Sony E 15mm f/1.4 'G' lens review with samples
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- And here it is, the last of the recent new Sony APS-C lenses...the market is flooded with them! But this one I particularly enjoyed...
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Been hanging out for this review before buying. My go to channel for lens reviews. Best on YT - honest, consistent and under 10mins. Perfect. Keep up the great work !! Thanks
ya compraste el 15mm?... puedes dejar tus comentarios por favor
I always marvel at your images of churches and cathedrals. They are a tough subject to capture but you always do an admirable job.
gotta love the attention for the aps-c market. three new, great lens options from Sony. now all we need is a relaunch of the aps-c alpha-dslr lineup as dslm to go with them
Well, it's the only viable market left.
@@philipcooper8297 why's that? I think the APS-C and MFT market in particular are pretty hard on companies because of smartphone cameras.
people that would buy an "entry level" camera before will now just use their smartphone.
@@DrWurzeli you're right. Or they will buy old dslr
I'm waiting, but not holding my breath, for some kind of A6800
@@britishrose9417 FX30
I have this lense and I wonder if Sony will ever do both a 23mm f1.4 and a 34mm f1.4 version of this. I'd probably buy both.
I'm curious if the distortion pattern changes with the focus distance. You mentioned corners warping in video. So may be the distortion is not /that/ bad at 'infinity'? (I assume the chart is not that big so you had to put the camera quite close to it)
There are a lot of photos in the beginning of landscapes and i dont see any distortion in these.
The distortion will only be obvious in video mode during racking focus, not stills. Due to the corrections of the strong barrel distortion profile.
@@victorlim5077 ah! I think I get it: the warping is a result of a part of the image going into the more distorted area. And the distortion itself is constant. Thanks!
This video is very useful and an enjoyable to watch. But I do have to say, the music makes me feel like I am in a cocktail bar in Chicago prior to having a meal with my business tycoon friends in 1923. 🤭
Thanks for you super valuable videos, all of them. In your opinion, once stopped down, is this lens sharper of softer in the corners than the 11-20 ? I would enjoy the extra speed but not at the cost of sharpness for landscape/cityscape.
I wonder if we'll ever see some APS-C GM lenses.
If Sony makes pro A7000/A9000 Cameras and if those Cameras will sell in large quantity, then maybe Sony will make GM Lenses for APSC, but I doubt it, production of Cameras go more and more towards 24x36 and 33x44 mm sized sensor Cameras in the pro end of the market.
It kind of goes against the APS-C use case for me. I'm drawn to the size and weight savings - if you are prioritizing purely for image quality, then surely just move up the range to one of the full-frame offerings? GM lenses often weigh 3-4x as much as other options, and are much bulkier. I think we will see more G line lenses in the next 18 months though, alongside new bodies.
I just got the new FX30! Would be incredible on my camera for the open shots! I’m using 24-75 now and it’s to close for me
it's expensive alright, but aren't the Fuji's more expensive?
Yes, Sony $748, Fuji $849
fuji has better build quality though. All metal.
Thank you for making this fantastic video.
will you review new Meike 10mm f2 lens? Especially curious how it looks on Full Frame
Hi Chris, the image shown on full frame is it with or without the hood? Thank you
That’s without the hood
for $350 you can have the Sigma 16mm, I think the price of the Sony is ridiculous no matter how good a lens it is.
Is the sigma food for videography work? I want the sigma but I see this one is out. But I always hear good things about the sigma. No one really talks about the video side of it.
@@suneagle99 did you end up with the sigma ? Some people have told me if you are just shooting video sigma is definitely good enough
You can think what you want, but weight and dimensions matter. The 16mm is a total canon and imbalances small bodies.
Looks like the fe 20mm f1.8 g for aps-c
Please do a review of sigma 180mm 2.8 macro ♥️i love my 180mm macro 🙂will like to see how it performs
Now they just need to make a new APS-C camera. An A6900 or A6450... Something other than that tiny vlogging thing that you can't even find in stock.
A7000/A9000 pro quality Cameras
Please compare with 11mm f1.8, difficult to choose
The 15mm are much sharper the the 11mm !There are big difference in focal length, the 11mm are equivalent to a 16.5mm Lens i full frame, the 15mm are equivalent to a 22.5mm Lens in full frame, so the 11mm have a much wider angle of view. The 15mm Lens are a much more general wide angle Lens, the 11mm are a more specialized Lens.
I have a question. After put this 15mmF1.4 lens on my A74, I see in EVF (or on LCD) there is 2 black vertical lines on each side close to the frame, and if I switch to MF (Manual Focus) it disappears. Switch back to AF and 2 vertical lines show back up. Is that normal? l don't have this issue with my 35mmGM. I wonder if I received a defective lens? Thank you.
how is it on full frame? I understand it's an APS-C, but I use a Sigma 56 1.4 on an A7III and absolutely love it...!
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Anymore Nikon F mount lenses to review, Christopher?
They could really have allowed turning off distortion correction and enable this lens to be used as a fisheye lens.
It is not a fish-eye designed Lens, a fisheye Lens for APSC-format have a much shorter focal length.
is it better than the sigma 16 f1.4?
Yes and even lighter and shorter.
Sharper, lighter, more physical features. The only con is the background bokeh is a little busier. I still went with the Sony.
What do you think of this lens compared with GM 14mm f/1.8? For aps-c
Viltrox 13mm 1,4 is the better choice imo
Very informative video! You know what? I bought the book "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist." its a nice book I recommend everyone to read this.
I have heard that the Sony APS-C lenses can be used with the Sony full-frame cameras and I see you doing that in this video. Do they fit perfectly like a full frame lens Or you just have to push/rotate hard etc? I have several APS-C lenses, but I am worried about mounting them on my A7Riii since I don't want to damage my expensive camera body :).
It’s the same mount.
You can just use them. Just like full frame lenses work on APS-C cameras. The camera will automatically switch to "crop mode".
Lenses for Sony APSC Cameras and full frame Cameras have the exactly same mount, the E-mount bayonet ! So you can use several hundreds of Lenses on Sony APSC-Cameras
as long as they are all E-mount and not A-Mount (from older aps-c lineup) lenses, you are good to go, they will fit perfectly which is one of the biggest advantages of using Sony cameras today.
Sony lens are same mount so, they all fit what ever camera you have.
Would f/1.4 APS-C LENS still be f/1.4 on a full frame?
Yes
In terms of light gathering yes, but dof is still the same as APS-C i.e. 1.5 x 1.4 = f/2.1
A lens' aperture is a physical thing, it doesn't change if you put it on a different sensor size. However, a larger sensor using the same aperture and an equivalent focal length to get the same field of view will give you a more out of focus background.
Larger sensors also generally produce less noise, so with similar technology a FF camera with an f/1.4 lens has half the noise of an APS-C camera with an f/1.4 lens.
A 22 mm f/2.1 on a full frame camera will take the exact same pictures as this 15/1.4 on APS-C with regards to light gathered (low light image quality), bokeh, depth of field and field of view.
@@thisistimmy dof/DOF = depth of field.
viltrox 13mm wins.
pro canon shill
Lol.. Pretty much no rear gasket..... That was a joke!
11mm F1.8 better
I still don't think it's even remotely acceptable to leave lenses this uncorrected for distortion even in the name of size. Sony's APS-C cameras and lenses are already comically small, and leaving the corrections almost entirely up to whoever's behind the camera just seems lazy.
Huh? You don't do the corrections yourself. The camera does it automatically for JPEG and video and in RAW your editing software should have a correction profile for it. On top of that these new Sony lenses are better than all competition for APS-C lenses while being smaller and lighter, thanks to not correcting distortion optically.
@@TechnoBabble You seem to be missing the part where corrections in post degrade image quality (the corner stretching is painfully obvious even in the video) and _I just said I disagree about it being for size reasons_ for lenses and cameras that are already small.
When chasing size comes at this cost, it's going too far.
@@RealRaynedance The Sony 11mm has the best corners of any APS-C ultrawide and the 15mm has better corners than the Sigma 16mm. But hey, I'm sure you know more than Sony's optical engineers about what they should prioritize.
@@TechnoBabble Nobody is claiming to know more than Sony engineers. His argument, that it would have been better to increase size and weight for better image corners, sounds reasonable to me, and Sony engineers might even agree.
@@toms3485 And price. Everyone seems to keep forgetting price. They can't JUST increase the size and weight to correct distortion better, they would also be increasing the cost of producing the lens. On top of that, why would it be better? Clearly at this price point it WOULD NOT have been better, AS THESE LENSES HAVE SOME OF THE BEST OPTICAL PERFORMANCE AROUND.
You're all talking about theoretical stuff here instead of actually looking at the results, clearly the distortion correction isn't reducing image quality enough to matter if it's still outperforming the competition.