hi I apologize if I seem a little bit off today if I sound sick because I actually am sick but
I'm still making a video you're welcome this is the Sony 24 mil f 1.4 G master I've been using
this lens on my a 7-3 pretty much exclusively for the past four weeks I'm gonna talk about basics
we're talking about video autofocus bokeh build quality and lots of examples for both photo and
video basically the juicy stuff that most people just want to see this is my first G master lens
if you're not familiar with what a G master lens is you've probably heard of a canon l lens there
best of the best well this is Sony's version of that the G master series so this is the 24 mil
F one point for the G stands for the greatest because it's better than every other lens out
there that's obviously not true so let's quickly talk about build quality and design the big thing
about this lens is its size it's incredibly small for what it is for an F 1.4 lens full-frame you
normally have a much much bigger lens to this Sony did an incredibly good job at designing
this lens and making it as small as it is to give you an idea of just how small this is this is the
85 mil this is the 24 mil they're nearly the same size they're also very similar when it comes to
weight so needless to say this is a small lens we just go over the design of the lens it's obviously
made of metal a little bit of a nicer finish than any other Sony lenses that I have probably because
it's a G master it's a metal finish on it's very smooth but it's also slightly textured has a lens
button on it which you can assign to do whatever you want I have minus sign as a focus hold so when
I'm shooting and I click and when I'm get my focus I click and hold that and then the focus
stays locked on that until I release that bond you can assign that to do whatever you want a lot of
people have it assigned to I although focus as well something that's a little bit different to
other lenses I own this one has a little bun on the lens hood there so you click and hold
the bun and then that releases the lens hood none of my other Sony lenses have that in fact none of
the other lenses I've ever owned had that maybe that's just the G master thing I'm not too sure
it means the lens hood can't come off accidentally which is a nice thing it is of course a focus by
Y meaning autofocus is done electronically there is no mechanical focus physically inside the lens
here that being said of all the Sony lenses I own it's by far the smoothest very very nice
resistance is not to farm it's no to loose it's very smooth all the way around it's really nice
it has an aperture ring on here which means you can control the aperture on the lens itself it's
also d clicked so right now you can hear here I'm telling the aperture ring and there's no noise or
no click at least if I click the little switch on the side now it's a clickable aperture ring
I've heard some people say that this moves a little bit too easily it's really firm on my
version and I really like it unclipped to be honest all D clicked to be able to change that
quickly and easily on the lens is really nice here's an example of how that works actually
when you're shooting video I have the ISO set to auto hear shutter speeds of 2000 so I can expose
f 1.4 correctly here I'm just going to turn the the aperture ring and let ISO Auto adjust
itself so you can see how the background will change so we're gonna go from F 1 point 4 F 2
F 3 point 2 you see how the background is now coming in focus F 6 point 3 f10 f-16 let's go
back you see how the background gets its blur it's pretty cool a little bit different not a
lot of lenses have that it's really nice so this is an F 1 point 4 which means a couple of things
the low-light abilities lens is gonna be way way way way way up there this is gonna be among one
of the best lenses you can probably get when it comes to low-light F 1.4 is incredibly low it lets
in a ton of light which means that when you're shooting in low-light environment this is gonna
be a good lens to use it also means bokeh or Bo care whatever you want to call it but there's lots
and lots of bokeh you're gonna get some serious background separation with this that shallow depth
of field that everybody wants you're gonna get it really good with this the background literally
melts to nothing all the focus goes on you or whatever you're focusing on and the background
just is like gone disappeared the negatives of showing it F 1.4 is that your depth of field is
teeny teeny teeny tiny is such a small range of focus that you have to get it dead on otherwise
it will not be in focus here's some examples of me using F 1.4 for both photo and video
if you think about using this lens for YouTube videos and you want to know how much background
or Lakoff you'll have at f 1.4 and how the focus will work with talking to head segment
videos for video this is that this is what it looked like maybe not outside in the freezing
cold but you get my point so yeah it's kind of hard to focus exactly on everything I'm
looking at the screen here and not everything is in focus in my face cuz f 1.4 is so tiny
you have such a small window of focus in F 1.4 you can kind of tell that from this if we crank
this up a little bit let's go F 2.8 and then adjust to get my exposure back you can see now
that you have a lot more and focus my face it can hold focus on my face a lot easier and this
might be a little bit better for YouTube talking head segments if that's what you're looking to
do auto focus as with any other Sony lens I've owned the auto focus on this is very very good
it's quick it's accurate when it gets locked on when it finds its focus it stays locked on
it stays accurate and that's really nice alright here's an auto focus test out about in the field
not literally a field but somewhere where you're actually going to realistically use this camera
not in a studio where it's all controlled so all the focus F to point a is what I had the
lens set to I'm just gonna run around and do some auto focus test and see how it handles
don't know if that worked but see later on as I said earlier F 1.4 is extremely shallow now it
will accurately lock on after 1.4 if you move around slightly if you move further forwards
further back your focus is no longer gonna be in focus that's not a problem with the lens that's
just a thing about shooing it F 1.4 I would also say that it does seem to be when you're
shooting at something like F 1 point 4 F 2 the autofocus is a little bit slower not hugely but
it's definitely noticeable compared to if you're shooting at f/8 my guess for this is
because it's such a narrow depth of field even slight movements will throw it off and that's
kind of what I think is happening that's just my assumption I could be completely wrong but kind
of makes sense to me so the sharpness of this lens something that everyone always strives for
in a lens especially people new to photography and video they want the absolute sharpest image
they can possibly get so sharpness is good for some people some people don't like it this is
an incredibly sharp lens so sharp pain for the sharp actually sometimes and what I mean by that
is it can be unflattering so if you look at this photo here you can see every minut little detail
on my skin but we can't have that against the lens the lens is super sharp if I have bad skin
that's not the lenses for is it that's my fault but anyway yeah this lens is incredibly sharp
here's a picture of a brick wall show F 1 point 8 and then zoomed in and then here's the same
wall at f/4 and then zoomed in and then the same thing at f/8 and then zoomed in so you can make
your own assumptions over what you sharpen but it's definitely a little bit sharper higher up
that wide-open F 1.4 it's not quite as sharp as it is at those higher apertures minimum focus
distance of this and what I mean by that is how close you can be to a subject is about 24
centimeters so that's roughly I'm going to say about that just as a rough idea it's not like
macro close but you can definitely get right up there if you crop mode Clear Image Zoom as
well you can get even further and then you're kind of in macro territory so it's a 24 mill
what is a really really nice cinematic kind of focal length and because of that it's actually
a really nice gimbal lens so I've used it on my weeble lab it balances without any problems
whatsoever it's not too heavy so it goes on there nice and easy balances with no problems
a lot of people going to ask is this a lens you can use for vlogging typically I prefer
to use something like a 16 16 35 as one shoe time right now but I tried this alpha vlogging
and I was actually pleasantly surprised with the background separation on there actually makes for
a really really nice vlogging lens here's some examples so this is what vlogging with the 24f
1.4 looks like on the sony a7 3 I apologize if the frame it looks a little bit weird I have a
shutter speed cranked because it's actually at F 1.4 and I didn't bring an ND filter sorry this
is what blogging looks like a little bit tighter than why I prefer I love a 16 it doesn't look too
bad I do have it at arm's reach here obviously there is no optical image stabilization built
into the lens but with the sony a7 3 yeah like this so that kind of works a little bit better
now you can see background just disappears to nothing really nice so if you're happy with 24
million focal length and you will really like this link you can deal with the shake it's not too bad
just nothing in the background just disappears there's nothing so nice I just mentioned that this
doesn't have any optical image stabilization built into it most cameras now like the a7 3
have Ibis built into them so that really isn't that much of a big deal also if you're using a
stabilizer it really isn't that much of a big deal whatsoever here's an example of me using this with
a stabilizer on the a7 3 if you're thinking about vlogging on a stabilizer like the weevil lab with
the 24 mil high f2 running this is what that would look like - oh man how gonna get back to the gym
probably a bit smoother than the handheld but yeah this is what that would look like in the snow so
what will I be using this lens for and how does it fit into my current lineup of lenses because
it's kind of a weird one I have the 1635 the 55 the 85 the 7200 and now the 24 so it's definitely
a weird one doesn't fit quite in there as easily as you would think but I'm thinking that I'm gonna
use this as a gimbal lens for weddings anytime on a gimbal 24 Miller's a really really nice
field of view I really do like wired on a gimbal it's my preference for shooting with a gimbal and
an F 1.4 that's nice that means I can use it in low-light I can crop in with crop mode and still
have really nice bokeh in the background really nice background separation and shallow depth
of field so I think it's gonna be a really good gimbal lens you can go in front of things and have
the background or blurred out or I'll have the foreground or blurred out and then the backgrounds
all in focus so it'll be really nice on a gimbal moving around I also think this will be a really
good travel lens and you might disagree with me my personal choice for travel ends right now is
a 1635 F for Sony but since I've had this on my camera exclusively and kind of force myself to use
just this so I can get used to it and make this review honestly I really like it I think just the
F 1.4 aspect of it is what's making me really like it compared to f4 on the 1635 but 24 is like right
in the middle of where I want to use it anyway it's a little bit tighter than what I normally
use for shooting myself but I can stretch my arm a little bit more and that'll suffice but for the
one point for the low light abilities and just the cinematic look of it I think I'm gonna try
this on my next trip which is actually coming up two trips coming up in the next couple of months
and I think I'm gonna use this try it out also astrophotography a big thing I wanted to buy
this lens for really I'm very interested in Astro photography it's extremely well regarded as an
astro photography lens one big thing they've also said with this lens and you can look at a ton of
reviews that also say this when you look in the corners of some images of Astro photography the
the stars don't tend to be quite as star-shaped they kind of expand or they become more crosses
and with this lens it stars in the mid or exactly the same as your stars at the edge so that's a
really nice thing about this then so I'm very much looking forward to using this for some
Astro photography once we clear sky so what could you compare this lens to well there is one other
lens out there there is a direct competition to this lens and there's the Sigma 24mm at one point
for now the Sigma weighs about 50% more than this this is like 450 grams I think and the Sigma is
about 650 grams so weighs a lot more and sort of a little bit bigger gee master this lens is $1400
it's us at the time of me making this video and the Sigma is 950 dollars so quite a big difference
in price however I did so much research an obscene amount of research and everything pointed to this
lens you ought to focus on this is a lot better than Sigma a lot less noise when it comes to the
autofocus the astrophotography aspects of this and just the overall image quality is better on
this lens which is why I ended up going for this one you don't have to take my word for it but I
did do a ton of research so just kind of given me the too long didn't read and finally I'll
leave you with some b-roll with this lens just in my little studio space here so yeah here's
that coming up appreciate you watching today if you like this video or you know someone else that
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as well alright appreciate you watching see you guys in the next one here's that b-roll
if you could have seen the South I use for someone's today's segments it's it's ridiculous
like look it's big water on top had to put the mic to the side and it's big and Sony give us a flurry
and I know the a 6400 has one but I'm like the a7 s3 give us a flip screen please okay thanks bye