Few of my recent photos from NYC trip (NX500)

bancika · May 14, 2019

I'll do a few pics per post, grouped by location. To kick it off, the new (to me) "structure" called Vessel in the Hudson Yards

noncho · May 14, 2019

Great shots!

otto k · May 14, 2019

I love it when the real world architecture looks like CGI

great shots as always!

P. S. Man, that 10mm. The more images I see the more I want it... Unfortunately, the same goes for 12-24.

bancika · May 15, 2019

CraigVMN · May 19, 2019

Really nice pics!

Kinger · May 19, 2019

Beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing.

I'm headed to NCY in a month for the first time in 30 years. I’m very excited! Did you find that you used the 12-24 lens the most?

otto k · May 19, 2019

Not to hijack the thread, but since you have both 12-24 (and you seem to prefer the 12mm end) and 10mm what are your thoughts on 12mm vs 10mm?

I can not get 12-24 here but there are both NX 10mm and Samyang 12/2 for sale and I'm having a hard time deciding between the two.

bancika · May 20, 2019

Kinger said:
Beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing.

I'm headed to NCY in a month for the first time in 30 years. I’m very excited! Did you find that you used the 12-24 lens the most?

Thanks. I used 12-24, 30mm and 45mm the most...although the latter two mostly for portraits. Will post few of those later today when I get to my pc

bancika · May 20, 2019

otto k said:
Not to hijack the thread, but since you have both 12-24 (and you seem to prefer the 12mm end) and 10mm what are your thoughts on 12mm vs 10mm?

I can not get 12-24 here but there are both NX 10mm and Samyang 12/2 for sale and I'm having a hard time deciding between the two.

I got the 10mm first and used it a lot until I got the 12-24. Now I barely use it...mostly because of the distortion. If I need to go wider than 12mm I just shoot 4, 6 or 9 shots and merge to panorama with better chance of having reasonable geometry. 10mm is good for a fisheye, reasonably sharp, super compact. 12-24mm I use exclusively at 12mm and it's sharper than 10mm. Although it's poorly built. The base is held by tiny screws that go into plastic and they sheer off easily when mounting on the camera or it you hit it when mounter. I bought mine broken for cheap and had it repaired...so I paid only 60 euros for it with the repair. Quite a deal. 2-3 years later it still runs.

Samyang is manual but with 12mm you could set it to f8 and hyperfocal distance and shoot most stuff like that.

otto k · May 20, 2019

Thank you

bancika · May 20, 2019

markyboy81 · May 21, 2019

bancika said:
otto k said:

Not to hijack the thread, but since you have both 12-24 (and you seem to prefer the 12mm end) and 10mm what are your thoughts on 12mm vs 10mm?

I can not get 12-24 here but there are both NX 10mm and Samyang 12/2 for sale and I'm having a hard time deciding between the two.

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I got the 10mm first and used it a lot until I got the 12-24. Now I barely use it...mostly because of the distortion. If I need to go wider than 12mm I just shoot 4, 6 or 9 shots and merge to panorama with better chance of having reasonable geometry. 10mm is good for a fisheye, reasonably sharp, super compact. 12-24mm I use exclusively at 12mm and it's sharper than 10mm. Although it's poorly built. The base is held by tiny screws that go into plastic and they sheer off easily when mounting on the camera or it you hit it when mounter. I bought mine broken for cheap and had it repaired...so I paid only 60 euros for it with the repair. Quite a deal. 2-3 years later it still runs.

Samyang is manual but with 12mm you could set it to f8 and hyperfocal distance and shoot most stuff like that.

Although it's worth noting that Samsung fixed the build quality issues with that lens by using metal for the mounting.

bancika · May 22, 2019

55-200mm is my newest addition and it can be useful. It's not as sharp as my prime lenses or the 12-24 (at 12mm), but it's reasonably sharp. I picked few monkey shots ranging from 130 up to 200mm and I think it's possible to tell that it's better around 130mm...but still usable on max zoom.