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owned this lens for 5 year until the auto focus broke down and then started to use it just manual focus for video. its really not a good lens for photos even at f4 its only centre sharp is somewhat decent but very side around the edges. not good for anyone who focus or re-compose their shots.

I just bouth one from Japan for my 5D Classic and R6 Mkii. The lens hood I bought locally as a cheapo non-Canon one. I like it!

I believe when this lens first came out. It was mostly sold first only in Japan camera kits. Later it was exported to other countries.

The official Canon Lens hood is EW-54II for this lens.

Nice detailed look at this inexpensive versatile little lens. Holds up very well at f/1.8, great for low light shots.

good video

Can you use the M2 filters on the VND magnetic base?

Would you hear when recording video

Good review! I also wish I could use a lenshood with it, and stack another ND on top. 7 stops is sometimes not enough for me.

Did the cpl do any difference

I am thinking about buying this filter... honestly, I like the pouch, it is very elegant, plus, who else gives you a nice leather pouch for that price? The 3-7 range is perfect!

My first prime lens back in 2018 🥲Immediately got the 35mm F/2 from Fuji when I switched over

20mm is good, just not put your camera at an angle and you would not see that much perspective distortion ;)

your content quality is good but your channel"s video tags /CHANNEL TAG SECTION NEED OPTIMIZATION FOR MORE ORGANIC GROWTH. Are you concern about your youtube Growth?

Great video, in a few hours I will buy this half-used lens and you cleared up a lot of my doubts

Very thorough review of one of my favorite goto DSLR lenses, nice work.

I don't but I love gadgets and this one is pretty cool, the price for the basic one is up there but could be worth it to me as I already carry a bunch of micro SD cards so if I could read all of them at the same time that would for sure be worth something to me. Also it does appear that they have a reader that can also read the older CF cards, that unit looks to be about the same overall size, etc... but the price went way up - 2 times the cost of the base one. I think they should reconsider the pricing as I do not see why that one is twice the price just because it has a slot for the CF cards, (could be a good reason for it, I don't know for sure) but I would say that if I was a heavy user of these cards due to my job or hobby or whatever that this would be a very nice item to have. Only thing I think I worry about is the eventual wearing out of the USB cable and even all of the individual card slots - the contacts that make the connections on these items are very small and are subject to damage and wear. It would be nice if that USB cable was replaceable just in case it wears out (a new one could be soldered onto that cable if required...). All in all, I do like it a bunch, the price is too much for me because I don't use the cards enough but I can easily see someone else using cards a lot more and this would be a great thing to have. Cheers.

Great review Paul!!! I just purchased the Canon 7s 35mm film camera and I think this lens will work perfectly for landscapes and street work!!!

uhm, what? If you set CPL first and FIX it, you will not mess it up by adjusting ND.

What readers do you use?

It's like comparing Chalk 'n' Cheese, I think some people need a gentle reminder that a lenses internal workings from 2005 is always going to be noiser by todays standards.

Nice review on this old lens........ I do a fair bit of environmental Light painting portrait photography at night, I normally use a RF 16mm f 2.8 and an EF 50mm f1.2 but was thinking this lens would be a nice cheap in between lens with a fast Aperture.

Focal length is measured when lens focused at infinity, so at infinity all lenses with same focal length behave the same and have the same angle of view. But because of focus breathing picture could be different for lenses dependiing on distance to subject of focus. And for degrees and size of image sensor, there is a commentary already.

You shouldn’t have skipped linear optics in school. Please do some proper research before posting nonsense

You also don't fully understand the topic. Also most of this is irrelevant, to the point I watched this for photographers. Also if they're misled it's not by focal length or F-stop, for example macro I tested lately 40mm prime, was changing focal length to about 60-70 mm when going into 1:1 magnification, with this I could assume that it being 40mm prime is a lie, and additionally at supposedly F2.8 you loose like 1.7 stops of light by going from infinity to 1:1, so is the F stop getting different, or maybe it's the T-stop (the one that indicates actual light passing through the lens). Those could be ways that lens manufacturers mislead you, but usually ion good lenses focal length doesn't change much while focusing, and for example constant F2.8 zooms pass light in a way you don't have to boost ISO at long end. It's less of a misleading, and more lack of knowledge on a user part. Also there is no better way to really mark those lenses, because for example you can still use 50mm from full frame on APSC or M43, so you can't change focal length on lens to field of view because on different sensor this would get different. If I took a 300mm Lens and would be able to cover with projection entire wall behind it in a distance of sensor in a FF camera, this would be ultra wide angle lens, and if it still had a mount I could use to mount the same lens on a FF camera it would be a telephoto. Well anyway I'll just stop here, I could probably write for month and none wouldn't read this whole anyway, and photographers don't need to understand optics, they just need to get a feel of the lenses they own

How you're doing after this?

I have a D7000 and love it .

Thanks

This lens is actually way too good for what it actually is I love shooting with it

Where can i get it? What is the approx price for this in 2024?

Others commenters mentioned that other reviewers talk about close up image quality, but not as a subject itself. I noticed that about the 50mm f1.2 EF, soft and fuzzy wide open at short to medium distances, but very sharp towards infinity, still wide open.

Nice review! Never heard about this lens, and I have been using canon for a long time. I would have liked more test pictures and comparisons. You got a new subscriber!

Just dont believe youtube -shills- influencers, theyre just selling stuff the same as all other media.

Those sunglasses tho

Very good point. Would be cool to see tests of lenses at different distances showing their various sharpness.

some tricks from the optical designers from the past: 1. simplest a lens element or an achromatic doublet at the rear that kept its position while the front part focusses like Tamron did a lot in the past, like their 90 mm f2.5 macro, the same applies for the Tokina ATx 90mm macro. To correct for field curvature and spherical abberation. 2 other designs like the Nikon CRC in the 24, 28mm f2.8 AIS et cetera were a bit more complex. 3. IF design with 2 lenses travelling in opposite directions in Tele lenses 4. only the last group or element focussing for gaining AF speed in the first place now it's a bit more complex

Well you are wrong the best lens reviewer Christopher frost always talks about this in every lens review of his. & I think Dustin Abbot also does.

It gets mentioned sometimes, but only when the image quality is bad at the close focus distance

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It's an interesting point to consider. However you could have made it in 3 minutes. Otherwise if you're going for an 8 minute video, you should have a lot more examples from various lenses to demonstrate the point rather than just talk about it.

Nikon lens cap on Canon lens causes premature articulation of the frebus leading too excessive corona on the optical lens group shuffler. Use Kodachrome 64 at 50 ASA.

An unnecessary discussion. That's why nobody is talking about it.

What do you think?

Have you used it? Or any other old cheap zooms? Share your experience! 🙂

Are any of the iterations of Freewell magnetic filters, water resistant?

Hi Paul! Thanks for this video. I followed so many videos about freewell filters in the last few weeks because I need CPL and ND filters and your one has made me take a decision: I’m oriented to buy the Freewell M2 set because I think it’s better for an only photography use. The only doubt I have is about the different diameter of my lenses: I use the 16-35 f4 and 24-105 f4 (both 77 mm) for the 80-90% of my photos, but in case of necessity I’d like to have the possibility to use filters on the 70-200 f4 (67 mm) and 135 f2 (72 mm). The V2 82mm hybrid filter is adaptable to others lenses only using the adapter ring…..do you know if it’s possible for the M2 kit too (with Freewell or third parts adapter ring)? Thanks in advance.

nice kit i bought but should be aware the magnetic lnse not strong enoght to keep filter on camera ,,, have to use the screws ... disapointing

Hey, that's a rare type of a proper lens review. Well done :). I've been shooting with this little beauty since 2017. What I've learned is that it works best for close range photography. It's definitely not a landscaping lens ). The bokeh this lens can produce is insane! And it is rather unique that way. I'm not talking about the amount of background blur, but about its character. Usually fast wide angle primes tend to produce quite ugly bokeh with stretched and torn bokeh-balls. But not this 28mm. This one is very yummy ). It's not a sharp lens by modern standards, but if I have to get the most detail out of it, then I stop it down to F9-F11. But, for landscaping, a cheap kit zoom would probably do a better job. I did use it for stitching landscapes (as a workaround) and it was fine, on a 20mp FF camera. So, yeah, it's great for street, portrait, pets, cars, party, forest, food, flowers, mushrooms and stuff like that.

With V2, what if I want to just use CPL but WITHOUT nd, am I able to do that? It seems that I can use cpl only with a minimum of 3nd stop

How is the image quality for this lense?