Sony 85mm F1.4 GM II Lens Review @AlphaCreativeSkills

Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Sony's long-awaited update to its 85mm F1.4 G Master lens first released in 2016. The 2024 Sony 85mm F1.4 GM II is smaller, lighter, faster and sharper than the previous version and, with its dual linear XF focus motors, offers the best choice for a wide aperture 85 portrait lens with ultra fast focus. It also offers the videographer and lens with less focus breathing and linear response manual focus. This video review takes a look at this new lens alongside other lenses that also offer a better bit of bokeh in order to maximise the figure/ground separation in your images, ensuring your subjects pop.

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$Sony FE 28-70 F2 GM Lens Review A wide aperture Standard Focal-Length Zoom Lens is a new design-concept for Sony. The lens offers the photographer the F2 wider aperture, normally only seen on prime lenses, but with the flexibility of using a zoom (eliminating the need to constantly switch focal length lenses). This will allow the photographer using this F2 G Master zoom, the ability to more easily create figure/ground separation or increased background blur (bokeh). Designing an F2 zoom has added weight, over-and-above an F2.8 zoom, but Sony has managed to keep this lens to a fraction over 2 lb or just below one Kilogram in weight. In this review I compare its optical performance with three of Sonys F1.8 prime lenses (stopped down to F2). This exercise demonstrates that it is possible to build a no-compromise wide-aperture lens that can out-perform a prime lens across its entire zoom range. This review provides the photographer with the information so they can make an informed purchasing design and to choose a workflow that best suits their needs. Album of Ultra High-Definition Images: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBRJr9 Purchase Link: https://bhpho.to/3Zh91tC Purchase link to the Pilot 7L messenger bag: https://bit.ly/4fTkMvF Purchase link to the Paratrooper Wrist strap: https://bit.ly/4cNajB3 00:00 Start 01:55 Competing Lenses 02:44 Size and Weight 05:16 Little or Large 06:49 Three in the Bag or One in the Hand 09:04 Lens Features 11:00 Specifications 12:50 Focus Breathing Test 13:28 No Compromise to F1.8 Primes 19:53 Close Focusing 21:44 Bokeh at F2 29:14 Filters Mark Galer is a Sony Alpha Ambassador for Australia. Join Mark Galer on Patreon for the best Alpha Support and Guidance. A single $10 Membership fee includes access to over twenty 1-hour member-only seminars, over 20 downloadable eBooks + cameras setting (CAMSET) files (there is no contract or commitment beyond the first month). https://www.patreon.com/markgaler Marks supporting website: http://www.markgaler.com If you find Marks work for the Alpha community helpful please consider making a donation to support the creation of new learning resources for Alpha users. Go the Donations link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/alphacreativeskills #SonyAustralia #SonyAlpha #SonyAmbassador #SonyAlphaANZ #sonydigitalimagingambassador sonydigitalimagingambassador$

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