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Might sound like a Samyang fanboy but its worth bearing in mind that its MY far more expensive lenses its making me a look a bit silly with by more than competing with them in these tests The 24mm was up against a bona fide ten times the price cinema prime lens in that last test and it wasn't exactly getting humiliated wide open. Cinema lenses are great for continuity of performance across a set etc but for the rest of us the cost of those diminishing optical returns even on ONE lens are way better invested in other areas in my view.

You'd think I was fanatical about them considering how many of them I've got but its just a legacy of being old enough where you started with a 50mm with your SLR, then got a 24/28 and then a 135mm. And then stopped buying lenses Over time my needs changed (tricky to shoot football with a 135mm) so I don't actually own an AF one and my collection are all old and cheap ones that I have picked up along the way. I'd have to say that I don't really have a favourite as most 135mm lenses are pretty good but they are all usurped by the Nikon 105mm f2.5 that I re-bought last year. We'll know more after the World Cup next week though The fisheye one does, not unexpectedly ! The 14mm too when the conditions are right (ie wrong) but no more so than my Nikon 14-24mm so its always been something I've shot around anyway. I'll do a bit of a test next week.

I'm not sure I'm going to get that used Samyang 135mm tomorrow after all. After discovering two, admittedly pretty old, 135mm lenses that I forgot that I had in an old camera bag I realise that I may have a slight addiction problem with 135mm lenses. So much so that I am going to have to do a World Cup playoff tournament next week to eliminate at least half of them before I can bring another one home !

You are a braver man than me ! It's not really my area but with regard to the vibration reduction, the Rigwheels Cloud Mount seems to be one isolation solution that is well regarded. ProAim make something for a lot less money that appears to have been, erm, "inspired" by the original. https://www.proaim.com/proaim-grip-master-vibration-isolator-magnetic-car-mount.html This video shows a self built version of a similar concept.

We had a thread about this that didn't get much action but I put a link in it to a UK company that does a large array of affordable mounts for car shoots.

This one is less picky about sending to his own country https://www.ebay.es/itm/Anschlusskabel-passt-zu-Fujifilm-HS50EXR-fur-Kabelausloser-Auslosekabel-RR-80A/272844853447?hash=item3f86d210c7:g:i2kAAOSwng9ZuEii

I was tempted to say that its because the prototype is a rehoused Nikon mount lens and my guess was going to be a Tokina as they are a popular brand to re-house and are also much cheaper than Nikkors. Then I saw the that it was 20-70mm rather than 24-70mm. I can't actually think of a 20-70mm lens. I then thought that perhaps it was something like the Sigma 17-70mm f2.8-4 and they were limiting the wide end to 17mm as it is only constant aperture at 20mm onwards but I would say that was too slow to be T3.1. Very curious. Maybe it is not a re-housed lens after all. DZO only make one DSLR lens but they do make a lot of other lens types for industry so it doesn't rule it out being a completely original new design. The one DSLR lens they do make is no slouch by the way https://www.dzoptics.com/en/35mm-slr-lens

If it is an RR80 then this is a compatible one with a less prominent shell (which I'm presuming are for for the resistors) and a coiled cable which you should be able to cable tie up if you want it shorter. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cable-Met-K-Compatible-with-the-Remote-Release-Fujifilm-RR-80/352279060053?hash=item520577de55:g:peIAAOSwD~FbwLjF If you want to make it permanently shorter then just cut and splice after the housing like this

Sekor C lenses were for their medium format 645 system and CS lenses were for their 35mm system.

I haven't used any of the other ones to be honest but at first glance I would say the preset memories for camera/focus settings and joystick integration would be a couple of differences. Hope that helps.

Yep, its the current winner. I do feel morally obliged as a fully paid up member of the remoaning liberal elite to take a Leica though

Yeah, my acceptance of whatever will happen has reached the point where I'm returning to go on the march on Saturday but I'm more exercised about what camera to take to document it with than fretting over whether a million people marching through the streets of London will influence the outcome whatsoever !

Well there is a connection between her and I... We're both from Liverpool, her name is Comer and thanks to Brexit I often feel like I'm in one.

Sounds uncannily familiar. Did it rain a lot there too ? I love Escape Room places. Played one in Madrid recently that was based on a Cold War scenario having to find evidence in a spy's flat (with perfect period decor) of a plot to launch a first strike that culminated in having to enter a code into a Commodore PET to send the abort codes to the missiles. I killed us all, sadly.

Ooh that was me, that was me !

Its definitely an SA mount. If it is a used one and you can't get a refund/exchange then you will be able to sell it on without too much loss as it is a very popular lens for SD Quattro owners. Sigma themselves offer a permanent mount change service but the price of this went up not so long ago and it is now more expensive than any loss you'll take selling it and re-buying another used one in EF mount.

Unusual to the very end.

Irrespective of the length of the post, it contained very worthwhile content so I certainly wouldn't be down on yourself for that let alone ask for it to be removed.

No it connects over wifi as per their web interface stuff. Its actually going to form part of a far more elaborate controller for multiple JVC units so other versions will be able to more than just turn the record on and off This was more of a solution to a personal pet peeve I have with it and as a proof of concept after, erm, figuring out how their web control worked.

They are quite cheap in the UK too https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Olympus-M-Zuiko-Digital-15mm-1-8-0-F8-BCL-1580-Body-Cap-Lens-White/123095987776?epid=1708126927&hash=item1ca917b640:g:X9UAAOSwXrBa3ico I find that the quirkier coloured lenses like white ones (and silver for quite a few as well) tend to be sold off cheaper.

Those of you who follow me on Twitter (all one of you ) may have seen me referring to developing a controller for the LS300 and other JVC cameras. One thing that bugs me when recording externally with it it still having to use the fold out LCD display to see the current settings, which isn't ideally ergonomically but also its pretty difficult to see. So here in all its taped up glory is my first mini-product for the LS300 which is a small wireless status display which shows current settings and can be mounted on a tripod handle, a gimbal handle, a rig or on the monitor itself. And has a small switch in it tor remote start/stop recording.

The value of the £ is somewhat, erm, "fluid" depending on where we are in the shambles on any given day but even so it shouldn't have lurched that much !

That's precisely what I did. So if @Kisaha clicked where the red arrow goes he gets to the exact post, rather than clicking where the blue arrow goes which takes him to the first post. The issue was his link clicking game being weak

Make sure you click the arrow top right it will take you directly to the post. Its Page 362 mate. Although its 362 on my phone might be different on a laptop etc.

Some white wall based comparison testing with the 18-35mm on the LensRegain, the Metabones 0.71x and a dumb adapter on the Pocket4K for you. Including downloadable files to peep with