Dude thank you for taking the time to do all this! Trying to decide a wide angle for my XT3 is making my head spin and is so much harder than choosing a standard shooter or a telephoto. This made it 1000x easier for me to decide.
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much. Deciding on lenses now has little to no guess word thanks to you and the time spent. Really appreciated. Thanks again.
I appreciate the effort! I teach high school photography, and Fuji hooked us up with some old cameras and a bunch of the 15-45mm lenses, so it's pretty cool to see that it's punching above its weight.
This was really well done - thanks for all the hard work and great video! Probably a testament to Fuji lens quality that all the scores (ignoring the 16 prime and 18-55) are very close.
I am not sure how much of a margin of error my results had, but yes I am glade you noticed that. And I now wish that I had actually said. "If used correctly, every (nearly) lens is more then sharp enough"
Your tests are just amazing! thank you so much! And i really appreciate the "but"s, because you have to exactly think about all those aspects and whey them against eachother. Perfect!
That was epic, it is obvious how much work went into this series. Thanks for that! Personally I'd be keen for you to continue your Photography 101 series. I have enjoyed your basic (Kiwi) teaching style ;-)
My heads about to burst lol... There should have been a fun lens category 😁. Been having a ball with the 16-80 in all weathers...Look forward to another great video 👍
I’ve only just seen this video - wow, that’s some serious piece of work. Well done and thank you. I’m glad the 14mm f2.8 I just bought has done well. 16mm too bulky for me to carry around.
Dang awesome review. Can’t believe you only have 13k subs. Keep it up dude, you’ll get up there with your sub count soon, I’m sure of it. Lots of great information with no wasted time 👍
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography I kind of miss the 18mm F2 in there, but video confirmed what I suspected anyway, that my 16mm 1.4 is still gonna live permanent in my bag :)
Just stumbled on your channel. Very nice and helpful reviews for Fuji owners. I still use my X-Pro2 for personal work, but switched from X and GFX to Nikon Z for professional work. Your review of wide-angle lenses for Fuji was spot-on. The 16/1.4 is easily the best. As for primes the 14/2.8 is a nice alternative and anyway much better in IQ than the pretty mediocre 16/2.8. As for weather resistance, I’ve worked with the 23/1.4 for years (much prefer it over the 23/2) without an issue. Sometimes in harsh conditions. With a little care it can handle a drizzle well. Most amateurs are quite meticulous about their gear, so they shouldn’t worry about the longivety of non-WR lenses. Nor do they want to overrate the WR-factor. I’ve had two occassions where the WR lens gave up and the non-WR lens plowed on. Should you ever want to complete your saga, I can recommend one more lens and that is the Zeiss Touit 12mm. Not completely Zeiss-grade like their Loxias and Milvus’ses, but very good anyway in my experience.
Hi Thomas, That’s some mighty detail you put into those results, very helpful. You mentioned 'not cheaping out on printing' late in the video, can you advise more on printing options available in New Zealand. I’m looking at getting an A3 photo printer for personal use, but maybe that’s not the way to go.
I'm not sure it's something I could answer brief enough for UA-cam comments unfortunately. Before buying a good printer make sure you have a colour accurate and consistent monitor. I don't have enough experience with high-end brands to tell you which model to get, and that also very much depends on how much money you want to spend. But good paper selection for me was a huge one. And finding a good lab but you could go and talk to as they printed your images. So you can see the test strips, and then adjust highlights detail shadows and colours before doing the full master print. I think this learning process can be very expensive if you own your own printer. But can definitely be a lot faster as you can do it all day any day you like.
Incredible work done here. Perhaps testing all of them at 5.6 would be something of a revelation. And I say that because that little 16-50 3.5 lens is really surprising. You can see on the charts that the incremental improvement on the lenses above it till the top two isn't that much. First, on my T-2, it's auto focus is super fast, and extremely reliable. Second, I'm getting all kinds of sharpness shooting at f5.6 and f8 at the 16mm setting, while keeping the highlight and shadow settings at minus 2 and sharpness at 0. I do not think there is more bang for the buck at (now, $170.) out there for any lens. I always shoot to crop the edges, shoot my closeups at around 11 inches at the 16 to keep some depth of field (it just winds up being about a half inch). The 16-50 3.5 is a sleeper.
@@AlexCruzHaha Never did, works just fine for the majority of situations, and if I ever need to go wider, I just shoot a series and stitch in PS. It's a damn fine lens.
great video !! could you do a review of only the prime lenses comparison which has best sharpness and colour rendering!! thank you so much for all your hard work and effort here 👍👏
Of all primes or just the wides? I'm not hundred percent sure how to measure colour rendition, do you have an idea of how to? because I'm prepared to do the hard yards someone can tell me how to do it hahaha?
Your reviews have helped. Literally just purchased an X-T4. Probably going to get the 16-55 and the 70-300. Should be a great first set of glass coming from Nikon for some landscape, portrait, and wildlife.
great video and wow what a load of work!! I shoot the 10-24 and 16 1.4 on my X-T3. I actually find the 10-24 slightly sharper, but the 16 has something you can't measure in its output. I also have the GF 23mm f4 which is hands down the best lens I have ever used.
Love your work mate, great stuff. IMO next series should be about something to do with the art or skill of photography, rather than gear. Hard work while you're stuck at home though ☺️
NZ is mostly out of lockdown at the moment, but yes it's very much going to involve me taking a lot more photos rather than testing and review for a little while. I have another challenge in mind
Hahaha me too, it's had a ton of progress since last time, but not as fast as I'd like. Though it will be in videos soon I'm pretty sure, just no focused update video on it for a while longer.
Surprised to see how sharp 15-45mm lens is at 15mm. I use that lens for landscape photography most of the time at 15mm with xs10. With ibis, it works really well.
That was phenomenal work you have done. Well done. Although having a copy of the 16-80 which I love. I just wanted to try the 15-45 just for the fun of it. I managed to get a virtually unused copy for £100!!!!! In the UK. Should arrive this week. Can’t wait to have a play. Love your channel.
The 15-45 is such a gem. Mike has had 3 different owners and currently has a hair stuck in it but is still as sharp as a tack. Thank you for the comment.
Because I couldn't get hold of any copies unfortunately. It'll get into the list eventually but the poor little bigger just wasn't around this time through.
It may have been incrementally lower than other lenses, but the 16-55 f/2.8 seems to be very versatile in your tests in terms of apertures available for sharpness (14:40).
Yes!! Paying attention to those Aperture ranges is very important in that final chart. As adding or removing one more aperture can really shift a lens up or down that list. So where most (excluding the very top and bottom) of the lenses position on that list really doesn't matter, and with scores being so close I really wanted people to notice that pretty much every single lens can be sharp enough to be "the best" Well done for noticing
Another fab. video man! Love your enthusiasm. I didn´t get it from the video, but how did you test the lenses regarding distance to subject? Constant medium (like 2-3 meters), close or further away? Thanks.
In a nut shell ones I had set my zoom, I loved the camera forward or back until the charts were in all four corners. Did a lot of work with being level and straight on etc as well.
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography I got it. But in your experience (I am not sure), doesn´t it matter how far away you are from the subject? Sharpness is for sure affected at minimum focus distance, not sure how it varies (if at all) after that. In your case, you would need different sice charts of course.
Yes focus distance I guess would effect it. And that's kinda what I was trying to explain with scaling the sharpness charts. But I wasn't sure how much to scale them by. and to do printed ones for every different zoom range of every single lens and different focus distances I think would have been hell but the most accurate way to do it. I just have no idea how to work out what scale each one would need to be, without making it easier or harder for each lens to resolve
My studio test was physically huge, so no lens got any where near minimum focus distance. But you have given me a awesome idea for a future video to test if focus distance effects sharpness of lens...if I can find a good way to measure it....that will be the hard part.
I really enjoyed this great series. As a Fuji X user, I'm happy to have creators like yourself contributing great content to the community. Myself, I'm primarily a wide angle shooter, but I have been dabbling in telephoto focal lengths for landscape, cityscape and architectural details (and a little bit of portrait) lately. I would love to see another series from you, looking at short to medium telephoto lenses (50mm to 200mm or 75mm to 300mm FF equivalent). That means getting your hands on the very excellent 200mm f2 😁. You could include the additional metrics for DOF isolation and bokeh quality, which might add another element of interest to the series.
Down the line I think I'd like to do a "best lens for wildlife Photography" series. Getting my hands on the lenses isn't a issue, I've had them all before. But all the testing takes a while and yes I would change some metrics in my algorithm for that series, as long as I can find good ways to measure them. Cheers for taking the time to comment though I honestly really appreciate it.
Just becoming aware of your channel (in my considering the Rokinon 12mm). Awesome effort on your part. I'm impressed with your methodology and thoroughness. Well done.
Great work loved the series. Have you shared the graphs you showed for the lens sharpness? Would like to see them and get a better understanding of the lenses and aperture values to use.
REALLY great video! And good explanation! Have you had a chance to test the Laowa 9mm 2.8? Seems to be a nice solution. The 16 1.4 is not wide enough for me, 8-16 is out of the equation due to price and weight ... 10-24 is great, but I think f4 is a bummer for astro work ... the 14 is something inbetween ... so maybe 9mm Laowa could do the trick?
I will when Fuji send it to me, BUT the m II has the exact same glass in it as the m I apparently. And just because it got a bad score compared to some of the other lenses, it doesn't mean it gives bad results. I have shot astro images I am very happy with using the m I. Hopefully all that helps.
Feel like you should've taken in the lens distortion into account. 15-45 has a barrel distortion at 15mm that can't be fixed in post, if we're talking about video work. Also Zeiss Touit could've made into this list, instead of Samyang. :)
Unfortunately at the time of recording this I didn’t have a good way of giving a numerical value to lens distortion and getting my hands on Zeiss lenses wasn’t a option, the samyang for example was sent to me be a fan of the channel, not from samyang directly
Thanks your video I am using the 18-55 f2.8-4 lens for Home Interiors. Now I need a wider lens. I wonder about the Samyang 12 f2 AF lens or the 10-24 lens or the Viltrox 13 f1.4 lens. (I am using Feiyu G6 Max gimbal, a small gimbal) After your video, I surprised about 15-45mm lens. What should i choice a new lens? Thanks
I sold my 16mm1.4 after shooting the 18mmf2 for a few months. I don't care about AF and sharpness. The 18mmf2 renders beautifully. Sold my Samyang 12mmf2 to buy the 16mm1.4. But somehow we never got along. Now I want the Laowa 9mm for my NZ astrophotography but probably get the Samyang 12mmf2 again.
Really depends on what you plan to use the lenses for. Weather sealing, focus speed, brightness, consistency, but with a bit of patience, knowledge and a bit of DIY skill you can get stunning results with all the lenses.
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography no, I am open to other choices as well, so far my research shows that best one is 16mm 1.4 but it is just not wide enough so I am leaning towards the 10-24. Are there better options as I really want to carry max of 2 lenses and a drone. Also I was thinking about 16-80mm, what do you think about that?
If the 16mm 1.4 isn't wide enough the 16-80 isn't either? I've had very pleasing results with the 10-24. And for video it's corner sharpness flaws aren't going to be visible at all so I'd go with that
I'm sad the 10-24 ranked so low on the list. I've been considering it, but considering the price and slow aperture this performance really is disappointing
Don’t let it’s position on this list make it look like a bad lens, it’s wider than nearly all others, which is hard to make sharp, specially for its price. Plus I still managed to win New Zealand landscape photographer of the year with images captured with that lens, if it suits you needs, just be aware of its limitations and it’ll still kick ass
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography 18 f2 is sub pair lens and I would not bother with it, Laowa 9mm is UW and if you like horrible vignetting and sample variation this is right lens to get.
The amount of work that goes into your reviews is INCREDIBLE.
Thank you, very glade you appreciate it
Insane amount of work done here! You deserve much more recognition, Thank you this really helped!
Thank you!
Dude thank you for taking the time to do all this! Trying to decide a wide angle for my XT3 is making my head spin and is so much harder than choosing a standard shooter or a telephoto. This made it 1000x easier for me to decide.
Thank you man, I appreciate it
Wow...thank you for your effort. This is really comprehensive, detailed and thorough.
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much. Deciding on lenses now has little to no guess word thanks to you and the time spent. Really appreciated. Thanks again.
Thank you!
Why am I just finding about your channel now! Your work and effort is absolutely mind blowing!
Thank you
I appreciate the effort! I teach high school photography, and Fuji hooked us up with some old cameras and a bunch of the 15-45mm lenses, so it's pretty cool to see that it's punching above its weight.
Awesome Stuff TB. Love your dedication & discipline on this project. I will be going back over these reviews a few times I suspect!
Cheers Phill
Great reviews. Very comprehensive. Thanks for your efforts. Much appreciated.
Thank you!
That was a fun watch. Some of it was over my head but also very helpful. Thanks
Cheers
The science you have developed to compare fuji-system lenses is incredible. I found your tele-zoom and wide lens series incredibly helpful. Thank you.
Building comparison tool into your website would also be a good way to bring in more traffic ;)
Thank you!
Great review, amazing work behind it
This was really well done - thanks for all the hard work and great video! Probably a testament to Fuji lens quality that all the scores (ignoring the 16 prime and 18-55) are very close.
I am not sure how much of a margin of error my results had, but yes I am glade you noticed that.
And I now wish that I had actually said.
"If used correctly, every (nearly) lens is more then sharp enough"
Nice work. Very helpful, thanks!
Finally some really useful tests!
Thank you
Thanks
Your thesis professor would be proud for the methodology
Hahah you say that like I have a qualification to my name
Amazing work! Love your content!
Thank you!
This was so incredibly helpful!! Thank you so much!!
Thank you!
Your tests are just amazing! thank you so much! And i really appreciate the "but"s, because you have to exactly think about all those aspects and whey them against eachother. Perfect!
Hahaha thank you!
My hero, that’s a lot of work condensed into 16min. of very useful info. Thank you!
Thank you and you’re welcome
Thank you for all your hard work in making this Vid.
Thank you!
I really enjoyed the series. Thanks!
Thank you!
That was epic, it is obvious how much work went into this series. Thanks for that!
Personally I'd be keen for you to continue your Photography 101 series. I have enjoyed your basic (Kiwi) teaching style ;-)
Very detailed comparisons, thank you. I can vouch for the 14mm. Its excellent quality and small size compliment smaller cameras well.
Thanks for sharing
Wow, thanks for all ye hard work matey..
Thank you
Informative and helpful video, thx!
Cheers!
My heads about to burst lol... There should have been a fun lens category 😁. Been having a ball with the 16-80 in all weathers...Look forward to another great video 👍
Hahaha head exploding is very ok understandable after sitting through all of that.
I’ve only just seen this video - wow, that’s some serious piece of work. Well done and thank you. I’m glad the 14mm f2.8 I just bought has done well. 16mm too bulky for me to carry around.
Thank you!
Amazing work mate
Thank you!
Great work. Cheers!
I love this well done.
Thank you
Dang awesome review. Can’t believe you only have 13k subs. Keep it up dude, you’ll get up there with your sub count soon, I’m sure of it. Lots of great information with no wasted time 👍
Cheers, really appreciate the support.
Incredible work ❤️
Thank you
Great work, well done 👍
Thank you!
This is my kind of detailed review, thanks!
Thank you!
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography I kind of miss the 18mm F2 in there, but video confirmed what I suspected anyway, that my 16mm 1.4 is still gonna live permanent in my bag :)
Yeah that lens really is a monster
Great work!!! Thanks so much
Thank you!
Epic! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Wow! Thorough. Thanks a lot.
Thank you
Just stumbled on your channel. Very nice and helpful reviews for Fuji owners. I still use my X-Pro2 for personal work, but switched from X and GFX to Nikon Z for professional work. Your review of wide-angle lenses for Fuji was spot-on. The 16/1.4 is easily the best. As for primes the 14/2.8 is a nice alternative and anyway much better in IQ than the pretty mediocre 16/2.8. As for weather resistance, I’ve worked with the 23/1.4 for years (much prefer it over the 23/2) without an issue. Sometimes in harsh conditions. With a little care it can handle a drizzle well. Most amateurs are quite meticulous about their gear, so they shouldn’t worry about the longivety of non-WR lenses. Nor do they want to overrate the WR-factor. I’ve had two occassions where the WR lens gave up and the non-WR lens plowed on. Should you ever want to complete your saga, I can recommend one more lens and that is the Zeiss Touit 12mm. Not completely Zeiss-grade like their Loxias and Milvus’ses, but very good anyway in my experience.
Thank you very much for sharing all your thoughts, I really appreciate it
Great stuff
thank you for all d great info. u just validated my reason to save up for an 16-80mm lens :) as well as a 35mm for my two lens usage :)
Thank you for the support!
Hi Thomas,
That’s some mighty detail you put into those results, very helpful.
You mentioned 'not cheaping out on printing' late in the video, can you advise more on printing options available in New Zealand. I’m looking at getting an A3 photo printer for personal use, but maybe that’s not the way to go.
I'm not sure it's something I could answer brief enough for UA-cam comments unfortunately.
Before buying a good printer make sure you have a colour accurate and consistent monitor.
I don't have enough experience with high-end brands to tell you which model to get, and that also very much depends on how much money you want to spend.
But good paper selection for me was a huge one.
And finding a good lab but you could go and talk to as they printed your images.
So you can see the test strips, and then adjust highlights detail shadows and colours before doing the full master print.
I think this learning process can be very expensive if you own your own printer.
But can definitely be a lot faster as you can do it all day any day you like.
Incredible work done here. Perhaps testing all of them at 5.6 would be something of a revelation. And I say that because that little 16-50 3.5 lens is really surprising. You can see on the charts that the incremental improvement on the lenses above it till the top two isn't that much. First, on my T-2, it's auto focus is super fast, and extremely reliable. Second, I'm getting all kinds of sharpness shooting at f5.6 and f8 at the 16mm setting, while keeping the highlight and shadow settings at minus 2 and sharpness at 0. I do not think there is more bang for the buck at (now, $170.) out there for any lens. I always shoot to crop the edges, shoot my closeups at around 11 inches at the 16 to keep some depth of field (it just winds up being about a half inch). The 16-50 3.5 is a sleeper.
You saved me a lot of money with this excellent test. I'll keep my 16-80mm then.
Have you ever upgraded from the 16-80?
@@AlexCruzHaha Never did, works just fine for the majority of situations, and if I ever need to go wider, I just shoot a series and stitch in PS. It's a damn fine lens.
great video !! could you do a review of only the prime lenses comparison which has best sharpness and colour rendering!! thank you so much for all your hard work and effort here 👍👏
Of all primes or just the wides?
I'm not hundred percent sure how to measure colour rendition, do you have an idea of how to? because I'm prepared to do the hard yards someone can tell me how to do it hahaha?
Intense amount of detail in your test! Well done!
Another VERY depth series is very very close to starting
Your reviews have helped. Literally just purchased an X-T4. Probably going to get the 16-55 and the 70-300. Should be a great first set of glass coming from Nikon for some landscape, portrait, and wildlife.
The 70-300 is going to be in my upcoming review series if you can wait before purchasing that one
It's going to be in the series, I'm maybe half way through testing but not idea where it's going to sit until it's all done
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography no worries. Thanks. I already got the X-T4 and about to get the 16-55 for sure.
Wow. Best video ever
Thank you!
Incredible comparison video!!! Will you be doing the same comparison on telephoto lenses?
Eventually yes I'd love to, and thank you for the support
great video and wow what a load of work!! I shoot the 10-24 and 16 1.4 on my X-T3. I actually find the 10-24 slightly sharper, but the 16 has something you can't measure in its output. I also have the GF 23mm f4 which is hands down the best lens I have ever used.
GF glass really is on a whole other level
You can use those lenses on Fuji X?
Not that I know off, I think he was more meaning he has that lens to using on a GFX body
Love your work mate, great stuff.
IMO next series should be about something to do with the art or skill of photography, rather than gear.
Hard work while you're stuck at home though ☺️
NZ is mostly out of lockdown at the moment, but yes it's very much going to involve me taking a lot more photos rather than testing and review for a little while.
I have another challenge in mind
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography I'd love to see your van in action as well.
Hahaha me too, it's had a ton of progress since last time, but not as fast as I'd like.
Though it will be in videos soon I'm pretty sure, just no focused update video on it for a while longer.
Thanks!
wow, what a work man
Thank you!
Surprised to see how sharp 15-45mm lens is at 15mm. I use that lens for landscape photography most of the time at 15mm with xs10. With ibis, it works really well.
I’ll be interested in seeing a comparison between the 16mm f1.r vs the new 18mm f1.4?
That was phenomenal work you have done. Well done. Although having a copy of the 16-80 which I love. I just wanted to try the 15-45 just for the fun of it. I managed to get a virtually unused copy for £100!!!!! In the UK. Should arrive this week. Can’t wait to have a play.
Love your channel.
The 15-45 is such a gem.
Mike has had 3 different owners and currently has a hair stuck in it but is still as sharp as a tack.
Thank you for the comment.
Thank you for this! So useful! Any reason why you didn’t include the 18mm f2?
Because I couldn't get hold of any copies unfortunately.
It'll get into the list eventually but the poor little bigger just wasn't around this time through.
It may have been incrementally lower than other lenses, but the 16-55 f/2.8 seems to be very versatile in your tests in terms of apertures available for sharpness (14:40).
Yes!! Paying attention to those Aperture ranges is very important in that final chart.
As adding or removing one more aperture can really shift a lens up or down that list.
So where most (excluding the very top and bottom) of the lenses position on that list really doesn't matter, and with scores being so close I really wanted people to notice that pretty much every single lens can be sharp enough to be "the best"
Well done for noticing
Awesome review. Are you doing the same for the long end zoom lenses 😜
Trying to, but trying to get them from fujifilm hasn't been easy so I am a little at thier mercy
Another fab. video man! Love your enthusiasm. I didn´t get it from the video, but how did you test the lenses regarding distance to subject? Constant medium (like 2-3 meters), close or further away? Thanks.
In a nut shell ones I had set my zoom, I loved the camera forward or back until the charts were in all four corners.
Did a lot of work with being level and straight on etc as well.
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography I got it. But in your experience (I am not sure), doesn´t it matter how far away you are from the subject? Sharpness is for sure affected at minimum focus distance, not sure how it varies (if at all) after that. In your case, you would need different sice charts of course.
Yes focus distance I guess would effect it.
And that's kinda what I was trying to explain with scaling the sharpness charts.
But I wasn't sure how much to scale them by.
and to do printed ones for every different zoom range of every single lens and different focus distances I think would have been hell but the most accurate way to do it.
I just have no idea how to work out what scale each one would need to be, without making it easier or harder for each lens to resolve
My studio test was physically huge, so no lens got any where near minimum focus distance.
But you have given me a awesome idea for a future video to test if focus distance effects sharpness of lens...if I can find a good way to measure it....that will be the hard part.
I really enjoyed this great series. As a Fuji X user, I'm happy to have creators like yourself contributing great content to the community.
Myself, I'm primarily a wide angle shooter, but I have been dabbling in telephoto focal lengths for landscape, cityscape and architectural details (and a little bit of portrait) lately. I would love to see another series from you, looking at short to medium telephoto lenses (50mm to 200mm or 75mm to 300mm FF equivalent). That means getting your hands on the very excellent 200mm f2 😁. You could include the additional metrics for DOF isolation and bokeh quality, which might add another element of interest to the series.
Down the line I think I'd like to do a "best lens for wildlife Photography" series.
Getting my hands on the lenses isn't a issue, I've had them all before.
But all the testing takes a while and yes I would change some metrics in my algorithm for that series, as long as I can find good ways to measure them.
Cheers for taking the time to comment though I honestly really appreciate it.
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography we honestly appreciate you lad
Just becoming aware of your channel (in my considering the Rokinon 12mm). Awesome effort on your part. I'm impressed with your methodology and thoroughness. Well done.
Thank you
Great work loved the series. Have you shared the graphs you showed for the lens sharpness?
Would like to see them and get a better understanding of the lenses and aperture values to use.
This video is a hidden gem.
Thank you
From which planet are you from? I mean the accuracy and the time spent on each video!!! Thank you soooo much !
Hahahaha you're welcome
This is quite interesting..all this time i am using MTF chart to find sweet spot in each lenses..to realize the diff results it surprise me
MTF will be more accurate than my testing
REALLY great video! And good explanation! Have you had a chance to test the Laowa 9mm 2.8? Seems to be a nice solution. The 16 1.4 is not wide enough for me, 8-16 is out of the equation due to price and weight ... 10-24 is great, but I think f4 is a bummer for astro work ... the 14 is something inbetween ... so maybe 9mm Laowa could do the trick?
Unfortunately no I haven't, I'd love to though if anyone from laowa ever reads this
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography the 10-24 came across really "bad" for astro in your video ... is it really that bad? Will you test out the version II ?
I will when Fuji send it to me, BUT the m II has the exact same glass in it as the m I apparently.
And just because it got a bad score compared to some of the other lenses, it doesn't mean it gives bad results.
I have shot astro images I am very happy with using the m I.
Hopefully all that helps.
Can you add the 18mm f2/1.4 scoresM
Any chance you test the Laowa 9mm? I currently own that(and 16 1.4....andddd 16-55) and have been debating a different wide angle option option
It's maybe in the pipes but if it happens it will be weeks away sorry.
Feel like you should've taken in the lens distortion into account. 15-45 has a barrel distortion at 15mm that can't be fixed in post, if we're talking about video work. Also Zeiss Touit could've made into this list, instead of Samyang. :)
Unfortunately at the time of recording this I didn’t have a good way of giving a numerical value to lens distortion and getting my hands on Zeiss lenses wasn’t a option, the samyang for example was sent to me be a fan of the channel, not from samyang directly
That's understood, I'm using a Viltrox 13mm currently, which I think could rank up pretty high on your chart.@@ThomasBusbyPhotography
Thanks your video
I am using the 18-55 f2.8-4 lens for Home Interiors. Now I need a wider lens.
I wonder about the Samyang 12 f2 AF lens or the 10-24 lens or the Viltrox 13 f1.4 lens. (I am using Feiyu G6 Max gimbal, a small gimbal)
After your video, I surprised about 15-45mm lens.
What should i choice a new lens?
Thanks
For my realestate work I still go to the 10-24 100% of the time. Combined with IS and working well with ibis i think it’s perfect for the task
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography Thanks Bro
Despite suffering a bit of brain damage from trying to wrap it around your test methodologies, that was awesome. Very well done.
Hahaha cheers, I appreciate it and understand haha
This is the ultimate coronavirus lockdown project.
My favorite is de laowa 9mm 2.8 zero-d not on your list!
Starts around 9:00
I sold my 16mm1.4 after shooting the 18mmf2 for a few months. I don't care about AF and sharpness. The 18mmf2 renders beautifully. Sold my Samyang 12mmf2 to buy the 16mm1.4. But somehow we never got along. Now I want the Laowa 9mm for my NZ astrophotography but probably get the Samyang 12mmf2 again.
All hail the 16mm 1.4! My most used lens. Started to get into a lil UA-cam myself with too 👍👍
Hahaha yeah that lens really is the top dog, and congrats on starting with UA-cam man, I've been loving the journey so far.
tb- photography Cheers man, still lots to learn. Keen for a collab once I’ve figured it out a bit more 😬
Looking at your sharpness score this keeps me wondering why paying several times at much on a lens only buys you a mild increase in sharpness.
Really depends on what you plan to use the lenses for.
Weather sealing, focus speed, brightness, consistency, but with a bit of patience, knowledge and a bit of DIY skill you can get stunning results with all the lenses.
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Which ultra wide for landscape video??????? Thank you!
Do you consider the ulatrawides just the 10-24 and 8-16?
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography no, I am open to other choices as well, so far my research shows that best one is 16mm 1.4 but it is just not wide enough so I am leaning towards the 10-24. Are there better options as I really want to carry max of 2 lenses and a drone. Also I was thinking about 16-80mm, what do you think about that?
If the 16mm 1.4 isn't wide enough the 16-80 isn't either?
I've had very pleasing results with the 10-24.
And for video it's corner sharpness flaws aren't going to be visible at all so I'd go with that
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography Thank you.
I'm sad the 10-24 ranked so low on the list. I've been considering it, but considering the price and slow aperture this performance really is disappointing
Don’t let it’s position on this list make it look like a bad lens, it’s wider than nearly all others, which is hard to make sharp, specially for its price.
Plus I still managed to win New Zealand landscape photographer of the year with images captured with that lens, if it suits you needs, just be aware of its limitations and it’ll still kick ass
I wonder how the new XF 10-24mm WR changed the score… 🤔
I'll make a video as soon as I can get it.
Amazing, now when do you start “what’s the best normal focal length lens?” 😁
I've been wondering what range to include in that, everything from 18-60mm maybe?
tb- photography that’s fairly ambitious! I was thinking you’d pick a smaller range like 23mm - 35mm.
Yeah that does sounds much more enjoyable.
Now I know why I use more the 15-45 than the 18-55... I am not crazy! 😅
Thanks for your hard work, very informative!
Thank you!
most (actually all but yours) reviewers who perform resolution or imatest runs on the 16-80 say it’s soft. not sure how it scores so high here.
Do note this was just talking about it at 16mm as it says on the chart, at 80mm etc it isn't great
Soft at after 50mm is what i have read but mostly at the corners
If you like check out my review of that lens, the sharpness graphs are very early on in the video
tell me you're planning to do a similar series for fuji's long lenses :D
Already done it :) have a look through my channel for the best lens for wildlife photography series’s.
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography cool! thanks!
This makes all other tests redundant!
Thank you!
all I need is my 16
Greetings.. I don’t know about you but it seems the sigma 18-35mm f1/8 art blows all those Fuji lens using the fringer pro II adapter.
I haven't tested it to say.
But the sigma art lenses are amazing.
I love the 16mm f/1.4 it’s surprisingly nice images but that sigma 18-35mm art has a WOW factor no one is talking about.
In what way does it wow?
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography the contrast and sharpness*** extremely low
Chromatic aberrations
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography only con the weight of the lens
For video 16-55 rule them all. 16 1.4 is Nice but focus manually!
Have they fixed that weird AF shimmering for the 16-55 in video mode yet?
Fact of this video that you did not tested best ultra wide angle for X mount which is Zeiss Touit 12mm f2.8.
Or the laowa 9mm, or the Fuji 18mm f/2.
But they'll get there own videos and added to my algorithm if I ever get the chance.
@@ThomasBusbyPhotography 18 f2 is sub pair lens and I would not bother with it, Laowa 9mm is UW and if you like horrible vignetting and sample variation this is right lens to get.
I'd still be interested to put them all through my testing to see how they go.
But yeah that's what I would expect
This is frekin amazing.... also, you have too much time on your hands.
Hahahaha thank you
Sorry I went to sleep with brain overload
You including zoom lenses killed this video for me... sorry
Feel free to ignore them if they don't suit your tastes
Great work, thanks for all the effort you put into creating/sharing this, very helpful
Thank you for the support, I honestly very much appreciate it.