pulper11 wrote:
Thanks Photosbydlee. Now that I look at it after your post, I think you're right. On Flickr, I switched it to a version in between the two versions above and I think closer to the original. Thanks for your reply!
The Samyang lens itself produces slightly warmer and slightly more magenta images straight out of the camera. So I would suggest fixing that in post, slightly cooler and very slightly more green tint to get to to a color cast you prefer.
pulper11 wrote:
Thanks Photosbydlee. Now that I look at it after your post, I think you're right. On Flickr, I switched it to a version in between the two versions above and I think closer to the original. Thanks for your reply!
This one also looks better to me than your first edit.
About the colors, I need to edit “A lot” every Sony picture because I don’t like Sony colors. I run some comparisons with the canon 70-200 f4 and the Samyang is like 300K warmer and around +3 More in the magenta side, so I need to cool down the samyang pictures and add a bit of green to equalise.
Fred Miranda has a preset that fix the color cast and put the lens in line with his Zeiss.
zeitlos wrote:
Absolutely! I switched from Pentax to Sony a while ago. I liked a lot but never really found a lens that I could really fall in love with. At Pentax I had at least two or three lenses that were really magical. Now I finally have one that I really love for Sony: the Samyang 85 1.4 AF. So much character.
77 Ltd perchance ? That was always my favourite on a couple of K5s
numbertwo wrote:
This one also looks better to me than your first edit.
About the colors, I need to edit “A lot” every Sony picture because I don’t like Sony colors. I run some comparisons with the canon 70-200 f4 and the Samyang is like 300K warmer and around +3 More in the magenta side, so I need to cool down the samyang pictures and add a bit of green to equalise.
Fred Miranda has a preset that fix the color cast and put the lens in line with his Zeiss.
Thanks for your post! I like your pictures here on this thread. Really nice colors!
Do you have a link to the presets from Fred Miranda? I did a search and didn't come up with anything. I did come up with the following post (which does help).
Tried some at smaller apertures. This one was at 1.8, however (of course) you still can't make out details of the squirrel in the background. I like that it's just enough to know what it is behind him, but not too much.
I was wrong about the eye-af with the chipmunks. it does work, but i previously had it on the wrong focus settings. didn't know that with the A9, some focus settings won't work with eye-af. As I said, i'm still learning this system, but glad i caught this before more important pictures happen. Right now these little guys are good for practicing.
I think I'll continue with smaller apertures to see if i can get more of the faces in focus but still keep the blurred backgrounds. However, I really love the backgrounds with this lens at 1.4
also, again, the settings provided by fred miranda have really helped with my workflow with lightroom and the A9. thanks to him!
This is obviously not a great photo...what with my son just standing there with this goofy smile and his loose tooth dangling out of his face....but it just shows how good this lens is wide open. A budget 85mm f/1.4 with great rendering and this kind of sharpness wide open, at close distance, on a 60 megapixel camera:
While generally not known as a focal length good for birds, I managed to capture some of a friendly robin with this lens today. The eye-af worked very well.
Ok I’ll just post these here as well (I posted them earlier in the portraits thread). I still love my samyang 85 😊
A few from yesterday. This time I am not using my Canon profile, I used a custom-made one with my Colorchecker and Lumariver, quite basic but trying to keep skintones as accurate as possible (quite difficult with a Sony sensor). White balanced/edited on my iPad using the sidecar function of the laptop. A bit too neutral to my taste, but it's how my friend preferred them. Some might be a bit OOF as well (he thinks he looks better in slightly oof pictures as his face is less sharp xD).
Although it’s a different mount, I’m seeing nothing but positive reviews for this lens in the Canon RF Mount, even in terms of AF. It’s making me think that maybe there’s was production issues when this lens first release in FE but now they’ve fixed it. I wonder if newer copies of this FE Mount version would be as good and consistent too.
Photosbydlee wrote:
Although it’s a different mount, I’m seeing nothing but positive reviews for this lens in the Canon RF Mount, even in terms of AF. It’s making me think that maybe there’s was production issues when this lens first release in FE but now they’ve fixed it. I wonder if newer copies of this FE Mount version would be as good and consistent too.
I’ve seen a review for the RF that states that the lens is soft at 1.4. Maybe focus issues as well?
For me, after using this lens more (my latest copy) it is still missing the eyes sometimes depending on the light (like in low contrast scenes).
numbertwo wrote:
I’ve seen a review for the RF that states that the lens is soft at 1.4. Maybe focus issues as well?
For me, after using this lens more (my latest copy) it is still missing the eyes sometimes depending on the light (like in low contrast scenes).
I think I remember seeing that too, I was a bit surprised as most images I’ve seen look amazing.
I convinced myself a while ago it wasn’t worth it to swap from the Sony 85mm f/1.8 but I keep coming back to wanting this lens so I’m just waiting for a sale now (happens every few months) then I’ll finally buy it.
