aperture blades this is by far more than you're going to find on any other lens produced today and so this is going to ensure that that boca look that you want remains consistent when you stop down so spherical highlights actually stay round i want to dive a little deeper into the performance this lens and i want to talk about the cost but first i want to give a shout out to our sponsor this week who are the awesome folks over at URL_TOKEN i am actually redesigning my personal website right now and i'm going to be using a squarespace so i've been sharing a lot of images with you guys in these videos this is something that i want to share more of be able to put links and things to when i have collections made squarespace is an awesome place to do that it really is the easiest way to build a website you can build an online portfolio you can even build an e-commerce store on here the tools have really gotten good how easy is squarespace to use well you're going to start with one of their award-winning templates now all these templates are customizable your content is separate from the template so you can change the entire look if you feel like you need a complete refresh or you're not sure on something you can get things to look exactly like you want them what good is a website if nobody's looking at it will squarespace have the right social tools and email integrations in here so you can do your own website promotion as well my favorite part of squarespace well it's really intuitive so if you can drag and drop a folder of images you can build a photo gallery it's that easy you can easily go into the settings to customize everything to your liking hook it up to your own domain in fact they sell those too and you are in business so head over to squarespace using the link below this video and you can try it out for absolutely free and when you do decide that squarespace is right for you i can save you an additional NUMBER_TOKEN on your first order by using offer code aop so once again offer code aop and i want to give a special shout out and thanks to the awesome folks at squarespace for sponsoring this video let's dig a little deeper into characteristics the first thing i want to talk about is sharpness so i'm going to be honest if you want a really sharp modern leica lens this is probably not your lens this is a vintage lens design and photographers that want that kind of look are going to be thrilled with this as i mentioned earlier even at f NUMBER_TOKEN it's very natural it has a more cinematic look i personally really like this it does have a lot more of a NUMBER_TOKENs feel to it i've not had an opportunity to compare this to the original version but i will say in the reissue that color rendition is impressively good this is not the case with a lot of retro style lenses that you can buy today but like you use modern coatings on this lens so you're going to get the best of both worlds with this now performance i'm going to be honest here performance is a challenge with this lens as i mentioned the images are a little soft when you're shooting wide open especially at the minimum focus distance you want things to move a little further back one little non-scientific test that i like to do with all the lenses that i review is to look at the field of
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN am actually redesigning my personal website right now and i'm going to be using a squarespace so i've been sharing a lot of images with you guys in these videos this is something that i want to share more of be able to put links and things to when i have collections made squarespace is an awesome place to do that it really is the easiest way to build a website you can build an online portfolio you can even build an e-commerce store on here the tools have really gotten good how easy is squarespace to use well you're going to start with one of their award-winning templates now all these templates are customizable your content is separate from the template so you can change the entire look if you feel like you need a complete refresh or you're not sure on something you can get things to look exactly like you want them what good is a website if nobody's looking at it will squarespace have the right social tools and email integrations in here so you can do your own website promotion as well my favorite part of squarespace well it's really intuitive so if you can drag and drop a folder of images you can build a photo gallery it's that easy you can easily go into the settings to customize everything to your liking hook it up to your own domain in fact they sell those too and you are in business so head over to squarespace using the link below this video and you can try it out for absolutely free and when you do decide that squarespace is right for you i can save you an additional NUMBER_TOKEN on your first order by using offer code aop so once again offer code aop and i want to give a special shout out and thanks to the awesome folks at squarespace for sponsoring this video END_SPONSOR_TOKEN