Recent content by mr_pants

The Samyang 135

A rushed, impromptu set of shots in the garden with the grandkids. I've got to say that I'm impressed with the cheap Chinese lens. Cheap in price, not optical performance, it seems.

Is that a fact?

Thank you. I've just found a bit of money lying around and might well splurge on the III anyway, just to get rid of it.

I apologise if this has been asked before. I had a bit of a look around and could not see the answer. Well.. I have an Alpha 7 and the 200-600. The focussing speed is, to say the least, leisurely. Am I right in thinking that the Apha 7 III would be a mite quicker? Thank you in advance for any...

Ho ho... very funny. TBH, I would probably have answered the same way.

This may be a stupid question, but is there really that much of a difference to be had between 500 and 600mm, especially given the ability to crop? Could you save your money for a different type of lens? WA, normal zoom etc.

I don't know how one could adjust the different colour channels from an M, as there is no colour information recorded at all. The only way that I could think of doing that would be to use a coloured filter at the time of exposure. Have I missed something?

Full colour RAWs, yes. It's just that some cameras don't shoot colour at all. RAW or not.

Not quite any camera, as far as I understand. Some shoot in RAW and B&W only.

To my mind (and eyes), the 135 wide open gives the perfect DOF for a head shot (anyone else's opinion might well be at variance with this, though). If you're happy with head shots at 100mm f/2.8 (for the avoidance of doubt, I do NOT mean that in any kind of disparaging way), then there's no real...

If there's one camera I wish I still had, it is the 1Ds III. Perhaps with your 'small pot' (I don't know how much you mean by that), you could get something like an 85 1.8 and/or the Sigma 35.

I'd just like to add that I know that I haven't been commenting on anybody's pics. At the moment, I've got a load of stuff to get through, so haven't got the time to give some meaningful comments. I hope to have cleared my backlog soon and get out there commenting.

Abandoned... 165738_L1000016 by alanjager, on Flickr

One for 'Happy'... 171533_L1000011 by alanjager, on Flickr She's happy, because she's just paid for our big holiday this year and got a new bear to take along. I'm happy, as I'm playing with my new (to me, anyway) camera.