This is an old, weathered barn door on a cold morning on small farm in Idaho. The weathered wood and texture with the red berries were quite beautiful. 35mm. Both color and black and white with a the third a crop.
Today I tried the 28 Simera on my a6700 for the first time, with excellent results. I like the 42mm equivalent FL, mainly for street photography with people, although today I could only stop by our local lake to get a feel for it. All shot at f/5.6, so easy for the lens, but I was rewarded very good sharpness, neutral colors, no vignetting (as expected), and essentially no chromatic aberration. From my perspective, very highly recommended if you have an APS-C Sony and you like thr focal length as much as I do. Here are a few examples... https://photos.app.goo.gl/FcQceXkBsuQVp9oW7
Alright, received the 28 yesterday, first spin today, walking & cycling camera in hand, taking no care whatsoever on detailed focus, auto-ISO aperture always 1.4
Here we go
its not sharp wide open, but I couldn't care less if it can deliver smooth-to-the-eye-results
Looking forward to further exploration with this lens
Occasionally, my wife is brave enough to take an image with a manual focus lens attached. She took this one at South Point, Hawaii a couple weeks ago with the Thypoch 35/1.4. She did a great job.
mudlake wrote:
Occasionally, my wife is brave enough to take an image with a manual focus lens attached. She took this one at South Point, Hawaii a couple weeks ago with the Thypoch 35/1.4. She did a great job.
Some see character, some see modern. Many might agree that it's a blend of the two, with outliers at each end. Maybe the trick is to stop seeing them in terms of aberration loads. DZO's cine background is strong in their Thypochs, and the dual release of cine and stills versions went largely unnoticed thanks to the rather pronounced compartmentaization of these two forms, something that was not expected.
We have a surprising volume of footage nowadays, and quite a number of fair-minded reviews. Even some seasoned cine folks struggle to identify exactly what it is about the lenses that is different, that sets them apart from purely photographic optics. Though far less than in the past, some of these still make it into the cine world, as has happened with the Summiluxes, and it's no coincidence Thypoch sourced two of those in the Simeras, 35mm and 50mm.
Come what may, some projects are aided greatly by the Simeras in C form, but it's doubtful they will gain the same level of adoption in the stills world. So this is one for the users of these lenses, to give some further examples of what is possible. Those long aperture ring gaps at f1.4-f2-f2.8 are there for a reason.
Benjamin is visually gifted, and does a solid job of explaining his Simera usage in Iceland, where he is based. 'My Favourite Cine Lenses of 2025 | Thypoch Simera-C':
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