theworstphotographerontheinternet

Yes, it might be nice to see the bike on a trail or something, giving an idea of the journey you might use it to go on. (This isn't a very original suggestion, I realise!)

Short answer: yes. Long answer: it depends on the style you're going for. Personally I think I'd find the field of view a bit too tight, I might go for something closer to 30mm. But YMMV, as they say.

I don't think that buying cheap optics could reasonably be construed as support for Chinese politics. And if it could, then there wouldn't be many countries that we wo uld be able to buy from in ...

Taken with A5100/Samyang 12mm. I was out early for a very cold and muddy walk yesterday, but it was lovely and sunny for a change!

I often listen to music while I'm walking around with (or without) my camera, and I guess it influences my creativity insofar as it influences my mood, which in turn influences the kind of shots I ...

I hope Sony is listening to this...😆

I don't know if this really counts as cleaning, but I'll give it a quick blast with an air blower every once in a while. That seems to be all it ever needs.

I can see why you might sometimes want to work within the confines of an established genre, if your aim in so doing is to impose some "creative constraints" on what you're doing (in the same way ...

No, I don't think it would. I use a six year old, aps-c camera and I don't have any expensive lenses. Spending thousands on new gear would, I imagine, yield some improvement in the photos I take, ...

I think your style is something that finds you, rather than the other way around. Keep shooting and it'll happen.

Great shots!

Okay, so the thread there gets hijacked by a (not very edifying) political discussion. And certainly you could argue that that isn't the place for those sorts of discussion. But I construed the ...

I don't really see this as an intermingling of politics and photography, just as someone (tacitly) expressing a political view on a photography forum. That's an important difference, imo.

No way. Politics is everywhere. If photography wasn't allowed to be political, then the sphere of what it was acceptable to photograph would shrink enormously. And if we weren't allowed to ...

I think that DR can matter, and that your jpegs might look better, but that both of those things depend on how you're editing your raw files. If you're only using straight-out-of-camera jpegs, I'd ...

The phenomenon you're describing here sounds like a case of field curvature, which is a fairly commonplace flaw in lenses like this one. I don't think you're likely to get a significantly better ...

I think the thought which you're driving at here is that the same lens on a cropped sensor body will allow you to get closer to your subject than it would on a full-frame camera (because it will ...

I didn't realise there was more than one! Might need to do some more research!

Hi everyone, I'm thinking of buying one of these lenses to use on my Sony A5100, but I'm not sure if would it be something I'd want to carry around a lot. My largest lens is currently 100mm x 66mm ...

I agree, they're so much fun! As lots of people have pointed out, they aren't always the best tool for the job. But for what I shoot, I find myself using MF most of the time.