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if you are a beginner in photography and you're looking at buying your first lens

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chances are you're looking at a 35 millimeter or a 50 millimeter lens

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and there are so many different versions

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of a 50 millimeter lens and that's personally what my first lens was

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now fuji has made a brand new 50ml

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and it is very special let's take a look

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so they have a very non-script box okay

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box within a box nice keep the lens nice and safe

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here we have fujifilm's

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50 mil f1

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now f1 what does that mean

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now if you know anything about lenses aperture is the setting

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which dictates the amount the iris blades on the lens

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are opened or closed and

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most lenses bottom out at f 1.4

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so fuji has designed a lens that not

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only is f1 but

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has fast responsive

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autofocus at least that's what they claim we're about to find out

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if it is as good as you think it might be

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on paper so in the box you get the lens itself wow

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you know as a fuji user one of my favorite things about their lenses

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is that they have always been quite small because it's an aps-c sized sensor

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and most cameras these days are full frame you got sony making the a7c

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and the a7s3 and panasonic coming out

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with the s1h and the s5 everyone's going full frame fuji is

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sticking with aps-c but this lens is obviously designed for

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their xf aps-c size sensor cameras like the xt4

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my personal xt4 and it is

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significant like this feels closer to me

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to maybe an 85 mil stills lens on a

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full-frame camera actually can i get the scale id i want to weigh this

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1.77 pounds now that might not sound like a lot but when

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you look at lenses that is not insignificant okay just for comparison let's take my

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xf 56 millimeter which is the lens i would typically use

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when wanting to shoot in that focal range of like 50 mil portrait look

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and let's weigh this .88 pounds so this

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50 ml is almost a full pound heavier than my typical 56 millimeter and again

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that doesn't sound like a lot but when you think about it on like a

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hike where every gram matters or you're traveling somewhere and

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you want to travel light a pound will make a difference

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and just for giggles this is our

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85 millimeter sigma cinema lens

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i am curious to see the weight

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difference okay so this lens weighs three pounds that's

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not even double when you think about the

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size in the application this is going to go on a big heavy film camera

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and this is a for a stills camera so yeah this lens is not

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it's not super heavy but it's not light by any stretch of the imagination

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fuji's also said that they've weather sealed this lens in 11 places which is

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nice because the 56 mil isn't actually weather sealed

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at all and this lens is one of the fastest lenses fuji makes

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it's nice to see that upgrading the aperture wasn't the only thing that they did

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with this focal length wow

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the focus ring on this lens is a lot smoother than any other lens

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i've ever used on a fuji which is actually my biggest gripe with fuji

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lenses when it comes to video is that the all the focus rings on all

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of them aren't quite smooth enough to do like precise

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focus pulls this feels like a step forward for them

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whoa look at that front element and you can see

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how large the circle on the aperture of

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this lens actually is and you have such a nice aperture ring

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because all of fuji's lenses are going to have this aperture ring that allows

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you to manually control your aperture at any point and this one sounds good listen to that

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it's just like really satisfying

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very few lenses are able to say

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this enough talk i want to put it on my camera and see

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how this does

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i will never get sick of the sound of putting like a very

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fresh lens on a

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camera body this lens is loud

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like do you guys hear that can you hear that yeah i can hear that pretty clearly

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it is it is a loud boy

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which is i mean for stills for the most part

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okay i mean if you're at a wedding and you're trying to be really quiet

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and your lens is just like constantly

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making this noise while you're re-focusing that could be

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an issue you know you're taking a photo of an

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animal and you don't want to scare them off

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the noise of this lens might just be loud enough that it could scare

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something off now the autofocus isn't

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the fastest that i've ever seen but there's a lot of glass elements

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moving around in this thing i did want to compare this 50 mil f1

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that fuji made to something that is also

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maybe the crowning achievement that some might say of a 50 ml

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f1 and that is

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this leica noctelux

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50 mil f1 now it's not an autofocus lens

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because all of leica's lenses are manual focus but

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it is a historically high pedigree

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lens last i checked this leica 50 mil

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is worth between 8 to 10 grand

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us used and that's if you can find

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a good copy of one and i have to say

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it is also very wow there is so much glass in here

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okay just really quickly we're gonna weigh this as well

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because wow 1.28 so

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just for context again half a pound almost

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lighter than the fuji but look at the size difference guys

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that is not insignificant um why don't

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we see what it looks like to test these lenses next to each other

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okay so i'm going to test the leica first and then i'm going to

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switch to the fuji and i have chase here to take photos of

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wow this leica is

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not that sharp wide open

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it is soft i am punching in all the way

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to see and it is soft

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okay well that's really interesting it looks good

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despite it being soft but it

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is not a super sharp lens okay

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fuji is going on f 1.0

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okay and let's see

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immediately the fact that it has autofocus just gives me so much more

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confidence in the accuracy of the photo

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so just to cover all our bases i'm going to do a quick test shot on the 56 mil

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f 1.2 it's not going to be the exact same aperture obviously

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but i do want to see how they compare

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so right off the top this is the leica 50 ml

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noc deluxe frame

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and yup as i expected it is

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super soft now this lens is 45 years old

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so i don't expect it to be super sharp and like

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it looks super creamy in the bokeh out

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of focus areas it is definitely at f1 and this

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might be a look that you like because it's sort of a nostalgic look honestly

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this is without any editing this is straight out of camera no settings or

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changes have been applied uh let's take a look at fuji wow okay

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so punching into the fuji you can see that

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it is immediately so much sharper especially in chase's eyes

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it's not the sharpest lens that i've ever seen but considering it's at f1

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it is pretty sharp the other interesting

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thing to me is the color difference between the leica and the 50mm

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f1 because you can see in the leica that it is

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much lower contrast

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by default and there's a significant more amount of vignetting

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to the point where you actually see in chase's black jacket it looks

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darker but it is much less and it

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doesn't actually make the overall image feel darker now between the 50 mil and

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the 56 mil which is an f 1.2 not an f1

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lens the left is the 56 mil f 1.2 and the

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right is the 50 mil f 1.0

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honestly

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the 50ml f 1.0 at 1.0

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looks slightly sharper

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just for our again our reference the 50ml f1

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is on the left and the leica is on the right very clear

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the difference the fuji is way sharper

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and the other cool thing is the leica while

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an antique at this point and a very

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sought-after rare lens that lens is

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eight to ten thousand dollars usd the canon version of the f1 lens is five

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thousand dollars ish usd this fuji 50ml f1

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is 1500 usd

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come on 1500 usd so

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far cheaper five times less expensive

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than the leica i'll hand it to fuji they delivered on

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an autofocus f1 lens that

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while it's bigger for a fuji lens is still usable

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and feels good in the hand so great job if you're in the market for 50ml and you

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want like crazy low light performance and crazy shallow depth of field

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and you own a fuji camera this is probably it

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for you you can see a clear difference between

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f1 and f1.2 but a lot of you might argue

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that it's negligible so that's up to you yeah so compared to the 56

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if you don't want the extra weight and you want the f 1.0

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aperture this is a great choice and a great addition to fuji's lens lineup

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so thank you guys for watching ShortCircuit if you like camera things

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especially fuji content you might want to watch my xt4

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unboxing that i did a couple months ago if you haven't seen it already thank you guys for watching