Yeah I love it, especially for video. The problem with such a wide aperture and the manual focus is that any little shake and your focus line gets shifted a whole lot! Takes a bit of getting used to.
Yes for sure. Honestly I rarely shoot wider than around f2 anyway. I shoot a lot for Shutterstock so need a high keeper rate with as much sharpness as possible. That Rokinon is a total bargain though anyway. Beautiful lens. Love the 100d too! I wish Nikon did something that compact.
my favorite lens :
canon 50 mm f 1.8 (cheap but really good)
canon 16-35 mm f 2.8 for landscape and milky way shot (i rent it for sone of my trip)
and finally i bought recently the canon 24-70 mm f 2.8 , useful for many kinds of shot without change lens every time
Hi,
So I am mostly into birding and I am using the canon 80D (actually I hesitated between the 7D mark II and the 80d but went for the cheaper with more Mega pixel and It has a good autofocus too... and wifi/nfc which I can pair with my phone... nice gadget for instagramming urge ;) )
My walkaround lens is the sigma 150-600mm Contemporary.
I also have the nifty fifty 50mm f/1.8,
the sigma 150-500 (which is for sell actually)
tamron 70-300 SP
At the moment, I am considering a new lens more for portrait/landscape (still have an old kit lens 18-55mm). I might go for the sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4 Contemporary. Any suggestion are welcomed though at that level (I was also thinking of buying the 24-105 canon f/4L or its sigma Art counterpart, but the 24mm end on my aps-c would be equivalent to a 35mm...)
I cannot recommend the Canon 24-105 L. While it is extremely versatile, it has a known common issue where the aperture control connection fails over time. It happened mine, and it happened my friends one. Personally I LOVE Sigmas new glass. All of it.
Canon EOS 1100D for quick shooting..
Fuji x-E1 for other shoots. the thing i love about the fuji is its outstanding quality and old film style exposure settings. i.e. aperture and speed instead of auto and programs.
A lot of my traditional photography was done on 5"x4" plate cameras or mamiya medium format (i have neither of those cameras anymore)
please check out my work. @pcste
Sony a7r
90mm sony macro
55mm sony e-mount
21mm Zeiss Loxia
21mm Olympus 3.5
20mm russian chunk o glass forget the name at the moment
11-14mm Tokina for use on a t3i (time lapse rig)
a lot of 80's glass from thrift shops
sold my 85 1.2 Canon & 24-70mm & 70-200mm 2.8 (miss that one and the 85mm)
a bunch of soviet lenses and other crazy stuff like 85mm 1.2 Cyclops lens - 2 of those for some reason.
Canon 100D usually with a Rokinon 85mm
iPhone 5s ;)
Less frequently:
Minolta SRT201 35mm
Ikoflex I medium format
That Rokinon 85mm! I had it when I shot with Canon. Once you don't mind manual focus, the optics are STUNNING!
Yeah I love it, especially for video. The problem with such a wide aperture and the manual focus is that any little shake and your focus line gets shifted a whole lot! Takes a bit of getting used to.
Yes for sure. Honestly I rarely shoot wider than around f2 anyway. I shoot a lot for Shutterstock so need a high keeper rate with as much sharpness as possible. That Rokinon is a total bargain though anyway. Beautiful lens. Love the 100d too! I wish Nikon did something that compact.
Hi condra,
I have a canon 5D Mark II.
my favorite lens :
canon 50 mm f 1.8 (cheap but really good)
canon 16-35 mm f 2.8 for landscape and milky way shot (i rent it for sone of my trip)
and finally i bought recently the canon 24-70 mm f 2.8 , useful for many kinds of shot without change lens every time
I also have a canon 28 mmf 2.8 for landscape
Ah nice one. Before I switched to Nikon I had a Canon 5D and the Nifty Fifty was one of my most used lenses. Crazy value for the money.
Hi,
So I am mostly into birding and I am using the canon 80D (actually I hesitated between the 7D mark II and the 80d but went for the cheaper with more Mega pixel and It has a good autofocus too... and wifi/nfc which I can pair with my phone... nice gadget for instagramming urge ;) )
My walkaround lens is the sigma 150-600mm Contemporary.
I also have the nifty fifty 50mm f/1.8,
the sigma 150-500 (which is for sell actually)
tamron 70-300 SP
At the moment, I am considering a new lens more for portrait/landscape (still have an old kit lens 18-55mm). I might go for the sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4 Contemporary. Any suggestion are welcomed though at that level (I was also thinking of buying the 24-105 canon f/4L or its sigma Art counterpart, but the 24mm end on my aps-c would be equivalent to a 35mm...)
djm34
I cannot recommend the Canon 24-105 L. While it is extremely versatile, it has a known common issue where the aperture control connection fails over time. It happened mine, and it happened my friends one. Personally I LOVE Sigmas new glass. All of it.
I guess I'll fire ahead.
Right now I'm using a Nikon D750. My baby!
My lenses are:
Sigma 35mm 1.4 ART
Nikon 50mm 1.8G
Sigma 85mm 1.4
Nikon 105mm 2.8 VR Macro
Nikon 180mm 2.8
As you can see, all primes, no zooms. I gave up shooting events. I also have a handful of Godox flashes and the X1 controller.
Only film camera!!! i like life cycle of old fotos) i like use minolta 110 Zoom SLR Mark II
Oh that's awesome. I'll go check out your photos now.
Why not use digital? It's so convenient. Just curious.
Canon EOS 1100D for quick shooting..
Fuji x-E1 for other shoots. the thing i love about the fuji is its outstanding quality and old film style exposure settings. i.e. aperture and speed instead of auto and programs.
A lot of my traditional photography was done on 5"x4" plate cameras or mamiya medium format (i have neither of those cameras anymore)
please check out my work.
@pcste
I had an 1100D a couple of years ago when I was shooting Canon. Great camera. Excellent value, and with a decent lens, capable of superb results.
Canon Rebel T3 with Canon 50mm f/1.8 and just recently purchased Canon 24mm f/2.8
That 50mm 1.8 is a killer lens
Yeah, I love it. And it's a steal of a deal, too :)
Yeahp. Nikon do a nice cheap 50 1.8 too. Absolute no-brainer.
I had no idea this thread was already started. I tried to start one the other day, but had I known this was already here I wouldn't have bothered. LOL
Me and my wife are kind of a photo duo, and combined we have:
I switched to Nikon about a year ago but I did have a 6d for a while. I LOVE that camera.
Sony a7r
90mm sony macro
55mm sony e-mount
21mm Zeiss Loxia
21mm Olympus 3.5
20mm russian chunk o glass forget the name at the moment
11-14mm Tokina for use on a t3i (time lapse rig)
a lot of 80's glass from thrift shops
sold my 85 1.2 Canon & 24-70mm & 70-200mm 2.8 (miss that one and the 85mm)
a bunch of soviet lenses and other crazy stuff like 85mm 1.2 Cyclops lens - 2 of those for some reason.
Dang that's some nice kit!
My kits
Canon eos1100D
Speedlite
Tamron 200MM F1.8
potrait lens f1.8 50MM .
cheap lens. :)
Do visit my blog to check my work :)