I Bet You Didn't Know This About Your Lens

Lenses are the most important factor when it comes to final image quality. Some of the best lenses are the old vintage primes with low element count, high micro contrast, image and color fidelity, 3D pop, character and magic. Modern lenses are designed to have the sharpest brick walls corner to corner. Today we are featuring the Sirui Nightwalker set. 24mm T1.2 35mm T1.2 and 55mm T1.2. We'll be reviewing the 24mm today on the Panasonic G9 II and the Blackmagic original BMPCC OG. Comparing it to the Zeiss 55mm f1.8 on the full frame Sony A7S III. Can micro four thirds and super 16 stand a chance with these budget cinema primes?
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[@cameraconspiracies]

If you buy today's gear through my affiliate links, a Leica lens fairy will also visit you during your videos :) Panasonic G9 II amzn.to/455WgSb Sirui Nightwalker Set 24mm f1.2, 35mm f1.2 and 55mm f1.2 for Sony E, Canon RF, MFT or Fuji X mount bit.ly/3LvzcVM Discount code COMEDY BMPCC OG (links can only be accessed through your Atari game console) Sony A7S III amzn.to/3ZC4iRw Zeiss 55mm f1.8 amzn.to/3ZCgu4Q Instagram instagram.com/vegetablepolice/ All my gear and recommended products can be found in my affiliate shop, thanks for shopping around! www.amazon.com/shop/vegetablepolice Topaz Video AI for enhancing and slowing down footage! www.topazlabs.com/topaz-video-ai/ref/1640/

[@evankolpack]

It was nice of you to treat that photographer like a real human person.

[@reedeema]

that short chat with the old chap was really cool =)

[@VoxRox]

9:30 The stream-of-conscious music and video montage was like the sweet creamy center inside this crisp discussion of vintage glass.

[@jimbotski]

After so many years it's great this channel hasn't changed much. Tune was entertaining as heck!

[@kultphrase]

Casey is the best Canadian ever!!!

[@Odoggin01]

I love how sometimes you get random people to come in the shot! You chatted with that gentleman about lenses and got his info shouted out! Super cool wholesome content as always

[@MacKingG]

Dude you're cracking me up, thoroughly enjoying your vids. And it's comforting knowing that you would help me out, even if I'm just an empty husk devoid of life energy, incapable of feeling joy, sucking the air out of any room I walk in, or as I like to say a photographer.

[@mo_sisu]

I’m a photographer, yet I keep coming back to this channel. Love this channel!

[@madsappeal]

Stockholm syndrome 😅

[@Nuri_91]

As a photographer myself, I actually quite enjoy him roasting us.😂

[@MacKingG]

More, more! 😂

[@EddieSkelson]

I’m addicted to this channel. Addicted.

[@Thrice_Greatest]

I still shoot with a Fuji X-T1 and use an X-Fujinon FM 50mm f/1.9, Yashica 50mm f/1.9, and my favorite Nikon 50mm f/1.4 Ai. All of them give awesome character to all the images I take. Colors are unique, and the images look great. When I use the modern lenses they look extremely sharp, and don’t have much character. When I edit the images with the vintage lenses I don’t edit them very much. With the modern lenses I have to edit more to give it character. Great video 👍 as always.

[@Leptospirosi]

The mountain leggy insect song is pure art! 😂

[@AprilClayton]

Panasonic getting phase detect autofocus feels like a sign of the Apocalypse. It looks so nice. .

[@Durio_zibethinus]

Too nice. Prepare your rations quickly.

[@radiozelaza]

Yeah, on a manual focus lens. Very nice

[@carl.1up]

😂👍

[@iamzr81]

The music and the lyrics were phenomenal. I'm a city boy, city boy for life - homie, I'm just a city cowboy renegade without a grenade.

[@franktatom1837]

After "the world" went digital, I kept all of my film lenses, which included Voigtlander M39 35mm f2.5 and M39 50mm f1.5, & a full range of Minolta MF and AF lenses, most of which are prime lenses, and waited until some company finally realized a flipping mirror was unnecessary for digital photography. I then bought a full frame body and a few dumb adapters and I have been very pleased with the results. Yes, 3d pop exists, not in all lenses, but in many inexpensive lenses, both new and used. I began photography 50 years ago, when zoom lenses were abysmal work-arounds. So I have a general distaste for them, despite the fact that modern ones are quite good. I've encouraged younger friends who have been "zoom photographers" their whole photographic lives to get prime lenses, but I've gotten some lack of comprehension on why they would get a more interesting photo from a prime than they would from their very expensive, very heavy f2.8 zoom lenses. So I salute your effort to persuade those photographers that prefer to turn a zoom ring over moving their body to frame a photo.

[@thatcherfreeman]

One thing that might be a good way to temp your younger zoomer friends is that a lot of prime lenses are very small. If your prime lens is tiny, you're much more likely to take the camera with you when you go out somewhere. It's debatable whether a prime will give you better pictures as that's highly dependent on your subject. However, getting a shot is better than leaving the camera at home because your lenses are all huge and heavy.

[@j_taylor]

​@@thatcherfreemanGreat point! Another advantage of a small lens, is people don't react to it. Street photography is so much easier with a small prime (that takes a 52mm filter) than my big zoom (72mm filter size.)

[@concession10]

I started to miss how small and simple the lenses I had back in the film days. Switched to Voigtlander/zeiss M-mount lenses. No weather sealing and no autofocus but great quality, smaller and lighter. A bonus of M-mount; the adapter is small and you're not committed to one brand of camera. Switch brands? Just get a new adapter and keep all of your glass.

[@samohara5187]

The now rare Saturday upload, oh how I've missed you.

[@gunn1ng]

Ahh the path of the photographer/videographer. You start out buying (or wanting to buy) the sharpest, widest, most expensive GM or EF L pro lenses available and then one day you wake up and you find yourself on Ebay chasing 20 year old "mint" 2MP Casio CCD cameras from 2003...😂

[@JoeSzilagy]

At 1:50- mysterious creature crosses path in background. Likely a very small extraterrestrial reptilian shape-shifting semi-human, disguised as a simple bunny rabbit.

[@djsusan00]

4:15 was wholesome

[@DixonLu]

Kai W recommends Light Lens Lab's vintage Leica replicas. Not cheap 'coz of the high quality construction and replication of the glass formulation (% of lead).

[@kultphrase]

4:26 literally the best human Casey 😅

[@AlexAtArt]

7:46 Canon EF 20-35mm f/2.8 L certainly exists. It was Canon's first professional EF series wide-angle zoom lens in the early 90's. You could check e.g. Ken Rockwell's review to get more information.

[@markstumpf6531]

I have one in my left hand. :). Bought it used for like $200 many years ago. Love it.

[@corykphotography]

The G9ii with the Sirui looks awesome!

[@puck528co]

Canon 85 1.2. saurons eye. What a red ringed beast. Still my dream lens.

[@TheEbenflow]

Man I love your videos you’re literally my favourite videography/camera KZbinr rn and I find myself not wanting your videos to end 🥹

[@corykphotography]

Camera Conspiracies is definitely a far superior being to most all of KZbinrs. Maybe you should buy a T-shirt?

[@RockWILK]

Using a Minolta 28mm f/2.8 and Minolta 50mm f/1.4. on my S5 to do 90% of my projects. Narratives mostly. I love those lenses. Kinda like Helios type images. Very cool. I also like the Sirui APSC Anamorphic lenses. I'm making a doc using the 35mm and 75mm now. They both have a lot of unique character. Got them both WAY cheap. Great deals on those all the time. Great content here always. Thanks for sharing.

[@vacuumandgaspressurecoexisting]

shhh.. I'm still trying to build a set of minoltas. Don't let the hipsters know.

[@RockWILK]

@@vacuumandgaspressurecoexisting Amen. They're hard to find. My 28mm Telesor and 50mm Rokkor were in my father's camera bag. I found them there after he passed away. It was like finding a pot of gold. :-)

[@vacuumandgaspressurecoexisting]

Minolta was like the Seiko of the camera world, did everything in-house.. were miles ahead with coatings and that sort and even helped Leica at one point. Consistent with the coatings in the respective generations as well which is good for film producers. They are quite easy to come across here in Yurop. Just got myself a PG 28 2.8 and a PG 50 1.4 i am currently geeking out over.. paid next to nothing. They were certainly not worse than the competition, but maybe they don't get as much cred since they made very little exotic superfast glass. I don't know, but for someone with a limited budget they are awesome. @@RockWILK

[@RockWILK]

@@vacuumandgaspressurecoexisting wow. I didn't realize all of that. Pretty amazing history. I don't do any still photography, I'm a filmmaker, and I find these lenses really awesome for filmmaking. When I found these lenses in my father's bag, I also found two rolls of film but I haven't been able to find anybody who can develop them because they are ecn-2 processing, which apparently is really difficult to find. I finally found a store somewhere in the middle of the country, I think Kentucky, but I'm waiting for them to call me back because they said they're waiting to get some kind of equipment to be able to print after they develop. My 50mm rokkor is an f/1.4, and it is incredible in low light. Just a remarkable image. And on my S5, as long as I stay with the native ISO of either 640 or 4000, I get beautiful images with these lenses in that camera. I've seen both on ebay for anywhere between $75-$350. Which is insane. ;).

[@briandipierro8865]

I'm still trying to get a Minolta 35mm, so much money. They've been my go-to's for a while. Love my FD lenses too, but the Minoltas have a special vibe to me.

[@thissidetowardscreen4553]

Kasey, I hope this channel and your amazing content keep growing. I do not know why this channel is not in the million subs? Is there going to be a "I am back litten" t-shirt in the works? Excellent review and I could see some 3D pop! Thanks for the infor-tainment! Have you looked into K mount lens, they are so cheap, but some of the vintage lens are amazing!

[@paulthomas8986]

That zeiss 55mm has some nice 3D pop. And your new song is excellent.

[@itsapinecone7280]

i own the 7artisan 35mm f1.4 mk ii, and its a gorgeous lens, in build quality and in technical quality. fast, sharp(even wide open) has character, and gorgeous colors, plus the flaring it gives is nothing short of magic. best 70 dollars i have ever spent

[@hitmakerstudio6405]

That rap was amazing 😂

[@jonathanscherer8567]

I liked the A7S III with the Zeiss better, I think. Though it had less background blur, the separation seemed just as good somehow. I'm not sure how to describe it. I liked that it retained a bit more of the background detail, while still keeping you apart from it. Perhaps that's the landscape photographer in me.

[@cameraconspiracies]

That's the 3D pop. That's why I stopped it down to show it wasn't about the background blur.

[@AABB-px8lc]

Out-of-focus area of point light source is close to plain uniform circle or even gaussian distribution (there are special lenses with apodization element to nail the problem make it with huge light loss, like Sony FE 100mm F2.8 STF GM OSS). Canon 24F1.8 have ring-like area (bad, we can clearly see hard edges of green leaves at background)

[@clabart]

You made a fool of yourself with that gentleman's Laica M10. Throw everything away and buy Laica! But I must say that the G9 II returned 3D images that the A7S III did not. Good!

[@jayesh_15]

That camera guy in the shot was a cool guy 😊

[@andersistbesser]

The g9 video looks every bit as good as the expensive sony. This camera is very tempting to me

[@carl.1up]

The Sirui was more windy imo. Love it!!! 😅

[@charliejg]

Hey, A CC video on a Saturday!! Why does everyone pronounce it Seer-e-u instead of Seer-u-ee? The u is before the i at the end of the word. Would Canon EF lenses adapt well with the X-T3 sensor? I do have some FD lenses I adapt but never tried EF. Have a great Saturday and thanks for the weekend video!

[@jeremiasdrumond7457]

Decades ago I had a cheap Chinon camera with a 50mm 1.9 lens. It had busy toneh at times. But the micro-contrast and colors were superb, especially with Agfa HDC100 film.

[@errol3184]

Light Lens Lab makes vintage Cooke replicas and some others. Still costs as much as a new Gmaster but are a fraction of what they imitate...

[@GordonMoat]

No affiliate links for the sandals?

[@TK421-53]

13:12 to be honest I don’t think you will actually like the EF 85/1.2 My bet is that you’ll be disappointed. It is a heavy mofo of a lens, the early FBW isn’t dampened at all. At f/1.2 it isn’t an easy lens. Not sure about video on mirrorless, maybe it works well, I have not tried. I have a preference for the EF 50/1.2 or 135/2, although the 50mm is not perfect (maybe more accurate AF on mirrorless) and the 135mm needs more room to work. As for zooms I have a weak spot for the original 24-70/2.8L - big and heavy, but I like the character. Before you get that 85/1.2 I/II try it out first.

[@mariopassalacqua6674]

I have the first version of the EF 85mm F1.2 L. It is big and heavy - but sort of what you expect for Canon big aperture glass. Originally, I bought it for my EOS 3 film camera. The images were incredible but the autofocus was slow and unsure. Adapted to an R or R5 and even to a Sony via Metabones, the focus speed is improved somewhat and the hunting reduced. In terms of uniqueness, there is a creaminess to the images from this lens that I have not been able to replicate in other lens choices.

[@science830]

i've gotta say, i'm not a huge fan of the look of the sirui. As you said it's pretty busy, and overall it's just a bit aggressive. I find that's the case with most of sirui's lenses, even their anamorphics. If i'm gonna buy a semi-budget lens like that i think I'd rather buy laowa, but in reality i'll buy neither and keep buying my vintage and first party glass (and maybe a leica if i take out a mortage).

[@MtnXfreeride]

I preferred the 1.8 look. The 1.2 was aggressively tonehhed

[@SteveAEee]

Finally the BMPCC looks good.

[@bobreberger3554]

Try some pentax takumar m42 mount lenses from 60-70 years ago. 50 f/1.4, 55mm f/1.5 to name two.

[@thedronescene7474]

Hi, do you also use a Mist filter when taking bird pictures with your Sony lens?

[@Nuri_91]

9:15 Now who's gonna get this cini mini milk outta my nose?

[@robertper4102]

Yeah I could see the blooming of the Sirui lens. (you called it ghosting) My Canon FD 50mm f1.4 does a similar thing when wide open. Probably even more pronounced on the Canon.

[@dyutimanbarman5568]

Casey please review EF lenses on Fuji with speedbooster

[@alpigiano]

Love the Leica man interview, thank you for creating this channel. Have you considered the Canon RF 85mm f2 macro? It definitely has micro-contrast, sharp, dare I say 3D pop and a better bet than the EF beast (I've used both, the f2 is less intimidating and more fun to use). I think it's a gem in the RF lineup, not big or too expensive. 7 elements design I believe.

[@cameraconspiracies]

12 elements, zero 3D pop.

[@alpigiano]

Wait@@cameraconspiracies - Canon says 7 elements in 4 groups on their UK website (canon co uk , can't post the link or KZbin filters it). Did they lie to me. Still a great lens for RF I think, worth keeping an open mind - see Gordon Laing's comparison with the RF 1.2 or the DPreview sample gallery

[@alexflo761]

That BMPCC OG look!

[@daesong1378]

Today I took out the 50mm 1.2 GM and tried to replicate a shot I had previously taken with an adapted FL 55mm 1.2. The GM is a great fast focusing sharp lens… but the old FL lens just seemed to render better, it might be the “3D pop” that makes the objects in frame look solid. The Toneh on the FL is very busy though, if you push the colors it can get bad really fast.

[@nitailevi8001]

Weird that at the beginning thebackground is more blurred on the 4/3 f/1.2 (f/2.4 equivalent) than f/1.8 on the full frame...? Is focus point farther away on the latter?

[@cameraconspiracies]

I said the Zeiss was at T4.5. I did that to show the Zeiss will have more pop even with less background blur.

[@ivanfranceschin]

Hahah the guy at 3:38 was already bothering the girl

[@Jambo1999]

I have a 15yo lens that you can't buy anymore, (Sigma 150mm Macro), but it has fungus growing on the inside. I live in a humid climate and should have stored it better. I may take it to Tokyo and ask Yodobashi Camera if they can clean it.

[@SovietLensReviews]

1:52 yikes, that business of the bokeh as soon as you switch is so obvious. Hard to beat those old Carl Zeiss designs, the Germans knew what they were doing.

[@Astrolavista]

Yes I'm here for the cameras and lenses, but I'm also here for the dinosaur mountain collision rap.

[@Experternas]

i love meeting other kamera ppl when out and about. its like a date. we're both nerds, we both speak the same language, there's no akward paus because both of us wants to brag about our systems.

[@POVwithRC]

By change or arrangement. Perfect.

[@mrdamiansingh]

Review the 28 RF 2.8 Pan cake the new one I’m telling you! That will blow your mind! I just bought it and I was very skeptical but my gosh that lens it’s ridiculously sharp

[@j.s.2767]

that g9ii looking good

[@reedmckenzie]

How bad did I fk up? What should I have gotten for the original retail cost of my gear (about 10k USD) and what could/should I get if I sell everything and start from scratch? Current Gear: Sony A7iv (2 bodies & 3 batteries). Tamron (removal of 3d pop comes free) 17-28, 70-300, and 35-150. K&F filters (67mm fixed ND kit 4, 8 , 64, 1000) and (82mm magnetic CPL and 1-5 stop VND). DJI ronin 3 gimbal. DJI wireless mic kit (future cancer comes free). Rode shotgun mic (the original big one). DJI mini 2 with fly more kit. Drift HD action cam and suction cup mount (externally mounted on cars) and cheap front/rear camera dash cam (mounted inside windshield). PGYTECH OneMo backpack. There's more embarrassing purchases but will end by mentioning the most recent (and probably most regrettable) purchase of a 128gb Insta360 go3. PLEASE HELP ME FIX THIS MESS 🙏🏼

[@artwithme170]

I loved that old man, what a joyful fella. Hey can you show off the dynamic range difference between the G9 and G9ii? Oh and please really put the new IBIS modes through their paces, I want ZERO ultra-wide wobble.

[@malekith13]

Well, if you want low amount of elements in your lenses, you can test the nikkor Z 40mm F2 ( 6 elements in 4 groups ) or their 28mm F 2.8 ( 9 elements in 8 groups ) ^^

[@CianMcsweeney]

Good lenses that are let down by poor build quality (plastic mounts)

[@malekith13]

@@CianMcsweeney i have the 40 and really like it, plastic mount isn't really an issue if you dont use them like some savage ^^ it's even pretty sealed against dust and light rain :)

[@CianMcsweeney]

@@malekith13 I'm sure it's fine, it's just a bit of a missed opportunity in my opinion on Nikon's part, could have made them as nice feeling as Fuji's F2 primes

[@malekith13]

@@CianMcsweeney I see what you mean but at the same time that 40 is a full frame lense while beeing quite cheaper than the fuji's F2, they had to cut on some places :)

[@CianMcsweeney]

@@malekith13 I don't agree, look at Sony's compact lenses, the 24mm f2.8, 40mm f2.5 and 50mm f2.5. All metal, aperture rings etc.

[@ickebins6948]

@9:40 Gimme that SONG!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!

[@cameraconspiracies]

vegetablepolice.bandcamp.com/track/the-mysical-bigfoot-unicorn

[@RafalGendarz]

Saturday bonus bonanza ❤️❤️❤️

[@JapanLovers]

9:32 That song fukin slaps

[@kevineagles9859]

That song though.

[@thecommish80]

Agreed. Old ef lenses are better than any 3rd party options.

[@andilematomela2043]

funniest camera reviewer on youtube

[@danieldeemer]

Put the viltrox speed booster and sigma18-35 on the G9 II

[@jamesoliver6625]

It's like me, an old, still shooting DSLRs (photos, no video right now) in bed with Nikon. I have my 25 year old AF-d 135 mm f2 DC Nikkor on the 780 right now (7 elements in 6 groups at 818 g ) when they launch the Plena 135 S f1.8 (16 elements in 14 groups at 995 g) All the crap about CA on the f2 DC is fixable in my raw software (Affinity) with just a few clicks. so is the tiny bit of vignetting. The bokeh is delicious. And there's going to be a TALL ORDER to duplicate that lens' ability to duplicate the subtle nuances of mid tone reproduction around 18% grey reflectance through 28 reflectance surfaces.

[@MiffedRebob]

dig my efs... my 85 1.2 was found in Regina of all places.

[@karuso8605]

The 23mm f1.7 slr magic for APSC was kind of an old school design. They used tantalum instead of lead to dot their glas, which is really unique. Although, I would never promote buying lenses - at any given pricetag - from the Chinese empire..

[@Photovintageguy]

Why no mention of the new black magic? Cinema Camera 6K FF

[@tech-utuber2219]

He has, just not in this video.

[@low42g]

Epic song.

[@nicedward7544]

Love running into randoms that love photography. Especially people that are on the older side. I probably want to talk cameras with strangers longer than they want to look at my face though

[@2cats1guy]

I still can’t bring myself to sell my old Minolta lenses from my early days of switching to Sony.

[@caseylafran3028]

Fantastic way to waste some time, these vids. Can't stop watching

[@madacenyc]

Lmao “Henry Thunder snacks”😂

[@christopn]

The perfect camera has an OLPF 🤷‍♂️

[@exploringwithrotternfish7717]

Good opinion mate.!😀

[@krishnakumarr9619]

Guess I'll get one of them mc 21's

[@mundomenji]

3D pop is great for photography but it is undesirable for video. It’s what you see in soap operas, not cinematic at all. Now, the vintage lenses have character and they need not be very sharp for the best filmic look.

[@Veedy]

I believe its pronounced Sir-OOO-EEE and the word "backlitt'n" must be some back East squabble talk.... LOL... love ya brother

[@gregoryrogalsky6937]

Using lens made in Chi Com is just something I dont want to use. As far as using Vintage lenses like the Canon 50 f0.95 Dream Lens, Nikkor 28 1.4 AF-d Aspherical and the Nikkor 200 2.0 IF-ED AI-s, I am all in.

[@florabee9283]

Do photographers get a pass if they are using film?

[@sidburn2385]

cricket juice or something…i believe you 😅

[@bitspacemusic]

With the Sirui, you're in a bokeh vortex compared to the Zeiss 55/1.8.

[@drdyna]

What do you mean, I have a knockofftilux tttartisan 50mm f0.95 straight off the boat from China lmaooo and it's my favorite lens!

[@ClockWorkJake]

Aahhhh.... That's the stuff man.

[@SimonShootsFilm]

The musical part of this video was 🔥

[@ftlbaby]

Cricket juice... I believe in you

[@SMGJohn]

Who could have thought MFT look better than full frame, or maybe the sensor size really does not matter.

[@DelmaRaySmithJr]

Bell & Howell

[@hikertrashfilms]

Primes are where you should invest coins... F1.2 Full Frame Primes

[@zetacrucis681]

Your Sirui on the G9 II does not look like it's properly in focus on the subject, Mr Conspirer - bit better on the BM perhaps, but the Zeiss on the A7s III is way better than both and this 1920p I'm watching so they should all be sharp sharp sharp at 2Mpix!! The new lenses don't have the natural "3D" or whatever pleasing look mainly because of asphericals which generally come with busier background blur (because geometry), onion rings (because manufacturing) ...

[@u2be2000]

3:30 No free sandwiches...🤥

[@dhananjayringe]

Renegade never been afraid

[@prizepictures1]

Did someone say Henry Thundersnacks?

[@jetsetjourneys-yv4gz]

Henrey Thundersnax lol

[@jessejayphotography]

Older lenses designs are patented. Companies like, Leica, Voightlander, and Zeiss own patents to lens designs with minimum elements in certain arrangements.

[@cameraconspiracies]

And how long do patents last? Maximum of 20 years.

[@Andy-rk9mu]

that 1.2, I only see 2D pop