Beautiful pictures and the best use of this lens on different type of compositions. With the wide aperture range, it really helps how much in focus we want for each type of a photo or video.
I can see some electronic front curtain / mechanical back curtain effect on the bokeh wide open in some photo ! Where the bokeh balls are cropped. If you haven't, you should try using it in full electronic shutter when you get the highest speed your camera can do. My rule of thumb (on my A7 iii) is to go for full e shutter if my shutter speed gets to 1/4000s or faster
Wondering what this lens looks like in square 1:1 mode on FF sensor, as well as 4:3 ratio. I've yet to see a problem in square mode on FF with crop lenses, and perhaps 3/5 times 4:3 works well. The APS-C 10-18mm Canon covers FF very well from 14-18 even 😁 I didn't catch whether coma is bad on this lens, which is always important to me for astrophotography. I expect it's not great, but might be ok for CA by 2.8.
I always enjoy and value your reviews. I was particularly interested in this one. I had the Mitakon 35/f0.95 which I liked but sold it on. I liked it but didn't love it. I've found since that wider fields of view are more to my taste. Your comment regarding focus at distance was surprising considering its focal length. Fair warning! I tend to get get lazy with wides (part of my attraction to them maybe) regarding focus. But the shots you took with this lens I really like. So this one has made my gotta get list. Cheers and keep up the terrific work!
Very nice review, and a good lens. The color tint, the change in color tint, and especially the tendency to lose detail in and blow highlights both remind me of older or soviet lenses. It's definitely a "filmic" look, but with a much more modern and easy-going bokeh. I think I might have to get one of these.
Mitakon and 7 Artisans both produce nice lenses for mirrorless, but the interchangability of my Nikon 20mm 2.8 D works on my DSLRs and (with an adapter) Fuji X . No f.95 though . But the autofocus on Nikon and focus peaking on Fuji make the D a good 20mm for a resonable price..
Yes, good point. I was going to do this but my Sony a7iv broke before I had the chance. When the camera returns from repair I’ll take a look at illustrating the coverage.
I don't equate 30mm (equivalent field of view on APS-C) as wide angle. Mitakon should have made this in the 15-18mm range. Nonetheless, the images you got out of it are impressive. Now if only Mitakon would cut the weight of their lenses . . .
Interesting discussion regarding wide angle. Some people describe 35mm (FF) lenses as wide angle, which I find ridiculous. I suppose my criteria for wide angle would be when buildings or walls at the edge of the frame are clearly seen to be sloping inwards, as happens with this lens. But that’s just my personal opinion!
@@Simonsutak Sloping is due to the lens being actually a 20mm focal length although the field of view is affected by the crop factor. (Correct me if I'm wrong) I did a rough test: I shot one photo using a 20mm lens in crop mode, and then one photo using a full frame 30mm lens in full frame mode. I observed a difference in the angle of objects and also a difference in the compression of foreground/background. Note, the difference is hard to see. With this, I would conclude that a 20mm APS-C lens is wide angle, whereas a 30mm full frame lens is less so, even though both are 30mm framing.
Laowa released a (cine) full frame 28mm T1.0. And yes, that's faster than their stills version, the 28mm f/1.2. Unfortunately, they don't plan on bringing the f/0.95 (T1.0) stills version to the market, only big & heavy cine version exists.
