18Feb Samyang 24mm F/3.5 Tilt Shift Lens for Canon Nikon Sony
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Here’s an interesting new 24mm F/3.5 Tilt-Shift lens from Samyang. This is the first tilt shift i’ve seen from the company even when branded under Rokinon, Bower, and sometimes Vivitar. There’s not much information on the new lens just yet, and it’s too rich for my blood, but it’s already available and listing for just [...]
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11Feb Samyang 24mm F/1.4 Lens Discounted
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Since the Rokinon 24mm F/1.4 had been released, i’ve kept a close eye on it. I haven’t decided to pick it up just yet mainly because I was working with the Full Frame cameras. Now that i’ve been using the BlackMagic Design Cinema camera and Micro Four Thirds GH3, i’m finding this focal length is [...]
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29Nov Great Deals on Bower Lens Discounts
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Every now and then the DSLR market goes wild when they can score a $500 dollar Rokinon 35mm F/1.4 lens for $350 dollars on a Daily Deal. I’ve seen these things sell out in literally minutes for that price. Well, If you didn’t know this already, these lenses can be found under different names such [...]
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24May Samyang 35mm F/1.4 on 5D Mark II
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Very few samples are online about Samyang’s latest 35mm F/1.4 lens, but here’s the one I was interested in from Vimeo member Didier Hartong. While a lens may look fine on a Canon 7D, it could look totally different on a Full Frame camera. This is a decent test of the Samyang on a Canon [...]
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05May Samyang 35mm F/1.4 – Finally Available
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The disaster in Japan set back quite a few products including the long awaited Samyang 35mm F/1.4 lens. A nice follow up to the already popular budget 85mm prime lens, the new 35mm is finally available.
Samyang 35mm F/1.4 UMC AS
Don’t forget that these lenses are quickly re-colored and re-branded under names like Bower, [...]
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25Feb The Shift without the Shift – 500mm Mirror Lens
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I’m still set on getting some type of Tilt Shift lens (eventually), but if you just want to experiment putting some videos together you can do this without an actual Tilt Shift lens. One of the popular tricks is to shoot far. Really far. Here’s an example of a Tilt Shift video I posted that [...]
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22Dec Budget Manual Focus 85mm F/1.4 Lens
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Samyang, Rokinon, Bower, or Vivitar. It’s believed they are all the same lens, with a slightly modified exterior and sold under various brands. Who knows what these lenses are being sold as, but then again you might not even care. Rumor mill has it that these lenses are being made out of Korea providing images [...]
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