GET THE LENS HERE (affiliate links) Sony E - geni.us/8E4tt Fuji X - geni.us/cYjfF Micro 4/3 - geni.us/cCcg or geni.us/ABsud Canon EF-M - geni.us/6IeK Photo and Video Examples from this camera - geni.us/Qb7j1
This lens is designed for the sensors/format, smaller than APS-C , they are sold in C mount, which is designed for 1.1" format... Therefore, when you saying that blurred edges and heavy vignette is design flaw, it is not correct.. You just simply going outside of the usable image circle of this lens ... Try to use it on 1" sensor camera like Nikon 1, or at least M4/3 , and all these flaws will be gone😉👍
The heavy field curvature is still very much present on M4/3. I own a few different c mount lenses that all exhibit similar traits and they blurred edges happen on all of them.
@@ezzellvfx2169 That's also true, but usually bad compensation for the field curvature will give you a swirly bokeh throughout the frame (see Helios 40), that is one of the main signs... This one doesn't have pronounced swirly bokeh on the 1" or even M4/3 circle, meaning it was compensated for the field curvature. And swirls with strange bokeh balls, like a jellyfish, appearing close to the edges on APS-C, where all attributes of closing to dark dark edge of the image circle are presenting themselves, including vignette and loss of sharpness... I used thus kind of lens on the Nikon 1, and it works perfectly... Generally I think it is cheap CCTV design lens, and some cheap CCTV producing Chinese company just decided to use larger image circle of the lens for expanding the market beyond CCTV only...😉👍
I have this same lens by risespray in black. Mine came with a macro screw-on attachment when I purchased it on AliExpress. It’s surprisingly decent for the price
I have the same risespray one in silver. I love the lens but that screw on adapter gets very annoying when swapping out lenses as I routinely unscrew it.
More cheap lenses with "imperfections" please. That's exactly the type of look I've been hunting for in a lens. And at $33!? It's a steal for me personally
Its not a flaw , it was simply not designed for that ,and in surveillance it is more important to see wider even if it fishlenses ( yeah made that word up but explains easier the effect). And the vignette is simply your sensor being too big.
I have that lens, and yes, it is surprisingly nice. I used it fairly close and low for a second angle in an interview and loved how it turned out. I was using it on an EOS M running Magic Lantern Crop Mood (2.5k RAW) which has a slight crop on it anyway and had no vignetting.
I have been hoping to buy a cheap lens, at about 35mm f/l, for my Sony a6400 (APS-C) camera... THAT I COULD TAKE APART. I want to flip the objective (front) lens element to enhance swirly bokeh. Is this lens glued together? Or is it capable of being taken apart?
The images look fantastic. I like the out of focus edging. Question: How do you keep your lights off your glasses? Would love to see your filming setup and light placement.🤓
Hey Mark. Got these Fujian or Risepray 35mm and the 25mm, both for Fuji but it seems you have a recent version, it looks like the recent versions have a larger front Element, maybe that is the reason why this flaws are less visibles for this new version.
this looks like a cool lens, i've been looking ebay and there is a seller that has these in 4 or 5 different colors, there is a red one a blue one and even a gold one!
I'm always worried about cheap lenses like this damaging the lens mount on my Fuji because of poor manufacturing tolerances. Have you had any issues with this on cheap lenses?
I bought the Fujian version of this lens just to have something small and fast for low light that i could toss in my camera bag. I normally have my sigma 18-50 2.8 lens as my go to walk around lens but this little thing is handy in case i need the extra stops of light and just have to get a particular low light shot etc... my biggest issue with this lens or at least my copyof this lens is the focus ring. Very hard to pull/rack focus if you are using it for video work and i find that even if i set focus and dont move the focus ring still shifts and never quite stays put between takes/shots which is super annoying but hey there is much worse out there for more than $35! 😅
I bought this same lens in silver, which I thought looked great. But, it makes the lens markings a little diffcult to read. I would buy a similar lens again but in black. I think mine came with 4 adapters which was nice because I can use on my canon camera and also Micro 4/3
I think this is a more recent version of the Fujian 35mm f1.7 CCTV lens (C-mount), that I own and were the flaws you described are more visible. About this lens I appreciate the small size and the low weight. BTW now I use more the Brightin Star 35mm f0,95 that I purchased after your review. Thank you for your videos.
Really interesting lens to be honest. I bought it for just 20 on a local e-commerce website. When using it to shoot the streets from above, the result looks like a tilt-shift photograph due to the blurry edges.
Good sell! This lens looks like it might be useful for B&W photography with an old-time look. Spiratone used to offer a very primitive lens that did that.
@@markwiemels My Spiratone lens was 75mm and had only one big element at the end of a long open barrel. I lived at the edge of the desert at the time, and it was impossible to clean the dust off the inside surface of the glass. This 35mm lens promises to be less of a one-trick pony. It's in my shopping cart right now. Thanks.
interesting video !!! Thanks. I did click on the micro 4/3 link you provided for the silver one. Perhaps they are generic pictures, but the pictured mount does not look like micro 4/3. Also the description is kind of vague. It says.. "for M4/3 Fx Lens" . Are we sure this link is really for micro 4/3 and what is meant by "Fx Lens" ??
Not particularly, the look is really about the edge and corner blur, but reasonable sharpness in the middle. A company called Lens Baby makes a similar look lens, called the sweet spot, specifically designed to give that look, and it costs $500. Obviously it’s a better lens, but this gives a similar look.
Mark, I cannot thank you enough! I bought 3 lenses you reviewed ( 25mmf2, 35mmf0,95 , 10mmf2) and I am amazed by the pictures I am taking! The colors!!!!! The sharpness!!!! I tought Manual focus would be challenging but with focus peak , it is easy pizy!
The is more of a character lens. The imprecations give it a strong look or style, so this is a super budget way to try something different. It’s different enough from the TT, in the type of image, that if you really like that 35mm focal length, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to own both.
GET THE LENS HERE (affiliate links)
Sony E - geni.us/8E4tt
Fuji X - geni.us/cYjfF
Micro 4/3 - geni.us/cCcg or geni.us/ABsud
Canon EF-M - geni.us/6IeK
Photo and Video Examples from this camera - geni.us/Qb7j1
This lens is designed for the sensors/format, smaller than APS-C , they are sold in C mount, which is designed for 1.1" format... Therefore, when you saying that blurred edges and heavy vignette is design flaw, it is not correct.. You just simply going outside of the usable image circle of this lens ... Try to use it on 1" sensor camera like Nikon 1, or at least M4/3 , and all these flaws will be gone😉👍
The heavy field curvature is still very much present on M4/3. I own a few different c mount lenses that all exhibit similar traits and they blurred edges happen on all of them.
@@ezzellvfx2169 That's also true, but usually bad compensation for the field curvature will give you a swirly bokeh throughout the frame (see Helios 40), that is one of the main signs...
This one doesn't have pronounced swirly bokeh on the 1" or even M4/3 circle, meaning it was compensated for the field curvature. And swirls with strange bokeh balls, like a jellyfish, appearing close to the edges on APS-C, where all attributes of closing to dark dark edge of the image circle are presenting themselves, including vignette and loss of sharpness...
I used thus kind of lens on the Nikon 1, and it works perfectly... Generally I think it is cheap CCTV design lens, and some cheap CCTV producing Chinese company just decided to use larger image circle of the lens for expanding the market beyond CCTV only...😉👍
You are the only youtuber that understood what budget means! What a cool little lens! :)
I have this same lens by risespray in black. Mine came with a macro screw-on attachment when I purchased it on AliExpress. It’s surprisingly decent for the price
I have the same risespray one in silver. I love the lens but that screw on adapter gets very annoying when swapping out lenses as I routinely unscrew it.
More cheap lenses with "imperfections" please. That's exactly the type of look I've been hunting for in a lens. And at $33!? It's a steal for me personally
Can you please review the Meike 55mm f1.4 AF lens
Its not a flaw , it was simply not designed for that ,and in surveillance it is more important to see wider even if it fishlenses ( yeah made that word up but explains easier the effect).
And the vignette is simply your sensor being too big.
I bet this was a C-mount lens optical formula. Pretty interesting effect though.
I’m pretty sure that is the case. I suspect it’s designed for a smaller sensor, thus the cool blurry edge effect.
I have that lens, and yes, it is surprisingly nice. I used it fairly close and low for a second angle in an interview and loved how it turned out. I was using it on an EOS M running Magic Lantern Crop Mood (2.5k RAW) which has a slight crop on it anyway and had no vignetting.
thank you for the video Mark! Always appreciated brotha!!!
I have been hoping to buy a cheap lens, at about 35mm f/l, for my Sony a6400 (APS-C) camera... THAT I COULD TAKE APART. I want to flip the objective (front) lens element to enhance swirly bokeh. Is this lens glued together? Or is it capable of being taken apart?
The images look fantastic. I like the out of focus edging. Question: How do you keep your lights off your glasses? Would love to see your filming setup and light placement.🤓
Hey Mark. Got these Fujian or Risepray 35mm and the 25mm, both for Fuji but it seems you have a recent version, it looks like the recent versions have a larger front Element, maybe that is the reason why this flaws are less visibles for this new version.
this looks like a cool lens, i've been looking ebay and there is a seller that has these in 4 or 5 different colors, there is a red one a blue one and even a gold one!
I'm always worried about cheap lenses like this damaging the lens mount on my Fuji because of poor manufacturing tolerances. Have you had any issues with this on cheap lenses?
This one seems fine, I have never had an issue with any of the lenses I bought.
@@markwiemels good to know
I love this artistic flare. Can you do a "Best flare effect" lens comparation?
I bought the Fujian version of this lens just to have something small and fast for low light that i could toss in my camera bag. I normally have my sigma 18-50 2.8 lens as my go to walk around lens but this little thing is handy in case i need the extra stops of light and just have to get a particular low light shot etc... my biggest issue with this lens or at least my copyof this lens is the focus ring. Very hard to pull/rack focus if you are using it for video work and i find that even if i set focus and dont move the focus ring still shifts and never quite stays put between takes/shots which is super annoying but hey there is much worse out there for more than $35! 😅
I bought this same lens in silver, which I thought looked great. But, it makes the lens markings a little diffcult to read. I would buy a similar lens again but in black. I think mine came with 4 adapters which was nice because I can use on my canon camera and also Micro 4/3
I think this is a more recent version of the Fujian 35mm f1.7 CCTV lens (C-mount), that I own and were the flaws you described are more visible. About this lens I appreciate the small size and the low weight. BTW now I use more the Brightin Star 35mm f0,95 that I purchased after your review. Thank you for your videos.
Really interesting lens to be honest. I bought it for just 20 on a local e-commerce website. When using it to shoot the streets from above, the result looks like a tilt-shift photograph due to the blurry edges.
Good sell! This lens looks like it might be useful for B&W photography with an old-time look. Spiratone used to offer a very primitive lens that did that.
I’m really enjoying it. Nice break from 17 element perfect lenses, and so cheap.
@@markwiemels My Spiratone lens was 75mm and had only one big element at the end of a long open barrel. I lived at the edge of the desert at the time, and it was impossible to clean the dust off the inside surface of the glass.
This 35mm lens promises to be less of a one-trick pony. It's in my shopping cart right now. Thanks.
I am trying to get one with the canon EF-M mount and I’m hella confused. The link brings up ones for M 5/6 etc.
I have a canon eos M50
Will this lens fit canon 70d crop sensor camera?
interesting video !!! Thanks. I did click on the micro 4/3 link you provided for the silver one. Perhaps they are generic pictures, but the pictured mount does not look like micro 4/3. Also the description is kind of vague. It says.. "for M4/3 Fx Lens" . Are we sure this link is really for micro 4/3 and what is meant by "Fx Lens" ??
I just checked, I think you are right, that one requires an adapter, I will remove it. Thanks for pointing that out!
@@markwiemels Thanks. I was considering buying one after watching your informative video, but I didn't want to purchase the wrong mount as I use MFT.
@@williammoskovitz7772 the remaining link should be correct.
@@markwiemels Thanks
I like the swirl effect it can sometimes exhibit.
Is the bokeh swirly?
Not particularly, the look is really about the edge and corner blur, but reasonable sharpness in the middle. A company called Lens Baby makes a similar look lens, called the sweet spot, specifically designed to give that look, and it costs $500. Obviously it’s a better lens, but this gives a similar look.
Mark, I cannot thank you enough! I bought 3 lenses you reviewed ( 25mmf2, 35mmf0,95 , 10mmf2) and I am amazed by the pictures I am taking! The colors!!!!! The sharpness!!!! I tought Manual focus would be challenging but with focus peak , it is easy pizy!
That's great to hear! Yeah, I have come to prefer manual focus.
another great review- and some really nice phot/videography too in this one!👍
Thanks!
Waited long for a review of this one!
The brightin star 35mm 0.95 exhibits exactly the same behavior in a full frame body and it is sharp from 0.95. and it is also cheap
Can you tell me the lens for the DSLR Nikon D90 and d7100
Sadly no.
Thanks 👍🏻
Great video as always Mark! How would you compare this lens to the TTartisan 35 1.4(one of my favorites) for fuji? Thanks again!
The is more of a character lens. The imprecations give it a strong look or style, so this is a super budget way to try something different. It’s different enough from the TT, in the type of image, that if you really like that 35mm focal length, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to own both.
yes, a perfect classic PORTRAIT lens.
its built specifically for it.
I have this lens for Fuji and love it! Makes me want to go out and shoot like no other crazy sharp and perfect lens did.
No Z mount???😭😭😭😭
The worst something cheap can't be is just mediocre with no character. If it has a unique bad style then it has a use.
Haha.. that’s a great perspective, I like it!
It’s a high quality Holga lens.
That bokeh looks like tons of fun! Sadly, I can't use any of those mounts. Oh well.
Bummer. What mount are you on?
@@markwiemels RF
Yup, bought one, the focus is partially stuck, and feels like sand in the helicoil. POS?
I will never by an expensive lens again :)