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an absolute belter of a review!

Correction!! $530 CAD is the price of this lens. B&H currently has it on sale for $359 USD - bhpho.to/3TEzAWr

Love the mommy and baby turtle

must be nice

haters are gonna comment "must be nice"

The transition at 1:28 👌🏼

This is crazy helpful! Great video 😀

You must find a solution to your eyes moving down to read something. Great presenters don't need to do that. Great video though has all the information I needed. Thanks.

One of the best review, directy on the point.

How does IQ compare to the $198 Sony 50mm f1.8?

I'm making the jump to sony soon, and have been eying up these lens for the a6700. You can buy the a6700 and the sony lens together for 15% off. Thats 300 bucks. That a begginer could put into a prime lens, or use for a different lens down the road.

I'm amazed by your video, how many mm lenses do you use to video this?

I usually go on a Friday. That way the crowds are smaller and you get to see everyone, even if they don't make the cut. I start at the 18th (or wherever I estimate the first group out will have got to) and go against the flow. When a person I like comes along I will follow them for a few holes, then resume my journey against the flow. It's a simple way to see everyone.

I own the manual focus adapter, and I don't believe it is a bad value for the price. Yes it is possible to get fairly repeatable focus pulls with the base lenses, but it lacks calibrated distances (as you say) and even more important -- hard stops at closest focus and infinity. Whether you are solo operator (like me) or have someone pulling focus while you operate the camera, having a calibrated manual focus means I can "set and forget" my two focus points (with stops on my focus control), and then put my attention on other things while I am shooting -- camera movement, timing, etc.

Some gorgeous footage there!

No doubt Fuji makes some of the best lens around…..and they’re the only company that has made optics for every format from large format, all the medium formats, 35mm and apsc. But we all know their tracking is in last place now. I’m Fuji shooter myself but will be getting a second system when I really need to track well, for everything else I’m sticking with Fuji.

Awesome travel information and video clips !

Great video brother. God bless

So I just bought one and the motor is incredibly loud! You can barely hear the motor in your clip but the one I have is so noisy I could never shoot audio at the same time!

👌👌👌thanks sir i recently bought 7artisans 3lens 35.50.85....thanks for ur review 🙏🙏🙏

Great video! Obviously, the F1.8 aperture is the reason why this lens is so big for what it is! scientifically I don’t know how they could get this lens much smaller? I’m pretty sure the newly announced Sigma 15 F1.4 is even bigger!

I purchased this lens a few days ago for a Sony a7 IV. It is strikingly amazing that for the over a year time period since the lens first came out for Sony first and after dozens and dozens of reviews no one has ever spoken of something that is so important and so obvious that it would be difficult to miss. This lens' firmware can't be updated through its USB port and through a computer. Only via their application and Bluetooth. This information is absent in the manual of the lens and so is on the Viltrox website. I learned it the hard way, trying without success to connect it to Windows 11, disabling Bitlocker, trying at least 5 different USB cables. It would not show on the computer. Then finally their customer service in China replied to my email, stating the above - the lens can only be updated via the app. They sent me a video about that. The video is not on the website. The application is clumsy, it looks like it updated both the firmware of the lens and of the lens' Bluetooth. However, after detaching and reattaching the lens, as they advise, the camera continues to read "version 01" as firmware of the lens. The application, after the one time supposed update, does not give you information about the current firmware version on the lens, even though it connects to the lens. Again - unbelievable that no one has said a word in all the reviews.

I think another difference is that X-H2 can shoot video with up to 2x digital zoom. If you still have X-H2, can you please look at what video modes are possible at 2x digital zoom? I think i read somewhere 4k60 is not possible with digital zoom, only 4k30/24, but I'm curious if it could do 1080p240 fps - as this would be pretty neat mode for macro and wildlife videography. Thanks.

Too much Toneh. Ha Ha

Great review, indeed the pictures from this lens are so clean. At F2 the GM is as sharp as the 35mm SL APO F2 in the center and both have comparable contrast, which is crazy. The 35mm GM is also smaller, lighter, has faster and silent AF (the SL is noisy in video) and of course you can get much nicer background blur at f1.4. The Leica has better colors and nicer OOF transition at F2, it also has excellent microcontrast to the point of focus (only a few lenses can do that). However the Leica is 3500$ more expensive, not sure if it worth it for 90% of people. Both are the best 35mm AF lenses you can get.

There's no reason moving production to China would impact reliability simply because it's being made in China. The only reason it would impact reliability is because Fuji, in the process of moving production to China, altered production methods and materials and practices. It could be argued that, if Fuji hasn't properly ramped up production at the new factory, that there may be some teething problems as the new factory gets up to speed and the tooling is broken in. That would be Fuji's problem for having not properly managed the transition. This assumption and association of poor quality with China is completely unfounded and based on the bias that comes from judging the entirety of China's manufacturing capability based on the cheapest products produced there. But whilst China does produce low-cost, low-quality mass produced items, in which low quality is factored in to design to allow for lower cost/higher output; they also have very high quality manufacturing capabilities, as seen in the fact that almost all of the high-end, high quality products we admire today are also produced in China, though they may try to obscure that fact with a "designed in the USA" or something.

That built in mic isn’t bad. I’m going to use mine for short travel clips

I have X100VI since 7 weeks. For me, this camera is perfect with wcl and tcl converters. ❤

Something I forgot to mention that I'd like you to know! One of the shooting modes on the X100VI is 'Film Bracketing'. In this mode, you can select three different Film Simulations - whenever you take a photo, the X100VI will give you three different photos as an end product, one of each film simulation you selected. One big problem I have here is that when selecting the three different film simulations, you cannot select a custom recipe that you have created. The Film Bracketing Mode is locked to only the Film Simulations that Fuji ships the camera with (the x100vi comes with 20 different options here). The only way to use your custom film recipe is to save it as a custom mode. Quite Disappointing in my opinion. I'd like the option to use 3 custom film recipes I have created in the film bracketing mode, but in its current state, this is not possible on the X100VI.

love that someone took this on

no dude but which is sharper and has the least barrel and pin distortion then the other

I can't put it on my sony a6000?

Did you check maybe a software update would fix the lens stabilization? I think maybe the Sony 70-200 f4 macro or the Sigma 70-200 f2.8 would be a better choice for video shooters...

So that's not true by all means... You CAN power your monitor via USB_C because I do it all the time and even from using my cheap two mini sony A7rii batteries in this cheap ebay box, it fully runs as a battery pack using the USB-A to C plug and it powers it up as we speak as I test my monitor false colors. I normally power the monitor with an actual battery pack... no issues and that's including connected to my camera AND wireless connected HMDi or wired to another TV.

did your camera body have Ibis?

base MSRP the tamron is the winner and its weather sealed

Hi, have the Mars M1 the grid lines on screen?

The second hood does lock on, but needs a little effort.

Videographers should just purchase the X-H2. The T-5 is a photographer's model. Agree on the front dial. I do NOT want the +/- dial with a lock EVER.

so, im literally trying to buy this on amazon, and they are only selling packages, where you have to buy 2 or even 3 of these, like you literally cant just buy the 1

The main enhancements are the UI, better locking connectors and better latency.

Thank you @letthelightintv. I saw the reply to my comment in the other video. That's interesting. Would you say the Viltrox 16mm F1.8 has a sharper/cleaner image than the Viltrox 13mm F1.4 even in low light? Would it work on an apsc camera like the zv-e10 ?

Great review!! Thank you. Is the image quality of mkx lenses better compared to 16-55 lenses, that is, compared to Fujifilm's regular photo lenses? I wonder if there is a difference in sharpness and overall image quality.

I feel you should just go back to Sony. You seem quite smug and it is boring and tiring

You did a review of the viltrox f1.2 not too long ago. Which do you prefer for optics?

Between the viltrox 13mm f1.4 and the sony 15mm f.14, which performed better optically (especially in sharpness and contrast)? Which one would you prefer and why?

Hard to argue against the extreme value of this lens. It really is remarkably good for the price.

If Viltrox would add weather sealing and aperture rings, I would consider them. The same with Sigma. Sigma has some amazing glass but I am in the PNW so I am in the rain 80% of the time. The tradeoffs make sense for the cost reduction but those are must-haves for me. Honestly, I know it might seem ridiculous to som, but if another $200-300 gets me an aperature ring, that's what I will do to not modify my workflow for certain lenses. Of course, if it is a fixed aperture that concern drops. Thanks for the review!

Hello! Great Video! I already own the sony 18 to 135 mm lens. But I want a little more zoom. Should I but the Tamron 18 to 300? Is the difference significant? Thank You !

This is not how you measure latency. You have two sources of unknown amounts of latency: 1 - Your camera's video output. DSLRs are terrible in this regard, and some much worse than others, but even a Red or Alexa has some. 2 - Your TV This is then added to whatever extra latency the Accsooon creates. So... We have no idea how much latency the Accsoon creates from watching your video.