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Old 18-05-2012, 08:31 PM
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14mm First Light

Hi all,
After seeing some very good results from others using this lens and seeing what others thought of it http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=89979 I forked out yet more money on yet another camera lens recently. It's a Samyang/Rokinon/Pro Optic/Vivitar/Bower/Walimax 14mm F/2.8 lens. I was particularly attracted to the apparent lack of coma at the edge of frame when the lens is wide open. No more of those nasty "seagulls" in my fixed tripod widefield images. My copy of this lens is better on the left of frame than the right but even on the right it blows my other, at least double the cost, wide angle lenses out of the water. And WOW it is so wide on a full frame camera. I actually even cropped a bit out of the right and bottom of this image to remove some of the road I was standing on. Not much thought went into the composition of this shot. Just seeing what it can do.
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18/05/2012
5:30am
Canon 5D Mk II
Pro Optic 14mm F/2.8 @ 2.8
40 second single exposure
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Old 18-05-2012, 08:38 PM
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Hi Greg,

What beautiful image!
it does look very sharp and what a great landscape, how long do you search for these locations?

Cheers,

Justinn.
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Old 18-05-2012, 08:48 PM
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Great shot Greg.

The lens' quality seems very good.


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Old 18-05-2012, 09:47 PM
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Lovely! Nice work indeed, lovely scene.
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Old 18-05-2012, 10:02 PM
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Beautiful framing and comp. Love it.
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Old 18-05-2012, 10:09 PM
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Nice shot Greg. I got mine under the Walimax brand...so there's another for your list .
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Old 18-05-2012, 11:32 PM
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Very nice image Greg. Looks like a good lens. I can remember Colin talking about this lens some months ago.
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Old 19-05-2012, 04:51 AM
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Another 14mm Samyang. Hehe. Awesome shot.
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Old 19-05-2012, 06:51 AM
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Thank you very much everyone. Pretty happy with this as a first test. I think I am going to be having a lot of fun with this lens.

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Hi Greg,

What beautiful image!
it does look very sharp and what a great landscape, how long do you search for these locations?

Cheers,

Justinn.
For this location- not very long Justin. This is a dead tree that I have been driving past for nearly seven years now. It is not very far from my house at all. In fact if you could view this image full size you would be able to see my house in this shot just above the fog band on the horizon. So when I woke up well before my alarm this yesterday morning, with nothing better to do, I jumped in the car and within 10 minutes had this shot.
Whenever I am driving I am constantly on the lookout for good locations these days. Thinking about which direction I would need to be looking at which time of year to get which area of sky in relation to the foreground and if there would be any distracting elements (city glow in the background, power poles, road signs, etc.). The good potential locations all just gets stored away in the back of my head and then when time, weather and petrol permit I go and see what I can do with them.

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Nice shot Greg. I got mine under the Walimax brand...so there's another for your list .
Haha. Thanks Colin. I'll add it to the list.
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