so we all know that a good camera means absolutely nothing without the right
lens right? let's take a look at this 50 millimeter Arri anamorphic lens. let's
remove a couple zeros from the price and we end up with this guy. I got this lens
for $48. see canon made a lens that's very identical to this and it's their
cheapest lens yet and then this is a knockoff of that one. It's an EF mount lens
which means it fits on most canon cameras like the canon a 80D I'm filming
on also fits on like a a rebel or c100 c300 and it's even adaptable to a cinema
camera like this red. do you guys think it's gonna look like absolute trash? Do you
think it's gonna look pretty good? it's actually making this camera feel super
small and light and it's like this little focus ring, and it's like eee. Okay, let's try this, this is stupid.
we're gonna go out and film some stuff with this setup and here's some of the
footage
by the way this was a shoot that angel whipped up last minute for us you might
remember her from a couple of the previous videos. Angel's always doing
awesome crazy cool stuff so make sure you go send her some love and of course
don't forget to follow her super talented friends who all came out to
help that night you will not regret it I promise. Now that was pretty cool right?
but that kind of lighting and setup it makes it pretty difficult to see the
characteristics and qualities of this lens so we're going to switch over to
footage with entirely natural lighting shot at different times of the day
by the way do you guys like how overly dramatic this music is? the music kind of
gave this scene a feeling of intent or emotion but really here Mika's just
straight-up thinking about if we're gonna get fish tacos after. how about we
try switching up the music a little bit.
what did you guys think of the footage? was it along the lines of what you were
expecting did it perform better or worse let me know in the comments I'm super
curious to know what you guys think. me personally I thought it performed pretty
damn good just to make it clear I'm definitely not saying this is the best
lens I've ever used. I mean if you compare this against a cinema grade lens
this thing gets shredded apart in a second but this lens cost less than to
fill up my Jeep with gas. there's a dozen reasons why this lens under performs
compared to the pro grade lenses like the clarity the coating on the lens. the
most obvious being this focus ring I mean if there's very little travel I
mean this isn't really meant for video this is more for photography but
operating this little thing in manual focus was a real struggle I noticed a
lot of my shots were like 80-90% in focus but it just didn't have that perfect
100% super crisp image. I mean that's the range of travel right there
opposed to a zeiss like that which has all this travel so I can really get nice
and precise with the focus but I think it's safe to say if you have this lens
learn to use it learn its limitations. this could potentially be the best 48
dollar investment you could make to your camera arsenal. especially if you don't
have anything that's like in the 50 millimeter range. this is no doubt a
better lens but I'm not gonna want to carry this thing around with me all the
time especially if I'm traveling or or hiking or something like that. Like this
little thing is a very small investment in terms of carrying it with you
wherever you go. like if this lens got stolen or broke I'd be like dang that
sucks. but if I drop this thing and it broke I'd be like alright where's the
noose. and by the way this is a 50 millimeter 1.8 lens the 1.8 means that
you could get some pretty shallow depth of field and also shoot in some pretty
good low-light out of it and 50 millimeter is like a pretty tight angle
but if I'm doing like a vlog I'm really counting on this wide lens to get a
majority of the video and be able to throw this lens in once in a while to
get some super creative shots. for example some of these shots you just can't
achieve super shallow depth-of-field on the super wide angle lens. if you guys
are interested in picking up one of these I'll put a link in the description
and would you guys want to see what it looks like if we put a proper cinema
lens on like a basic camera like this 80D maybe? I don't know if that's
something you guys want to see let me know and I'll put that on the list of
you know ridiculous videos to film that makes no sense really. oh hey guys I just
finished editing the video and I just realized that I didn't film an ending so here
it is. it's an ending. I guess while we wait we can just play with the autofocus
I have the 50 millimeter on the 1.8 and I'm just gonna move around so you guys can
see the autofocus speeds and also there's no image stabilization on the
lens so keep that in mind. you might want to have some sort of tripod or some sort
of stabilizer or at least like a little handle