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Canon 85mm f2 macro IS vs Samyang 85mm f1.4

Started Jul 10, 2020 | Polls thread
tkbslc Forum Pro • Posts: 17,522
Re: Canon 85mm f2 macro IS vs Samyang 85mm f1.4

Wing2 wrote:

tkbslc wrote:

ntsan wrote:

Samyang's AF sucks for video, so Canon all the way.

Do people AF during video? Even on lenses with silent and quick AF it still looks awful to me to have focus move around during video clips.

Yes, most Vlogging needs AF to get satisfactory results.

Going to be hard to fit your whole face in the frame when vlogging with an 85mm!

One of the cool feature of R5 and R6 is the smoothness of AF change during Video shooting is programmable. You can select between fast AF that gives kind of abrupt but fastest focus change or different degree of smoothness for more gradual but slower focus change

I suppose some kind of digital focus pull could be useful in certain cinematic situations, but I'd maintain in general, video should be done with manual focus to avoid distracting shifts.

At any rate, I'm not sure why we'd think the Samyang would be worse.  It has an silent internal AF system.

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