Street Photography with the Canon 35mm f/2 (April 15, 2012)

[cmontoya]

---

A few friends and I went downtown specifically in the Carbon Market area to shoot. Luckily, this gave me a chance to field test the Canon 35mm f/2. I love it!

1


2


3


4


5


6


7


8


9


10

[eag]

Nice set! I like the field of view of this lens

[cmontoya]

@eag: Thank you. You have one too? It's definitely an underrated lens just like the Nifty Fifty. It would probably be on my cam most of the time unless I need to take out zoom in a situation where I can't move back or forward

[martiniko]

wow....nice street bhai!!! wish i have a 35mm now....

[pepponeskie]

nice set fafs..

how does it compare to samyang 35mm 1.4 kaha sa...i read nga pildi daw ang 35 1.4L sa samyang.

i think im buying this lens soon.

[cmontoya]

@martiniko: Thank you. Please read reviews about the Canon 28mm f/1.8, Sigma 30mm f/1.4, Canon 35mm f/2, and Samyang 35mm f/1.4. Please also view actual photos taken with the above lenses in flickr or photozone.de. Then decide which one you prefer based on your shooting style.

@pepponeskie: Based on my own research, the Samyang 35mm f/1.4's IQ beats all 35mms except maybe the German-made equivalent lenses (wala pa guro makapildi Leica or Zeiss guro, he he). I really wanted the Samyang bai but sadly it's only a manual focus lens. If you're a Canon user, don't think about buying a Nikon version and then using a Nikon to EOS adapter with focus confirm chip. While it does work, I read one user short circuiting his EOS because bati na adapter iya napalit. I think nindot ang Samyang 35mm f/1.4 kung videographer pud ka using the HD capture of your DSLR.

With that said, if the Samyang 35mm f/1.4 were half its current price, I would have probably gotten it. Nindot pud guro kung naa ka old EOS DSLR na pwede i-change ang screen to split screen or anything that would help you manually focus. Kung Nikon user ka, I think mga Nikon DSLRs mu-focus confirm man gihapon kung MF lens. Not sure though.

[cmontoya]

And I really don't know whether Samyang has an authorized service center in Manila.

At least for the following 3rd parties...

Sigma = JT Photoworld?

Tamron = Photokina Marketing Corp.? (Reason why I got a Tamron and Aperture Trading offered a 2-year warranty, i.e., sila padala to/from Manila for free).

But do these brands have?

Tokina = ?

Samyang = ?

So i-consider pud nato availability of service centers for our gears kay kung wala, labad dyud sa ulo Ako Nissin di622 Mark 1, I don't even know how to have it fixed kay mag-misfire.

[cmontoya]

Pero based on this flickr set of Samyang 35mm f/1.4, Flickr: The Samyang 35mm f/1.4 AS UMC Pool

It also shares the same vignetting characteristics. Unsa ba dyud pronunciation ani?

Veenyet? Vignet?

[pepponeskie]

mao sd na akong nabasa sa mga forums nga ang samyang ok pod...walay blema sa chip ana, pwede ra ka makapalit ug AF chip sa ebay, mao ra na akong gi buhat sa akong samyang 85mm, ako ra gi epoxy ang chip sa mount. karon mo beep cya ug na focus na, mo meter napod.

[cmontoya]

@pep: I'm not that brave bai 85mm imo gamit sa mga photos bago nimo gi-share sa Street Photography Show & Tell? If yes, pagka-hait.