…ing vintage glass – the Canon 50mm f/0.95 “Dream Lens” and its sister, the Canon 35mm f/1.5. This famous vintage rangefinder glass – originally built for the Canon 7 – dates back to the 1960s, and has seen a rise in popularity of recent as sellers from Japan have drip-fed the lenses onto eBay. Prices of these lenses have skyrocketed over the course of the last couple of years and the Dream Lens – once available for around $1000 – now sells for nea… Continue Reading
…h their price (especially for photography), but what if you can’t afford a Canon or Nikon? Should you go for a cheaper, slower version like Canon’s 70-200mm f/4? I believe that this Tokina offers much than a slower modern equivalent by one of the leading brands. It’s still about 4 times cheaper even that Canon 70-200mm f/4, so I believe this is one of the cheapest fast alternatives to Canon and Nikon fast, long zooms. At the time of writing there… Continue Reading
…I think I’ve done that for one of the shots in my video above. The size of Canon 13mm Coverage & Image quality: Sensor coverage is often the problem when it comes to wider c-mount lenses, but thankfully this 13mm covers the BMPCC sensor perfectly, with no vignetting whatsoever, however edge sharpness can often be a problem on lenses that aren’t designed for a much bigger sensor and as suspected, extreme edges are really soft all the way F4/5.6, bu… Continue Reading
…sed to help achieve a perfect exposure. I’ve used this lens along with the Canon FD 50mm F1.4 for the anamorphic test and in terms of built quality, Sirius actually felt superior to Canon, has a solid, quality, but plastic body. Coming round to optics, they looks nice thanks to multi-coating both on the front and back elements. There are total 6 elements in 6 groups inside, so it’s a fairly comprehensive optical design. Even though everything abov… Continue Reading
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera & Canon 18-108mm C Mount Lens from GanEdenVideo on Vimeo. The Blackmagic Pocket Camera fever continuous with yet another C-mount lens test, so if you are not into BMPCC you might want to skip this one. While doing one of my usual ebay bargain searches a few days ago I came across an impressive Canon 18-108mm F1.6 C-mount Zoom and as usual I went searching for any info on this lens. I was very lucky to come across t… Continue Reading
…as with most lenses, you are locked into one mount, so if it happens to be FD or MD mount, you won’t have much luck using it one Canon EF cameras. With Adaptall-2 you remove the mount completely rather than add the adapter, so even if it happened to be FD or MD, you can swap it out to other mounts, even a native Canon EF mount. Another minor difference between the two is that Tamron has an F4 setting between the F3.5 and F5.6, while Tokina is eith… Continue Reading
…hoice because it has the same filter thread size as 50mm F1.4 and the same FD mount which would allow me to swap my lenses quickly. Both lenses were used a cheap, FD to M4/3 adapter which works pretty well for the money. Focusing with double lens setup is not easily at all. That is why I had to limit myself to a tripod and preset the focusing on both lenses for every shot. Focusing with taking lens though affected the image sharpness much more tha… Continue Reading
…s with Optex/Century, it wasn’t really designed for such coverage. Optex + Canon FD 50mm F1.4 + Lens Turbo II I think its comfort zone is around 50mm on Super35 sensor because then soft edges are cut off making the overall image look better. Saying that, the center sharpness is not the best out there either. The taking lens generally needs to be stopped down by at least 1-2 stops to achieve good sharpness, but it all depends on the focal length, s… Continue Reading
…owning a Leica set feasible for even the most modest shooter. As with our Canon FD Price List, this list is a verified, checked and triple-checked archive, referencing a variety of international online sales platforms to ensure the utmost accuracy at the time of writing. We cover every official Leica R lens produced, ranging from the humble 50mm Summicron-R to the highly sought after 35mm Summilux-R and the exceedingly scarce 15mm Super-Elmarit-R… Continue Reading
…rms beautifully and definitely worth it’s money. Note, the one I have is a Canon EF mount, so only works with Canon DSLRs. On a plus side you get auto-focusing for stills. If you want to use such lens with different cameras go for Nikon mount, which has aperture adjustment ring on the actual lens, however don’t expect auto-focusing for stills unless you’re using it on Nikon camera. Click to find this lens on Ebay I try my best to make this website… Continue Reading
