Gerald Brooks

I dropped one from a pants pocket onto a volcanic rock and the reversed hood completely saved it.  You must have barely exceeded the maximum fall-recovery distance.

Thanks!!  Salt air and hard light.  I had moved up shadows to my usual limit and lifted many clipped areas in the rocks.  But that was beginning to turn purple so I stopped, not realizing how a ...

I have the Samyang 24 and have shot it side by side on the a6300.  However, it is not just that the Samyang 35 on a7 is better, but also that the Samyang 24 on a7 is (1) so much smaller than the ...

But the downside is that the Samyang 24 on APS-C has a comparative DOF of f4, i.e., just over a stop slower than the Sony Zeiss 24, and is not as good of a lens as the Samyang 35 at wide apertures.

This seems hard to beat, unless any other lens would be worth the extra weight in bokeh.

If you have the 135, no need for the long end of the 24-105.  And if not underestimating what can be accomplished with the Samyang 24 and 35 pancakes, done job.  Or Voigt 21.  Changing a lens that ...

If part of the point of APS-C is to keep the form factor small and light, you can equal that by getting an a7 and Samyang 35mm f2.8 for less expense than the Sony Zeiss 24, and have better IQ.

Nice color and contrast.  Trying to understand what images to expect from this lens, across the range from boring or really nice.  These JPEG or processed in Lightroom?

Sigma 56mm wide open at MFD

A lot of nice shots!

Reminds me of when I heard an old guy say that there are two things old guys don't like -- change and the way things are.

Further to this, re item 2 - MC-11 has cost only $150 at Black Friday season and the Canon 400mm f5.6 L gets great IQ results with that; I'm guessing the long end of Canon 100-400mm L II is comparable.