Nikon Z MC 50mm 2.8 | First Look | Downloadable RAWs + Video | Matt Irwin

okay let's kick this thing off with some images from the 50 mil let's look at a plant close-up and just have a look at the rendition we are at 100 on the z7 we're at f 8 1 160 of a second at 400 iso and have a look at this detail in here if we're living in a small universe it's got to be about lego and here is harlequin a lego she's got her headphones on very close to one to one ratio and if we go into 100 we can see how they print on the lego models i have cranked up the contrast here and the saturation a little bit this is the 50 mil can it be used for more than macro can it be used for street well this is a first look and an unboxing full review to come g'day everybody how you going today it is so good to see you indeed super exciting news from nikon with these new macro micro lenses and just to do a little bit of a disclaimer gerald undone style yes nikon australia has provided these lenses to me i've got to give them back in nine days time no money is changing hands nikon has no say in this video they have not guided me as to how they want me to represent these lenses they have just been provided for me to make my own opinion that's it we've done the 105 first look we're now going to do the 50 first look now we are still in covert lockdown i'm going to know tomorrow whether we are out beyond a 10 kilometer radius limit which no it's not only that that's a problem but we've all got to be out with masks there's all sorts of little rules of things i can and can't do so i don't feel fully free plus we're right in the start of winter here and i have seen the sun shine about once in the last week when it comes to macro photography and showing off those amazing colors showing off some flora and fauna yeah it happens to be difficult right now it's great to have these lenses and i'm super excited about it it's just happens to be bad timing for things that are completely out of my control the weather and the covered and that's just the way it is so i will do my very best to provide all the different types of things that people want to see within the time i have available we're here for the 50 mil 2.8 macro lens and i just want you to know that this camera that we're shooting with up here it's the z62 with the 105 2.8 mc vr on it i'm taking a bit of a risk i can't get my camera any higher here but and it's quite a tight shot but i really wanted to show that lens working how i will and would use it um these lenses got to go back but i reckon i'll buy one because i'm pretty excited about macro photography there's also another quick point that i need to make i am not a macro photographer and nobody asked me whether i was i'm not i've never said that i was and i'm not so again i'm doing my very best to show this off matt irwin's style with my 30 years of experience all the principles of photography still apply lighting framing color balance originality etc so i think we'll be doing all right you just might get something a little bit different and that's okay too [Music] [Music] we'll very quickly look at here the 50 mil 2.8 mc lens now some people say that i'm i don't ever say anything negative about nikon it's just not true i'm not sure what this is all about like the these things are not nice cloths but somebody's told me that you can't even use them as a lens cloth so it's not 100 clear to me what these are and there's a very small part of me that says don't ship these um let me know in the comments below if there's anybody that uses them and how you use them because i don't read the manuals very much so maybe the manual actually tells you what to do with them maybe we should look here in the in the notes what does it say these things they're like maps aren't they how good that who doesn't want a map right great lens case yes so nikon call it a lens case nikon you you know i love this glass but i think calling that a case i think you might have to move on from that now it's not a case it's a bag anyway just food for thought food for thought but the lens hood and the lens cap they're all real um there's the lens for the first time with its very cute little front this here is a very little a very interesting little lens hood but of you know obviously it's designed to sit on the extruded end of the lens which we're about to look at now so here we go it's it feels really nice it's just got a nice size and it's nicely balanced the weight is it is very clearly at the back so it's going to feel really good on camera it's very delicate and that's some sort of composite onto composite so i would be delicate but that's it that's the that's the lens hood optically that's all that they can provide and that's interesting it just protrudes a tiny amount and obviously they made a decision to give you the option to have that protrusion or not the z7 again and we can see here clearly there is a metallic mount for those that are interested and worry about those things so that is very nicely balanced as i thought it would be now something that i forgot to mention in the previous look at the 105 is how ridiculously quiet it was but the full review is coming that was never a review that was the first look has the title said this is also a first look this is making a little bit of noise i've got the uh lens about one inch from the mic i don't know if you can hear that and we can focus up to 16 centimeters from the focal plane how can you make a macro lens work for you in a street streetscape or a landscape now they're probably not going to be scapes are they they're going to be closer than that but they're still really interesting details in the world for example this is what we call a paste up a piece of paper that's pre-printed and then put up and it's a little bit like street art so i wanted to show you this image here for starters now just so you understand we are shooting on the z7 with the 50 mil mc 2.8 that's where we're at everything here is handheld now obviously this is not a macro shot but the reason i'm showing you this shot is because i want you to remember this area here let's just zoom in here to 100 there it is there and look this looks great it's sharp oh another another thing i just want to say is that the sun hasn't come out for about 10 days here in melbourne we've had the smallest glimpses but otherwise there's no sun so everything's a little bit gray lacking in contrast because of the lack of sun but have a look here on the edge of frame so we're almost wide open we're at f3 a 30th of a second handheld we're right on the edge of frame look how sharp we're at 100 look how sharp that area looks there remember this thing here here it is and now we're seeing this in near on macro let's go into 100 handheld 130th of a second f 4.5 that's very hard to do it's very hard to get something like that in focus with macro photography when you're doing it handheld but this just shows how close you can get this is absolutely tiny i wanted to show the bokeh balls here's two slightly different focuses this one's a bit closer to being in focus this one's a bit further out again handheld 130th of a second we're on the z7 iso 64 f 3.8 at 50 mil this is 3.2 and again i wanted to show you this like 50 ml is a classic street portrait everything sort of lens so what was important to me was to be able to say to someone well you can buy this lens for macro but you get the bonus of being able to use it for everyday things like streets so here we are again you can just see how overcast it is that's that's the world i'm dealing with at the moment here we are in at 100 and just look look at how well that chromatic aberration is being suppressed it's super sharp it's looking nice the short depth of field's looking great we're at 1 1 250th 2.8 iso 200 another streetscape scene where i feel we're just waiting for it to draw draw in draw in and it's done this just looks absolutely superb here the color rendition the sharpness we are in the top left hand corner of the frame like that's it the top left at 100 this just looks gorgeous everything about it looks so gorgeous and real again this is some stencil art in the city of melbourne and the color and sharpness another thing i was looking for here was is there any distortion but if we're going to 100 let's just look at how how sharp that's looking now this is wide open at 2.8 and i think that's looking pretty good for everything that's on the same focal plane lovely detail in here you can make out the detail in the lock once it's drawn obviously here in the middle we're looking very nice and sharp now i've added a vignette so don't worry about that that's that's me doing that and also there would be some shadow coming in from up here but as for distortion as i was talking about i don't think there's very much distortion at all with this lens this is looking very very good again another stencil just getting in quite close this is quite a small stencil and right in close to the detail of that stencil and i'm slightly off 90 degrees so we can see the fall off either side of where i was in focus and if we get in here you can you know you basically can make out the spray of the paint here we are at 100 let that draw in i had an idea when i was out shooting this doing a whole series on the textures of a city and it's something i'm quite interested in because they become quite abstract when you get this close and it's really really quite interesting again i've done absolutely nothing to this image and here's another highly textured highly colorful place that i found i just love the color and everything that was going on here this image is untouched let's just bring it up a little bit a little bit of color into it god not even that much it's so colorful as is but again here what we're showing is the rendition of the lens just let it draw it's it's still drawing in still rendering in we can see great color great rendition great sharpness there's no guarantee that i was 100 square on the wall i did my best but we're here a bit we're here at 2.8 and it's looking great in the corners i'm not sure what there is to complain about color is great contrast is great focus is great distortion is great and we are at one fiftieth of a second two point eight fifty mil so this is a great street lens as well as being a macro lens here's another image this thing's about five stories tall pretty cool these urban city textures i just wanted to show them to you this is an ancient water meter sitting in an alleyway iron bars rusting i'm not super close up this is not exactly macro but i just wanted to show you how lovely and sharp and the dimension i just feel a great sense of dimensionality out of what this lens provides you know you really get a sense of depth and texture and color again this image is untouched this is just how it is and i haven't done anything look at the color look at the rendition look at the contrast i haven't done anything that's the camera that's the lens that's the color science and good exposure that's the part that i do the good exposure but honestly if we look over here this is how it is and you know i suppose we could put a bit more color in but doesn't really need it and we could create a bit more sense of depth playing with these things but it's already pretty extraordinary out of the box and this is what i've said time and time again this equipment allows you to make beautiful interesting textured dimensional colorful inspiring feelings without much effort and then i wanted to show you some close up photography some macro photography of my melbourne award and here we are this is sand blasted glass handheld 1 100th of a second 5.6 we're getting in super close like this is about maybe two or three centimeters wide from here to here around an inch wouldn't be much bigger than that and you can just see how how it is this is untouched and you can just see the fall off how quickly fall off happens like here here is where i was in focus and then it's just starting to fall off as we go up or left and that can be just the slightest change in angle of attack of the camera versus the object if you're not 100 square on this is what happens you're there you're getting close this is the top of the award and you can see here again the water is actually it isn't flat at the front it isn't sorry it isn't at 90 degrees to the to the ground it leans backwards so this area here is in focus but then it's starting to fall out of focus again you can get super close i wanted to show you how it handled chromatic aberration this is my neon sign in the gallery if we start here i think this thing here is probably only about a centimeter less than half an inch wide and then we're getting even closer slightly closer again this is the tiny piece of wire that holds it in place and then we can go into 100 handheld 1 300 of a second a micro movement makes this fall out of focus it's extraordinarily difficult there's the other one to do this handheld as a landscape lens handheld one quarter of a second 2.8 50 mil at night 400 iso on the z7 so you could use this as a travel walk around straight lens and you can use it as a macro lens i think that's pretty good value that you get both some people would like me to talk more about specs [Music] and here we can see the focus limiter switch which is super useful and there you have it the nickel mc 50 mil 2.8 very affordable how do you like that price we're going to close out this video with some vision from the 50 mil on the z6 mark ii this is shot in 4k at 50 frames per second now please tell me in the comments below is this a lens for you do you like it and of course so fantastic to have you here please if this is your first time here please do subscribe please share please like and click on the notification bell and this concludes the first look the unboxing a few images and video from the zed mc 50ml 2.8 i'll see you soon

Channel: Matt Irwin Photography

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Length: 15min 53sec (953 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 14 2021