How bad is a cheap $100 Chinese zoom lens? 420mm - 800mm
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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Bought one few years ago. Use it for large bird nests and it works just fine. Get a good tripod though, with a middle pole weight hook. So the money you save buying this lens, could get you a decent tripod..I've covered some lens with a plastic sandwich bag & a rubberband..Looking forward to using this lens this coming spring!
Can u share a sample photo please sir
Thank you!
Hey guys, I've came up with a crazy plan with this telephoto lense. the day I am goign to buy it (most likely in months), I am goign to start astrophotograpy with it. But deepsky astrophotofraphy. It needs a lot. A budget for this would be at least 2000€
Too late presumably, but probably much better off just attaching your camera to a telescope.
that sensor dust though
a 100%
Yup
Your mom
@@tylerwhite2668 me and your older cousing
@@jhonbarrasso8875 didn’t know a COUSING existed until now
the dust is in your sensor, its not noticeable on wider apertures but at f8 it will be.
It's hard for to find dust in sensor. But now, it was my favorite to clean the dust in sensor lol. Just mirror look up if you want to cleanse your sensor on Nikon.
There's no reason you should be getting dust in the sensor- about the only way that's going to happen is if the camera body is left without a lens and without a cap. past about 300 mm, lenses will increasingly "pick up" what's floating in the atmosphere, just due to the magnification properties of the lens. On a 3,000 mm lens you will invariably get dust particles in the shot no matter how good the camera or the lens is. You deal with it in post.
@@Harlem55 nah it’s super easy to get dust on a mirrorless on the sensor. If you change lenses frequently you’ll get dust. If you leave your camera on and change lenses you’ll get lots of dust. If you never use an air blower on your lenses or sensor you’ll have dust. If you never put caps on the back of your lenses like the guy in this video you’ll get dust. It happens, you just have to be diligent and have good practices in caring for your gear and you can minimize it.
@@greysuit17 All of your examples are things that the instruction manuals warn you not to do... so yeah- its all due to bad care / bad practices.
@@Harlem55 changing lenses frequently isn’t. These things do get dust easily.
are you able to post the photos so we can see them
in RAW!
Tks man.
Agree!! Veeery good for 100 $!!!
And it makes u go back to manual settings.......always a good exercise....
That plane had to be very far away because I can take photos of planes at altitude with a 300mm plus a 2x converter for 600mm, and see the plane fairly well but not close enough to see the logo of the airline. I still get decent shots of them with their contrails but could get closer shots with a larger lens to have better closer pictures.
The plane indeed was very far away. Maybe this week I will try to get a shot of a plane a bit closer.
Is this lens good for plane spotting? Or should I buy the canon ef 75mm to 300mm?
Why does he sound drunk
Like just barely drunk
The dust is all you my man! Clean your gear.
Excellent review with very useful real-world demonstrations. Thank you for going for it and getting the lens and then going to the effort to tell people about this product.
I notice that most of the shots/video seem to have a haze about them, and on that basis I won't buy the lens (my camera also doesn't have focus peaking) but it is good to be able to see how it performs and what it feels like nonetheless.
Why? It doesn't take "pro" photos, so why carry around that hideous lens? I just use a Canon bridge camera with a built-in 50x (1200mm) optical zoom. Most likely takes better and closer pics than that contraption.
I remember using this for my beginner journey it's really not bad it's actually do a decent job this lens helps me to buy the expensive one I still own one as display because of the memories ❤️
Great review! You answered the exact questions I’ve been asking! Thanks, I’m off to Amazon now to get one bought
Would it work on a Canon Rebel T7?
I bought one of these, and it works great. I usually just use it at 420 and don't extend out to 800 that often.
1 picture of a bird, thats all we get?
Soft, chromatic aberations, missalignment, all of it is there. But... it's 100 $... so I would say, this is a good deal.
Do you still have it? Do you still want it? I can buy it off of you (i am beginning photography, so i am DESPERATE for some cheap gear)
Bought the same one. Good for wildlife, but you need to know how to use a manual lens with your camera. All round a decent lens.
Straight forward a lens that costs around 50-300$ is not too bad, however the images wont be as sharp and aperture wont be as great considering the time it takes to capture light.
Very down to earth and honest, Loved your review. I've been considering this for several days now. Your review was very helpful.
Did you get it? And was it good? I know you posted this a while back 😂
Haha love that video of the moon. Looks like a jpg moving in After Effects XD
I got this lens for my D3500, being I’m still getting to know my camera, can someone help me how to use manual mode. I loveeee taking moon photos! Any help is appreciated.
Sorry. I am not familiar with Nikon. Hopefully this helps: www.dummies.com/photography/cameras/nikon-camera/how-to-focus-manually-on-your-nikon-d5300/
Thank you
i have a d3100, would you happen to know what kind of adapter to use for it?
I bought this super telephoto lens years ago to use with Nikon D3200 but the adapter that I bought has not that 8 points connection and camera messaged lens are not connected.
I just picked up it again today to get another try.
Can’t you just edit the photo to make it more professionally?
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Dust is on senzor, not on lens. Considering maximal apreture is 8,3 moreover so.
You are probably right. Always good to have a sensor cleaner handy.
There's no reason for dust to be on a camera's sensor, unless the camera has been handled improperly.
Dont buy this lens its a piece of crap
Lol I don't know what to think of this, to get that length at such a cheap price its worth messing with but manual focus is a bit of a killer at that distant and the dust HOLLY MOLLY lol
I got one too. It doubles as a telescope to take pictures across the fjord 2 km away. Optically its crap, but it makes quite a good telescope and you can take photos with it. It's solidly built too. You are not going to win any photography prizes with it, but you will get photographs of the crew on the deck of a nuclear submarine 2 km away.
It's very good value for money, just be realistic in your expectations. . . . . . .
just buy a rear lens cover for sony. that is what the backside is. probably get 10 pairs for around $10
Hello sir! Thanks for the video! I was wondering how the focus was zoomed all the way in while taking video? Was it too difficult or was it doable? Also I was hoping it could work with a Lumix G85. Thanks!
Thumbs up because this was the only video that actually explained anything instead of some ding bat with a shitty smart phone.
I just bought one let's see what happens..Thank you for the review.
How did you find using your lens..any good
You could have purchase your own lens dust cover, it's the same as any of your other rear lense covers, or do you also leave them open to the elements?
But you did a good review & examples; thank you.
Thanks, great review. My lens arrives next week. I'm an amateur hobbyist "birder" so i'm hoping this will work.
It is work?
@@wahyuwijanarko6362 it works for still objects. Not well for animals.
Vivitar sells effectively the same thing today, its actually pretty good in my experience.
That round spotlight reflecting in your eyes is so distracting. Mount it on a 45 degree angle.
Well, it's better than plastic optics in a plastic body... but the aperture is so small you can see the dust on the sensor, and diffraction limits resolution (well, that, and a whole host of aberrations). I would have expected WAY worse though. Nice review!
I like your review thanks.
Sir honestly tell me what thinking about you for this lens! Are you recommended me for buy this lens!!!
I think it really depends on what you want to use it for. You are not going to get pro quality photos with this but you will get a zoom level that you can't get with other lenses near this price range. I think of this kind of like binoculars that you can record. If you use binoculars a lot then this might be perfect for you.
@@GoTechGeek thank you sir
Ну и рожа...
ngl i just git a camera for christmas n i git that lens but it’s so bad, what settings or whatever did u use???
Have one of these. It is a great lens. I have taken sharp images of birds in flight. The manual focus is very smooth. It was my main lens for awhile. Ive been doing photography for over 50 years so a manual lens isn't much of a stretch because most of this time except for from 08 till now i used manual lenses. If it has a weekness its the set ring for the zoom. It doesn't hold well. Thanks for tge video.
Is it good for planespotting?
Pls answer
Witj like a nikon eos 5d
@nimrodszakalos9887 I've used it for macro, portrait, birding and got some great shots.
For the cover, could you not use a simple silicone tupperware cover? The kind you use to cover opened cans?
so whats a decent camera with 100x zoom? under $400?
AWESOME review!!!
I looked at reviews like multiple videos for my walimax lens and it's good im happy with mine
Please Let Me Know Does It Work With NIKON D3500
Nice review thankyou I have that lense
Thanks!
I am buying 420-800mm lens with 2x 3x vari zoom extender and adapter to fix my Sony a6000 camera. Hopefully will be good to photograph of insects, flowers and birds.
I have ordered one from Ebay looks the same but no brand. $98 us and $4 for postage from China.
The chromatic abberation and color fringing is awful, as well as the sharpness. I don't know what your standards are, but that moon photo isn't just "not bad." It is incredibly bad. I don't know if thats because of focusing issues by the operator, but I doubt it. You also neglected to mention any of the actual specs besides the focal length. I see the aperature on the website is f8 at 420mm (bad but fine), and f16 at 800mm(Basically unusable). Having that small of an aperature means that low light photos are impossible without setting up a tripod and taking a longer exposure or bumping the ISO to unfathomable levels, and with any fast moving subject, the ISO will need to be Boosted to the max. ALSO: the dust specs are on your sensor. the only situation that dust specs would be that visible on the internal glass is if you are using a macro lens at a tiny aperature, and possibly on a mid range lens at F22 or F29. You can buy a sensor blower for pretty cheap on amazon, and that usually does the trick.
Question: what Camera are you using with it?
I was using the Sony a6000 with it.
Thank you for sharing this video.
I have a Sony A6000, just bought this lens on Amazon, The camera won't let me use the shutter with this lens attached so will not take a picture. Also, what are the optimum settings for this lens on this camera please, new camera and beginner, so sorry for questions. Thanks, wonderful video by the way.
Try manual
For what mount is it so I can get an adaptor for my sony and try it out.
Where would you pick up a Canon EF adapter
Nice introduction thanks liverpool UK
I'm using Canon M50. Do I have to use mount adapter sir?
Can it also be used with a canon EF Eos M adapter?
Please let me know if this works on a EOS 60d? TIA! ☺️
John John it does! Sorry for the wait
I have a Canon EOS 100D. Would this lens take decent photos with this sort of camera?
I would say no
Matt C why?
@@peter9111 It's not because your camera is bad, not at all! This has nothing to do with camera bodies.
The lense is just crap to be fair. True, it may only be a 100$, and the 420-800mm focal length (670 to almost 1300mm on an APS-C body like yours) may be appealing if you want to get in photography where you require such ultra telephoto lenses, but the quality will be very low.
This lense goes from f/8 to f/16. That means not much light hitting the sensor and a very dark viewfinder.
Also remember that at such zoom, with no Image stabilization, you will need fast shutter speeds to get no shake in your images, which, considering this lense being f/8-16 may be quite difficult unless you push your ISO quite high and it's very bright outside. Manual focusing may be difficult as well, unless you have a tripod even the smallest touch at such focal length will give camera shake.
This lense will give you lots of chromatic aberration, probably not that sharp either.
At the end of the day it can be a 100$ dollar toy, no wonder a Canon lense with similar focal lengths would set you back thousands and thousands of dollars :)
@@mattc3295 Chromatic Abberation is inherent to a telephoto lens, period. Its rather to what degree the problem exists. Where it does exist, you can deal with It easily enough in post- its really NOT a huge deal breaker.
Yes, it will. Rather, you're just going to have to do extensive post-editing as compared to other lenses.
which camera is that? Sony a6400?
I think that lens is horrible. The "value" of any lens is the image you can take with it not the price you purchased it for. That lens has chromatic aberrations all over it. The Moon picture (and video) shows it the best but it is clearly visible on the bird picture as well.
Having said that, great review, I like how you choose targets of different light conditions to show its performance. Much appreciated.
I think you are unrealistic. Nobody said they compare to some lens from famous brands like Canon, Sigma, Nikon, Sony, but to get this zoom range you would have to pay thousands of dollars. If it had autofocus(and probably costed like 50$more) you get something usable and decent for 150$. You'd have to be absurd to expect it to have the quality of some lenses that cost thousands of dollars.
@@Ema-fm5zy You can get a Celestron C90 (1250mm, 1875mm CF on this camera) for about $200 that is many times better than this POS. Why would you spend $600 on a camera to only put $100 of crappy lens in front of it?
@@gpdude22I didn't think about that, I will look into the celestron, thx
are u a musician as well, guitars in background
Can that lens use on Sony ZV-E10?
I bought the Lightdow 420-800 White version with a Canon T-mount. Pretty happy with. Feels pretty solid. I’m so pleased I bought the Nikon F-mount T-mount for my Nikons. Focus is a little tricky. Had to get used to a soft touch.
Thanks for the video review.
Do you have any photo examples?
Would u say this camera lens is good for plane spotting?
3:28 There is a bit of bird in that blur
how to setting the A6000..it doesn't record video ...im using sony a6000
Can you give sum assist on how to use this lens
Which mount type it this?
Hi. Thank you for the review. Newbie here, but can you attach your phone to this? Does it come with the attachments to do that? Thanks again.
No, you can't. This is a lens for a DSLR or a 35mm film camera. Its not intended for phones.
It Works for Nikon cameras?
Can you add nd filters ?
Is it good for astrophotography
Is it full frame?
hi..what adaptor you use for sony A6000? i bought the lens but couldn't fit to my camera
Adapter M42 to E mount / nex. Available from Amazon and Ebay.
How does it work stopped down a bit?
It looks ultra soft.
Can it work for canon Eos m50
Thanks for a great video
One problem with zoom lens' is when you zoom in the aperture slows down. Am f4 lens changes to 5.6 or 8. I prefer fixed length telephoto lens'.
2:05 was it with the lens in or out?
Put a 2x converter on it 😁
I got mine for 17$ ._.
Sub thailand
Doest it work with fuji?
To much talk!!!
thankyou !!!
What is focus peking and where do you find it on your camera? I have a Nikon D5100 and am just starting out. I have a lot to learn.
Focus peaking is where the camera visually shows you which areas are in focus. It looks like your model of camera does not have it. photographylife.com/using-manual-focus-lenses-on-nikon-dslr-cameras
@@GoTechGeek Thank you for you help.
Hi GTG , can use this len for Sony Am72 ( Fullfame ) ? if yes, do it need a adapter ?
Not familiar with the AM72 but I assume it is E-Mount so it should work with the included adapter.
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What lens hood fits this?
good review, just what I needed, thanks
Hmm iam on 0 apature
Is the image quality worth??
The zoom quality worthed.
Using this same lens, I got this shot of the moon. It WILL give you professional looking photos if you work with it enough: facebook.com/AndyKinnisonPhotography/photos/a.123016755759064/326277482099656
use shrink wrap
What for?
Brilliant review sir, subbed!
Thank you so much!
Hi I've had this lens for over a year, decided to attach it today ,but the camera is saying lens not attached lens cover is off. I have tried every setting. Any ideas why the camera isn't picking up the lense?
It is a setting you have to adjust in your camera. Not sure what camera model you have though...
@@GoTechGeek hi I have the nikon d3300
@@theblade66 The setting is called "M". This is a manual lens and has no communication with your camera body.
@@gpdude22 already tried manual setting to no avail?
@@theblade66 Too late, but there should be a setting to allow you to take a photo without a lens being attached(in reality there would be a lens, but the camera can't detect it)