Ahoj! This is Zdenka. If you have been following my channel for a while, then you know that
I love to use nifty 50 lens with Viltrox speed booster and this time Viltrox reached out
to me and this is not a paid ad, if I would be interested
to test out this lens, new prime lens 23 millimeters. It's auto focus lens f/1.4 and I'm going to
be testing it obviously with Canon M6 Mark II and also Canon M50 as it is ef-m
mount lens. And if you are new here, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. If you want to learn
how to take better photos and videos with the
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design is very sleek, I do have silver version. Weight is 260 grams, filter size is 52,
minimal aperture is f/1.6, maximum is f/16. Minimal focus range is 0.3 and maximum magnification
is 0.1. When you look at the lens, you can see focus length and aperture ring. It comes
with metal lens hood which is quite nice as well. 23 millimeters, what is the view? Let's
look at it practically, let's look at the view you would actually get. So I'm gonna
compare it so you get better understanding, the range, the
view, what you can actually see. First goes Viltrox speed booster with the 50 millimeter
lens. Next view is just with the kit lens 15-45mm.
Let's start with the 15 millimeters. This is the view with 45mm and finally here is
the view you would get with 23mm Viltrox f/1.4 lens. And as you can see, it's not very wide
look so it's not probably suitable for vlogging. You
would have to have extremely long selfie stick. But it is amazing for studio, like i'm talking
right now. You can use it for b-roll, you can
use it for product shots, close-up shots. This lens because such a low aperture f/1.4
is a guarantee it's gonna perform very well in low light. And of course I took the lens
outside and I took a whole bunch of different random photos.
I wanted to see what kind of look I can get with this lens. Because the aperture is f/1.4,
it gives you very shallow depth of field. That
means that only little part of the photo will be sharp, everything else is blurry. Let's
increase the aperture to see when you get corner to corner sharp photos and here is
set of photos I took with different aperture values. I'm
going to display the settings I had on the camera. Also, there's a little tiny vignette
in low aperture between f/1.4 to about 3.6 which can be
obviously taken out in Photoshop in case you don't want such effect. And here are some
test evening shots, just random photos. I simply wanted to see what kind of ISO I am
going to get with this. When it comes to video, here are
some sample clips as well. I'm shooting here at f/1.4 aperture. I'm going to try higher
aperture as well. If you are wondering how fast is the
focus, here is example. It's quite smooth and silent. The silent auto focus... let me
explain something. So if I'm using the 50mm lens with Viltrox speed booster, the 50mm
lens is definitely not silent. When it's focusing,
it gives me a lot of noise so I can't use it for anything else just like b-roll and
stuff like that. I'm not using it when I'm recording myself
but if you are using the 23mm lens, it is super silent. Now when it's focusing, there
is a tiny little sound when you put your ear to it so if you have for example camera which
has quite sensitive internal microphone and you're using
the internal built-in microphone, you might catch the sound a little bit but if you are
using the external microphone like I am, it's silent.
You can absolutely use it. And here is a low light test. Here are my camera settings and
I'm using Canon M6 Mark ii. When I'm filming at 24fps what I didn't talk about is the focus
ring and the aperture ring. What I like about the
focus ring is that it is quite big. You can grab it easily and it's very smooth. It is
quite easy to turn, you can turn it very lightly. The
aperture ring is very close to the camera so if you are using cage on your camera like
I do, it is a bit difficult to grab it. If you don't use the cage, then it is totally
fine. It is a little bit hard to turn, it is not as easy
to turn. You need to apply more forces but it is still smooth. It is clickless so you
do need to look where it is at if you need to know. You
can turn it from f/1.4 to 16. If you don't want to use this manual aperture and use the
digital one on the screen instead, just turn it to A which is automatic. Then you can adjust
it on the screen as usually. There are not too
many lenses, not too many modern lenses with aperture ring. I have to confess that when
I was doing photography for 15 years and I was
shooting weddings, I was staying away from prime lenses. I always wanted just zoom lenses
because I like to frame the shot directly in a camera and plus I didn't have enough
time to get there quickly to get the shot. I was losing
a lot of candid moments, so zoom lens for me was the way to go. The only time I was
using prime lens was in the evening when everybody settled
and I had enough time just to walk around and do creative shots. That's when I loved
the prime lens because of the low aperture. Now, when it comes to video, all I want is
prime lenses. It is such a big difference, especially the
kit lens 15-45mm. It doesn't have such a low aperture so during evening it's not very good
in low light. It's just strictly a vlogging kit but
you certainly see the quality whenever you take any prime lens with any focal length
because usually the aperture is so low. When it comes to pricing, particularly of this
lens, I was very surprised that it's not very expensive
like all the other lenses. It is actually very reasonable so if you are interested to
see the pricing, the international link, so you can see
the currency based on where you live, the link is as always below the video in video
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