King Noj Enarc
If you are using this on a sony a7 series camera there is a SUPER ANNOYING vignette as I found out too late. Originally I had a budget for a short film shoot and we had very little money for the longer lens but it was required. We were in disbelief when we saw the listing and thought it was too good to be true. IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE! No where on the listing were we made aware there is a MASSIVE VIGNETTE on the image because apparently this lens isnt for full frame sensors like the a7 series uses. The "in your face" vignette gets EVEN WORSE when you zoom all the way in and EVEN WORSE STILL when you go to take full frame photos. When we got the lens in and tried it out we wanted SO BADLY to send it back. but our deadline was up, the budget had no more room for anything better, and my colleague had to actually shake me to calm me down because I was so angry. We tried everywhere on the internet to find a solution other than cropping in post. The lowlight is fine but wayyyy too soft to use in anything other than outside daylight. image stabilization is fine but nothing to write home about. Overcast lighting is pretty meh and only really usable at noon but the image is still wayyyyyyyyy too soft. Auto focus is TRASH and could not focus on anything for more than a half a second no matter what we tried. But now we are pretty much stuck with it for our shoot. we will need to crop everything we film while using this lens, eating into our post flexibility. 3 crucial scenes have to be shot at night indoors, practice with these scenes has already shown us the final result isnt looking promising. Several shots we knew we would need the auto focus since, we are a very run-and-gun production crew, now will have to use manual focus and PRAY we dont eat too much more into out time and money budget getting the shots we need, as we have very little time to get them and will need to get them pretty much in the first couple of takes, which adds more headache to the migraine this lens has given us for only having it two days total. Lesson learned I suppose. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Next time we will do our research and hopefully we will be able to get our money back at least one way or another with this lens once production ends so we can shop for something better. I guess my biggest reason for getting so worked up is the website lens tester feature told us that this lens would work with our camera, but never warned us about the vingette.