Great lens and I like the character a lot. Well done and thanks for your son to modell for the lens. I find the results really good. I especially like the strict and sublime charisma of your son. The B&W portrait is my favorite (and the warm, dreamy, over-flared picture of your cat !). Thanks for sharing.

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure.

I have no interest in purchasing such a lens, but love watching your videos even when I'm not interested in the lens. You have such a soothing presentation and make the assessment so interesting. You and Christopher Frost are the two that I always have to watch.

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

I hear that fairly often. It's interesting, since (to my knowledge), we are the only two who are both ministers and gear reviewers.

@martin9410

2 жыл бұрын

@@DustinAbbottTWI I’m a retired minister, so maybe there’s some commonality.

@pbphotography2051

11 ай бұрын

👍

Thank you for reviewing this lens. You're approach and information in this video is very helpful!

@DustinAbbottTWI

4 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

19:02 I love that image! I bought one and find it works better than expected, in that it mostly holds up as a respectable lens and not a toy. At the minimum focusing distance and the widest aperture it's kind of hazy, but if you focus 1-2 meters away the widest aperture becomes usable. For normal subjects f1.4 is OK and f2 is solid although of course not what you buy this for. I'd have liked slightly better performance at close focus and maybe a clickless aperture, but the overall aesthetics are good, colors are faithful, no big flares or swirls, I'm not complaining.

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

That's one of my favorites, too. It has a very intimate quality.

Love the lens. Love the way you mix technical and artistic part of the lens. For the price I think it's a gem, specially nowadays, where everything is getting iphonish, super high dynamic range, everything sharp, and render is less unique. This is the kind of lens that makes me go outside and explore the world with a new eye. Thank you for taking the time to get out of the mainstream lenses, I know it's less visible, but oh so much of important. Kudos

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

Seems like you get this one!

@luisfilipelopes2900

2 жыл бұрын

@@DustinAbbottTWI it is a big possibility, I've been trying to find a good character lens on the fifty range. I have a samyang 45mm 1.8 but I'm not a fan of the look. I love my Minolta 50f1.4, optical not great but the render really catch me. Normally use it from f2 on, but love it still. For mirror less this might do it, to add to my perfect samyang 135mm f2. Thank for everything

After seeing your review several lenses like this, i think it finally clicked. I’d always criticize these lenses, but i think i now get them. My error was probably expecting good technical performance wide open. These lenses, wide open, are more of an instant “dreamy” preset applied to all images. Great review!

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

I would say that is the correct approach to lenses like these.

Great lens great review.

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much

Thanks again Dustin.

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

Hi Dustin - great review as always! Did you happen to check the coma of this lens by any chance?

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

I probably didn't if you haven't seen it in the review. I test wide angle lenses for coma regularly, longer focal lengths far less often.

@HelmutBemboka

2 жыл бұрын

Ok thank-you.

I'd love to watch your review of the Nikon 58mm f/0.95 S Noct lens!

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

Afraid that I'm not a Nikon reviewer. Sorry!

Well this lens certainly lets the light in - in it’s own special way. I love it, providing there is time to compose/focus. What’s the MFD? And what, irrespective of price, would you say it’s rivals are for a lens like this?

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

I think MFD is 50cm/1.7ft

@MikeLindup42

2 жыл бұрын

@@DustinAbbottTWI Have you considered reviewing the TTArtisan 50m 0.95?

@mikefoo6842

2 жыл бұрын

@@MikeLindup42 It's Mike Lindup !!! Didn't know you're into cameras too. I'm also interested in a review of the TTArtisan.

You don't buy a lens like this for its sharpness and perfection... You buy it for its softness and "flaws"! Regarding the lens hood... By any chance does it lock into place by turning it slightly after extending it? Canon lenses with similarly built-in hoods do that. With a small twist they can be locked either in the extended or retracted position. Turning slightly the opposite direction loosens to allow the hood to be slid out or back in. Heck of a bargain at $400! Fully manual use may be a bit slow and take some practice, but I can see a lot of wedding photographers buying one of these! Finally, the focus and aperture controls may loosen up a bit with regular use. It also may be pretty easy to "de- click" the aperture (for video use). Often in fully manual lenses, the detent is just a tiny ball bearing that can be removed (just be careful to not drop and lose it, if you ever want to re-click the lens).

@gimaru1

2 жыл бұрын

RF 50 or 85 1.2 are the better choices if one can afford them. For half a stop more you get speed autofocus sharpness colors contrast coatings etc..

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't lock into place by twisting, unfortunately.

Thanks!

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Nice review, Dustin. What I found with this lens is quite a terrible close focus performance at wide apertures. Usable, and actually solid, is f2. On the other hand, at a 50mm typical portraiture distance even wider apertures are usable and acceptably sharp. Of course not crisp, but pleasing for some smooth portraits of half body for example. The lens gets worse wide open at long distance again. Closed down to f8 it is a fantastic lens for anything. So, I would recommend to use it accordingly, and people will have a lot of fun. It actually performs better than most of my bright vintage lenses, which costs 3 times more. Have a nice day, and thanks for your great work.

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

There's definitely a sweet spot - optimized for portrait distances.

hi Dustin, I have looked and seen your reviews on the 50mm and I must say that you are very good. Is this 50mm f0.95 lens similar in quality to the Canon 50mm f1.0? For the cost of $ 400, do you recommend buying this lens or buying something else when used?

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

I would say that optically it is as similar.

Un-related topic but I just found out about downsizing my images, I have some 61MP images that just don't have 61MP worth of detail due to higher ISO used. Just found that downsizing these images to 30MP really increases sharpness and actually decreases noise, so this now mean my denoise program is working much easier with a lot less artifacts. Who would have thought that losing megapixels would actually create a nicer image.

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

It’s surprising how well it works

Would you like to do some tests on the Samyang 50 1.4 II if you want

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

I don't have a copy of the Samyang yet, unfortunately.

How would you compare it to the 7Artisans 50mm F1.05?

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think I've reviewed that lens, so I don't know.

@MichaelBriggs3

2 жыл бұрын

@@DustinAbbottTWI Definitely check it out if you get a chance. I like it a lot! It has a 13 blade aperture.

At 10:00, the needles directly behind the guy are out of focus, but the tree trunk in the top right corner behind the needles is in focus? What is going on there?

@archstanton3611

2 жыл бұрын

I believe needles are much further in the distance than the tree trunk

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

I think Arch has the right answer.

@titsmcgee852

2 жыл бұрын

@@DustinAbbottTWI what? The needles are directly behind the subject, and the tree is at least a few metres behind the subject, and yet they’re both on the same focal plane.

Hows the micro contrast?

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

I actually directly talk about that during the image quality section of the review.

any good for BW street photos at night time? ( 0.9, 35mm crop version ) ?

@DustinAbbottTWI

13 күн бұрын

Sure...so long as your subject stays still enough for you nail focus.

Great review, sad you didn't say a single word about light transmission (T-stop). For such a fast lens, it should be part of any optical quality test, yet every KZreadr fails to do that.

@DustinAbbottTWI

Ай бұрын

Light transmission is a difficult test without the proper equipment to measure it.

@JimBaker-ks4io

Ай бұрын

@@DustinAbbottTWI very true, but at least one can measure relative transmission using a reference lens, usually a lens whose transmission is known

Very right these kinds of lenses should be looked at from other criteria - not just from edge to edge sharpness etc. Any lens that does not have an electronic interface saves a lot in terms of cost. So price is nt the only factor. In terms of lens design & history this has been a constant problematic. To widen the aperture & not lose contrast - aberrations etc. The early zeiss biotar (Willy Merte) 58mm f2 (1927produced) (later the helios 44) & there was also a 57mm sonnar design - is about almost a century ago - in a context where mathematics-physics-optical design was coming into its own and interfacing with the visual artistic movements in both painting and photgraphy + early cinema. Today wth the digital revolution out of focus rendering takes on another dimension & this asks for other criteria - when is vignettng artistic or just bad lens design. The same with the extra wide apertures vis a vis light transmission - dispersion and mfd and whether they really render a beautiful shallow DOF and not have whitewashed hghlights even after software processing . Also in terms of coatings and contrast. Also what is the role of MF lens design now.

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

I think there is a space for lenses like this, for sure.

Big question did you keep it?

@DustinAbbottTWI

7 ай бұрын

I did not. I own the Sony 50mm F1.4 G Master (along with several other 50mm lenses), so I'm personally well covered.

@Jwitherow1964

7 ай бұрын

@@DustinAbbottTWI I have also been looking at voiglander 50 1.0

You have a gorgeous voice!

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

So huh, what happens if you put it on a speedbooster?

@DustinAbbottTWI

Жыл бұрын

You achieve cold fusion ;)

too much CA at wide apertures...not really useable until you hit f2 but sharpness is uneven because it's either decentered or has severe field curvature. one can argue it's a specialized lens but IMO this is just a waste of money.

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

Fair enough

It's a potato of lens!!!😄😄😄

@DustinAbbottTWI

2 жыл бұрын

Not quite sure what that means...but sure!