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Wide Angle Lens - opinions please

Started Mar 14, 2019 | Discussions thread
ViMa
ViMa Senior Member • Posts: 2,150
Re: Wide Angle Lens - opinions please
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RivkiLocker wrote:

oscarvdvelde wrote:

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.

fuji needs to make a 12f2 or 2.8 lens!

I don't think they ever will. The samyang has taken place as a semi-Fuji lens and for people who really want AF there's always the Zeiss. If Fuji made a 12mm lens, it would have to be at least as good as the samyang at a very similar price. It sounds more likely to me they'll make that 10mm they mentioned in that Dubai summit.

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Vittorio
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