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Re: What's a good price for the 12-24?
foot wrote:
Nevada Landscapes wrote:
eilivk wrote:
Nevada Landscapes wrote:
Despite moving to another brand of full-frame cameras, I still keep my NX500 because no other ASP-C compact can touch it. I do a lot of backpacking where volume and weight are important and the NX500 with the 12-24mm is the smallest and lightest crop sensor camera with an ultrawide angle perspective available. In fact, it is still ranked #2 on the DXO ASP-C list after all these years. Are the other manufacturers not even trying? I can only wonder how awesome a second gen. NX1 or NX500 would have been!
Just wonder too. But doing ok with what I got. But as you mention the 12-24 maybe one for sale here. Not mentioned price. Read review at Ephotozine, not too good. But in real life, good enough?
My copy of the Samsung 12-24mm is better than "good enough". This lens is very sharp edge-to-edge, is light weight, uses standard filters, and is relatively cheap. What more could you ask for? I have noticed some field curvature at 12-16mm, but that is not unexpected and easy to correct. I'm not sure what you mean by "sale" and "price" as I'm not selling mine even though I own the Sony ultra-wide lens and the Zeiss Batis 18mm.
What's a good price for the 12-24?
I did a quick search and found two:
1) $399.99 - used like new
2) $498.00 - new
both a bit out of my budget atm, but i'm curious for the future. I do have the Samyang 12/0 so I got the focal length covered, but it's MF, maybe AF is worth it?
At 12/4 the DOF is pretty big anyway, at 3 feet away, 12/4 has near: 2' far: 6'
at least if I did the DOF calculator correctly'
Do you find the AF at 12/4 useful?
thanks
Manual lenses are a thing of the past. Its just waste of time. I have NX 12-24mm and I take pictures with it all the time. Absolutely fantastic lens. I have wide angle lenses for other systems (Sony a58 with Tamron 11-18mm), but the lightweight NX500+NX 12-24mm is unbeatable. It is so easy and light to travel with NX500 that my other cameras mostly collect dust. Except Pentax K-30, because it is a very erganomic camera that is a treat to use.
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