More playing around with the 12mm

Just got back from vacation. Awful trip.. caught in a typhoon, horrid weather in the first few days, all my photo plans gone and when the weather became better. I was caught a bad flu and was in no mood to shoot stuffs except for family snaps.

I did however gotten to know the 12mm samyang more so posting here to share some thoughts

First of all, "autofocus" is lightning fast. Just stick it at the vertical line marking before infinity for shooting sceneries etc even at f2. Zone focussing is never simpler.

Walking around with kids full body shots... 1m@f8. Low light then have to adjust just a tiny bit. Magnified view pressing the thumbwheel helps

Most importantly.. blind selfies with the kids had never been so easy. Put the focus ring on 1/3 of the way after 0.5m to 1m and its perfect arms length focus even at f2.

Focussing aside, its sharp but not as sharp as fuji's own lenses and not so contrasty.

Below are all 12mm samyang out of camera jpegs except for some straightening.


DSCF5687 by vmwt, on Flickr

DSCF5688 by vmwt, on Flickr

DSCF5574 by vmwt, on Flickr

DSCF5478 by vmwt, on Flickr

DSCF5456 by vmwt, on Flickr

DSCF5696 by vmwt, on Flickr

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 4 2015, 03:41 PM

If its gonna be your only system camera... X-E2

If its gonna be your "mojo" camera when you already have a dslr with a bunch of lenses sitting in the dry cabinet... then X100S

12mm dof is huge so unless ur shooting really really near, don't really need to adjust focus actually.

Phase detection, Wifi, another stop of exposure compensation.

It depends on how much these are worth to you. Not sure if later firmware improved the EVF refresh rates though

Buy buy buy

My only "complain" is that I wish it were f2.0 instead. The MFD don't bother me.

Fuiyoh.. Pic spam mana?

More Samyang loving.. who say cannot shoot moving subject?

Random strangers
DSCF5956 by vmwt, on Flickr

Random doggy blind date
DSCF5953 by vmwt, on Flickr

Tamsui's famous Ah Geh
DSCF5976 by vmwt, on Flickr

Tamsui riverside (shot through dirty glass)
DSCF5981 by vmwt, on Flickr

Not like anyone's gonna use Fuji for videos.

What do you guys think bout the 35mm f2?

Would you lose 1 stop of light for faster AF and weather sealing?

Look smaller but its only 0.5cm shorter.

Ebay berlambak.

I went to Shenzen last week and jalan jalan-ed.

DSCF6450 by vmwt, on Flickr

DSCF6440 by vmwt, on Flickr

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DSCF6481 by vmwt, on Flickr

DSCF6478 by vmwt, on Flickr

IMAG1367 by vmwt, on Flickr

What's the point of mirrorless if ur gonna put on a 600gram lens

Yup... after that add battery grip cos feel tak balance.

Back to square one.

Giler.... poison mask also ineffective.

I already got the 1.4. That's the problem.

Faster AF
Sharper corners

vs

1 stop faster
optically corrected
no need to spend more $$

Another thought is to wait for Xpro2. If the f2 is part of the kit, then it should fall dramatically in price.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Nov 17 2015, 09:54 AM

The skies too much cyan di.

Saturation too high di.

You bring tripod everywhere?