Back in September 2014 Samyang announced a new lens – a 12 mm f2.8 fish-eye for full-frame cameras. A prototype was shown at Photokina in Cologne (see picture below) but the lens was not available until now. I already own the Samyang 8 mm f3.5 fish-eye and it is...
I love the moon. My father has a pair of strong binoculars which, when I was a kid, used to point at the moon to see the craters. The moon never fails to mesmerize, so my apologies for blogging a picture of the moon for the tenth time 🙂 Every now and then, when the...
Tonight I met a friend and we grabbed our cameras and tripods and headed out onto the Krefelder Str. and the soccer stadium (Tivoli) Aachen to take some images. I shot with a Tokina 11-16 f2.8 and my good old Samyang 8 mm f3.5. Nice lenses, I am starting to develop a...
A few weeks ago a brilliant plan of mine, a cunning plan so to say, backfired. While eagerly waiting for the D800 to arrive on the stage of photographic enjoyables I thought about making room for the new toy which is hopefully to be announced on October 26th. So I...
In the last post I was ridiculing the sharpness of the 8 mm Samyang lens at wide open apertures. To illustrate the problem I have made a few test shots at different apertures. The focus ring has not been moved between the shots, only the aperture has been closed step...
