I've come a long way to get this lens working...
I've been shooting with the Sony superzoom 24-240mm a lot recently and I discovered that when shooting landscape i often zoom in just a little bit to get tighter view yet not so zoomed in as 50mm, so 35mm seems the perfect focal length for me?
I started researching on this focal length lenses on YouTube, watched a bunch of reviews and checked multiple Amazon and Ebay pages to compare prices, I laid my eyes on the Samyang 35mm f2.8 as well as the Samyang 35mm f1.4. The f2.8 version is rather cheap, only 230euro for autofocus lens, but is f2.8 gonna be enough of a difference to justify the cost? After all my superzoom can shoot f4 at 35mm and it doesn't sound like a big enough difference, so i eliminated the option of f2.8.
There are three types of Samyang 35mm available: the autofocus version, cost 540euro at this moment, but i heard many complaints about the autofocus accuracy, hunting as well as noise issues, that kinda just killed my desire for this lens, even though i'm a big fan of autofocus as you may know I got rid of two of my manual lenses samyang 85mm and 14mm and upgraded to autofocus completely. Then there's the manual version 35mm f1.4 and the cine version 35mm t1.5, the only difference is the cine lens has de-clicked aperture ring, means you can change aperture smoothly without noise while filming, another difference was that the photography version costed 450euro while the cine version was labelled at a low price of 336euro, hell yeah, how can I not get it? I kinda itch for manual focus after all this time, so cine lens it is!
Placed order and got the lens shortly after, discovered that it's A MOUNT instead of E Mount, i was so disappointed and my day was ruined. Went back home immediately started researching how to return item on Amazon while spending hours searching for a cheap adapter option from A mount to E mount.
To adapt A mount to E mount, the easiest option is using the Sony official adapters, but they cost a leg and an arm(150euro at least), so bloody expensive, not worth it for a manual lens. Then I got so confused about the adaptation type, I couldn't find much info on A mount to E mount beside the Sony adapters, and the reason was because A mount is also called Minolta AF, bloody hell, when I learned that my path became much clearer, yet another barrier showed up: some brands warned users that their adapter don't work on fullframe, but only on APS-C bodys, I got further confused, because it was even harder to find items that are labelled with fullframe when you are searching such a niche product. In the end thanks to redditors' recommendation and encouragement i ordered the K&F Concept adapter from minolta AF to NEX, and it bloody worked finally, phew! I can keep the lens!
Here's a video on the first impression and my rant about not being able to use the lens.
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I've been shooting with the Sony superzoom 24-240mm a lot recently and I discovered that when shooting landscape i often zoom in just a little bit to get tighter view yet not so zoomed in as 50mm, so 35mm seems the perfect focal length for me?
I started researching on this focal length lenses on YouTube, watched a bunch of reviews and checked multiple Amazon and Ebay pages to compare prices, I laid my eyes on the Samyang 35mm f2.8 as well as the Samyang 35mm f1.4. The f2.8 version is rather cheap, only 230euro for autofocus lens, but is f2.8 gonna be enough of a difference to justify the cost? After all my superzoom can shoot f4 at 35mm and it doesn't sound like a big enough difference, so i eliminated the option of f2.8.
There are three types of Samyang 35mm available: the autofocus version, cost 540euro at this moment, but i heard many complaints about the autofocus accuracy, hunting as well as noise issues, that kinda just killed my desire for this lens, even though i'm a big fan of autofocus as you may know I got rid of two of my manual lenses samyang 85mm and 14mm and upgraded to autofocus completely. Then there's the manual version 35mm f1.4 and the cine version 35mm t1.5, the only difference is the cine lens has de-clicked aperture ring, means you can change aperture smoothly without noise while filming, another difference was that the photography version costed 450euro while the cine version was labelled at a low price of 336euro, hell yeah, how can I not get it? I kinda itch for manual focus after all this time, so cine lens it is!
Placed order and got the lens shortly after, discovered that it's A MOUNT instead of E Mount, i was so disappointed and my day was ruined. Went back home immediately started researching how to return item on Amazon while spending hours searching for a cheap adapter option from A mount to E mount.
To adapt A mount to E mount, the easiest option is using the Sony official adapters, but they cost a leg and an arm(150euro at least), so bloody expensive, not worth it for a manual lens. Then I got so confused about the adaptation type, I couldn't find much info on A mount to E mount beside the Sony adapters, and the reason was because A mount is also called Minolta AF, bloody hell, when I learned that my path became much clearer, yet another barrier showed up: some brands warned users that their adapter don't work on fullframe, but only on APS-C bodys, I got further confused, because it was even harder to find items that are labelled with fullframe when you are searching such a niche product. In the end thanks to redditors' recommendation and encouragement i ordered the K&F Concept adapter from minolta AF to NEX, and it bloody worked finally, phew! I can keep the lens!
Here's a video on the first impression and my rant about not being able to use the lens.
and now I present to your my first impression after i got the adapter as well as a sample video:
In the end, i just wanna say, I am finally happy.
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