buy cs4 and buy on of these.Stop it, stop it stop it STOP IT!!!!!!!
As I'm just shelling out £600+ for CS5 I really don't need to see this :nono:
they look ok, think i have used them before on amazon.
lol, but had I not found the CZ lens, I would have definately kept it! Bokeh is lovely and smooth and images have a lot of detail at f1.4.
Sorry Tom, I am weak... I gave in
Ordered tonight and should be here by the weekend. Hopefully no issues and that it is the AE version so it meters on my D5000 but I guess its a wait and see game.
If it is the AE version, £183 has got to be a steal.
Gah.. bastar....
I hope Halifax hurry the hell up with that card.
You can imagine my surprise at opening up the box from UKDigital and inside being the Samyang 85mm box... inside the box a Samyang AE 85mm f1.4 As IF UMC. Yeah that's the chipped version for £183!
First impressions are as follows:
- Cheap box/bag/instructions/lens cap - which will probably need replaced with a Nikon 72mm cap
- Solid construction of lens
- very smooth focus ring with a good tactile quality.
- aperture ring very close to the body but this is no issue as it gets set to f22
and the camera controls the rest.- will take some getting used too using the small viewfinder on a D5000
- All EXIF data intact as far as I can tell from a quick glance.
- only the focus is done on the lens, everything else is in the camera body.
As it is raining in a post-apocalyptic manner outside there will be no outside test shots but from the very fast ones I have tried indoors I am somewhat impressed. The bokeh is stunningly smooth but focus is pretty hard to get right (my first full manual lens) and rather unforgiving @ f1.4
A bit of a noob question now, you have to set too f22 otherwise you get a "FEE" error, now my understanding must be wrong but i thought you would of set it too f1.4 then let the camera change down rather than the other way around. I guess it is something I will need to read up on.
I can't wait to shoot properly in decent light. Overall very very impressed so far. Seems to me Samyang have done it again and Im fine with that, let the name snobs blow 3/4/5 times as much.
You can imagine my surprise at opening up the box from UKDigital and inside being the Samyang 85mm box... inside the box a Samyang AE 85mm f1.4 As IF UMC. Yeah that's the chipped version for £183!
First impressions are as follows:
- Cheap box/bag/instructions/lens cap - which will probably need replaced with a Nikon 72mm cap
- Solid construction of lens
- very smooth focus ring with a good tactile quality.
- aperture ring very close to the body but this is no issue as it gets set to f22
and the camera controls the rest.- will take some getting used too using the small viewfinder on a D5000
- All EXIF data intact as far as I can tell from a quick glance.
- only the focus is done on the lens, everything else is in the camera body.
As it is raining in a post-apocalyptic manner outside there will be no outside test shots but from the very fast ones I have tried indoors I am somewhat impressed. The bokeh is stunningly smooth but focus is pretty hard to get right (my first full manual lens) and rather unforgiving @ f1.4
A bit of a noob question now, you have to set too f22 otherwise you get a "FEE" error, now my understanding must be wrong but i thought you would of set it too f1.4 then let the camera change down rather than the other way around. I guess it is something I will need to read up on.
I can't wait to shoot properly in decent light. Overall very very impressed so far. Seems to me Samyang have done it again and Im fine with that, let the name snobs blow 3/4/5 times as much.
