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RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,418
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Have a piece of cheesecake, or pecan pie (Lidl, in the frozen section; highly recommend), and play some chess...

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m100 Senior Member • Posts: 2,048
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Nice !

Looks like you got one of those fast manual focus lenses.

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Larry Rexley Senior Member • Posts: 1,238
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RLight wrote:

Have a piece of cheesecake, or pecan pie (Lidl, in the frozen section; highly recommend), and play some chess...

Nice images. I too am curious to find out what lens(es) you were shooting with, if you don't mind to share that information.

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OP RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,418
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Larry Rexley wrote:

RLight wrote:

Have a piece of cheesecake, or pecan pie (Lidl, in the frozen section; highly recommend), and play some chess...

Nice images. I too am curious to find out what lens(es) you were shooting with, if you don't mind to share that information.

Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 (MF)

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nice captures ... how are you liking the new lens?  miss auto focus?

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OP RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,418
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JRET wrote:

nice captures ... how are you liking the new lens? miss auto focus?

Manual focus forces you to compose, think, slow down. You do miss some shots, but, you also don't deal with shutter shock impacting IS, or AF miss, either, which those never happen on the M6 Mark II

Quality vs quantity...

It's actually refreshing. Requires some practice, which I have plenty from former Rokinon use...

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MAC Forum Pro • Posts: 18,487
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RLight wrote:

Quality vs quantity...

^ this

finally seeing the light

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R2D2 Forum Pro • Posts: 26,530
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It took me a bit to figure out what "In other news" really meant, but after reading your other recent post I see now.  Best of luck with that one.

Looks like you found a new toy!  Interesting effect. Nice!

What method of focus are you using?

R2

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Photato Veteran Member • Posts: 3,152
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Great pictures.

Did not know about this 21mm lens.
If only had AF I'd buy it in a heart beat.

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Rick T-137 Junior Member • Posts: 34
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RLight wrote:

JRET wrote:

nice captures ... how are you liking the new lens? miss auto focus?

Manual focus forces you to compose, think, slow down. You do miss some shots, but, you also don't deal with shutter shock impacting IS, or AF miss, either, which those never happen on the M6 Mark II

Quality vs quantity...

It's actually refreshing. Requires some practice, which I have plenty from former Rokinon use...

I find this as well. I often put my old FD 50mm f/1.8 on my M50. Not only does the manual focus slow me down, but the fixed length forces me to move around to compose my shots. If I'm just wandering around taking pictures, this is my preferred method.

I also like to take pics of wildlife, and for that I use an AF zoom lens (natch!).

Rick

PS: Awesome pictures!

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OP RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,418
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Photato wrote:

Great pictures.

Did not know about this 21mm lens.
If only had AF I'd buy it in a heart beat.

Viltrox makes a 25mm AF, but, the contrast and resolution go south wide open. The Rokinon has strong contrast and resolution even wide open. It's MF though. This really gets into the glass... Adding an AF motor means there is more girth to a lens (as something has to drive it). By going full MF, the lens can contain more glass by volume, and be more optimized potentially. There's just no two ways about this.

I can actually say the Rokinon's, the 21 f/1.4 and 50mm f/1.2 produce some of the most unique stuff. But, they require practice, and yes, you'll miss shots. However the bokeh drawing, resolution and contrast, in addition to color rendering, are phenomenal. Really top notch. They rival "Goliath", my RF 28-70 f/2L. The benefit of the Rokinons is they can accompany my bag of small M glass. The drawback is manual focus. However again, manual focus itself is an art, and therapy if you will.

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Bas Hamstra Senior Member • Posts: 2,070
Looks great!

Silky smooth bokeh, looks great! I have been looking around for a superfast MF for my MFT camera, like the 25/F0.95 ones. So the Rokinon that's 44/F2.2 (eq) that's a little faster than the 40/2.8 pancake on full frame I shot today. Not bad at all.

I have been looking at the Mitakon 25/F0.95, it's small and light and MF but not exactly cheap.

Are you saying that MF can potentially be optically better?

Kind regards,

Bas

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Have a piece of cheesecake, or pecan pie (Lidl, in the frozen section; highly recommend), and play some chess...

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arrow501 Senior Member • Posts: 1,030
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Lovely shots. Good composions and colours and the bokeh is nice and smooth. The EXIF says Lightroom 5.5, are they jpegs or did you convert to DNGs?

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OP RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,418
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Bas Hamstra wrote:

Silky smooth bokeh, looks great! I have been looking around for a superfast MF for my MFT camera, like the 25/F0.95 ones. So the Rokinon that's 44/F2.2 (eq) that's a little faster than the 40/2.8 pancake on full frame I shot today. Not bad at all.

I have been looking at the Mitakon 25/F0.95, it's small and light and MF but not exactly cheap.

Are you saying that MF can potentially be optically better?

Potentially? Heh, it bests my RF glass in terms of sheer optical quality. Then again it is a prime lens, a manual focus prime lens. Doubly sharp.

Kind regards,

Bas

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Have a piece of cheesecake, or pecan pie (Lidl, in the frozen section; highly recommend), and play some chess...

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OP RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,418
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arrow501 wrote:

Lovely shots. Good composions and colours and the bokeh is nice and smooth. The EXIF says Lightroom 5.5, are they jpegs or did you convert to DNGs?

These were RAW > LR > JPEG. No 3-way trip this round.

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arrow501 Senior Member • Posts: 1,030
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RLight wrote:

arrow501 wrote:

Lovely shots. Good composions and colours and the bokeh is nice and smooth. The EXIF says Lightroom 5.5, are they jpegs or did you convert to DNGs?

These were RAW > LR > JPEG. No 3-way trip this round.

Thank you. When I saw Lightroom 5.5 in the EXIF I thought you were using the old perpetual license version, sorry my mistake, the last version of that was 5.7. I wish Adobe would differentiate between it's products better

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Larry Rexley Senior Member • Posts: 1,238
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RLight wrote:

Photato wrote:

Great pictures.

Did not know about this 21mm lens.
If only had AF I'd buy it in a heart beat.

Viltrox makes a 25mm AF, but, the contrast and resolution go south wide open. The Rokinon has strong contrast and resolution even wide open. It's MF though. This really gets into the glass... Adding an AF motor means there is more girth to a lens (as something has to drive it). By going full MF, the lens can contain more glass by volume, and be more optimized potentially. There's just no two ways about this.

I can actually say the Rokinon's, the 21 f/1.4 and 50mm f/1.2 produce some of the most unique stuff. But, they require practice, and yes, you'll miss shots. However the bokeh drawing, resolution and contrast, in addition to color rendering, are phenomenal. Really top notch. They rival "Goliath", my RF 28-70 f/2L. The benefit of the Rokinons is they can accompany my bag of small M glass. The drawback is manual focus. However again, manual focus itself is an art, and therapy if you will.

Yes - yes - I agree that sometimes using manual focus lenses is a good activity that forces more 'mindfulness' into your photography. It can be therapeutic and improve your photography skills and your images.

In most situations, I shoot nearly all my stills and video with the cameras set on 'manual' exposure mode, so I am always choosing the aperture and shutter speed and let the ISO float in a narrow range. Using manual focus is the 'completion' of that -- attaining total manual control over the image parameters.

Some of the lenses I use relatively frequently are manual focus lenses: the Laowa 9mm f2.8, Rokinon 12mm f2.8, Rokinon 135mm f2.0, and Rokinon 8mm f2.8 fisheye, I'm quite used to using those lenses differently than the AF lenses.

AFter doing some testing, you learn what the settings are that give you the desired depth of field (usually for landscapes or cityscapes, but can be for other subjects, like in my case approaching trains) and you can set the proper focus priecisely and quickly using the manual scale. AF in those circumstances isn't going to figure out the desired depth of field for your distance range and subject - and so it won't do what you can do in a split-second with a manual focus setting on a well-engineered MF lens.

For the wide-angle lenses, in many situations (night photography, astrophotography) manual focus is actually preferred --- faster and dead accurate when you know the lens. Manual focus becomes a natural habit when using those wide lenses.

For longer lenses like the Rokinon 135mm f2.0 and other 'vintage' lenses I use from time to time, it certainly is a much more conscious effort I've been shooting night video with the Roki 135 a lot lately mostly because nothing else I have can do the job and I don't want to spend a small fortune for a fast AF tele lens. Although I'm getting good results with the Roki, I'm also getting some focus 'misses' - so definitely some compromises there.

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