$50 Lens Vs. $1300 Lens (Can You Spot The Difference?)

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[BrandonDavis]

Lens A: Canon L glass
Lens B: cheapo 50mm

The difference wasn't very dramatic, but the photos were more telling than the video.

[JoeMooreProductions]

Lens A: Canon L glass
Lens B: Yongnu $50 lens


I had a feeling that it would be harder to tell the difference in video than photo, but that's also because of YT terrible compression rates for H.264 video. Photo wise all you have to do is check the edges and can see the sharper creamer bokeh fade offs was the L series. Still would use that $50 lens on a B-Cam set up though. Can't beat that price for the quality.

[JaredMagers]

You can definitely tell that Lens B is the cheap lens. The Bokeh is so grainy but for $50 it’s actually not that bad. I’m super impressed haha! Great video man! 👍🏼🎥

[altarego]

I've been using the Yongnuo 50mm for the last few months as a portrait photographer. It is shockingly good quality if you are shooting still objects/portraits. The slow focusing makes it struggle to keep up with fast moving subjects and also of note is that the focus hunting is preeeetty loud. With that being said, I still really enjoy the lens. Tip: avoid shooting wide open at f1.8 unless you really need the light. It is already a bit of a soft lens and that comes out even more when shooting wide open. I have found f2.8 to be my sweet spot between shallow depth of field and sharpness with my portraits. Couple other tips: use single point focus on the eye so you can really make sure you have the most control over the sharpness of a portrait (as opposed to using face tracking, for example) and make sure that you calibrate it to your camera body. My camera body, the Rebel SL2, doesn't have lens calibration built in so I have found that I need to shoot with live mode to hit focus consistently. GREAT lens, more than worth the $50.

[mondobytes]

Would be interesting to test the Canon Nifty Fifty to the Yongnuo lens, love these tests 👊🏽

[nichtphilipp]

For me, the videos were more telling than the photos, because I instantly realized the heavy focus breathing of the cheap one. Before that I couldn't really spot a difference.

[thinkindependent]

Bro! Your content has shaped my career! thanks for always plugging new / cost effective gear and teaching that its the creative that makes the art-not the gear

[manuelm]

Definitely appreciate this video. Like the type of content you post & you’re one of my inspirations. Continue to kill it & continue the grind!💯🙏🏾💫

[andrewdoeshair]

I love that you went into detail about the focus performance-- so many of these types of comparison videos only focus on sharpness, bokeh, overall imagine quality, etc and then go on to say that the L glass is a rip off. I own the 50L and canon's 50mm F1.8 STM, and I bought the STM thinking it would be fun to have a smaller lighter cheaper option that I wouldn't worry about, but immediately noticed that the focus speed and accuracy was dramatically hindering compared to the L glass. It's exactly as you said, when you're well aware of the limitations of a piece of gear you can get the most from it, and I think the 50L simply has much more forgiving and frustration-free limitations in real world use.

[jejfilms]

Lens A was sharper. I could tell immediately because of how soft the image was with lens B. $1250 difference? Probably not. I'd love to see the same video showing the Yongnuo 50mm 1.8 and the Canon 50mm 1.4 though!

[FizzyJay]

A is definitely the nice one "fingers crossed"

[withmeuntiltheend]

I own the 50 1.2... and for photography, g'damn... it's special. The portraits I can get out of it are just next level. One of the cleanest lenses that I've ever tested for portraiture.

[bamcameback]

0:40 gave it away for me the whole time because he's holding the yongnuo in the left pic loool

[SebastianOrozco]

When you need to actually put effort to identify one lens you realize that the difference is not that big.

[samvanrest]

A: L series
B: cheap lens

Could Tell by the autofocus hunting and shocking.

[austinbuell]

The $1300 looks extremely sharp compared to the $50 lens. That being said, most people probably won't notice a difference.


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[vicluistudio]

1:48 and 0:54 make it very easy to tell, not just the texture and fibre, but the colour is more distinguish and beautiful

[mateenmakesfilms]

Lens A: More expensive lens
Lens B: $50 lens!

EDIT: I was right!! But it's a dope lens. Seriously, there were points where I would've chosen lens B.
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[daytwan]

I've had the Yongnuo YN50mm f/1.8 for almost two years now and has worked wonders for both photo and video. I've actually broken it one time and didn't sweat as it was so cheap, thus I quickly brought another. An excellent lens for that tryna ball on a budget 😅