from someone who lurks in the shadows and never really comments, your videos are a staple of mine whenever I want to nerd out on some gear or as part of research. Thanks so much for all your work and hope you can continue in the years to come.
Your channel is the one place I always go to when looking for a lens review, I love the standardized format you did so it's very easy to compare between lenses. Here's to another great year!! ❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for all the tests you do year after year and share with us. I don't want to be a Patreon, but I'll leave you something here anyway. I hope your channel continues for many years to come.
You forgot the very most important award !! Best lens reviewer of the year of course 😎 And the 🏆 goes without contest to Christopher FROST !! 😁 Fab job Chris. Cause your reviews are as oekasant as they are informative. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Thank you Christopher for all the great lens reviews you did this year ! I waited for this video the whole year...and now we have it. Awesome. Have some nice Christmas days with your family and take some days off from work and lens testing. Recover from all the stress and then we all looking forward for some great lens reviews in 2025.
Thank you! Was looking forward to this video! I would love to see some retro/modern comparison videos. (Old EF 24-105 to RF 24-105, for example)… also just for fun!
Regards from Costa Rica, I just recommend your chanel to a friend of mine to get an unbiased review, very professional and direct to the subject, there is not bla bla in your content, so the 2024 award for the cameras review goes to you! Pura vida!🇨🇷🇨🇷🤙🤙
Chris, I got really into photography about 3 years ago, and I watch your lens review videos before any purchase I ever make. Your reviews have been a god send to every lens I have ever purchased. I imagine you have saved me and my wallet a fortune with my lens addiction and the time I didn't have to spend on eBay reselling lens. I truly appreciate everything you do here! 😁 I also love that you test the lenses on full frame and apsc, but keep that R7 in the apsc rotation 😬.
Thank you Chris. I started photography this year after buying my first camera, and bought several lenses based upon your reviews. (And of course i haven't been disappointed!)
This was a very enjoyable video, thank you for your work and your kind words in the end. Your voice and your way of expressing your thoughts on the lenses make every new video of yours like a comfortable safe space. Thanks big time!
Fujifilm 60mm f2.4. I had specific set of requirements and that lens is the diamond in the rough that filled them. I searched for reviews on the 60mm with a silent prayer. I celebrated when I found you had given one a go. Thank you!
11:25 I appeared in a CF video for a bunch of seconds, yay! Now I wonder if the XF version of the GFX 500mm f/5.6 will win the award again next year! I say "again" since they supposedly have the same optical formula.
The minidisc video was a fun watch for me! I think there's potential in a CF style "Technology Connections" channel! Would make the tedium of morning traffic more enjoyable. 😂
This one of the best review channels on RUclips, thanks for your great work! About the Meike 85mm 1.8, I've got one and, aside from some decentering, I found it to be a very good portrait lens, with more pleasing results than my "old" Viltrox 85mm 1.8. The autofocus on my A7RIII became way better with the latest firmware.
I'd love to see a head to head between the Sigma 28-105 f2.8 compared directly against the Nikon Z 24-120 f4 s. The Nikon was last tested on the old test chart!
I absolutely loved my minidisc players. Tiny sturdy players, great sound quality, easy to make mixtapes, essentially skipfree, what more can you say. They were just the best!
We are now to the point where the interesting lens are not for the RF mount, and they no longer care to make an EF mount version either. Thank you for the reviews sir!
Even if it isn't the absolute best in all categories, love that the Canon 24-105 f.28 holds up so well in so many ways. Overall my personal pick for best lens of 2024!
Thanks for your work. It is really intensive. But it could be really good if you add another segment, 'Best Budget Lens under $1000,' which further adds sharpest, innovative, widest, telephoto zoom, etc.
Chris you are by far the most thorough and trustworthy lens reviewer there is! Thank you for all the videos, it's really helpful for the entire photography community. Keep up the amazing work
🤣😂 (these are all jokes Chris. just so you know) Fanboy here! So fanboy gotta fanboy! so lemme fanboy! I don't know what's worst the fact that you said that Canon 24-105 f/2.8 didn't win the lens of the year, the fact that you didn't show the 24-105 (that's the 70-200mm f/2.8), or the fact that that lens came out in 2023 (I got one of the first copies). It's still more balanced than the 28-70 G-Master lens! So lemme put on my fanboy hat and blame the actual weight on other things like not working out!
I got the impression Mr. Frost did not like the Canon 24-105 2.8 in his original review, one of the reasons I passed on it. In video his casts it in a more favorable light. I personally don't mind a heavy lens but image quality issues at 24mm I do have a problem with.
@@christopherfrost Yes. Correct. I don't do video so didn't consider that. Choose glass first is exactly why I didn't buy the M50. No super zoom by Canon nor anyone else. Looked dead in the water the day it was released! Waited until 2022 and went from 600D + Tamron18-270 to RP + RF24-240 and lost nothing. Crop from FF 26MP better IQ than APS-C 18MP @270 x 1.6 effective! Must say the in lens correction for jpegs is a game winner for me.
Thank you, Christopher! It was entertaining to look over the fence to see what is happening in neighbors' gardens. But honestly as a lay person who owns one camera brand (Fuji) and is looking to the awards as a way to find the best lens for me in every focal length, I was disappointed to see such a jumbled mess of various brands and categories. I mean it's fun to see some bokelitious lenses out of curiosity but Nikon for 13 thousand dollars or GFX lenses are not really relevant to somebody with FX mount. I would have loved to see what are the best available options among wide and tele zoom lenses and wide, standard, portrait and tele primes for my brand, perhaps with categories for budget and splurging. Also, awards 2024 does not have to be limited to lenses than came out in 2024, because what's relevant is what is the best available, and it is actually curious to see if any old kings still reign, or if any new-comers have demoted them this year.
I also lost the most money on your MiniDisc videos. I'd been wanting to get into the format and it was the shove off the cliff that I needed. I bought a Sony player and a crate of miscellaneous discs that had some great listens!
Nikon not allowing Sigma to compete on FF is a major plus for L and E mount. Yes, Nikon's own glass is superb, but nothing quite like that zoom is available for Nikon. The massive Tamron 35-150 is as close as it gets. Sigma continues to challenge the market on value.
Hello mr Frost. I'm not native speaker, so excuse my english. Genuine question here. With lots of cameras and lenses you have been testing along you photography life/career, if you had to choose 1 lens+1 compact body for street/everyday photography what would be them? I know you're a busy camera reviewer/youtuber. If you cant reply this then it's ok. But if you reply, I guess there is someone else who also want to know your preference. Nice video as always. Thanks
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from someone who lurks in the shadows and never really comments, your videos are a staple of mine whenever I want to nerd out on some gear or as part of research. Thanks so much for all your work and hope you can continue in the years to come.
Same here. I always head for Chris’ videos.
Thanks and Keep em Rolling!
Thanks for your support!
Your channel is the one place I always go to when looking for a lens review, I love the standardized format you did so it's very easy to compare between lenses.
Here's to another great year!! ❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for all the tests you do year after year and share with us. I don't want to be a Patreon, but I'll leave you something here anyway. I hope your channel continues for many years to come.
Thanks so much man! Appreciate the support.
I bought the 28-105 Sigma lens and im so incredibly happy with its performance. It really did deserve the best lens award.
You forgot the very most important award !!
Best lens reviewer of the year of course 😎
And the 🏆 goes without contest to Christopher FROST !! 😁
Fab job Chris. Cause your reviews are as oekasant as they are informative.
Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Well done! Thanks for another great one and happy New year!
You've had a fantastic year, Seasons greeting to you and your family, all the very best for 2025!
Thank you Christopher for all the great lens reviews you did this year !
I waited for this video the whole year...and now we have it. Awesome. Have some nice Christmas days with your family and take some days off from work and lens testing.
Recover from all the stress and then we all looking forward for some great lens reviews in 2025.
Chris, you put a clip of the Canon 70-200 instead of the 24-105 f2.8 in the beginning
Oops! Haha, they look almost exactly the same.
Yes and then wrote 24-105 for the zoom category. but doesnt really matter :) great job !
Thanks for all your efforts Chris.
Thanks!
Thanks for the support!
Thank you for your effort! Really love your work. Helped me a lot! Keep up doing what you are doing!
Many thanks Chris, your work is so helpful.
Thank you! Was looking forward to this video!
I would love to see some retro/modern comparison videos. (Old EF 24-105 to RF 24-105, for example)… also just for fun!
God bless you and your family,love the show,thanks for sharing.
well done this year, I always use your videos when thinking of purchasing a new lens
Thanks for all your videos Christopher, always well made, and unbiased. Season's greetings and happy holidays.
cries in Canon RF
Laughs in $70 adapter....
Regards from Costa Rica, I just recommend your chanel to a friend of mine to get an unbiased review, very professional and direct to the subject, there is not bla bla in your content, so the 2024 award for the cameras review goes to you!
Pura vida!🇨🇷🇨🇷🤙🤙
Thank you for your work Mr. Frost!
You play a key part in making the art of photography enjoyable.
A quarter of an hour of fun but loads of information, beautifully delivered. Thank you, Chris!
Chris, I got really into photography about 3 years ago, and I watch your lens review videos before any purchase I ever make. Your reviews have been a god send to every lens I have ever purchased. I imagine you have saved me and my wallet a fortune with my lens addiction and the time I didn't have to spend on eBay reselling lens. I truly appreciate everything you do here! 😁 I also love that you test the lenses on full frame and apsc, but keep that R7 in the apsc rotation 😬.
Thank you for another year!
grazie a te per tutto e buone feste a tutti voi
Thank you Christopher, may God bless you.
Thank you Chris. I started photography this year after buying my first camera, and bought several lenses based upon your reviews. (And of course i haven't been disappointed!)
This was a very enjoyable video, thank you for your work and your kind words in the end. Your voice and your way of expressing your thoughts on the lenses make every new video of yours like a comfortable safe space. Thanks big time!
Awesome thanks Christopher !! Love your work
Fantastic reviews ! Thank you , always waiting for the next one !
Outstanding. Merry Xmas to you.
Great awards video, very interesting to watch!
Fujifilm 60mm f2.4. I had specific set of requirements and that lens is the diamond in the rough that filled them.
I searched for reviews on the 60mm with a silent prayer. I celebrated when I found you had given one a go. Thank you!
Thanks for all the great reviews and hard work!
I have been a fan of your work for a very long time. Your reviews are always appreciated and so is your attitude. Keep at it!
Thanks, Chris, as always!
You are a legend sir.
15ish years doing lens reviews and more making other videos here on RUclips.
Merry Christmas, Christopher!!
I pretty much don't buy a lens for my work unless you featured it. Thanks for the thorough work!
Excellent work, as always, thank you!
I think you forgot SIGMA 500mm F5.6 DG DN OS
Good one... Wonder if Fujis XF500mm will do as well as the GF :) I guess we'll know soon.
Thanks, we can all agree that it's been a pretty incredible year for glass!
Merry Christmas everyone
Lovely recap, cheers!
11:25 I appeared in a CF video for a bunch of seconds, yay!
Now I wonder if the XF version of the GFX 500mm f/5.6 will win the award again next year! I say "again" since they supposedly have the same optical formula.
🤝
Thank you for highlighting some extrordinary lenses. I have a new bucket list 😅
Couldn't wait until this video drop!!
The minidisc video was a fun watch for me! I think there's potential in a CF style "Technology Connections" channel! Would make the tedium of morning traffic more enjoyable. 😂
2:14 beautiful stained glass. Love that. ❤️
This one of the best review channels on RUclips, thanks for your great work! About the Meike 85mm 1.8, I've got one and, aside from some decentering, I found it to be a very good portrait lens, with more pleasing results than my "old" Viltrox 85mm 1.8. The autofocus on my A7RIII became way better with the latest firmware.
The same wishes to you, dear Chris!
Appreciate the hard work as always dude
I'd love to see a head to head between the Sigma 28-105 f2.8 compared directly against the Nikon Z 24-120 f4 s. The Nikon was last tested on the old test chart!
Merry Christmas dear Chris!! See you next year!!
Very good video, as always 😊
'looking forward to your next one
Many thanks and Seasons Greetings.......
Thank you for your great work. Please continue. Greetings from Ukraine.
Great channel Chris. Thanks for the work all year. I don’t comment much 🍻
I absolutely loved my minidisc players. Tiny sturdy players, great sound quality, easy to make mixtapes, essentially skipfree, what more can you say. They were just the best!
Thanks Chris
We are now to the point where the interesting lens are not for the RF mount, and they no longer care to make an EF mount version either. Thank you for the reviews sir!
Even if it isn't the absolute best in all categories, love that the Canon 24-105 f.28 holds up so well in so many ways. Overall my personal pick for best lens of 2024!
Hey Chris. Just curious,will we ever see you test out cameras/lenses in the Micro 4/3 and L-mount systems?
Thanks for your work. It is really intensive.
But it could be really good if you add another segment, 'Best Budget Lens under $1000,' which further adds sharpest, innovative, widest, telephoto zoom, etc.
It is the 7artisans lens at 5.14 not the ttartisan !!!
Awesome list. Do you think that the Sigma 8-16mm still compares well to any of the ultra wide angle lenses this year?
It is an old lens, so there will be some issues.
It's such an old lens now, wide angle lenses are generally much sharper nowadays
Isn't that 70-200 instead of 24-105 in the video ~1:40?
Chris you are by far the most thorough and trustworthy lens reviewer there is! Thank you for all the videos, it's really helpful for the entire photography community. Keep up the amazing work
The lens of my heart this year?
Voigtlander Nokton RF 40mm F1.2 !
I am not the only friend of this little champion.
🤣😂 (these are all jokes Chris. just so you know) Fanboy here! So fanboy gotta fanboy! so lemme fanboy! I don't know what's worst the fact that you said that Canon 24-105 f/2.8 didn't win the lens of the year, the fact that you didn't show the 24-105 (that's the 70-200mm f/2.8), or the fact that that lens came out in 2023 (I got one of the first copies). It's still more balanced than the 28-70 G-Master lens! So lemme put on my fanboy hat and blame the actual weight on other things like not working out!
and yes, I know you are talking about the lenses you've reviewed this year. but Fanboys gotta Fanboy!
Hello Christopher, is there a reason why when you talk about the Canon 24-105 f 2.8 L IS USM Z, you show images of the 70-200? Minute 1:36
As I mentioned down in the comments, it was just a mistake
Pls do review on ef300 2.8 mkii
Thank you
Seems you did not test the sigma 500 mm 5.6,it's an absolutely incredible lens.
He did test it
I did test it. It's great, but it was eclipsed by the other teles I tested
Did you review the Samyang Remaster Slim lenses? I couldn't find your video about it.
I got the impression Mr. Frost did not like the Canon 24-105 2.8 in his original review, one of the reasons I passed on it. In video his casts it in a more favorable light. I personally don't mind a heavy lens but image quality issues at 24mm I do have a problem with.
Is the review of Samyang Remaster Slim coming later?
Surprised that Nikon 135mm f1.8 S Plena wasn't mentioned !
You weren't listening carefully enough :-)
Supports the policy of choose your glass first and then your body!
I've used zooms for 40 years. Then I only need one lens!
I agree (unless you're doing a lot of video work, then the body is a bit more relevant of course)
@@christopherfrost
Yes. Correct. I don't do video so didn't consider that.
Choose glass first is exactly why I didn't buy the M50. No super zoom by Canon nor anyone else. Looked dead in the water the day it was released! Waited until 2022 and went from 600D + Tamron18-270 to RP + RF24-240 and lost nothing. Crop from FF 26MP better IQ than APS-C 18MP @270 x 1.6 effective!
Must say the in lens correction for jpegs is a game winner for me.
Sigma has released many excellent lenses this year, sad is nikon user never get the Z mount version
Wait...I def bought my Nikon 85mm before the Plena.....What in the time machine is going on?
Thank you, Christopher! It was entertaining to look over the fence to see what is happening in neighbors' gardens. But honestly as a lay person who owns one camera brand (Fuji) and is looking to the awards as a way to find the best lens for me in every focal length, I was disappointed to see such a jumbled mess of various brands and categories. I mean it's fun to see some bokelitious lenses out of curiosity but Nikon for 13 thousand dollars or GFX lenses are not really relevant to somebody with FX mount. I would have loved to see what are the best available options among wide and tele zoom lenses and wide, standard, portrait and tele primes for my brand, perhaps with categories for budget and splurging. Also, awards 2024 does not have to be limited to lenses than came out in 2024, because what's relevant is what is the best available, and it is actually curious to see if any old kings still reign, or if any new-comers have demoted them this year.
Lovely!
As always)
I appreciate your picks very much, but it feels weird to see end of the year awards while we're not even in December yet
Leftism was an amazing album 😍
And I still love my Sigma 30mm f2.8 DN Art Apsc lens
No Voigtlander?
I don't remember the last lens I've own that WASNT a chris frost recommend. And I've owned all the systems.
So no rf 85 1.2 and 135 1.8?
Were those lenses released and reviewed by me this year?
But I just got my Fuji 60mm macro a couple weeks ago... 🤔
There won't be reviews during the whole December? It's still November, why are we wishing Christmas things 😅
I also lost the most money on your MiniDisc videos. I'd been wanting to get into the format and it was the shove off the cliff that I needed. I bought a Sony player and a crate of miscellaneous discs that had some great listens!
Hehe. I'm getting my 5-year old daughter into MiniDiscs :-)
I will watch your mini-disc video. you tube didn't recommend it to me or I would have!!
What Haven voigtlander?
please Sigma 28/45mm F1.8!
Nikon not allowing Sigma to compete on FF is a major plus for L and E mount. Yes, Nikon's own glass is superb, but nothing quite like that zoom is available for Nikon. The massive Tamron 35-150 is as close as it gets. Sigma continues to challenge the market on value.
The end of 2024... WHAT? In my mind it`s still 2014 and shooting with my brand new canon 6d...
Hello mr Frost. I'm not native speaker, so excuse my english. Genuine question here. With lots of cameras and lenses you have been testing along you photography life/career, if you had to choose 1 lens+1 compact body for street/everyday photography what would be them?
I know you're a busy camera reviewer/youtuber. If you cant reply this then it's ok. But if you reply, I guess there is someone else who also want to know your preference.
Nice video as always. Thanks
Money no object? Fuji X100VI
Wow you actually replied to me!! That's a fun camera nice choice👍🏻. Been following your channel for a long time. You made my day man 😄😄😄
I didn´t see it yet, but I´ll give my like haha
Viltrox AF 135mm F1.8 LAB, perhaps best price-performance ratio ever?!