Or, if you are a Canon user just buy the Nikon version and stick a chipped adapter on it.
Can't I just stick a chip on the native EF mount? Is the chip too thick? The beep is always reassuring though it may not be accurate. Too bad, my aperture setting won't be reflected in the exif.
ManWearPants wrote:
Can't I just stick a chip on the native EF mount? Is the chip too thick? The beep is always reassuring though it may not be accurate. Too bad, my aperture setting won't be reflected in the exif.
Sticking a chip on won't help because then you'll always get 85mm f/1.4 in the EXIF and not the chosen aperture. The chip doesn't know which aperture you chose because that is done purely mechanically.
jan_haidn wrote:
I just got word from Fototip: deliverydate not known. It will hit the market in few months.
They'd be crazy not to get it released by Christmas, at which point it should be found under many, many trees.
cogitech wrote:
If you read the entire paragraph, it is obvious that it is designed for FF, APS-C and 4/3rds.
"Samyang 35 mm F1.4 AS UMC was constructed to fit most popular reflexive cameras with small sensors. 35mm focal length has universal applications. When attached to the small sensor camera, the lens will act as bright, wide-angle lens perfect for landscape and repdorting shooting. The same lens mounted on the camera with APS-C sensor, will become a popular, multitask 50mm lens. In case of cameras with 3:4 system, Samyang 35 mm F1.4 AS UMC will turn into a short, bright portrait lens with 70mm focal length equivalent"....Show more →
Indeed, the translation is a bit misleading and confusing. "Small sensor" in this meaning indicates 35mm cameras (in comparison, for example, to medium format cameras), in other words "Small sensor" means precisely full frame cameras.
ManWearPants wrote:
Can't I just stick a chip on the native EF mount? Is the chip too thick? The beep is always reassuring though it may not be accurate. Too bad, my aperture setting won't be reflected in the exif.
You can, but installing a chipped adapter on a Nikon is easier than installing a chip on the Canon. Me? I'll just buy the Canon and use it as it is (since I don't like "backwards" focusing rings ).
AL Shooter wrote:
Indeed, the translation is a bit misleading and confusing. "Small sensor" in this meaning indicates 35mm cameras (in comparison, for example, to medium format cameras), in other words "Small sensor" means precisely full frame cameras.
Yes, you guys are right. From a separate announcement, irrelevant to what we are discussing in this thread - miniature cameras. FF got really small
"Schneider Kreuznach exhibits at photokina with the TS-PC Super-Angulon 2,8 / 50 mm solid carbide and the PC-TS Macro Symmar 4,0 / 90 mm HM two new Tilt-Shift Lenses with connectors for miniature cameras from Canon, Nikon, Sony and Pentax ..... "
ManWearPants wrote:
Yes, you guys are right. From a separate announcement, irrelevant to what we are discussing in this thread - miniature cameras. FF got really small
"Schneider Kreuznach exhibits at photokina with the TS-PC Super-Angulon 2,8 / 50 mm solid carbide and the PC-TS Macro Symmar 4,0 / 90 mm HM two new Tilt-Shift Lenses with connectors for miniature cameras from Canon, Nikon, Sony and Pentax ..... "
I looked at DPR and the linked statement but couldn't find this statement.
Zeiss and many other optical companies have always referred to 35mm as 'miniature format', or sometimes 'small format' - to distinguish it from the medium formats and the large formats - a hangover from the film days of yore...
Film would still be very popular (I believe) had the common people used medium format rather than tiny 36x24mm pieces of film. Makers like Kodak went even further with sub-formats of 35mm - sheer madness, but the world was miniaturisation crazy then. What goes around come around, now we have a race to the tiniest, like NEX. Where can I get my hands shrunk, mama?
Hmm... now the question is if I should just get a Contax 35/2.8 or wait for this... The Contax is proven to be good and is less than half the price, but the Samyang is f/1.4
RZetter wrote:
Hmm... now the question is if I should just get a Contax 35/2.8 or wait for this... The Contax is proven to be good and is less than half the price, but the Samyang is f/1.4
Trust me ...that difference is so insignificant if you compare the price difference between 200/2.8L II and 200/2.0L IS........
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