{"id":57512,"date":"2015-06-04T09:18:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=57512"},"modified":"2016-09-13T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:06:33","slug":"can-tell-difference-150-lens-15000-lens-probably-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/can-tell-difference-150-lens-15000-lens-probably-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Tell the Difference Between a $150 Lens and a $15,000 Lens? Probably Not."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"think-you-can-spot-the-differences-between-cheap-and-expensive-lenses\">Think you can spot the differences between cheap and expensive lenses?<\/h2>\n<p>Unless you work for an extremely high-end production house, chances are you don\u2019t get to regularly shoot on <strong>Ultra Prime lenses<\/strong>. Instead, your personal lens arsenal probably consists of <strong>lenses worth a few hundred dollars each.<\/strong> If only you could get the super-expensive lens, then your footage would look cinematic, right? Maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>In the following video created by <a title=\"RocketJump Film School on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3KpzBeoM8lDvn85m4szzfA\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">RocketJump Film School<\/a>, <a title=\"Freddie Wong Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fwong\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Freddie Wong<\/a> examines the difference between cheap, intermediate, and high-end lenses to test whether you can tell the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Odds are, if you&#8217;re anything like the team here at PremiumBeat, you&#8217;ll be hard-pressed to tell the difference. Go ahead and play the game by\u00a0watching the video below. If you\u2019re playing with friends, you can download a <strong>free scorecard template below<\/strong>. The highest score in the PremiumBeat office was 6 and the lowest was 2.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"download-free-scorecard-template\"><a title=\"Download Free Scorecard Template\" href=\"http:\/\/pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lens-Comparison.zip\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Download\u00a0Free Scorecard Template<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 id=\"test-yourself\">Test Yourself<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z121kt4aPHI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the following video, Freddie sits down with three professional filmmakers to see if they can tell the difference. Spoiler alert: The best they do is 8 out of 18.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"ask-the-experts\">Ask the Experts<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v0XQd9zYMc0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=458&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>These videos were first shared by\u00a0<a title=\"RocketJump Film School\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z121kt4aPHI\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">RocketJump Film School<\/a>. Thanks for sharing guys!<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"conclusion\">Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>In light of this information, should you just stick with a <strong>cheap kit lens<\/strong> and not upgrade? Probably not. Admittedly, there are some flaws with this test, like the <strong>compression<\/strong> that footage goes through on YouTube, the fact that the video files were likely <strong>edited to look similar<\/strong>, and that <strong>shooting conditions were fixed<\/strong>. Those are valid concerns.<\/p>\n<p>However, the fact that\u00a0even\u00a0professionals can be fooled by this test says a lot about the shrinking gap between <strong>professional quality and the quality that can be achieved by the indie filmmaker. <\/strong>One such brand that comes to mind is <a title=\"Rokinon Cine Lenses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/bnh\/controller\/home?O=&amp;sku=1016624&amp;gclid=COrv7ou59MUCFQ6paQodX24Aaw&amp;Q=&amp;is=REG&amp;A=details\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Rokinon<\/a>. Lenses with comparable specs to Rokinon go for thousands of dollars, and yet Rokinon lenses\u00a0can be purchased for only a few hundred dollars each. Are they as good as the expensive lenses? No. But if your audience and you have a difficult time telling the difference between the two, maybe the money would be better spent somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How\u2019d you do on the test? 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