Laowa 45mm 0.95 - Who Needs a Super Fast Lens?! 

What makes these guys so fun to watch/listen? I come here for the tech but stay for… I don’t know, there’s something relaxed and entertaining about their delivery that I can’t figure out!

That's a fast lens alright. So fast Lok's camera AF couldn't keep up!

Glad to see both of you, guys. Thank you for creating quality contents.

I recently got back into photography and went back to my old favorite channel only to discover that it wasn't what it used to be. I'm so frickin happy you guys are still out here doing what yall do best. Also shout out to the collection of us Asians who went with clear frame glasses

12:36 every good youtube filmmaker knows that shooting everything at f/1.4 = cinematic 😂

@11:16 Tony Northrup's reference was hilarious & Lok's impression when he said "Depth of field is fake!" depicted Tony's controversial/click-baity topics perfectly :D

I think anything below F/1.2 is just too difficult to focus anything useful.

3:06 That cinematic pigeon landing shot. Damn!

I like to see you guys, every time, IN FOCUS.

That drive-by moment on the bridge is classic.

The point in those superfast lenses is to be able to isolate your subject even from further away (full body portrait), not blowing nose+ears out of focus closeup. There are good examples of what I mean in the video. A 4/3 stop slower f1.4 lens would not yield enough blur. That's why these lenses offer great creative potential.

Those low flying birds were coming in hot!

have been looking at those two for years, always educational and fun keep on guys 👊🏻

When these two left DigitalRev TV, it died. lol

Happy to see you back

Cant wait 'til you get to IM subs Kai. Been following you for years- great to have Lok back on board. Keep on keeping on man!

Thanks for explaining why its called a "Fast lens"... makes sense in historical context. Super-fast lenses are a non-starter for the stuff I do (toy photography) where sometimes even f/22 isn't a wide enough DoF to get everything I need in focus, but it was fun to learn about it all the same.

The older I get the more I find myself shooting at f/8. Just find shots so much more interesting with a deeper depth of field.

Don't understand why you didn't show how it did in low light conditions which it's literally is meant for.

Nice video as always, but I kind of miss the more people-centered street photography you used to do back in Hong Kong. Maybe you could ask Lok to pull a trolley or something in memory of those days lol

Up until the mid-noughties, broken hadn't been invented. There wasn't even a word for it. If you had to worry about what your out of focus bits looked like, the rest of the picture was probably crap. Then the marketing people got involved and suddenly it was a thing we had to have. "Smooth", "swirly", "cat eyes", "rugby balls". A load of Bokeh balls.

80% of this video is out of focus.., great job Lok, that be a new record!

Great seeing you all regardless of F stop.

I always trust the Bokeh Bros to find some obscure brand! They even do Canon mounts. I had a Nifty 50 for my 80d, but the crop sensor made it more like 80mm. I only just saw his video on the 35mm F2 Yonguno lens.

Oh man. Glad to see you still making videos. You just popped back up in time before emptying my bank account.

How many stops is this faster than an F 1.0 lens? It's so damn simple: F = (Sqrt (2))^stop And as you can easily deduce: stop = ln (F) / ln (sqrt (2)) So solving for F = 0.95 we get -1/7 so F/0.95 is 1/7 stop faster than F/1.0

Man I love these 2 guys

Happy Year of the Tiger Lok and Kai!

I love my 1.8s but if I had the trinity of G Master lenses 12-24, 24-70 and 70-200 v2 for Sony I would have zero complaints. 2.8 is perfect

Awesome video!

I like Kai and Lok. Watching their videos is like hanging out with a couple of friends. I like some of the more "serious" reviews too, but Kai and Lok make things fun. Viva Kai! Viva Lok!

Your humour is on point

I'd be interested to know if this lens is "cleaner" at 1.2 than some of the 1.2 (max) lenses.

Best photography Chanel on RU-vid 👌 bokeh is only needed if you haven’t any composition skills and at 0.95 low light performance is going to be bad because only the centre of the frame will be a bit sharp!! Your best bet for low light is buy a camera with a bigger sensor

thanks for the great review!🙂

I love my TTArtisan 50mm f0.95, dreamy bokeh, well built! Wondering if there will be other mounts.

Happy lunar new year!

Support 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Kai is hustling get it my brother!

Love it !!

So charming. Love you guys

If I had bought a lens with a small depth of field like this one, I would probably shoot a lot at large aperture, but just because I'd like to experiment with the new tool and understand the capabilities and the limitations that come with shooting at those apertures. When the new toy doesn't feel that new anymore, and when I feel like I've explored the different uses of shallow depth of field, I would naturally start shooting at different apertures again: obviously, in many situation having a very small depth of field is more of a detriment than anything else, and by stopping down a fast lens like this you usually get better sharpness, contrast and less vignetting. Buying a new small depth of field is like buying a new bright-coloured pastel for a drawing artist... maybe at the beginning you want to understand how to use it in your work, but you get easily tired and then you use it only when you truly need it. But when you need a specific expressive possibility like that, and you have the tool, it feels so nice. I act like this with every new lens, anyway... I work only with that specific lens for a couple of shooting days just to get my head around the new tool and then I just rotate it with any other tool in my bag.

I love the jabs at Tony. Can’t stand that clown.

Can’t believe it, I’ve been watching Kai for 10 years or so, mostly in HK. Then he’s in Kingston, by nearest shopping centre!

Why are Laowa releasing so many super-fast lenses? Because so many poseurs who don't know better will buy them.

I’m happy you helped your friend get out of China

i like your reviews, but somehow i miss those crazy reviews you did back in hongkong 😁

Proper review !

3.07 to 3.12 fabulous shot.

Lok looks good 👍

This episode was a perfect brainclenser in between two heavy teams meetings. Thank you! on a side note (not that anybody actually cares about mft except mft fanboys/gals) i love my voigtländer 0.95 17.5mm on my lumix g9. Such an extreme lense for the system, really much fun to go out with only that lense. With the smallish sensor effecting every focal length and iso it gives a lot of room for creativity. The manual operation and super shallow depth of field really forces you to think outside the box. That being said i rarely go to 0.95 but when i do i love that it's there :)

KAIIIIIII i love you

sorry i got distracted by the flock of birds. hahaha. Glad both of you are together again

MItakon 35mm F0.95 is my favourite fast lens. It is small and awesome.

I NEED THIS NOW!

Excellent "Toneh"

lol this was funny af and informative

Two videos in one day? Nice.

6:43 - "It's not how you see things in real life, not everything is blurred." Me with myopia of -4.00 in both eyes would gladly disagree with you 😛

3:00 the Tracking to hand with the awesome SFX C:

I'd love to watch a video of you trying to take apart a fungus filled lens, cleaning it and then putting it back together. ..I think I might be a bit of a sadist. 😂

Thanks!

Color looks nice

I have not been to Kingston NY in awhile I better get there fast.

this was a good review and discussion about photography. yeah, sometimes creativity is about limiting yourself ,but maybe this route limits a bit too much into a direction that isn't super creative in the end. Maybe an add on for wedding photographers?

1.4 is mine favorite aperture. 50mm 85mm

HEY GUYS HELP! I want to ask. What is better to take for reportage videos (weddings and various events): Sony a6400, a7 Mark 2 or Canon 90D? Budget up to $1700. Thanks in advance for the answer!

love Your videos, great fun :) I just want to ask - what the hell do you use to shoot these videos? does it even have AF?! I mean there is nothing ever in focus :-D

Love the videos - especially on the mean streets of Kingston. Please review the old Nikon Noct 58mm F1.2 is it worth the vintage cash?!

your word has power, you made bokeh famous years ago... so everyone has to make a super fast lens now. lol

Lots of reasons for super fast lenses. But it's all a compromise. Whether the large size, difficulty, and image quality issues are worth it very much depends on what you're trying to do as a photographer. Totally agree that it's not worth buying a lens like this on a whim. It will then likely sit in the cupboard. But one of the great things about these super-fast lenses becoming affordable is that you begin to get to the point of something that comes close to a medium format look (I have a Pentax 67 and the cheap 'standard lens' for it is a 105 f2.4 which gives a DOF roughly like 50 f1.1 in FF) with a more convenient camera. On APSC this is requires even faster lenses. A 56 f0.95 is only about the equivalent of an 85 f1.4 on FF. So I think there's a real place for these lenses for those of us who really want this look.

I have the 35 and I've been loving it. If they made like a... dunno, 100/1.2, I'd go for that, but 45 is just way too similar.

Is wirestock working for you guys? I tried to use it, but for me it was constantly crashing allover the place ...

The first reason for wanting a fast lens used to be slow film, yes. The second was the viewfinder of the SLR. When you needed fast film, the light would be dim and your viewfinder would be even worse than dim. The electronically amplified eVF removes this.

12:18 - could be anywhere in the world, that's what it looks like 😂😂😂

3:54 My theory is that the reason all these companies are now making F1.2 lenses again are because they CAN now with mirrorless cameras, I think by shortening the distance between the lenses and film plane, maybe it's easier to make faster lenses now ? Idk tho, I don't know if that makes it easier just my own thoughts. source : trust me bro, or probably don't

Speaking of bokeh and Laowa, if you haven’t already, can you review the Laowa 105mm with the APD filter?

That was a fast notification hahahahahh

THANK YOU FOR SORTING THAT OUT FOR ME i think i am going to stick with my Sigma 16mm f1.4 lens and it's a brilliant match with my Sony A6300

idk ive been shooting night shots on other lenses at f2.8-f4 and it's always the minimum of 1600 ISO and the noise is considerable

We just need that Picture in Picture Lok cam!

The HandeVision / Kipon iBelux 40mm f0.85 is still the fast lens champ, if you can focus it.

love this - Kai downplays big aperture lenses interspersed with great shots at .95 (he’s trolling us, right?)

Never has Kingston looked so superfast.

Kung Hei Fat Choy! Happy CNY!

Kai how does it compare to the M-mount 50mm from Leica and SLR Magic?

Hi kai i love you as always

Hi dear Kai, make a video Comparison about olympus d5 mark 3 please. The camera is good and not too expensive, we need your opinion

"Before we get too bokeh-balls-deep in bokeh..." LOL

Lok saying "I want a new Iphone" is very memeable.

Bokeh bros!

The thing I like most about Kai, is his collection of Stone Island jackets. His camera reviews are also okay…

Phone boxes were put by the old C&A because there was a bit of spare pavement there. Kingston Uni Art department put them there, well before Kingston got pedestrianised.

hey there Kai. Please do a video on using a zoom lens for shallow depth of field/BOKEH type shots. I think they are smoother, and also allow you to do a different type shot as well. Or maybe zooms are all crap? I don't even know what to look for... IMHO

Most of the time it's because of bokeh. Sometimes the reason behind buying a superfast lens is, fear of noisy photos and footage, and struggling with low light.

Who DOESNT need a super fast lens Usain Bolt Lens Bokehtastic

14:50 What a nice 993

11:00 I think you meant Toneh Northup

How about for low light night shots?

Kai, you make me nervous never using a strap !