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Cheap wide angle lense camera

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  • 31-12-2019 3:21am
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    mondeo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭


    What options do I have for about €250 ??

    It's for landscape photography.


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    Turquoise Hexagon Sun
    Registered Users Posts: 532 ✭✭✭Turquoise Hexagon Sun


    Samyang/Rokonin 14mm.

    Not sure what mount you have. I personally haven't used this lens but I'm looking at wide-angle options for 4K video to compensate for the 4K crop factor on the Canon 5D IV.

    This comparrison really makes Rokinon/Samyang look very competitive for the price.



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    Heebie
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    I have three Samyang lenses. (I'm a Pentax full-frame shooter)
    The 12mm fisheye, the 14mm aspherical, and the 24mm tilt/shift.
    They are all good value. The fisheye had less distortion than I would have thought, and the 14 mm has more, but they shoot very nicely.
    I believe there are versions of these lenses for video specifically, with non-stopped aperture rings. (Mine are definitely for stills)
    I do get excellent resolving power at 36mp, so it should be good on 4k video as well.


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    Turquoise Hexagon Sun
    Registered Users Posts: 532 ✭✭✭Turquoise Hexagon Sun


    Heebie wrote: »
    I have three Samyang lenses. (I'm a Pentax full-frame shooter)
    The 12mm fisheye, the 14mm aspherical, and the 24mm tilt/shift.
    They are all good value. The fisheye had less distortion than I would have thought, and the 14 mm has more, but they shoot very nicely.
    I believe there are versions of these lenses for video specifically, with non-stopped aperture rings. (Mine are definitely for stills)
    I do get excellent resolving power at 36mp, so it should be good on 4k video as well.

    Glad to hear you have been getting good results from your three Samyang lenes. I never had the opportunity to use them but my confidence/awareness is growing quickly.

    You are right, there are video-specific or cine-lenses with de-clicked apertures/aperture rings as you said. That's interesting because I wasn't too familiar at all with cine-lenses for DSLRs. And photography is primary to me but I'm really going to focus on video this year, so I think I found my next lens.

    Have you decided on a new lens for yourself yet? Any other nice wide-angles you've came across?


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    Heebie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Heebie


    Turquoise Hexagon Sun wrote:
    Have you decided on a new lens for yourself yet? Any other nice wide-angles you've came across?

    My latest two lenses have been the Lomography Daguerreotype Achromat 64mm f2.9 prime, and the Lomography Lomogon 32mm f2.5 prime.


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