 So I'm filming right now on a GH5 with this new lens right here. This is and I'm in intelligent auto mode So everything is auto. Let's see how it's going with the autofocus and everything. This is the new lens a to 18 So hello, so who are you? Hey, I'm coming last minute again. Okay. I've met you before right? Yeah, we're gonna start talking so we got a little friend of a cowl here, but no talk about cows We need to check this new lens. There's a people excited about a to 18 Because it's super wide so primarily with our lenses again The fact is we listen to our customers and we wanted to get something really wide and to kind of show people what our cameras are Really capable of this is a super wide angle lens. It's 8 to 18 mil. It's the Leica It's really sharp. So awesome for a kind of night street photography as per photography. It's weather sealed So really nice piece of kit. Is this for video blogging or not like the stuff that I do probably not really but to be fair You know with the fact that it is such a good piece of glass and it's so smooth You could easily use it for video. There isn't a problem using it now. How do you feel? It looks very in focus right now? I mean what I can see right here because and There's no dual is in this because you don't need it for so such a wide lens Well particularly the fact is that you know, this isn't it's the same as it's not a constant 2.8 It's about size and weight We didn't want to make a really big heavy lens that people are just not going to use again So it's about having it compact to get in the very best optics, but but bear in mind that we've got the body Stabilization so you're only at 8 to 18 so you don't need a long reach or you're not going to have a long reach So therefore you don't really need the stabilization. You've got it in camera. So you don't need it in the lens So I'm fully zoomed in right now. I'm moving around the cab moving around you just handheld This sensor stabilization of the GH5 is mind-blowing. Oh, it's so good, right? No rigs or anything else needed handheld, but you can just run around with it Let's try to do some sweet cinematic walk where I follow you. Okay. I'll tell you what let's hop into the center Yeah, so we actually did the lens show here in London. It's the Wex lens show and they do it every year We came down last year and we're here again this year. It's been a massive success You know, we love interacting with the people we love bringing brand new kit This is an exclusive on the 8 to 18 and you know, we've brought it down so people can see it here first It's important that people kind of keep abreast of what's happening within the industry, but we give exclusives We're not just going to go to the big shows and you know the Wex lens show here in London is a big deal for Wex It's a big deal for the industry That's why we bring this kit and we show them First here. What is this place here? Looks crazy. It's all right. It's um, this is the design sensor So, you know, it's all about design where London was designed not where London was designed that'd be mad Let me show you the show come this way So the lens show it's a cool show about cameras. It's about all right cameras. It's about kit It's about the latest products. They're kind of getting all the manufacturers here with us. Um, we've got everyone that come down from Sony Nikon and everyone else but we're the people that are bringing brand new kit to the show We're the people that are actually showing world exclusives here And that's with the 8 to 18 you have you've had a pretty busy couple months, right? I've been crazy busy, you know What are people doing here? They're actually buying the This is Wex photographic Wex photographic actually bring down kits So they've got hundreds of thousands of pounds of a stock that they've brought So you can actually come down and buy the kit here So you can come down see it as an exclusive And then you can come to the tills and actually purchase So you don't have to go away and think about it. You can actually buy it here at the show Okay, so we can actually see there's a bunch of gh5 there or no more stock, right? We sold out we sold out, but you know, we're not going to grumble at that But there is anamorphic lenses. We've got lots of people upstairs downstairs We've got a stand out at the back. You know, we're not afraid to kind of bring our kit down and show people Absolutely what it's capable of and let people get hands on with it. Come have a look at the stand. It's just down this way right So, um, how you doing with that stabilization? You doing okay? Yeah. Yeah. I mean the I was a little bit disappointed that they didn't have dual is this lens But for sure it wouldn't even work right because it's very very wide. It's very wide and the fact that, you know, again It's only there for under 36 mil. You don't need your life. You only need stabilization on one form It's pointless overworking something just for the sake of it All right, let's go uh to your booth. Let's check it out. So here we are just at our stand As you can see we've got a whole breakfast. It feels a little bit like deja vu this video. I know, right? Who are we going to start talking about as we keep meeting up like this? But every time you know that we've got something new So the last time we had the gh5 brand new and now I've got a lens to go on that's brand new as well And this one this video. I'm happy. It's not flickering right now. So what do you do to my settings? So you want to film in 60p the phone with 60p is when you get any lights or anything else It goes out of sync. So what I've done is I've changed that to 50p for you So you shouldn't be getting any flickering at all That's right. Yeah. Yeah, I'm using the new just bought today the Saramonic uw mic 9 so we have a dual lav wireless So that's the sound hopefully the sound is okay. I think for video blogging. It's actually quite cool to have a very wide It the point is you know, particularly if you're shooting in 4k and you only want hd content if you shoot really wide You can then crop down to hd. So when you've got four times the resolution of hd You can crop down see you're doing second cameras things like this. So if you shoot really wide You can crop down so it looks like you had more than one camera at the event And I would say I'm a little bit big as a person. It makes people slimmer, right? Well, I'm hoping so When I watch this video back, I'll be holding you responsible if I don't know really slim. No, no, you is perfect I'm just saying, uh, okay. Let's check here the booth. Uh, I was I was trying out the Uh, can we grab this one? So, yeah, let's grab this one. What do you think about this lens here 42.5? 42.5 is one of my favorite lenses for portrait. It's an absolutely beautiful lens So you want portrait work or anything like that and you want to use ambient lighting Absolutely brilliant. It gives you a really nice shallow depth of field. You're a really good bokeh effect How does that work? How can it be so much bokeh in this lens? What is the science in there? 1.2 and it's about the glass, you know, you can see from this lens here the amount of glass It's involved again. It's one of our premium Leica lenses if we have this standard 42.5 You'll notice it's a much smaller lens in its body So we're looking at Leica, Leica, three big Leica lenses It's like a story, right? It's 12 to 60, which is also the big seller, right? Let's go over the Leica 1260. Is that the most demanded one for the GH5? The GH5 12 to 60 Leica kit is our most demanded kit. It's quite funny really because we knew that videographers were going to be after this So we kind of expected to be with the bike body only and use historical glass And actually because of the quality of the 12 to 60 Cells of outstrip demand hugely So, you know, we're actually struggling to keep up, but we'll keep fighting through because it's a nice battle to have Nice So this has been an official announcement that there's going to be a bunch of firmware updates, right? There's going to be a autofocus improvement Well, to be fair, we constantly improve every aspect of our cameras using firmware updates We've already done one, so anyone that's got a GH5 should already have 1.1 installed on their GH5s If not, go on to the website download it and update your GH5 to 1.1 1.1 added something with full hd, no? That's right. Yeah only with full hd The point is, you know, there are often little tiny tweaks within an update That we kind of don't shout about because they're only minor improvements But it's important that everyone just updates each time we do a firmware update Uh, all right, and it's easy to update just go on the website download it onto a small sd card Put it into your camera press play and away it goes the updates itself So how much demand is there for this new lens the 8 to 18 is going to be a blockbuster a good Well, we're hoping so we're hoping so You know, we're chasing the whole dream of having very high quality glass And that's what it's all about because you have they're here the somewhere that You have the the 7 to 14, right? What's the difference between the 7 to 14 lumix and the 8 to It's the quality of the glass. So, you know, primarily this is a very very good quality glass And we all know that if you to get one glass one lens that has average quality glass and another one that has exceptional quality glass The image at the end is hugely improved. So if you look at the 42.5, we do two of them Um, and the not to chron is an amazing lens So primarily that's the reason why it's the portrait photographer's choice How is uh This lens, how is it in the corners as people are talking about the corners have to be sharp or what? How does it work? Well, that's why we use Leica So Leica basically will tell us if we've getting any kind of aberrations or any kind of issues at the edge of the glass And they'll work it through and will we basically feed back to them? And when it's perfect, then we release it and that's what we've done. And so it's perfect. It has a As a hood hood. So does it lock in like the the nice new way? Absolutely So you've got you know, but on there that's your release and then you just completely remove it And as you can see on the front there, it's got it's fully threaded. So if you want to fit any kind of filters Yeah I just clicked by mistake the display button. So it turned off my viewfinder. Okay. So I'm still there Yeah, so you've got a fully thread on there. Are we going to fit any filters or anything else that you need? So you can put filters. Yeah, ND. Is that what people want? Yep ND filters. What else is there? And well primarily that's what they'll use it are ND filters more than anything else purely or heavy filters if you want to dial down to stop or so if you want to do long exposures during the day You can fit filters for that. So, you know, even if you go minus five stop filter, so they're really dark But you're going to do a really long exposure All right, so Um, is there going to be more kits or there's always more kit more kits like uh, when people buy the lens Get a discount. Oh, they buy GH5 with the 8 to 18. There's no kits yet No, no and primarily that probably won't happen But there's always going to be, you know Things in the pipeline and if a demand is there and we get asked enough then obviously it is something that we can think about But currently the 12 to 60 is a really good range. You know, it's equivalent of 120 mil So it's a good focal length and you can get it in two different qualities So whether you want it as a standard kit lens or you want the life of quality You can go either way as a as a kit. So now I'm tracking focus Half press half shutter press. I'm not sure if I need to do that But basically I'm just clicking once in a while on your face if I get out And it seems to track very good. I'm zooming in right now. I'm going to zoom out again And uh, so it should people should be happy about this lens, I guess Yeah, I mean the lens is good and you know as far as being able to hand hold the camera and run around like we have Realistically it's you know a thing that people should embrace. Let's let's go back over here There is a There's a 12 to 35. Is that the mark two? Yes. So That's a constant 2.8. It is. I mean it's brighter than the Leica Um, well, it's constant 2.8. So primarily out there far in but as you can see from the size of the glass You know, you are gaining a lot of glass on here compared to the 12 to 60. I mean Compared to the 12 to 16 slightly slightly. Yeah, so that means when you fully wide it's brighter than the other way Yeah, yep, but you're then going to have the trade-off of you know, the Leica glass is incredibly good glass So 12 to 35 we also do the 35 to 100 and these are the mark two versions. So these are the reworked Um, which work better when you're videoing. So when you're stepping down Um, and they also work better with the dual is because they've been built for that purpose Can we quickly check the g-series? Uh, there's a story about uh, you have uh, Is this the new super compact one? Yeah, so this is the gx 800 The gx 100 is very similar to the gx 80 apart from what we've done as you can see on the back is to remove the viewfinder So remove the viewfinder because not everybody wants one and the fact is that if you don't want one You don't need to carry one. So it's much smaller On there. We've also got our compact 12 to 32. So it's a collapsible um 12 to 32 lens So what it actually does is it extends out Nice And we've also put a hinge So you are not fully articulated, but it's definitely very handy It's very affordable if you want to do you want to do selfies I wish it had a little microphone input Okay, okay. Otherwise, it's fantastic. You're full of wishes. You're full of wishes. Yeah, I have lots of wishes And do what I'm talking about. No need for that. Okay, that's great. This is very affordable, right? Yeah, it's really cheap. Uh, you know, you're looking around the 500 pounds mark Um, so it's basically if you want the quality of a micro four thirds camera Um, and you want the Benefit of a large sensor in a very compact camera. This is the size of a compact camera Let's put the 8 to 18 on that one The 8 to 18 that's not particularly exciting What we could do is you could right we could any any micro four thirds. So why aren't we stupid? No, that's not stupid. It's fairly stupid And we can just throw a 300 mil which is the equivalent of a 600 mil lens. Well Cool. So, uh, there's lots of uh, lots of cameras Lots of cameras, lots of fun, you know people should come down and see us. It's a very cool thing