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Wide Angle Lens - opinions please

Started Mar 14, 2019 | Discussions thread
oscarvdvelde Senior Member • Posts: 1,421
Re: Wide Angle Lens - opinions please
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RivkiLocker wrote:

I owned the 16 and found it too long in some shooting situations. I loved the lens but sold it and got the 12mm rokinon. The 12mm was an excellent focal length for me but I didn’t get along with the manual focus and just sold it. It’s ironic because I own about 15 vintage lenses and love using them. But for wide angle, I found manual focusing fussy. Even when shooting distant scenes and landscapes, I did not find I could just set it infinity. I had to find the sweet spot, and focus peaking is harder to see with a wide lens. (My experience anyway). There’s just so much going on in the viewfinder, I couldn’t find focus well

This is my main issue with the Samyang 12mm as well. I could not rely on magnified focus tool nor focus peaking to get accurate focus. If I did get accurate focus, then the corners were still quite mushy.

But I agree that focal length is sweet.

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