wayne seltzer wrote:
Of course those wanting this lens for stopped down landscape shooting might wait now for their T/s 24.
I don't know. They haven't announced the T/S version
I think I'll stay with my 24 order. Call it opportunity cost.
Would rather be taking pics with the 24 then thinking about taking pics with the T/S
Samyang also confirmed they delayed the release of the 24mm 1.4 to improve it's optical quality wide open. (see their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/fotogears)
I guess there will be two different versions in the wild as the first batch was already shipped. I hope they will distinguish them.
btw this company is really cool, you just have to ask them on facebook and they will honestly answer your questions.. I wish other photo gear manufacturers would do that too.
They really need to post some new pictures with the recently improved version of the lens and dump the old pictures which may no longer valid.
I am really surprised by how quickly they tweaked this lens. I wonder what they did to improve wide open performance?
dswiger wrote:
My Rokinon 24 arrived yesterday.
First shots look very good, but will follow up with some testing.
I only intend on using it at 5.6- 16 mostly.
Dan
The question arises why you don't buy a slower lens (like an Olympus 24/2.8 for example) then?
Because of my very good experience with the Rokinon 35/1.4, especially across the whole frame, borders/edges.
The sharpness, MTF results are right there with the Canon primes.
So when the 24 was announced, I decided to give it a try.
I hesitated a bit with some of the first shots shown,
but decided to take a chance at being an early adopter
My 1st shots seem to show similar performance to the 35.
Also, having f1.4 there for the asking makes it a stronger proposition.
Although I rarely shoot that wide, now that I have primes the are that fast,
I have done some lo-light stuff that I didn't have the tools for before
Sp12 wrote:
28 and 135 are two "dead for digital" focal lenghts. They used to be in everyone's kit, now we rarely if ever see them.
If the 28mm FL has fallen out of favor then that's the perfect reason to start using it again.... thanks for the reminder. I have the Zeiss 28 for the Leica and a Nikkor 28mm f/2 for my 1Ds that have been neglected lately.
Also, if I remember correctly, Canon makes a 135mm that I used to play with that seemed like a pretty good lens.
Your copy looks decentered to me, esp. in the 2nd shot (bottom left corner is in focus, bottom right corner blurred and some blurring at the left edge).
Other than that it looks not bad at all. I'd test your lens at a few wider apertures though -- that will really reveal decentering issues.
Yep, I will do some more in the field testing at all f-stops on Monday.
Looks like this is going back to B&H.
I imagine they take the next off the shelf & I try again.
AhamB wrote:
Your copy looks decentered to me, esp. in the 2nd shot (bottom left corner is in focus, bottom right corner blurred and some blurring at the left edge).
Other than that it looks not bad at all. I'd test your lens at a few wider apertures though -- that will really reveal decentering issues.
Yep, I saw the same thing. Center and middle look great (outstanding really), left side is soft. I actually noticed it in the first shot right off.
All the better reason to use Amazon instead of B&H, as Amazon pays the return shipping on defective items (and I'd certainly consider a decentered lens to be defective).
Just got my next copy from B&H.
BTW, at least on exchange, they cover shipping
I just did a quick field test and will take a very close look tonite.
Then I will put up my lens/pattern test board & get picky
