Samyang/Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC

[mrsfotografie]

Re: Samyang 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC

I'm pretty sure I stopped down to f/11 to enhance the sunstar. That is my personal favorite aperture on most of my lenses for achieving the effect. The arms on the sunstar become more defined.

Thanks, I'll try to keep that in mind. Still, I'll have to be patient; when I cycled home from work today I looked at the trees, and they're all still green! Well, I can wait because I don't particularly like winter

 

[TWI by Dustin Abbott]

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I Rise Before Dawn by Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott, on Flickr

 

[mrsfotografie]

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I Rise Before Dawn by Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott, on Flickr

Spooky...

 

[TWI by Dustin Abbott]

Re: Samyang 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC

I'm pretty sure I stopped down to f/11 to enhance the sunstar. That is my personal favorite aperture on most of my lenses for achieving the effect. The arms on the sunstar become more defined.

Thanks, I'll try to keep that in mind. Still, I'll have to be patient; when I cycled home from work today I looked at the trees, and they're all still green! Well, I can wait because I don't particularly like winter

I'm in no rush for winter to arrive either! I get burned out in shooting what is essentially monochrome!

 

[TWI by Dustin Abbott]

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Fault Lines by Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott, on Flickr

 

[mrsfotografie]

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Fault Lines by Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott, on Flickr

Cool, is this a matter of get out quick, take a pic? Looks like some traffic is coming... ;P

 

[TWI by Dustin Abbott]

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Fault Lines by Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott, on Flickr

Cool, is this a matter of get out quick, take a pic? Looks like some traffic is coming... ;P

I was able to take a few, but yes, there is some traffic coming and I think this was about the last of the series.

 

[TWI by Dustin Abbott]

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Under the Stars by Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott, on Flickr

 

[distant.star]

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Gorgeous picture. Thanks, Dustin!!

 

[mrsfotografie]

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Dustin, did you do any distortion correction on these shots?

I just got the Sigma 35 1.4 and haven't used it yet (too busy ) but I have a real taste for going out shooting with the 14mm. Let's see which lens will find its way to my lens mount first...

 

[TWI by Dustin Abbott]

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Dustin, did you do any distortion correction on these shots?

I just got the Sigma 35 1.4 and haven't used it yet (too busy ) but I have a real taste for going out shooting with the 14mm. Let's see which lens will find its way to my lens mount first...

I have a Lightroom profile that I downloaded from the Lens Profiler, but other than using that at import, I don't really mess with distortion correction on these. If I were shooting architecture, I would spend more time with it.

 

[TWI by Dustin Abbott]

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Through the Mist by Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott, on Flickr

 

[bleephotography]

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Under the Stars by Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott, on Flickr

Beautiful shot, Dustin. May I ask what your settings were? Did you use an equatorial mount of some sort/did you stack multiple shots?

 

[TWI by Dustin Abbott]

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Beautiful shot, Dustin. May I ask what your settings were? Did you use an equatorial mount of some sort/did you stack multiple shots?

That's the crazy thing about the Rokinon - it allows so much image in the frame. This is a single image. I just used a typical tripod (Manfrotto 190xb) with mount in a vertical position. It is a 30 second exposure, ISO 1250, and I think the aperture was f/4 (no EXIF from the Rokinon :-[). I've basically only changed the white balance and played with the tone curve a bit.

 

[mrsfotografie]

Re: Samyang 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC

Obviously, this lens totally rules! 8)

 

[bleephotography]

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Beautiful shot, Dustin. May I ask what your settings were? Did you use an equatorial mount of some sort/did you stack multiple shots?

That's the crazy thing about the Rokinon - it allows so much image in the frame. This is a single image. I just used a typical tripod (Manfrotto 190xb) with mount in a vertical position. It is a 30 second exposure, ISO 1250, and I think the aperture was f/4 (no EXIF from the Rokinon :-[). I've basically only changed the white balance and played with the tone curve a bit.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thousandwordimages/9980961655/

Impressive, thanks! You've sold me on my next lens

 

[TWI by Dustin Abbott]

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Beautiful shot, Dustin. May I ask what your settings were? Did you use an equatorial mount of some sort/did you stack multiple shots?

That's the crazy thing about the Rokinon - it allows so much image in the frame. This is a single image. I just used a typical tripod (Manfrotto 190xb) with mount in a vertical position. It is a 30 second exposure, ISO 1250, and I think the aperture was f/4 (no EXIF from the Rokinon :-[). I've basically only changed the white balance and played with the tone curve a bit.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thousandwordimages/9980961655/

Impressive, thanks! You've sold me on my next lens

The manufacturer will be glad to hear that. As long as you know its limitations going in, it is one fabulous tool for unleashing new areas of creativity.

 

[lostfeliz]

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I purchased the Cine version of the lens. Although I'm happy with many of the images that I've gotten with it for stills, I'm going to have to send it in for service because of a problem with the focus ring. Starting from close focus to far the focus marks seem to match actual focus, but when racking focus from infinity to, for instance, an object that's 10 feet away I have to rack the focus ring to about the 2 foot mark. Really makes it impossible to repeat focus stops while filming with it. Hopefully the warranty repair will fix it.

 

[mrsfotografie]

Re: Samyang 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC

Beautiful shot, Dustin. May I ask what your settings were? Did you use an equatorial mount of some sort/did you stack multiple shots?

That's the crazy thing about the Rokinon - it allows so much image in the frame. This is a single image. I just used a typical tripod (Manfrotto 190xb) with mount in a vertical position. It is a 30 second exposure, ISO 1250, and I think the aperture was f/4 (no EXIF from the Rokinon :-[). I've basically only changed the white balance and played with the tone curve a bit.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thousandwordimages/9980961655/

Impressive, thanks! You've sold me on my next lens

The manufacturer will be glad to hear that. As long as you know its limitations going in, it is one fabulous tool for unleashing new areas of creativity.

I'm not sure if I mentioned it before, but one of its shortcomings can be resolved using an AF confirmation chip. I glued one onto the back of the lens mount and calibrated it using a combination of camera button commands. It's a lot easier to nail focus this way

 

[steliosk]

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i do love mine
razor sharp at 2.8 but with heavy vignette
perfect sharp from edge to edge at f/11 and f/16. After that diffraction gets in the way

here are some shots taken from Greece

http://500px.com/photo/46185986
http://500px.com/photo/41061036
http://500px.com/photo/40862852

The only thing i hate with 14mm lenses are the filters

the 16-35L is more handy and all around lens. I'd love to have one. (however i use the similar 10-22 with my crop camera) however 14mm is WIDER than 16mm.. and yes those 2mm can make a difference (major reason why i chose 10-22 over the tokina 11-16 which is only 1mm shorter but thats another story.)