A real pleasure collabing with you Caleb! You smashed it with the b-roll you captured at Falls Park!

The 25mm was my first prime lens for my G7. Great little, cheap lens! I've used for general photography, portraits, and videos. Great results!

I like all your GH5 videos. Big fan. You are one of the few who has kept on with it when others rented it for only a week or borrowed it or sold theirs and moved on. Thank you Caleb Hoover.

great collabing with you and Ben that I already follow for several months :-) So I was surprised, great Idea of you Caleb !

Great back to the basics lens review and interview! We tend to get way too caught up in pricey gear and forget the importance of simplicity, budgeting and creativity! I’ve seen some powerfully inspiring content created with this lens! Thank you!

Bro your quality is legit! I was in disbelief seeing you are not even at 5k subscribers! Love the channel and all the videos I’m in the process of getting myself a Gh5 and building a set up myself excited to start making the content I’ve been thinking about for years. Anyways great videos I’m stoked to see this channel grow!

great video. That 25mm f1.7 is my wife's favorite lens when we film weddings.

my favourite : Sigma 16 1.4, now my main and quite permanent lens !

Hey Caleb, great video working with Ben Pendlebury from @Camera Geeks, loved it. I have relocated to europe for a job, but I miss the UK alot. I have my GH5, but I am missing some of my other lenses which I left behind! Really enjoyed this colaboration Caleb! :)

That was the first lens I got after buying my GH5. Today I own the Sigma 16mm 1.4 BUT I love the 25mm, is narrower but the depth of field is right at the point for me !

Love the lens! The 25mm was the first lens I bought! the second lens I bought was the 16mm Sigma. I jump back and forth with these two (2) lenses all the time. They are both phenomenal. Great Vid...Blessings

Sigma 18-35 with a speed booster. I had the 25mm F1.7 but I sold it since the sigma covers that range.

Got this lens for the second time about a month ago mostly for photo, but it holds up really well for video work as well! Lately I have been shooting my “talking head” shots with this lens on my G9 set to AFC and it’s certainly not perfect, but I have been very pleasantly surprised by its ability to keep focus on my face for simple shots like that ☺️🤙🏽

This is going to be my next lens purchase!!! So was keen to see how it performs! Thanks as always for the super helpful vids!

I just got a G85 and this lens along with the 12-60mm kit lens in a bundle and saved a few bucks over getting the 25mm separately. At the price, to me it's a no-brainer for a fast all-around prime, especially if you're just building a kit. I've shot stills with a Nikon DX camera for a while now and have a decent set of lenses for that camera, but I'm just starting to get into video so I'm building from scratch with the Panasonic micro 4/3 format. So far I'm loving this lens. The kit lens is really good also, but I'm looking to get a faster wide angle lens next.

This is a wicked little lens in my kit. Great for tighter shots in lower light situations for sure. My fav lens in my kit is my Sigma 16mm F1.4 but the 12-35 f2.8 is my go to for most outdoor situations. I think a speed booster and 18-35 will be my next purchase.

My favourite: Olympus 12mm f2.0, Olympus 25mm f1.8, Zeiss planar 50mm f1.4 + metabones XL 0.64x speed booster, plus sirui 35mm f1.8

ooooeeeee mine just arrived this morning. Waiting on my G9 to get in tomorrow as a bcam for my gh5s. stoked.

Thanks for these notes. The lack of weather seal could be a deal breaker for some, but we plan to use ours for studio/indoor interviews mostly. And we have a very long dry season here in California, so it can work outside during those months.

I love my old canon 50fd with a micro 4/3 adapter it’s awesome

I own the 25mm f1.7, but rarely use it. Not that I have anything against it, but I generally stick with my Sigma 18-35 f1.8 or my Canon primes. However, I agree with you, the 25mm lens is a great little lens for its price. I think I paid around 150 euros for it here in Ireland.

The 25mm f/1.7 might be the best lens for the money in MFT, no lie. It's like $150. It's wide in aperture. It's a great focal length for talking heads but can still be used as a walking around lens. It looks simple, beautiful, is well balanced on small bodies like the GX85. The focus ring feels great. I honestly if you buy a Panasonic camera, this should be in the cart next to it!

What lens did you use to record yourself at the start of this video? Introduction sat down..

this video was great! just got my hands on my 25 mm 1.7 lens and wanted some more detailed information. i learned everything i needed to kno. so thanks man!🙌

I came from a 70D I have a hacked 10-18mm EFS cannon (goes down to f3.0) , hacked EFS cannon 24mm 2.8 (goes down to 1.8) and cannon EF 50mm 1.8 (1.2). also sigma EF 70-200 2.8 (1.8 but sort foggy). Its a great setup. Im planning on going back to cannon someday so I wont be getting any micro 4/3s I use these to find my homesteading videos. love the GH5 but REALLY excited for the autofocus on the new R5 so might consider that next year.

My favourite lens are the sigma 18-35 but also the olympus 40-150mm f2.8 and my lumix 35mm f1.6. I have alot of Olympus lens over the panasonic mainly because of the quality build but also the pro lineup have the manual clutch feature on its zooms . Great video dude.

Hey Caleb! How are you? I recently bought Lumix GH-6 and actually I'm newbie😂 Can I ask which lens you are using in this video?

My favorite lens is the laowa 7.5

"It weighs less than a full-grown hamster" 😁 Got this one years ago, it's a great little nifty. I'll put in a word here for people like my former self on a really strict budget who managed to move forward with gear like this that involved some compromises and corners cut but allowed you to do good work and improve.

Love it! Were you using the natural profile for the film with your photographer friend? Would love to see a BTS on how you graded that

Hey Caleb! I have 12-60 2.8-4.0 Everybody is saying Sigma 18-35 or Sigma 16. But they are way expnsive than this one and you need speedboster. I'm living in Turkey and i won't even tell you about the currencies here.... My question is; would it make me happy if i buy this one? Because i usually use my 12-60 on 25 and even 35 to get the most bokeh. This lens is 1.7 and it looks like it gets the job done. What are your thoughts?

Great review -- both. The more I shoot, the more stripped down I get (in the gear I use... not the other). I usually shoot with two adolescent hamsters on the front of my camera... instead of a fully grown one. That's just a personal choice.

thank you for this man.

It looks great! I can't wait for a native nifty fifty for my Lumix S1...

GREAT VIDEO, i'm planning to buy a secondhand gh5 and lumix g 25mm next month!! btw what name of the song at 3:15? such a mood!!

This is collaboration/review video is the shit man! I love it. Ty for sharing this experience. It is great for me. It will help a lot of beginner videographers on a budget like me.

Would you recommend this lens for low light event videography? Music concerts and DJ festivals etc.

Oh you just reminded me that I was going to buy this a few weeks ago. I KNEW subscribing to your channel was the move LMAO Right now, I'm absolutely in love with my Sirui 50mm anamorphic lens. Got the 35mm shipping soon to me, so maybe that will replace it LMAO Before I got the anamorphic lens, my fave was a cine modified anamorphic adapted Helios 44-m. My vintage Rokinon 28mm would sometimes substitute for the Helios as a fave lol PS: That montage is CLEEEEANNNNNN for something shot with a hamster cam LOLZ

Does this lense fit a “BlackMagic Pocket Cinema 4K?

Hey Caleb, great video! I've ordered this lens for myself a few weeks ago and I can already tell It's great. Since I'm also mainly focusing on video creation I was also planning to buy an ND filter for it. Which ND did you use? How effective did you find the ND? Is it worth using step up rings for the filter? Thanks in advance. Oh and I also liked the color correction so I've just downloaded you LUTS pack ;)

Caleb, is like if you are always reading my mind. You are releasing this video when a few videos ago I said... I'm almost ready to pull the trigger on the Sigma 18-35 well I just received the lens, and I went with Viltrox. I used to have only 2 lenses for the GH5, the 12-35 used 90% of the time and an Olympus 40-100 but I was struggling a bit with the depth of field and that's why I went after the Sigma. I wasn't sure if I really needed it because I already had the 12-35 but yes!! I see usage for both lenses. The Sigma is heavy and lacks IS so that lens will be used on my head talking scenes, and the 12-35 will be used on my moving scenes. Also to my surprise now I can use with the Viltrox some other lenses I had around from an Old Canon, like the 50 nifty and another super old lens 75 to 300 kit lens from and old Canon I have for more than 10 years, a camera that just takes picture, no video capabilities...but I'm super happy to be able to use those lenses. Once more, thanks for the video, as always I learn a lot from you and I'm glad to see you channel growing!

The 25mm 1.7 was my first prime lens. I have recently purchased the 20mm 1.7 and cannot go with out it. Its sharp and is the in between wide angle and portrait mode. I do agree the 25mm is a great value but I find myself rarely using it for that reason. I am curios if the 18-35 Sigma produces as sharp an image as the 25mm prime?

It would be nice if you had the chance to try some of the Voigländer 0.95 lens for MFT.

The Panasonic 20mm f1.7 lately have been my go too the 25mm is a good lens though. The Pancake just takes a few inches of the front of the camera.

I watched both videos thank you

Hello thank you for this beautiful video. Any tips on how to set manual focus on Gh5?. Plz share us the link if you hav already done a video on controlling Gh5 manual focus. Thank you.

I personally find the bokeh (the blurr just looks jank), chromatic aberration and the sharpness (also evident in this montage video) to be trash. I've used it for talking heads on a GH5 which seems fine, and for macro shots which are good too. But the autofocus is also junk with this lens (though the GH5 is partly to blame of course). That said, great video and super helpful :)

Hi good day, I'm looking for a lens recommendations, I've started shooting and lot of events at church and sometimes I'm so far away like 75-100ft away from the stage but I need a lens that can still get me a nice mid-shot or close up shot from 100ft away, I was looking at the panasonic 35-100, olympus 75mm, or Rokinon 85mm, or any other suggestions you may have. Can you make a recommendation please?

I had the sigma 18-35 with speed booster and regret selling it.I use the 12-60mm with the G9

Wow what was that song during that cinematic sequence

Hi Caleb, how's the 25 1.7 AF in video, like tracking shot of a model. Plan to use it on a gimbal. I need the AF. I do have the 35 and 50 sigma but it's to heavy and big on a gimbal plus manual focus is an extra work

On your moving shots, were you hand holding. Were you at 60fps?

Olympus 25mm f1.8 has perfect autofocus, works alot better than the panny

awesome vid Caleb! my favourite prime is the 20mm f1.7 I shoot all of my travel vids with that prime. Do have a look at some of them on my channel and let me know what you think!

found one use at $110, or brand new $150. I do have a 35 and 50 sigma art lens with speedbooster which act like a 50 and 70mm on a GH5. Image quality is good, but its to heavy to bring along, sppecially with the 50 art, on a weebill S which i dont think it can balance. i would like to know if the 25 1.7 is descent enough for continuous Af on a gimbal, like following/tracking shot of 1 person. Im not wishing for a sony/canon af performance but can get some In focus video shot

This is great

Would it make sens to get it if already owning a Lumix Vario 14-42mm f2.8?

Pana 12-35mm f2.8

What is your favourite native prime lens for GH5 ?

What brand/type ND filter do you use?

12-35 f2.8

what size filters fit on this lens? considering getting one

Olympus 17mm and Panasonic 25mm 1.7

DJI 15mm 1.7, Sigma 16mm 1.4, Lumix 25mm 1.7 and Lumix 14-140mm...I love them all

I think the best budget prime is the pergear 25 milli

it is not the best budget lens for "Panasonic GH5", is the best budget lens for any camera which use this format lens....

are you alwas shot in 4k??

Sigma 16mm f1.4

I don't know if its my copy of this lens, but everything is always out of focus, it's unusable.

18 - 35 sigma art lens it's a beauty