Weekend Mornings by Jamie Moulton, on Flickr
Yep if you check out my latest images some of them are with the Viltrox. Exceptionally sharp at 1.2 but has a heavy vignette which is easy to correct though. £430 from AVM Photo, absolute bargain.
Tiny Fungi by Paulie-W, on Flickr
Morning Song by Paulie-W, on Flickr
Thanks a lot, that's great to hear. I think it's just practice to find the compositions that interest you. There's an app/site called alltrails, you may discover some local walks that you weren't aware of.
I could barely see 10 feet away on my only visit up Moel SiabodOne or two of the cheap, manual focus lenses are tempting me. Might be fun to have a play with. Seem to punch above their very reasonable price tags according to a few reviews I've read as well.
A walk up Moel Siabod a few days ago with some lingering fog in the valley.
XT5, 16-80
Yr Wyddfa From Moel Siabod by Jason, on Flickr
Xt4 and very similar to my 16-55 on camera, similar weight. Will try and get a photo up later.
Go for it. I bought the TTartisan 25mm f/2 lens a couple of months ago, probably the best £69 I've spent on my photography. It has loads of optical issues but it's great fun to shoot with and very satisfying when you get some good images from it.
Cracking shots; this looks like either Llandegla or Clocaenog to me? Or, all woods look the same
Those remind me of my old X-T1 output.
I know the feeling. I live on the edge of Longleat forest, some stunning woodland paths, but I too can never seem to get the images I perceive.
The lens does have a very film like rendering. Probably the massive vignetting, very soft corners, haze, flare, distortion and field curvature . I like it though, I'm not expecting perfection from a £69 lens and it does make lovely vintage looking photos SOOC. The recipe is Classic Neg with a bit of an s-curve, colour chrome fx and colour chrome blue fx both set to strong.
Thanks, these are up in Scotland. I've visited both of those though quite a few years back.Cracking shots; this looks like either Llandegla or Clocaenog to me? Or, all woods look the same
f1.2 is pretty impressive speed wise . . . . . !!
I’ve had the pergear 25mm f1.8 which was very good in terms of image quality, but also very fiddly I found to operate. I currently have the tt artisans 25mm f2, which I’m actually yet to test out properly. It is a bit wider than the pergear was and in terms of how it feels to focus and change aperture I think is much more pleasant. The width helps with focus and a clicky aperture, rather than the clickless one of the pergear, is preferable for me.
Missed this post when I replied to another asking basically the same thing yesterday, but yes I have. I went for the TTartisan 25mm f/2 in the end over the Meike lens, largely for the fact that the TTartisan lens has a clicked aperture ring, while the Meike's doesn't click. Cost me £69 from Amazon, and it's great. Tiny, all metal, feels very solid. Like I've said on another post the corners are horrific wide open, it has massive vignetting, barrel distortion and flares loads if you point it at a bright light but it's loads of fun to shoot with and the images from it have a lovely vintage quality. The IQ improves a lot if you stop down to f2,8 and by f4 it's pretty sharp apart from the extreme corners. Shooting manually is fun, it makes you slow down and work for your shots a bit more.
Excellent, I'll take a look at the TTArtisan then. 23mm is my ideal (35mm APS-C equivalent; lets see what all the fuss about 35mm is).
Yes that's the 23mm F1.4 lens. Looks a bit weird but has a better optical formula than the Meike and has a 10 bladed aperture for nicer bokeh. The 25mm f2 that I have is a bit cheaper and a stop slower, simpler optics and a 7 bladed aperture. Still lovely and sharp in the middle though for the price. Here's a close crop of a shot of my dog wide open at f2,SOOC. Stop down to f2.8 and you get loads more contrast.
12 GS by APM Photography, on FlickrThe 17mm f1.4 is on my list for a manual focus lens for my FujiNot a great image, a photo I shot of my mate's BMW taken with the TTArtisan 17mm f/1.4
X-E1
They are very good, and the amount of processing you can do in camera means you might not need to edit them much. They also have a lot of highlight and shadow recovery potential for a jpeg.
Just looking for comparisons of the 23mm and the 25mm and based on videos and comments in said videos, the 25mm seems to win out for most people? Apparently there are field curvature issues on the 23mm; as well as it being considerably heavier.
