Funleader XSLIM-M 28mm f/2.8 Pancake lens review

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Nice nice nice! A GORGEOUS pancake lens arrived in my 'test lab' for evaluation...but can its image quality match is dinky beauty?
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@skazhenyj 10 месяцев назад

Sharpness is probably greatly affected by testing this lens on a Sony sensor with thick filter stack though. Corners should (if the lens is any good) look much better on a Leica.

@cameron-w 10 месяцев назад

It would be cool to see a re-test of some of the popular EF mount 100-400 lenses. Love the videos!

@qingyunwang3802 10 месяцев назад

This lens can be seen as the mass production version of the hand-made 28mm f/2 Apoqualia from MS-Optics, both aesthetically and optically, down to the field curvature.

@BaldRavenHaired 10 месяцев назад

Underrated comment. Mr Miyasaki is truly a legend

@PavlosPapageorgiou 10 месяцев назад

Your actual pictures with the lens look much better than the tests.

@SovietLensReviews 10 месяцев назад

Reminds me of my old Industar-50-2! Except with worse image quality in the corners. Still, a fun lens, you can't complain when modern lens companies do something like this.

@TheBEARofHIGHWAY1 10 месяцев назад

I love 28mm focal length. Never did before 2023 but its grown on me that I now have about 13 of them. They really give a great look and I recommend everyone own and try one.

@professionalidiot07 10 месяцев назад

why do you need 13 of them? genuine question

@Durio_zibethinus 10 месяцев назад

28mm isn't my cup of tea. But I understand the charm behind it. Actually, many smartphones use 28mm EQ, due to the versatility of 28mm itself

@trym2121 10 месяцев назад

@@professionalidiot07that's like asking a person why they have 13 dogs/cats. The usual answer : because they all are unique.

@benisboy2697 10 месяцев назад

@@trym2121i love my 13 cats because of their smell

@anupew3276 10 месяцев назад

@@professionalidiot07 having 10 vintage lenses between 50-55mm I would guess collector and/or special optical characteristics/flaws of each of them :)

@Mamo878 10 месяцев назад

Stick it on F8 on a small APS-C camera and zone focus for a compact street photography rig. That could be fun.

@KingFiercer_zip 10 месяцев назад

The field curvature is strog, look at the corners at 0:47 and 5:42

@blazerbarrel2 10 месяцев назад

Be nice if a little sharper at 2.8 and corners . Rather spend on something else . Great build , look and function , just lacking optics .

@Eikenhorst 10 месяцев назад

It is a lens with 'character' to it as they say :P

@Durio_zibethinus 10 месяцев назад

Pancake lenses tends to get a glare and CA issue, but their sharpness is usually brilliant even the cheap one. Sadly this one is not.

@airdailyx 10 месяцев назад

Looking at this video, i'd have no trouble taking quality photos with this lens. It makes the leica pocketable and looks cool. When used at the right F#'s it's very reasonably sharp but i'd really like to use this on an M3 where it's shortcomings are not so noticeable on film. The deal breaker though is not having click stops on the aperture ring.

@StymyParsley 10 месяцев назад

Appearance wise this would look really cool on the new Nikon Zf or on any Fuji camera

@kevc.2958 10 месяцев назад

for zf I'd just get the z28 2.8

@trym2121 10 месяцев назад

Yeah you have native 28 compact for Nikon z or even the 26

@princeharbinger 10 месяцев назад

Neat lens. I think for the price I'll go for the Viltrox 28mm F/1.8.

@fintux 10 месяцев назад

Funny how I just thought if you have playlists for the different mounts when I started watching the video :D

@fellowcitizen 5 месяцев назад

Trying to decide between this and the 55mm OTUS

@colnagocowboy 10 месяцев назад

I wonder how this would look on my lietz Minolta CL

@peterebel7899 10 месяцев назад

Great and useful review as always! I will stick to my selection of 28s offering a wide variety in style and character: - Canon RF 28 2.8 pancake - Leica Summaron 28 5.6 - Voigtländer 28 mm/1:2,0 Ultron asph. The field curvature of this lens is barely to be used in your preference with the Funleader.

@ArminHirmer 2 месяца назад

I have it, it's nice. But yes for the IQ one can get out of it, it is a little on the pricey side of things

@sunlbx 10 месяцев назад

Please Chris, make a re-review of a classic legendary tamron 17-50! There are so many of them on ebay and people still use them a lot!

@thedarkslide 10 месяцев назад

This is not a landscape lens. You put this lens on a Leica rangefinder for candid snapshots/documentary/street photography where sharpness does not matter.

@0M0rty 10 месяцев назад

What's also worth mentioning is that wide angle lenses designed for Leica cameras tend to perform especially poorly on Sony bodies, due to thick filter stack which introduces additional field curvature. Not that I think this lens would be corner sharp on Leica but it'd probably perform somewhat better.

@thedarkslide 10 месяцев назад

@@0M0rty I have the lens and it is pretty bad in the corners on my M10.

@cassiofonte8172 4 месяца назад

Maybe you can take the landscape photo through a window to frame it 😅

@striderwhiston9897 10 месяцев назад

Oh, also Chris, Have you considered doing a FAQ or QNA again? Would be interesting to do it again I think!

@christopherfrost 10 месяцев назад

I do one every Christmas on Patreon :-)

@daniel635biturbo 10 месяцев назад

Reminds me of the Industar 50 f3,5 ! But I think the 50 year old, 50mm are slightly better in image performance, and the "fiddlyness factor" is on par 😅

@anupew3276 10 месяцев назад

got Industar 50-2 too, fiddlyness factor is so high its almost unusable, this one seems to be way more usable :D Cant say much about image quality, I think its a bit worse than this little thing in center and midframe. Maybe not on the corner, but really bad anyway. Never tested it rigorously and its possible that horrible image quality is just an user error as working with it is quite a nightmare for me :)

@SlotCarNewsOfficial 10 месяцев назад

even with the flaws I think it would be a fun lens to use.

@Seapatico 10 месяцев назад

I'd be so curious to see results on an M10. I used the Leica 50mm 1.4 asph on my Sony cameras for 5-6 years as a full time wedding photographer, and I don't think I ever got a sharp corner, because the two just don't work great together. All the same, though, I think this might be a lens that is greater than the sum of its traits? Lol. Like someone else said in the comments, I think at f8 as a street lens, or wide open for interesting portraits, this could provide some serious interest for such a low price.

@AndreiDimaReviews 10 месяцев назад

Can you please review the Fujifilm XF 14mm f2.8. Nice review!

@friedeggsareawesome 10 месяцев назад

Quality looks pretty bad, but definitely agree it's a nice looking lens and I'm a huge believer in get what you can afford and go have some fun, I think those little instax cameras have brought that feeling back to many people.

@Twobarpsi 10 месяцев назад

Cool little lens!

@larsltj 9 месяцев назад

Symmetrical RF wide angles doesn't work well on a Sony sensor with thick sensor filter stack. The camera need to be Kolari upgraded to be tested really, or get a Leica.

@ramongutierrez8249 9 месяцев назад

I was waiting for this review

@AardvarkAdventure 10 месяцев назад

It's a copy of the MS-Optics Apoqualia, at least externally.

@MarshallBananar 10 месяцев назад

My immediate thoughts, it's crazy that those designs are getting copied by chinese manufacturers But not too surprising, they're all using classic lens arrangements and are really compact and bright Exciting stuff

@beepboopboopbeepbeep 10 месяцев назад

I wonder how it actually compares to MS-Optics equivalent.

@timothykieper 10 месяцев назад

Considering the price and manual shooting, I would rather buy 10 vintage lenses for about the same price.

@gerekappo 10 месяцев назад

Yup, the Industar should give a similar look/feel to use it, but is a fifty, not a 28. Either way, is pretty cool they are making lenses like this.

@peterebel7899 10 месяцев назад

Can you share the source for 10 M-mount less for 300 Bucks?

@beepboopboopbeepbeep 10 месяцев назад

you are not the target audience of this lens. its actually really decent option for a street photographer.

@thedondeluxe6941 10 месяцев назад

By all means not the best lens ever made, but it would perform a lot better on an M mount camera. Sony cameras are notorious for not getting on well with M mount lenses.

@kennethnielsen3864 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing.

@TidusGoh 7 месяцев назад

How would you say this compares to the samyang 35mm f2.8?

@JLEOY 10 месяцев назад

anyone know of a 25.5mm to 55mm step up ring? curious on putting this lens on an aps c camera then an anamorphic adapter

@piotrch0 10 месяцев назад

If I had the money, I'd rather just get myself a Ricoh GR III (APS-C, full-frame equivalent 28mm focal length, sharp wide open f/2.8 aperture lens and IBIS).

@sclogse1 7 месяцев назад

Buy a Russian turret viewfinder instead, Loads of personality, super clear glass, and you can actually use them.

@AgnostosGnostos 10 месяцев назад

Maybe is time to buy a leica m mount camera even a used one.

@oohms88 10 месяцев назад

It reminds me a lot of the Industar 69

@ganeshs2420 10 месяцев назад

why there are no review for Nikon lens ?

@photog.prince 10 месяцев назад

Christopher please find us a tiny pancake lens we can wear as a necklace!! Lol

@trym2121 10 месяцев назад

Just make that disposable lens from disposable camera. It's just one piece tiny of plastic glued to body cap

@izelennkhan 8 месяцев назад

Feels too expensive for the optical performance. If priced in the $100-150 range, it would be a cool lens to have, but... I mean, uncorrected field curvature? I expect better from the 7artisans 35 f/5.6 pancake lens, and *that* is priced $99...

@striderwhiston9897 10 месяцев назад

Always wondered, what does Leica offer that other companies don't? I don't mean this rhetorically, I do genuinely want to know, I feel the specs don't really tell the full story.

@trym2121 10 месяцев назад

100% about micro contrast and rendering. They make everything else just at the right amount, in one word, nice. Nothing else. That Leica experience all can be replicated using other camera but all stupid snob would say you pay all for those tech but use it like 70s. Analogy is like cooking knife, you can cut anything with usual chef knife type or santoku or chinese cleaver (depend on the culture) but having boning knife just make life easier for that specific job.

@AyeBeAPirate 10 месяцев назад

What in the world is going on with that field curvature at 5:43? My goodness, it looks like someone just picked random parts of the image to be in focus. Could still be a fun lens, but that's quite the "quirk."

@peterebel7899 10 месяцев назад

Well observed! You get a close subject in the center sharp while you gave infinity sharp in the edges. Great for framing a far subject behind close foreground. But less gras for an average center focussed composition. If the field curvature would be the other way around I would buy this lens instantly.

@Penguins247 10 месяцев назад

This really needs to be tested on a Leica body; as the difference in the sensor stack thickness means that the corners will be badly off on E-mount.

@CableWrestler 10 месяцев назад

I spent ages thinking: "What the fuck is this guy on about?" But then laying in bed and picturing it all, you're absolutely correct.

@JesusCorrea_ 10 месяцев назад

This lens is perfect for APSC cameras and it is also perfect for street photography. In short, this lens does or does have to be used on Fujifilm cameras

@TheBEARofHIGHWAY1 10 месяцев назад

I wonder if this lens gives Swirly Bokeh and that is why the corner sharpness is so bad?