freaklikeme wrote: nehemiahphoto wrote: grahamgibson wrote:
Link to the astro photos in the sample gallery?
Lack of EXIF transfer really bugs me about these Laowa lenses though.
Does anyone know if there's a noticeable difference in sunstars between a 5-blade aperture like on this one and the 10-blades on the Voigtlanders? They both make 10-pointed stars, but I have the sense from just images I've seen that the Laowa sunstar rays are not consistently an even length.
I don't know how accurate that stacked shot is to true performance, but I guess I don't look at this and think astro. I mean, the Samyang 14/2.8 II finally got a focus lock on it, so that's where my mind would be for that specific application. This looks like a tiny UWA that'll be fun at or close to MFD at wider apertures, and just about perfect at f/8 for landscapes/cityscapes. Just my way of thinking, though.
I don't want to large lens like that for my purposes.
I don't need this to be a dedicated astro lens, but I've often think it would be lovely to have small relatively well coma corrected primes that are competent--these are the ones I often hike with multiple miles when I do astro, and I would easily carry a 14/4 with me. I love small versatile lenses, and I would rarely shoot at 14mm, but astro would be one such common use for me.
I personally am not concerned if my astro lens has focus lock. Most of the best corrected astro lenses don't include this (though I'd welcome it).
Sep 18, 2020 at 06:39 PM
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