Sirui 24mm T1.2 'Night Walker' Review
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The Sirui 24mm T1.2 'Night Walker' lens is a moderately priced lens available for Sony Canon RF Fuji X and micro four cameras. The build quality is nice, but it is a bit heavy. The lens provides decent sharpness and good image quality when stopped down to T2 or T2.8. It has minimal distortion and vignetting. However, image quality at T1.2 is soft with low contrast.
The Sirui 24mm T1.2 'Night Walker' lens provides decent image quality when stopped down to T2 or T2.8. However, at T1.2, the sharpness is soft with low contrast. The lens also exhibits strong chromatic aberration at wider apertures, but it performs well for the price when stopped down to T2 or T2.8.
Pros
- Moderately priced
- Nice metallic build quality
- Minimal distortion and vignetting
- Minimal focus breathing
Cons
- Soft image quality at T1.2
- Low contrast at wider apertures
- No image stabilization
The lens has a nice metallic build quality and is moderately heavy. However, it does not come with image stabilization and the focus ring makes a noisy tapping sound when the hard stops are hit.
The Sirui 24mm T1.2 'Night Walker' lens is part of a set of new affordable lenses available for Sony Canon RF Fuji X and micro four cameras. The lens has a nice metallic build quality and is moderately heavy. It features a 270-degree geared manual focus ring, hard stops at either end, and has minimal focus breathing. However, the lens does not come with image stabilization and the focus ring makes a noisy tapping sound when the hard stops are hit. The lens provides decent image quality when stopped down to T2 or T2.8, but at T1.2 the sharpness is soft with low contrast. The lens also exhibits strong chromatic aberration at wider apertures, although it performs well for the price when stopped down to T2 or T2.8.
The Sirui 24mm T1.2 'Night Walker' lens is a moderately priced lens that is available for Sony Canon RF Fuji X and micro four cameras. The build quality is nice, but it is a bit heavy.
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