Hello hello I'm here at Gleneagles as
you can see from the little crest on my
bathrobe. Still recovering, my voice is a
bit funky but you know I'm gonna try my
best today. Let me give you a quick
review of this hotel room at Gleneagles
- it's not an ad by the way, no - let's check
out the bathroom what is there to see in a bathroom?
There's a bath; there's a shower;
it's a mirror that's where all the action
happens. Right,
this review's going well. We are in
Scotland
- that's Scotland out there, you can't
really tell, it's just a tennis court but
we're in Scotland for a Sony event and
launching of who knows what, well you
probably know by the title but I don't
know so let's see. Let's get
changed okay ready to go. But before we
start I just want to give a quick shout
out to Adorama for supporting this
channel. At this Sony event we were told
by Sony that Sony are doing really rather well
plus we got some shooting opportunities.
Ready? Yeah. Ah
they were flinging cameras from other
brands up in the air yeah. Okay, thank you.
So here I am with the new Sony G master
135 millimetre F 1.8 this one is customised,
check this out it's got my name written
on it, quite literally, new limited
edition of one. It looks like just a
sticker but it's more complex than that
don't accept any imitations. I wasn't
joking.
Anyway, the lens: So in terms of the
actual body it's a pretty solid robust thing,
it's quite heavy and on the body we've
got two customisable AF buttons right here
aperture
and then you got your switches here, oh,
and on the other side we've got a de-click
button for video geeks - yay! Also ranking
high on the geeky scale was this stuff
about a floating focusing mechanism
basically this can focus really close - 70
centimetres close - which is quite close
for a 135mm and it should be quick too - it's
pretty damn quick focus it seems to
focus quicker than some other 135
millimetre lenses I've used in the past
but more importantly they images from
this lens and a7R III combo looks
super slick: details by the bucketload. So
just a quick update the bride's had a
drink because the husband has gone now
she's on the bike she's gonna disappear.
Oh okay so now in the presentation they
mentioned a lot about beautiful
bokeh.
So hopefully wide open at F 1.8 this
should have the goods, we got
some trees in the background, which
should provide for a suitable bokeh
test and this comes with some XA
lens technology - basically it just
means something like extra aspherical
(oh what a wild guess it means extreme aspherical
actually, that was my next guess anyway,
after that it was xylophone aspherical)
It's no normal aspherical it's extra
(extreme) its extra good (or extremely good)
and no kidding it actually is it has a
quite rare pairing of cuttingly sharp
in-focus bits and gloriously blurred out-
of-focus bits I tried it with different
backgrounds in at F 1.8 and this G
Master seemed to provide some super
tasty cheesy bokeh all with a bit of
character too.
So they say that with this XA it's gonna
be better than normal because
aspherical usually it has quite
harsh bokeh with the kind of hard ring
around the bokeh ball and this has
nice soft gooey balls. Thankfully, Sony
had more setups to confirm the softness
of the balls. So here I am in this amazing
setup with some golden bokeh balls
- that's Mr. Golden Balls right there so
he's gonna chuck his golden balls
all over this couple here - don't worry
it's safe for work - alright, okay I
am ready, here we go, it's a bit tight but we like it tight.
I don't care about the photos this feels nice. I need
to install one of these at home, just a
confetti showering machine golden confetti,
seriously don't dis unless you
try it out. Go on give it a go. Nah,
come on you have to really enjoy it, jeez.
Yes, that's much better...
oh okay a bit of hugging - all right now get
a room already! Finding sharp lenses is not
a problem with modern aspherical
lenses. Finding good bokeh not so easy and
that's definitely something that's
desirable in a good portrait lens and
this lens simply hasn't disappointed.
And it's got 11 rounded aperture so the
balls should stay nice and round
stays nice and round up until f/5.6
maybe f/7.1 if you
don't know what round balls look like. As
I mentioned earlier the bokeh has
character. Wide open it has a sort of cat's
eye bokeh, something to do with optical
vignetting, the width of the lens
elements and how the light at the edges of
frame enter a certain angle; bokeh in the
centre will be round, some photo geeks
don't like this cat's eye bokeh but some
of the most celebrated lenses have this
look: Noctilux, Canon 50mm f/1.2L
it also makes the bokeh look
kind of swirly at the edges in some
images as a result, which I personally
like. Very slouchy sofas, anyway
that's the Sony G Master 135mm f/1.8
almost said it wrong but
what a fantastic lens it is, it's a super
sharp great portrait lens, bokeh
fantastic focuses close and it doesn't
sacrifice on the size and weight, I
mean it doesn't have built-in
IS but that makes this lens a nice size,
this is not too front heavy and
it's not too long as well.
Ergonomically pretty good. In terms of image
quality:
can't complain. And
finally Sony wanted to talk about one
more thing. So here we are, we've got two
birds over there I don't think any of
them are called Glenn it would be cool if
they're called Glenn. Maybe he's called
Glenn? I don't even think they're Eagles
though so it wouldn't be good if they're
called Glenn. Glenn Falcon doesn't make
sense.
Anyway, this is the 400 with an a9.
Oooh, what a beast! The other bits they talked
about: their AF development they're
continuing to make it cleverer so you
don't need to be, already seen in a6400,
the a9 is going to get firmware update
to make it even better and have their
always-on eye AF and animal eye AF (coming soon)
Now this doesn't even have a new
animal eye AF as well and it's still
working really well. I mean that's the
great thing is that, you know, say
you've bought an a9 and they're continuing
to improve it to just make it a better
camera, which is great for
pros great, for geeks too.
When manufacturers continue to use firmware
updates not to just fix bugs but to
improve current cameras this is a great
way of rewarding current customers as
well as getting new ones interested in a
revamped camera - that can be just as
exciting as a new camera. This is all the
stuff they're adding to the a9. I know
I've already tested the a9 before
many moons ago but it's still impressive
nonetheless coming back to it. Sometimes,
just sometimes, you use some gear and you
come to the realisation that it is not just
the person behind the camera that gets
the shot but it's also the clever techie
bits. That's just waist level shooting.
Every single shot in focus!
That is intense AF AF
almost as intense as having a falcon
thrown at your head.
Okay, so that's it, just before we go I want
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be done I'm just go again
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I'll go get a shower - out on by mr.
golden balls here
yeah
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