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morning everybody or whatever time of day it is where you are today i want to tell you all about my new lens which you can't really see much of because i put it in front of all my dark clothing but uh basically it's a sigma 20 millimeter 1.4 art lens and it's bigger heavier and wider to be honest of a prime lens than i ever thought i'd be interested in up until about a month ago i'd suggest and um well now i love it i've not even taken any photos with it yet but i'm very very very excited about this lens and i'm going to tell you why first though i do want to go and take some photos with it unfortunately that has to be in exactly the same place that i shot last week's video while i was walking around with my gopro dropped to my chest and taking photos on my phone still locked down here in wales so where you have to stay local so i'm going to go back there and take some photos instead this time with this again probably largely of boats and rope and stuff uh yeah i'm basically in exactly the same spot that i was to record the video last week different conditions it's uh grey skies today concrete skies which is more akin to what it's like a lot of the time here but never mind the aim of the game is not to get portfolio photos today let's test this at a range of different apertures and uh i suppose just to get an idea of the overall performance which to be honest i already kind of got to grips with through reading reviews as you always do when you buy a new lens but um anyway i'll shut up and i'll get on with it starting with maybe a bit oddly f9 get a sense of how uh how it performs stop down across the frame it's very wide this i know i sound surprised but not used to a prime of this kind of focal length just needs to be a lot closer to stuff than normal f 1.4 focusing on those boats in the background some detail shots i know i got photos of this boat last week but uh it's a nice boat pretty good auto focus performance so far i'd say in my two minutes out testing the lens 1.4 oh yeah this was probably my favorite shot from last week it's almost like they parked the yellow boat in the perfect position for the yellow sign very nice of them but i shouldn't take this at oh i missed the bird i shouldn't take this at 1.4 7.1 is probably about right i've got the camera currently set up to have a minimum shutter speed of a 15th of a second which actually for places like this i think is probably too slow let's go up to 80th of a second i've got the aperture for it so probably not worth waiting for another bird i don't think i like these ropes you do need to be close with this lens i'm not really used to having a prime this wired oh look a covid sign makes for a nice subject isn't it f5 [Applause] well i've changed my shutter speed again because this is the beauty of f14 i'm shooting in the dark at 15th of a second at iso 100 i mean don't get me wrong i really do want you to go and check out last week's video if you haven't seen it but i am photographing largely the same stuff that um probably just about does it for mediocre photos of boats and stuff i'd suggest i'll bring this back down actually i've made some changes as you can see to this office this week it's coming on slowly i've still not got frames because apparently there's a production problem with the frames i don't really understand what that could be um they've run out of wood or glue i suspect maybe that's it but yeah still no frames i do have a bookcase no other furniture yet but i also have electronic legs on this table which is sturdier than the last ones and a few of you in the comments will be pleased about that i know anyway we're slowly getting there and uh back to talking about this lens so yeah i've been out with it once i've not taken any photos to write home about with it yet and even so i'm comfortable suggesting that this is definitely the coolest lens i've ever bought and the one that i'm most excited about shooting with in the future question is why have i bought it uh right so a couple of months ago you might remember i was walking up snowden and i was telling you about the first two lenses that i bought for my s5 and my full frame setup the first of them was this 70 to 200 f4 lens and the second was the 16 to 35 f4 that i'm filming on now two brilliant lenses but they leave a couple of holes in the setup the first hole is the fact that obviously they're both f4 lenses and therefore they're not particularly good in low light and the second was that there's a gap between 35 mil and 70 mil and my plan was to buy two more lenses to fill those gaps now the first of those i planned to be the 24 millimeter 1.8 from lumix which hasn't been released yet that was going to be my low light wide-angle lens and the second of those lenses was going to be a 50 millimeter 1.8 again that hasn't been released yet but that was going to be a low light sort of mid lens and it was going to fill the gap between 35 mil and 70 mil that was the plan and as far as the 50 millimeter goes that still is the plan however where things have changed is that rather than go for the 24 millimeter 1.8 i have opted to go for the 20 millimeter 1.4 uh so this 20 millimeter has a couple of advantages over a 24 millimeter 1.8 it's two thirds of a stop wider which means in theory it should be a little bit better in low light and it has been released which the 24 millimeter hasn't so far i don't know when it will be it's not a massive problem at the moment given i can't really go out and take the sort of photos i want to take anyway but when lockdown is lifted i want to go straight for the mountains i'm going to make a beeline to the mountains with my tent my new tent my new down sleeping bag my new sleeping pad the works i've spent a fortune on camping gear at a time when you can't go camping but when you can i'm going straight to the mountains and i wanted a lens that was going to be able to take advantage of those trips on immediately and the other obvious thing that i've come to think of as an advantage for this lens over a 24 mil is that obviously it's a bit wider and i haven't always thought that that would be an advantage so i would suggest that up until a couple of months ago i'd have taken a 24 millimeter prime over a 20 millimeter prime every day of the week i would have just considered a 24 millimeter prime so much more versatile than a 20 millimeter however since i've been shooting with the 16 to 35 which i bought to try and get more into wide-angle photography i have loved it and i've come to realize that for my photography i actually think this the wider version of the primes is going to be more versatile for my needs and when i'm out in the mountains taking photos in blue out i think this is going to be incredible i think it's also going to be great for things like the northern lights astrophotography although reading reviews there's quite a lot of coma that you get with this lens i'm not particularly fussed i'm not a pixel badger pixel badger that's not the term is it pixel peeper i think i think you still get the idea from badger basically what i'm saying is that i think there will be lots of applications for this lens that i'm very very excited about blue hour i would suggest is probably my favorite time of day to take photos and it's the time of day that i've taken least photos in my photography quest so far you know in the past i'm not really woken up on time a lot or i've just wanted to come home for my dinner and therefore i've missed blue hour on both ends of the day i think this lens though will provide me enough excitement and motivation to get up and get out for blu-ray in the morning and to stay out for blue hour at night and i can't wait to see what it brings me it's not perfect lens by any means this i reckon weighs more than my micro four thirds system put together it's nearly a kilogram which is a big heavy lens for me considering that i have come from micro four thirds but this is a specialist lens i'm not going to take this out with me all the time every shoot and if i'm going somewhere to take photos if i'm walking up a mountain in a day hike and i know i'm going to be back at my car before the light gets low then chances are i'm probably still going to be taking my micro four thirds gear i'm pointing over there because on that new bookshelf these are all my micro four thirds gear but if i'm gonna go on like a multi-day bike packing trip or i'm going somewhere that i know i'm going to be shooting extensively in low light and i only want to take one system that is where the full frame system comes in and unfortunately it means i i have to lug around things like this i'll hopefully be rewarded with incredible low-light photos though so yeah this is not a perfect lens by any means it doesn't mean though that i'm not absolutely ecstatic to have bought it and i say it's not a perfect lens one of the biggest complaints with it is that it's got this bulbous front element which means you can't add filters to it not the end of the world for me to be honest i rarely use filters but i could see that being annoying for lots of photographers it's probably more annoying from a video standpoint for me video that's the other reason i bought this lens so this 16-35 that i'm filming on right now this is set to 20 millimeters it just so happens that 20 millimeters is the focal length that seems to be about right for filming in this room unfortunately this lens as i mentioned before is f4 so you don't get particularly good shallow depth of field and i have to raise the iso to it's iso 400 at the moment this lens i'll be able to shoot at say f2 so i can use the base iso and i should have a nicer shallower depth of field this is uh what the 20ml 1.4 looks like by the way in case you're interested at uh f 2.2 i actually can't go any wider than that without sticking a filter on so eating my words a bit never mind probably the most used application of this lens to be honest will be sat on this camera here in this room while i talk nonsense i think if you'd have told me a year ago that i'd have a lens like this i would have thought you were mad because i just had absolutely no interest in certainly a lens as heavy as this but uh yeah i've become much more excited about the prospect of low-light stuff and therefore this becomes necessary anyway thank you very much for putting up with my waffling again and thank you also for putting up with my what i would consider quite mediocre photos for the past few weeks it's difficult in lockdown to run a photography channel and to be honest i'll probably end up doing indoor videos from here on out about editing tips and tutorials and stuff because well that's just better than going out taking photos that you're not quite happy enough to show on youtube but you still have to because you've made a video for youtube that said when i do that typically your comments are all still really kind so i really 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i'd really recommend you checking it out thank you to them for their continued support of this channel and again thank you to you for watching next week i imagine i'll probably be sat here talking about lightroom or something because i don't really want to go and take any more photos of boats and stuff hopefully you understand i imagine you understand you're probably sick of it i'll see you then [Music]