Mitakon 'Speedmaster' 80mm f/1.6 GFX Medium Format lens review

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Mitakon 'Speedmaster' 80mm f/1.6 GFX Medium Format lens review

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Another third-party lens for Medium Format cameras, at a fairly affordable price - can it possibly be any good?
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@CartyCantDance Ай бұрын

Are we sure this isn’t secretly a zoom lens with that FOCUS BREATHING 😂

@justinburley8659 Ай бұрын

I appreciate the real life example during the test chart example. People tend to forget that the test charts are torture tests that can make almost any lens look bad. It’s all about how it handles in real life

@StymyParsley Ай бұрын

Yeah sometimes the chromatic aberration looks terrible on the chart but in real world scenarios for things like portraits you’d just never have problems with it. Not great for architectural shots though lol and things like that

@izzieb Ай бұрын

I suppose it's lucky most people don't use the GFX cameras for video, because that focus breathing is something else.

@NetvoTV Ай бұрын

How about Hasselblads XCD lenses?

@user-sd3ik9rt6d Ай бұрын

A bit of focus breathing doesn't really matter all that much.

@sauzefilms Ай бұрын

@@user-sd3ik9rt6dit’s far from “a bit” lol

@ClockBestEvent Ай бұрын

This is a photo camera so it doesn't matter

@TreeOnAHill Ай бұрын

The camera might not be a very good for video, but in this case it's the lens that's at fault, not the camera.

@ClockBestEvent Ай бұрын

You should review the 65 f1.4

@ricardoromanach Ай бұрын

Yes please😁

Ай бұрын

Just buy it. It got no imperfections, just character 😊

@Kliffot Ай бұрын

Would be nice Christopher if you could do a quick test video of some EF lenses adapted to the GFX. Many of them cover the whole MF sensor despites being FF dslr and seems to work well. For exemple would the 50 and 85 Sigma f1.4 Art work better than these GFX Mitakon ?

@CallMeRabbitzUSVI Ай бұрын

Its weird that he hasn't done so yet, i mean it will be perfect for his type of content

@user-mt3mw8bl3p Ай бұрын

Very beautiful pictures with this lens!

@maxadams69 Ай бұрын

Should be advertised as 50-85 f1.4 zoom

@larvenfritson Ай бұрын

With that corner sharpness they should just make it a full frame lens instead, and it could be pretty good.

@ralphsaad8637 Ай бұрын

Wonder why some of the gear snobs are so critical of this lens. It seems to have great character even if it's not perfect. The color and bokeh really looks quite nice. People would really buy more expensive gear that has less focus breathing rather than get a budget friendly option that will produce more special images?

@thephotoyak Ай бұрын

The GFX system isn't exactly light on the wallet, so most people who have it like to dunk on low end products.

@ralphsaad8637 Ай бұрын

@thephotoyak since many GFX cameras are now available for just 5k, which is dirt cheap compared to most medium format cameras, so it is in itself a "budget" medium format option. So the lens is still in my view a good match for the camera.

@Vinterloft Ай бұрын

A good clue to whether or not a lens manufacturer knows what they're doing is if they make metallic lens hoods. If you drop a camera on the lens, you want the hood to absorb the impact and break like a plastic one. If the hood is metal the vibrations will propagate into the next most fragile material, which is all the glass in the lens.

@ChrisM-yq2pq Ай бұрын

Not every test or things that break lenses is from dropping. Honestly how often have you dropped a camera with lens. It’s more than a decade for me. I shoot thousands of people per year. Doing event photography plus other shoots I’m always on the go. Most important thing is for lenses to last day to day type of shooting.

@hex_1733 Ай бұрын

Love these lenses, wish they'd adapt some of them to the Fuji X mount as well. Especially the Mitakon 65mm f1.4. Great vid as always!

@skazhenyj Ай бұрын

It would be a huge waste really.

@hex_1733 Ай бұрын

@@skazhenyj How so? The more lenses, the better. Will drive the price down as well.

@scotttucker9613 Ай бұрын

Do you not realize that the X Mitakon 35/0.95...IS...the G Mitakon 65 1.4?

@unique93obr Ай бұрын

Great review as always...we are waiting for Nikon Z 35mm f1.4 review :D

@donbergeron5466 Ай бұрын

Nice review. I'm guessing that manual focusing with a GFX 50sii would still allow the focus peaking to work? Yes - no? Thanks again, Don Bergeron

@just_eirik Ай бұрын

The slightly stiff focusing is a bit disappointing. I use lots of manual lenses and it’s frustrating when a focus ring isn’t gliding smoothly when I try to make small adjustments.

@caseygecko Ай бұрын

omg torchwood cameo at 7:13

@paulgood2218 Ай бұрын

I like the look of the images far from perfect but very pleasing . For portraits it be a great lens . I wonder how it would perform on a full frame ..

@denispelletier4381 Ай бұрын

Look at the serial numbers. It look like this lens was a very early handmade preseries, actualy the nineteen lens made! When full production lenses will be available, i think the focus will be smoother and the optical performance better?

@cameraprepper7938 Ай бұрын

The Mikakon focuses "the wrong way", very annoying to have Lenses that focuses opposite !

@NetvoTV Ай бұрын

Hey Mr Frost, what phone do you use, do you carry a camera when you hangout? Do you think the 2X macro on the Sony Xperia 1 VI is neccessary? Macro seem like not much variation you can do from each other, and if I want to take macro for education purposes, I can just google it isn't it? Will you recommend me to wait for iPhone 16 Pro which going to have a warm tone all the time but I did prefer iOS and also more quality third party apps maybe, but Xperia I can have natural looking image quality right out of the box plus 2X macro, no hole screen and 3.5mm jack and microSD card slot

@jocblues Ай бұрын

Which is better for you mitakon 85 1.6 or TTArtisan 90 1.2? Thanks.

@What_Other_Hobbies Ай бұрын

I have Mitakon 65mm/1.4, and it's quite yellow if you use any fixed white balance. I noticed this when I was testing it with some other adapted lenses under the same WB setting. I am wondering if this 80mm/1.6 has the same issue.

@hari_fyi Ай бұрын

Thank God for Full frame existence low cost, high value sensor size

@erossphelps Ай бұрын

Looks like it would be good on studio strobes at like f/8-f/11 but marginal otherwise.

@DDenDeeen Ай бұрын

This is a good lens, fot 35mm toy camera, or 50R old camera, but not for GFX modern cameras.

@Bayonet1809 Ай бұрын

One buys into medium format for the lenses, but I don't see anyone doing so for this lens.

@Zatore_ Ай бұрын

I noticed a lot of low plosives in the vocal recording this episode. You may want to consider a high pass filter at somewhere around 80hz.

@jukeboxjohnnie Ай бұрын

Dont get it, if you can afford GFX you can afford the Fuji GF 80mm 1.7...

@ChrisM-yq2pq Ай бұрын

I got x1d for 1k. But I only have 2 Hasselblad lenses. Sometimes you can’t afford more than a couple lenses and if you don’t think you’ll use it as much then find an old medium lens for the rest

@rchrd_sn Ай бұрын

Any less expensive offering is welcome, but this lens, for such a camera, is not good at all. It's garbage. Thanks for the review!

@swawekvandermeer99 Ай бұрын

Makes me remember my Samyang 85mm f1.4 manual focus I bought long ago and sits as a dinosaur on my shelf. Why spend money on this lens while you can afford a medium format camera....

@nicedward7544 Ай бұрын

Still baffled why they didn't make an updated 50mp gfx....

@jukeboxjohnnie Ай бұрын

because the 50mp was an old sony made sensor with very slow read out for AF, the new one is 100mp thats what youre supposed to want now

@deanisplemoni Ай бұрын

80-100mm.... depending on focus.

@user-rh5fw2bq4t Ай бұрын

Hello Chris

@faebyan Ай бұрын

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@Detstorm Ай бұрын

@MasterDia Ай бұрын

TTartisan GF 90mm F1.25 is a better choice.

@tbrown2892 Ай бұрын

Nice review, but it’s a no from me, for the lens and medium format in general….I just don’t get it 🤷🏻‍♂️

@TechnoBabble Ай бұрын

The main uses are high end portraiture, product photography, fashion, architecture, etc. Situations where you can shoot at low ISO, giving you higher image quality than any full frame system.

@cameraprepper7938 Ай бұрын

If you buy an expensive 100 megapixels camera, you do not want to mount cheap Lenses on it, that cannot perform !