As always, great review! The 135 GM and these new lenses 50 GM and 35 GM that are competitively compact performers are the reasons I’m in GASeous state with Sony
This is a great lens, not heavy or big and produces fantastic images. Being an old timer from the 50mm “standard lens” era, I’m still getting use to it after almost seven months of use and that 50mm f1.2 GM released not too long afterward turned me back to my “standard lens” mode and reduced usage. Really want to use this 35mm more. Both this 35mm and 50mm new GM (change started with 24mm f1.4 GM) are different from the old Sony lenses in my eyes, started to generate color, transition and temp much more neutral and natural. Your review is spot on as usual. Thank you.
Thank you for this review. Some interesting points made here that I didn't see in other reviews. Have had this lens for about 2 weeks now and I am absolutely loving it. Beautiful color rendering, soft bokeh and nice sharp edges. Glad I was patient and didn't go for the Sigma. The 50mm 1.2 is definitely going to be a challenging lens to not dump $2k on considering how lovely this lens and even the 20mm G are. Really is a world of difference from the standard FE line which is already fairly good.
I have the 35mmf1.8 but will upgrade once I'm sure full weddings can go ahead here in the Uk. I have 10 booked in for July so fingers crossed. Great review as always.
Thanks for making a very good reviews specially in the 35mm lens. A few years ago I bought one of my favorite lens the Canon 35mm f1.4 ii after watching your review. And now I think Im going to do the same with this one 🙌🏼
Great review! Really quite amazing, super compact for it's performance! The only issue, for someone making video, the focus breathing is a bit distracting. Thank you for the review, great analysis!
Hi Dustin as usual a very good and very informative review of the product. By any chance, you or anybody know about SYX code as part of the branding on some of Sony lenses including the 35mm f1.4gm. Thank you in advance.
Hi Dustin, have you used the Zeiss Distagon? I would be interested to hear your thoughts on that one. I also agree with what many others have stated about you being the most trusted reviewer on UA-cam.
I got my first FF camera (A74) with kit lens. While the kit lens is great for daily shooting and carry around, I'm thinking about getting this 35mm F1.4GM next for portrait, bohken and low light shooting. Anyway, thank you for your great review of this lens.
Love this lens. Fantastic for closeup too, with pretty much the same reproduction ratio as 135GM. It produces images with a near identical "look" to the 135GM too (apart from perspective, of course). They make a fantastic complementary pair for travelling relatively light but with top-IQ on tap. Super!!
Hi dustin, i had a curious question for you. Is there any difference in image quality resolution, between equivalent MP sensors. Example a9 and a7 both 24mp will there be any difference? Thanks
I didn’t see a significant difference in sharpness. I did see more variability in dynamic range and ISO performance (the a73’s sensor was better in this regard)
@@DustinAbbottTWI The reason i ask, ive seen two reviews about the ,r5, r, rp, r6 ul against each other and analysing image quality, ( irene ) (slanted lense) The eos R and RP Have a cloudy resolve to the image when compared to the 20mp r6. I thought it must be an autofocus thing.
I've now used two copies (the one I reviewed and one I bought later) and both performed on a very high level. I've also heard no complaints from users about QC issues.
This really makes me wish Tamron had brought their 35mm 1.4 to the Sony E system. This Gmaster is a beautiful lens with an amazing rendering, but I feel the tamron could get me 94 percent there at a much lower price.
Great review as always, covers all the bases and very un-biased. I am a Sigma 35 F1.2 user and absolutely love that lens, it will be great if you can do some update with the comparison between the Sigma 35 1.2 vs 35GM, based on some other review site it seems like the Sigma 35 1.2 still offer " better" bokeh, well, better in my own eye at least, especially when shooting at close distance, the back ground rendering from the Sigma 1.2 seems to be quite a bit better even stop down to F1.4 to match the Sony GM, can you comment on this ? I am planning to stay put with the Sigma 35 1.2 but adding the Voigtlander 35 F2 APO for everything else besides portrait or anything that need the shallow DOF of the F1.2. Thanks.
My experience is that lenses with a bigger maximum aperture still have larger, softer bokeh highlights even when stopped down to similar aperture values of a lens with the smaller maximum aperture. The Sigma would win for quantity of blur, but I think the GM has slightly softer, creamier quality of blur.
As always, great review! The 135 GM and these new lenses 50 GM and 35 GM that are competitively compact performers are the reasons I’m in GASeous state with Sony
For sure!
This is a great lens, not heavy or big and produces fantastic images. Being an old timer from the 50mm “standard lens” era, I’m still getting use to it after almost seven months of use and that 50mm f1.2 GM released not too long afterward turned me back to my “standard lens” mode and reduced usage. Really want to use this 35mm more. Both this 35mm and 50mm new GM (change started with 24mm f1.4 GM) are different from the old Sony lenses in my eyes, started to generate color, transition and temp much more neutral and natural. Your review is spot on as usual. Thank you.
You're right that Sony has really found their stride in developing these lenses now.
Thank you for this review. Some interesting points made here that I didn't see in other reviews. Have had this lens for about 2 weeks now and I am absolutely loving it. Beautiful color rendering, soft bokeh and nice sharp edges. Glad I was patient and didn't go for the Sigma. The 50mm 1.2 is definitely going to be a challenging lens to not dump $2k on considering how lovely this lens and even the 20mm G are. Really is a world of difference from the standard FE line which is already fairly good.
The most recent Sony lenses are definitely next level compared to earlier FE lenses.
I have the 35mmf1.8 but will upgrade once I'm sure full weddings can go ahead here in the Uk. I have 10 booked in for July so fingers crossed. Great review as always.
Great choice for weddings. Exciting to see the world starting to come alive again.
Thanks for making a very good reviews specially in the 35mm lens. A few years ago I bought one of my favorite lens the Canon 35mm f1.4 ii after watching your review. And now I think Im going to do the same with this one 🙌🏼
Enjoy. It has a lot of the same qualities as the 35L II.
Thanks for adding the Astro review…I always look for this in your reviews!
My pleasure!
As usual, lovely test images Dustin
Thanks, Chris.
Always love to see your reviews man. Can you do about the new sony 40mm f2.5 g ?
I do hope to get to those lenses at some point.
Great review! Really quite amazing, super compact for it's performance! The only issue, for someone making video, the focus breathing is a bit distracting. Thank you for the review, great analysis!
That pretty much sums it up.
I bought this lens a couple weeks ago and love the sharpness and color so far great for going out on shoots with a good subject.
It's a great lens!
This lens is epic in every way. It's on one of my cameras 24 7
It is an amazing lens, for sure!
Hi Dustin as usual a very good and very informative review of the product. By any chance, you or anybody know about SYX code as part of the branding on some of Sony lenses including the 35mm f1.4gm. Thank you in advance.
Hi Dustin, have you used the Zeiss Distagon?
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on that one.
I also agree with what many others have stated about you being the most trusted reviewer on UA-cam.
I haven't used the Distagon. It was already an older lens when I started reviewing Sony, so I never went back and covered it.
U made me Buy this LENS Sir Thank You!!!
It is an amazing lens. I'm about to release a long term review on my copy of it.
I Bought it today... can't wait to unbox it and give it a try
I got my first FF camera (A74) with kit lens. While the kit lens is great for daily shooting and carry around, I'm thinking about getting this 35mm F1.4GM next for portrait, bohken and low light shooting.
Anyway, thank you for your great review of this lens.
You'll really enjoy the 35GM - it's an amazing lens.
Having used many different FL and lenses. 35 is my favorite FL and this 35GM is just really good. Small and light too.
Absolutely.
Love this lens. Fantastic for closeup too, with pretty much the same reproduction ratio as 135GM. It produces images with a near identical "look" to the 135GM too (apart from perspective, of course). They make a fantastic complementary pair for travelling relatively light but with top-IQ on tap. Super!!
That's important. Having complimentary colors and "look" can be very important when shooting some projects.
I keep wondering why you show several times a snapshot of a FE1.8/14 GM lens in this review for a FE 1.4/35 GM? Was this intentional?
That was taken with the 35mm F1.4 and shows how close it can focus.
@@DustinAbbottTWI Understood, makes sense now
Wish Sony would make a 28mm 1.4 GM lens... prefer 28 to 35 for compositional photography.... Thank you Dustin.
There definitely aren't enough high end 28mm F1.4 lenses.
Hi dustin, i had a curious question for you.
Is there any difference in image quality resolution, between equivalent MP sensors.
Example a9 and a7 both 24mp will there be any difference?
Thanks
I didn’t see a significant difference in sharpness. I did see more variability in dynamic range and ISO performance (the a73’s sensor was better in this regard)
@@DustinAbbottTWI
The reason i ask, ive seen two reviews about the ,r5, r, rp, r6 ul against each other and analysing image quality, ( irene ) (slanted lense) The eos R and RP Have a cloudy resolve to the image when compared to the 20mp r6.
I thought it must be an autofocus thing.
Just got this lens. I love every bit of it. About to sell my sigma 85mm 1.4 hsm lense and get the Sony 85gm
Enjoy!
As much as I want this lens I need that 50 1.2 more lol.
That's fair. It's a pretty enticing lens.
Does this lens have any quality control issue？
I've now used two copies (the one I reviewed and one I bought later) and both performed on a very high level. I've also heard no complaints from users about QC issues.
What's the point of paying extra for 1.4 when you are losing almost 3 stops in the corners?
You probably aren’t going to find a 35mm lens where that isn’t true. That’s not an unusually bad performance for vignette at all
This really makes me wish Tamron had brought their 35mm 1.4 to the Sony E system. This Gmaster is a beautiful lens with an amazing rendering, but I feel the tamron could get me 94 percent there at a much lower price.
That's fair. I'm surprised they haven't released something like that, yet.
Its a magic lens. The best 35mm I have ever had.
I love it, too. It's optically brilliant while being quite compact.
A7IV with breathing compensation works well on this lens
Good to know.
Will wait for the RF 35 1.2, thank you very much.
Hi Derek, if you're a Canon shooter, then that only makes sense.
Sorry man, you’re missing out :/
@@Yupthereitism Not even close to missing out. I've had the current best in class Canon 35 1.4 II since it released 5 years ago.
@@derekv6479 that lens is good, not as good as this new Sony though
@@Yupthereitism I know. It's better
Would I be crazy to want to sell my GM 35 1.4 for a 35 1.8?
Not crazy, though I really like the 35GM myself.
Great review as always, covers all the bases and very un-biased. I am a Sigma 35 F1.2 user and absolutely love that lens, it will be great if you can do some update with the comparison between the Sigma 35 1.2 vs 35GM, based on some other review site it seems like the Sigma 35 1.2 still offer " better" bokeh, well, better in my own eye at least, especially when shooting at close distance, the back ground rendering from the Sigma 1.2 seems to be quite a bit better even stop down to F1.4 to match the Sony GM, can you comment on this ? I am planning to stay put with the Sigma 35 1.2 but adding the Voigtlander 35 F2 APO for everything else besides portrait or anything that need the shallow DOF of the F1.2. Thanks.
My experience is that lenses with a bigger maximum aperture still have larger, softer bokeh highlights even when stopped down to similar aperture values of a lens with the smaller maximum aperture. The Sigma would win for quantity of blur, but I think the GM has slightly softer, creamier quality of blur.
Wow, extremely impressive. Nice to see a modern lens with some soul, not so clinical.
Totally agree. Sony is really nailing these recent GM lenses.
For a review of a lens, I am surprised you kept the camera on your face the whole time.
There is a definitive review that has a lot of other interactive segments if that is what you were looking for