Sirui 16mm T1.2 'Night Walker' lens review

A new APS-C cine lens from Sirui, part of a set of five(but also sold separately).

All pictures taken by me on a Sony a5100 and a7R III camera.

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[TechnoBabble]

I just want to point out that the "Night Walker" lenses are likely not actually t/1.2, as that would require some pretty spectacular (and physically large) optical design. They use the same optics in the "Sniper" series and those are f/1.2.

Sirui seems to be using t-stops and f-stops interchangeably, and so the t-stops are not accurate.

[JayJayYUP]

Just for anyone wondering about their actual name. Reps at booths have been asked for the pronounciation - and the closest sound to what their company name basically is: Sue-Wray, not See-Ru-ee

[Paul]

I hope one day aps-h is coming back for all these big image circle aps-c lenses that would be so interesting if the full potential would be usable without cropping ff images😭😭 Please dear camera gods hear me out

[LukesMushrooms]

Hi Chris, thanks for another review. I just wanted to let you know about one technical issue I have specially with your videos. In some of them there is a moment in the video which produces artefacts when playing on some devices. Or some devices are unable to continue playing the video after such moment at all (like my LG Smart TV). I recommend to check for corrupted video files, either checking your memory cards for recording or harddrives for processing. Or even internet connection for uploading. These problems happened to me with several of your videos already, while I haven't seen anything like this at other YouTube channels I watch. In this video it happens somewhere around 4:02 - I hope this helps, good luck!

[elementary]

Nice! Looking forward to the other lens review before I buy just this one or the set.

[burningSHADOW]

Will you be testing the Pentax 17?
I really like your reviews and would be interested to get your take.

[lizzzard___]

0:37 bro, you've just paid for that

So it's basically equivalent of fullframe 24mm f/1.8.

[niterunner]

Please, review the new 75mm sniper F1.2

[panmaew]

From my experience of shooting with several much more expensive true cine-lenses with the Super 35 size image circle thsi lens would rank among the very good ones, except for macro shooting. It could be excellent actually if you can stop it down to the still acceptable apertures of f2 to f2.8 as a depth of field compromise to minimize the vignetting.

[sharpskilz]

Weird, I literally looked to see if you had reviewed this yesterday!

[WiwatChang]

Astrophotographers will no doubt wanna to try it out, I know I would

[stargazer]

Great video! But I have to say, that I am disappointed, that you did not show pictures of stars, as it is called "Night Walker" and would be very interesting for use in astrophotography...
That was the main reason, I saw this video.

[flikflak]

I wish it had full frame coverage. Even if it was just barely coverage

[JesusCorrea_]

Will you do the review of the sniper series?

[protestagain]

Good review as always. Exciting bright alternative, but too expensive, big and very heavy. Completely irrelevant to me as an MFT shooter. Still sticking with Pana/Leica 15/1.7.

[benbunch]

Kind of odd that anyone would release a cinema lens without a PL mount..

[quiteenough]

ahh don't worry about dirty camera sensor, Sony is notorious for being sensor dust attractors 🤕

[dbuckfanplays]

Did you break that lens? Whenever you show down the elements it looks like it suffered from a drop...

[tonyw]

Missed a great opportunity to walk outside at night to see if this lens would be any good for Astro? did you miss the name of the lens Night Walker