Ultrawide lens test
May 30, 2020 16:29:47 #
amfoto1
Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA
I've been looking for an ultrawide to use on a compact mirrorless camera (Canon M5). Came across a Meike 12mm f/2.8 demo unit... and was very skeptical. Not a brand I'd usually look to for a lens! But, what the heck, it was only $125 (sells new for under $200).
Manual focus, manual aperture, surprisingly nice "feel" to the controls and mostly metal construction. Nice caps and plastic "tulip" lens hood (bayonet with a latching mechanism.... unfortunately doesn't reverse onto the lens for storage).
Photo below was shot with it yesterday (outside my local Starbucks, which has finally reopened!) Aperture was f/8. 24MP, APS-C camera. A B+W Kaesemann C-Pol was used (uneven effect, as might be expected on an ultrawide). I only did a little tweaking to the exposure and some slight sharpening to the image, which is uncropped, although it's downsized a bit from the full 4000x6000 pixel original.
Let me know what you think...
Manual focus, manual aperture, surprisingly nice "feel" to the controls and mostly metal construction. Nice caps and plastic "tulip" lens hood (bayonet with a latching mechanism.... unfortunately doesn't reverse onto the lens for storage).
Photo below was shot with it yesterday (outside my local Starbucks, which has finally reopened!) Aperture was f/8. 24MP, APS-C camera. A B+W Kaesemann C-Pol was used (uneven effect, as might be expected on an ultrawide). I only did a little tweaking to the exposure and some slight sharpening to the image, which is uncropped, although it's downsized a bit from the full 4000x6000 pixel original.
Let me know what you think...
May 30, 2020 16:39:15 #
May 30, 2020 16:57:21 #
amfoto1 wrote:
I've been looking for an ultrawide to use on a com... (show quote)
Excellent IQ, now let us see just how long it last.
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