out that background at F 1.8
detail shots at weddings or events if you want to show the scale of what's
going on some little details in the events little things going on people
that kind of stuff really great uses for this lens as well
you can use it for interviews again blows out that background it also works
really well for YouTube videos so as you saw in a lot of segments I did on the
1635 a second ago it gives a completely different field of view to this
background just drops off completely you can't see anything because it's got such
a shallow depth of field something you don't get on the 1635 F for but at f/2
1.8 it just disappears a really nice view that some people really like if
that's the look you're going for it so really great lens for that so this you
can use for pretty much anything as long as you can walk around instead of having
to move in and out now some of you might be thinking well why not go for the 24
to 70 Sony or the Tamron the Newtown run 25 to 7 no 28 to 75 instead and then you
get a little bit flexibility you can zoom in instead of having to
around well i firmly believe the image on this is just so much superior to
those lenses having done a lot of research that i'd rather use this the
image on this is just that much nicer that in my personal preference i just
would rather use this so that's the end of that discussion my opinion you don't
have to agree but i like the prime lenses look it just looks so much nicer
now 55 is obviously quite close to 85 which is another lens that you own too
but they're both used for completely different purposes 55 is a very natural
look and what i mean by that it's very close to where your eye sees because of
that you can walk around and get some very candid very natural real looking
shots of pretty much anything when you have it on your camera that's part of
the reason i really like it also for an 85 sometimes if you're in a little small
room you don't have a lot of space to move around any five might be too tight
you might not have enough space to get everything in you and your frame
so if 55 gives you a little more room works better it's also small enough that
if you wanted to you can put it on a gimbal and give you some really sweeping
cinematic shots with a blown out background that ever 2.8 so you can
still focus a little bit and it just looks really nice it gives you an image
that you wouldn't be able to get with a 1635 is an f4 and that background just
disappears so that's a nice thing so yeah it works completely fine on a
gimbal if you wanted to as well so the cost of this is a thousand bucks now the
step up from this the other one that i considered is the 50 mil sony f 1.4
planar which is 1500 us so $500 more is it worth it some people might say yes
some people might say no point for of a stock more which will give you more
bokeh more low-light abilities just not worth that $500 in my opinion with a 73
again that's why i learnt for this guy take my word as of the hundred million
other people that have reviewed this this is a very good lens just save
yourself about five hundred dollars and use that for something else
the only corner of this lens the only negative of this lens really is the
minimum focusing distance so that is the distance from which the lens will
actually focus to your subject so your my hand is the subject you're not going
to have to get too close it takes quite a way back for you to be able to
physically focus so you're just not gonna be able to shoot macro shots don't
do a lot there anyway but if you did maybe don't go for this get a macro lens
instead so next up is the 85 again superb and no
like goes down to an F 1.8 he beautifully built lens nice and big
gives you the buttery separation for your subject 2f 1.8 isolates for
subjects completely and again a great lens for use of weddings events anything
where you just want that separation completely from the background give you
that super cinematic look for weddings I use this off to the side or the left or
the right focusing are you the bride or the groom bother than the center there
just gives you a little bit of isolation between them and what's going on behind
them I just like that look that you get from this lens 85 is obviously tighter
than 55 to 55 sometimes isn't enough reach 85 gives you a little bit of a
bump that's why it's good to have both it's also another good lens for
interviews and talking head segments if you have to be a little bit further back
because it's an 85 it gives you a little bit more zoom it does mean you're also
gonna get more compression which means more bokeh which is a good thing
so the bokeh @f 1.8 on the 85 is going to be better because of the compression
then the bokeh @f 1.8 on the 55 so better and mind this will always have
better polka also a great lens for b-roll because of that extra compression
and better for bokeh peter MacKinnon's b-roll beast is an 85 this is obviously
a sony not canon but yeah that's this lens the 85 when you need it
only the 85 will do nothing else will do the 55 want suffice so this is one of
those lenses where when you want to use it you know you're only using this and
nothing else will work also this lens is only 600 us the one up from this is the
zeiss batis 8500 double the price and when you look at all the reviewers
online there's a lot the difference that you can tell between this and the
ballast is negligible so just don't spend the extra $600 you don't need to I
did the research for you I'm telling you you do not need to spend the extra $600
get this you'll be very happy cons of this lens I don't have any some
people don't like Prime's because you have to move in and out I really like it
it's such a good lens no cons at all and then finally the Sony 72 200 F for the
lens I probably use the least in comparison to my other lenses but I
still use it and at the same time it's one of those lenses that I just couldn't
live without this is the sniper lens the lens is where you stand at the back and
get exactly what you to get without people seeing you without
people hearing you you're not in the way it's the sniper let's our weddings you
could set this up right at the back off to the side and film the entire thing
and no one's gonna see you same thing for speeches at an event or
if you're filming an event and there's someone talking you can stand right at
the back everyone that's watching that person talk you're not stood right in
their way you're not annoying them you're out the way and you're getting
what you need to get you cannot get the same results from this using any of the
other lenses that I've talked about today you just don't have that reach and
sometimes you need it you can still have bokeh to people with a 70-200 f/4 when
you're zoomed in at 200 the compression is so large that the bokeh is just
fantastic your background just disappears into nothing it's so nice no
I'm not into it myself but this is also a popular lens for using for sports
photography again where you're off on the sideline for wildlife photography if
you're shooting animals or birds and you don't want to disturb them that's this
lens when you need to be undetected and you don't want anyone knowing you're
there 70-200 it's also a great lens for portraits very unique in terms of the
look that it gives off add 200 you can zoom right into a person get them nice
and crisp and completely blow out the background that the background still
looks huge because of the compression so it's a really nice unique look that you
can get from this that you can't get from anything else so don't
underestimate this for portraits so there are two sony 7200 so you can get
the F 2.8 and then this the F for the cons of this lens kind of similar to why
talked about with the 1635 you only have f/4 but with a sony a7 3 you can bump up
to 10,000 iso just as i said before and completely compensate for the fact of
not having their 2.8 version if that's what you want in terms of low-light
you'll be amazed at the bokeh this produces f/4 at 200 mil do you really
want to spend the extra money and buy the 2.8 for probably not a lot of
difference in boca my opinion no and that's why I went with this one so this
is 1,500 us the f/4 version and the F 2.8 version is 2600 us I just saved you
$1,100 you're welcome so that is why I'm using on my Sony a7 3
right now as of October 2018 this is what I believe is the perfect lens
selection for the Sony a7 3 when it comes to using full-frame lenses I
talked about the reasons why I think these are the best ones and why you
don't need to spend money to buy the the GM versions or the higher-end versions
save that money invest into something else or just don't have to save up as
much money to buy those lenses because they're super expensive as we all know
hope that helps you hope it took something away from it today I
appreciate you watching if you have any other questions hit me up down below
I'll do my best to respond to everything as long as it's positive if you're
posting negative I will just ignore you giving you the full one and now all
right I'll see you guys in the next video see ya
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