I can only guarantee that the TSAPO65Q would work very well. The article was based on the numerous lenses with which I have personal experience - that is naturally limited. But I would argue that a 135mm F2 lens produces even greater bokeh, thanks to the long focal length that compresses the background far more than the 85mm lens. When I got home and loaded the photo into Lightroom I was blown away by two things. It is NOT extremely sharp wide open, it often requires massive AF adjustment on DLSRs (sometimes beyond what the body allows as micro-adjustment) and AF is not reliable enough to consistently ensure sharp focus at full aperture. I have never had a bad experience buying used Canon lenses from eBay sellers with 99.5%+ positive feedback. As you know, camera lenses come in varying focal lengths, apertures, and optical quality. There's just nothing there. I think prime users get too used to the idea of bokeh as the only answer. In between interviews with executives of the major companies, Dale Baskin took to the show floor to bring you this report. We've selected a group of cameras that are easy to keep with you, and that can adapt to take photos wherever and whenever something memorable happens. Wonderful image quality, lots of detail, contrasty, subject separation, fast and accurate AF, bright viewfinder, solid construction, unobtrusive in use, No weather sealing, makes all my other lenses look poor (even the 'L' zooms that, when I first got them, imagined could hardly be improved on). Definitely now on my to-buy list. Yes there's bokeh. For the rest there is Sigma 135 /1.8 Art also fantastic value lens. (purchased for $700), reviewed June 13th, 2009 The image below was captured using a DSLR and 135mm lens on the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer mount. Nikon 300/4 ED IF, Sigma 50/2.8 DG Macro (not a telephoto, but good). At least not in my camera (Sony A6000), the focal length in a crop sensor does not make it very suitable for portrait, the photo detail is something else, but without AF that type of photography with that focal distance and at least 80 cm of the subject it requires too much dedication, with how comfortable the DMF approach mode is for that type of photography Also in my mount it does not have any communication with the camera (it does not have a chip, it only has it for Nikon). CP+ 2023: Sigma has announced it is bringing its trio of DC DN APS-C prime lenses to Nikon's Z mount: its first lenses for Nikon's mirrorless system. It is a parade of photos that should have been galled out after a boring Sunday afternoon shoot of "Think I'll bring along a camera when I walk the dog", There are so many things wrong in this 'review' -- most of all the idea that 'you' should get this lens and somehow it magically makes the duck or the cat stuck right in the center of picture a great photo! But when holes in text prompt me to look at the work of the writer, there is nothing professional there either. Im currently shooting with a Canon 60D. Chromatic aberration is almost eliminated in narrowband, so lenses with that problem may be fine performers. The flat lens hood is great for taking flat frames after a night of astrophotography. Please ride off on the same horse you rode in on. Your first serious portrait lens should be a modern stabilized 70-200 f/2.8. It's a technical review about a couple of lens attributes. If you buy a nifty fifty or a 100mm macro lens you simply cannot go wrongyou will get a great and handy lens for your money, with great image quality. It's an ideal portrait lens. Seems to me that Michael is pretty new to using long telephoto lenses, he writes that the Samyang is the first he has owned. Any experience with this camera and would this lens be a good fit? Image quality is great, it is tack-sharp wide-open even though for partraiture, a little bit of softness is needed. Thats quite a jump from 135mm, so the camera body you use with this lens may change the types of targets you shoot. This is great news if you like to photograph small things up close. No telephoto lens can be used with cameras modified by the removal of the internal UV/IR cut filter and anti-aliasing filter. The finish and texture of the Rokinon 135mm F/2 is a step up from the 14mm F/2.8 I ordered a few years ago. Agreed. $449.00. Do I wish it were manufactured with metal? Check them out for yourself! Also, when used as recommended, and properly guided at full camera resolution, they are all comparable to a field-corrected APO, producing perfect images from edge to edge which can be easily cropped 25% with no evidence of aberrations. As rest you do just by cropping or stitching. So.. its like there is one F stop not being used by the lens..how do you know what click is for what F stop?? I would love to see his test images. Family moments are precious and sometimes you want to capture that time spent with loved ones or friends in better quality than your phone can manage. We've combed through the options and selected our two favorite cameras in this class. The one and only 300mm lens I tested is the Zeiss Tele-Tessar 300mm F4. Big F-value.Light. What's the best camera for shooting sports and action? Canon 300/4 ED IF AF (non-IS) It is sharp but somehow not that analytic way as a macro lens. Do you expect me to gawk? Focusing a wide open F/2 lens is demanding of the optics, especially on a field of stars in the night sky. Very sharp even at f2, build quality, price, weight, autofocus is fast, bokeh, No IS, flare, autofocus isn't quite as consistent as some newer lenses, focus speed, image quality, predictability, Image quality, build like a tank, focus ring, weight. Since Eric was so generous to share his images with me, I had to include his photo of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex as well. OK guysTOS rule number one "Posts that are not respectful of other individuals (be they members or not) are not welcome here.". Deserves to be in the camera hall of fame. Lens hood - when I bought this lens years ago the included hood was rather cheap (perhaps Canon has updated the hood) by comparison with other hoods. Let's the games begin! Just like the above samples, most are just bad. Lots of older lenses no longer satisfy. I got mine for $60.00 on Craigslist but seen them on eBay for $100 and less all the time. Orion nebula shot with Canon T3i and Rokinon 135mm @ F2.0 150 shots with dark bias and flats stacked and edited. It requires the Contax-EOS adapter for attachment to the camera. This lens is available on Amazon for most camera bodies. Another lens to consider at this focal length (at maximum zoom) is the Rokinon 135mm F/2. Rokinon FE14M-C Lens. Creamy smooth bokeh. Aside from being much more affordable, telephoto lenses are easier to transport, easier to mount and easier to guide, and are much more likely to produce encouraging results to a beginner. Samyang 135mm F/2 ED UMC Review (Camera Labs), Does a F/2.0 lens become F/2.8 when used on a crop sensor camera? Click on following link to view images However, I find the process tedious, and prefer single, manually guided, long exposures which seem to have deeper colors. If you can tolerate vignetting, there are many normal 35mm lenses that are great wide open. This way you get both lenses with only one! (And cost less too). They are by nature designed to compromise by magnification and distance, and are therefore not optically optimized at any single setting. "That is why when SLRs came along the 200mm became the big seller and the 135 was largely forgotten"Did you notice that this 135mm F2 lens on an APS-C camera is more or less equivalent to a 200mm F2.8 lens on an FF camera ?So this lens can be seen as the 200mm F2.8 lens for APS-C camera users. In fact, a light-weight 200/2.8 seems more interesting to own (e.g., the Minolta 200/2.8). Asahi Optical's Pentax KX was one of the first cameras with this lens mount, acting as a midrange model in the lineup. I should mention that I have only tested this full-frame lens using my astrophotography DSLRs, all of which are crop-sensor camera bodies. Samyang 135mm f2, 100mm f2.8, and asperical 16mm f2.8. The lens is not weather-sealed, so you definitely dont want to leave your camera and lens (and your tracking mount!) We case our eye over the options costing more than $2500 but less than $4000, to find the best all-rounder. You won't get the excessive background blurr -- which for the beginning photographer may actually be a good thing. However, when my Canon "L" lenses are used at f8 they are all very sharp and the 135L does not blow the others away. (purchased for $899), reviewed March 19th, 2012 Second night out with mine right now and I am here in the comments looking for the part number or link! Proper composition, light and retouching are much prefferable to crazy gooey bokeh. But in the rush to make hybrids why are aren't we giving video shooters the tools they need? Will this ever get old? My Nikon focus and aperture rings are a thing of highly finessed engineering beauty! Particular properties of modern 135/2 lenses are resolution with e.g. If experience has taught me anything, its that the practical, pain-free equipment that gets the most use under the stars. Looking forward to allow purchasing the Canon 200mm f/2.8L II USM. (purchased for $1,000), reviewed January 1st, 2007 I also find the other photos not very good. (Actually if I can live with the DoF I prefer it to my 85/1.2 too, as there is much less bonus colour.) The 5D's larger pixels also make chromatic aberration somewhat lower at most apertures. It actually makes my eyes water as I try to resolve how bad the blurriness is. The APO showed no chromatic aberration at all with the addition of the Astronomik UV/IR cut clip filter (passing 380-680nm), but the telephoto lenses, even when stopped down, showed a tight bright red ring around all stars. The Sadr Region in Cygnus, including the Crescent Nebula by Eric Cauble. $399 00. I think youll find that this lens is behind some of the most amazing wide-field astrophotography images online! If anything the argument in favor of even smaller and lighter 85/1.4s (like the 600g Sigma DN) is stronger than ever, and I say that as someone that loves shooting at 135-150mm. I have the Sony SaL 135F1.8 Zeiss Lens and think that is excellent. AF is accurate and very fast. I find 400gm as the tolerable weight limit for a lens on my panasonic gx85, and I am guessing following telephoto lenses would satisfy the itch to get good bokeh shots, 1. Valerio, I sold my Canon Lens because in Nikon Lens there is a Defocus control option, very usefull in a daylight photos, as portrait. To prevent damage to the lens finish, apply nylon acorn nuts (or cap nuts) to the tips of the retaining ring's three alignment screws. Check out Most of the available 135mm F2 lenses have a very short minimum focusing distance in relation to the focal length, creating a magnification ratio of around 0.2 - 0.25. The foolproof image seems to be more a case of how a bright fuzzy cluttered moving background can completely detach from the offset dark subject matter and overwhelm it. No more inside shooting with flash! Jordan has a simple fix camera manufacturers could implement to improve their video autofocus. By far the best one is the Tiffen Haze 2 filter. Stellarium has a great viewport feature that allows you to preview different lens and sensor combinations on DSO's before you decide on the focal length you want. Nothing just makes sense about the review -- the writer does not really understand the lens he is reviewing, very basic concepts are wrong. Hey Trevor, great article! http://www.radiantlite.com/2009/01/canon-135mm-f2l-usm-mini-review.html This is a very popular lens, and I am sure there are a ton of lens test reports for it available online. Standards have risen in recent years. the lens is built strong, very strong. But you just know that there is the professionalism that is lacking here -- and the writer's Instagram page confirms that. I had both for a while. Would it at all be possible to at least make sure the people you publish know a little bit about photography? You can go lower, but you have to watch your technique. 2. In my test, nikon have the same color correction than Canon and same sharpness. This photo was captured with the Samyang 135mm F/2 lens using a UV/IR cut filter and a QHY168C dedicated astronomy camera. Some real life images from my photoblog: http://hellabella.de, One of the best and sharpest lens around. The Canon is about as sharp as the Samyang, but it has some very slight chromatic aberration. Thanks! Deep-sky astrophotography is often associated with a camera and telescope, but the truth is there are a lot of great camera lenses for astrophotography out there. For those of you that like to pixel-peep, have a look at the single image frame captured using the Rokinon 135mm F/2.0 ED UMC at F/4. From my experience, the toughest test on a lense is its ability to function wide open. For my purposes, this is a spectacular lens. Barney and Chris have been shooting the new Sony 50mm F1.4 GM, and we have a bunch of full resolution samples for you to peruse. Also, the lens can only be operated when aperture is set to 22, wondering how I could use F2. Required fields are marked *. If the title had been: "Testing My First Telephoto and LOVING IT!!!!!!!. Your Baader filter passes 420-680nm and, in theory, a good APO should be able to focus that part of the spectrum with no chromatic aberration. I bought my lens in mint condition for $350 from Japan, but I see that some retailers are asking significantly more. The Best Telephoto Lenses for Astrophotography. Find out what happens when Chris shoots some very expired APS film using old Canon and Nikon cameras. And you can even crop a 135 efl with today's sensors should you actually need it. A quick question, I have a Sony a6300 mirrorless camera which is great but the sensor is very close behind the mount. I've recently started using 135 and 200mm lenses from the 1970s with my mono CCD and they've proven very useful for imaging large emission nebulae. To me it is a dead spot between 85 and 200. Ive been using kit lenses for the past year, favoring the Nikkor 50mm 2.8. Sure, the Nifty 50 is an incredible value (and a LOT cheaper), but the 135mm puts you within range of some of the best astrophotography targets in the night sky. And yet this review is on front page of DPReview prompting me to go and buy this lens -- so surely it must be a professional , well grounded review, right? For DPReview, it's also an opportunity for a good old-fashioned camera fight. This lens flares easily and the flare can be especially ugly if a sun or flash are in the frame. The thing is, on my APS-C body the 100mm is challenging enough. Photography is full of fuzzy concepts. Prime means that this lens is fixed at 135mm, it is not a zoom lens that allows for focal length adjustments. Using the lens's diaphragm interferes with the light path and results in diffraction spikes which I find unattractive. The Japanese word "bokeh" can be translated into English as "blur". One very popular lens for bokeh fiends is the Canon 85mm F1.2it can produce extremely creamy out of focus backgrounds. It is so sharp it makes you rethink the use of your zoom lenses. (cont. 200mm Astrobin photos (not taken by me): https://www.astrobin.m USM F2.8 L II When you buy a lens with fantastic sharpness and image quality at all apertures, you typically expect it to cost $1,200 on up. We always expect to see some drop in performance (particularly corner sharpness) when we move from testing on a sub-frame to a full-frame camera, but the 135mm f/2L turned in a really remarkable performance even at full-frame. (purchased for $1,625), reviewed January 27th, 2010 Although this lens feels solid, it is rather light when compared to a telescope. The aesthetic quality of the blur in the out-of-focus parts of the image are buttery smooth and soft. It just doesn't get any better than this! I do not think telephoto lenses would be suitable for use with your modified camera. Chris referred to the Canon RF 16mm F2.8 STM as 'a little gem'! I wanted to add my experience with some lenses that I thought worthy of being considered too, and some of the equipment that I have used. 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The cat is a case for the bit bucket i my opinion - it has no composition, a distracting background and a random parts of the body in focus - the same picture made with a smart phone could not look worse. Also, accurate guiding is essential. The 135mm f2.8 in particular can take amazing photos of the brighter deep sky objects with about 1 second time . I am a complete amateur at photography in general and this is all new to me so thank you for all the information and videos. Super Sharp.Super Fast AF. I do know, however, that I can take an equally framed photo I've shot with my Canon kit lens, both zoomed to 100% I run circles around this guy. Take care not to confuse this lens with the 200mm F4 SMC Takumar 6x7 which has a different optical configuration, and which I have never tested. Seems like a great lens. Digital sensors are roughly 5 times as sharp as 400-speed film. Image quality, weight and value for money. Not heavy like the white tele-zooms. To fit the Heart and Soul Nebulae in a single frame requires an extremely wide field of view (compared to the magnification of most telescopes). The lens shows a very slight pincushion distortion, but it's well under 0.1% of frame height, an excellent performance by any measure. We have come to accept that most lenses are strong in only one or two of these three factors, that I personally focus on when researching lenses to buy. Finally, although we don't explicitly test for it, we have to note that this lens' bokeh (rendering of out-of-focus objects) is really excellent as well. In this post, Ill explain why I think the Rokinon 135mm F/2 is the perfect addition to an arsenal of astrophotography lenses. While they provide a very large flat field we noticed some CA.
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