{"id":13408,"date":"2011-05-12T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T10:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=13408"},"modified":"2011-05-13T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:54:12","slug":"samyang35mm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/samyang35mm\/","title":{"rendered":"A really nice “budget” manual focus (and on lens aperture!) 35mm F1.4 lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 35mm lens is one of those key lenses you should have in your kit, like a 50mm and an 85mm. Especially if you are using a crop sensor camera. On those camera cameras it gives you your standard lens field of view.<\/p>\n

There are loads of 35mm lenses out there. The best one, certainly for video has just been released. The Zeiss 35mm F1.4 is beautiful.<\/a> Lovely optics. Fast. Incredibly well made. Unfortunately out of the price bracket of many people as it’s around $1900. Worth the money? Yes if you are a pro for sure.<\/p>\n

For others, a really nice new option has come out for about a quarter of the price.<\/p>\n

The Samyang 35mm F1.4 is a manual focus lens. No auto in this (neither has the Zeiss), but that is fine for video. In fact it’s great as we have hard stops on the focus. Also key for me is the iris is actually on the lens rather than controlled via the camera. The video guy in me much prefers this and of course with an adaptor you can use this lens on other cameras like the AF101 or F3 with a Canon EOS adaptor and still have iris control.<\/p>\n

It actually has been made in various mounts…Canon, Pentax, Nikon, 4\/3, Sony etc…<\/p>\n

Quality wise…it’s not a Zeiss, but it’s pretty nice and for the money great value.<\/p>\n

I haven’t shot any video with it yet. But here a couple of photos of my cats on the Canon 5Dmk2. It covers both the full frame and the APS-C<\/p>\n

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