IDURITA wrote:
My wife is calling this lens "Some Young".
She is so happy about it's performance, that she asked me to buy some more "Some Young".
So After the 14mm and the 85mm I am now waiting for the 35mm.
Your wife has great sense of humour. Once the 35 is launched and proven worthy, I am going to get all 3 "Some Youngs". That will make me feel like a baby
Remember that Nikon made it's name selling excellent lenses for Leica. Wonder if we'll see a Samyang camera system in the future... More likely Samsung would just buy them....
I definitely want the chipped Nikon 85. I think it's the one Adorama is selling as a ProOptic.
How is the focusing on your copy. I have one here which is quite stiff, and the hood is loose, and doesn't fit well over the lens cap. Nice lens though, and I am thinking I will buy it.
Focusing is not as smooth as with my Zuiko lenses, but it is not stiff. Just fine.
But on that particular day (when shooting the above scenery), I had a slight problem with my other Samyang lens, the 14mm f/2.8. The tiny ring above the aperture ring with the white marker for the set aperture got lose. A tiny screw went lose. Fortunately I had the right tool in my photo bag to fix it.
and I was not aware that there is a Teufelssee in Grunewald. I will search for it in google earth.
I am here in Schöneberg until the end of October before going back to China.
gregoryfo wrote:
Is there a reason they can't make this lens autofocus? It seems like such a fine lens optically and so inexpensive. I would gladly pay 2x the current price for an AF lens.
I can deal with the manual focus, but would really like an automatic aperture (to be able to easily and rapidly shoot at those f-stops where it is too dark to manually focus). That seems like it would be a lot easier to implement than autofocus.
tr1957 wrote:
I can deal with the manual focus, but would really like an automatic aperture (to be able to easily and rapidly shoot at those f-stops where it is too dark to manually focus). That seems like it would be a lot easier to implement than autofocus.
on canon it would require electronics and a small motor. on lever driven camera bodies (nikon, sony, pentax) it can be easily implemented mechanically and has (at least in the nikon version of this lens, probably the others as well).
