Photography (10 Viewers)

[DAiDEViL]

Have you thought about a fixed focal lenght before?

If you run through your pics, at what focal lenght are most of your pics taken at? If you use wideangle often, the manual lenses of Samyang are great. You should look into some chinese companies like 7 Artisans as well. They are good too, not only for the money.

Other then that, I can't help much, I'm not up to date with lenses for Sony anymore

For portraits the sony 50mm 1.8 is quite cheap though iirc. The Viltrox lenses are great as well, they too come with E-Mount iirc.

 

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[Nzoric]

I rarely, if ever, zoom on my kit lens. Usually I would prefer to have even wider than 16mm. Maybe that would be a good idea - get the side sigma and play around.


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[DAiDEViL]

I own the TT Artisan 17 1.4 and it's pretty excellent. It comes for e-mount too and goes for like €139.

 

[Nzoric]

How much of a hassle is manual focus? Honestly :biggrin:


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[DAiDEViL]

How much of a hassle is manual focus? Honestly :biggrin:

On wideangle? Zero.

If you use it for buildings and shit you probably stop it down to 5.6 or even more. Just focus to infinity and the entire frame is sharp.

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Btw if you want a wider one, Sooooo many people use the Samyang 12mm 2.0.
It goes for like €290. I'd really look into getting a manual one for wideangle.

You save so much money because autofocus really isn't needed at that focal lenght imo. You'd get used to it quick.

 

[Nzoric]

I own the TT Artisan 17 1.4 and it's pretty excellent. It comes for e-mount too and goes for like €139.

Bought the 17mm and 50mm for e-mount. Lets see what they can do

 

[DAiDEViL]

Cool, really can't go wrong with them imo.

Have fun!

 

[Nzoric]

Thanks for the help! I'm going to Sarajevo from the 11th to 18th and I really hope to have the lenses by then :biggrin:

 

[DAiDEViL]

Hopefully manual focus works out for you

But it's easier than you'd think with the focus peaking feature on modern mirrorless cameras. You should get used to it rather quick.

 

[DAiDEViL]

Thought this one looked cool. Moss on a dead tree.

 

[Nzoric]

Thought this one looked cool. Moss on a dead tree.

Looks really great!


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[Siamak]

Pink Lake-Chabahar-Iran

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[DAiDEViL]

Looking at that, glad I picked the Fuji 70-300 over the Tamron super zoom @s4tch


Gladly give up on the extra focal lenght and bring a 2nd lens for it.

 

[DAiDEViL]

Did you get your lenses? @Nzoric

 

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[Dostoevsky]

@DAiDEViL which lens would you recommend for street distance photography? What's your budget recommendation

 

[DAiDEViL]

@DAiDEViL which lens would you recommend for street distance photography? What's your budget recommendation

Meh, first I gotta say I'm not all THAT familiar with lenses for Canon ef mount. So not quite sure what all exists out there.

But that's always a personal preference thing anyway and comes down to what you like to shoot.

Maybe look around for cheap EF zoom lenses?

i mean, biggest advantage you have with your system is that there are tons of lenses out there, since the EF mount has been around forever.

 

[Nzoric]

Did you get your lenses? @Nzoric

I got them and only had time to test them for a few minutes before putting them away.

The feature that I looked at online, before purchasing, doesn't seem to work. It disables all focus help when I put on the lens, including the feature I thought I'd use.

 

[DAiDEViL]

I got them and only had time to test them for a few minutes before putting them away.

The feature that I looked at online, before purchasing, doesn't seem to work. It disables all focus help when I put on the lens, including the feature I thought I'd use.

Hmmm...Focus peaking and magnification still are going to work. What else did you want to use?

 

[Nzoric]

Hmmm...Focus peaking and magnification still are going to work. What else did you want to use?

I forgot what its called, but a video I saw had some sort white lines going over the objects in focus. Can't locate it on my camera, but I've only tried for 15min. :biggrin: