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Absolutely gorgeous locations, wonderful scenic shots, and some slightly ominous musical chords. What a strange and different presentation, entirely consistent with a reflex lens' characteristics.
No Comments This Vid made me curious about Karelia. I want to photo travel again :(
The astrophotography sample photos in this video are cropped images - for instance Jupiter with it's moons, are much smaller in the original photo. The same goes for the Orion Nebula and the Moon. All these image were shot using the Tokina Reflex 300 F6.3 lens on an Olympus OM-D E-M10 camera attached to a star tracker. Astrophotography is a specialised area, and to get sharp images with high magnification, it is necessary to use a star tracker on a tripod. This kind of photos usually need a bit more post processing than ordinary photos. If you don't know astrophotography, I strongly recommend reading about it before getting into it - it is one of the least spontaneous activities there is.
I save you now. The need for contorting your face and shut your other eye while somposing is only selftelling. That unnessesary effort steals away from the photographeyjoy. You should relax in your face, then put your viewfinder to your eye and merely focus on what your composing eye is seeing in the viewfinder, without torturing your face.
dude you shoot on the rain, how is your lens, you said should protect from water?
I'm really liking what I see from this lens. Hoping to give it a go on my X-T2 to replace my Celestron C90 MAK, which is another (much older) catadioptric lens, but is anything but portable
Quality wise, vs the P900 on the moon and such? About the same or worse?
Is it weather sealed? I see you are using it in rain
This is a really small mirror reflex lens designed for APS-C cameras. Usually lenses designed for APS-C cameras loose some of their sharpness when attached to micro 4/3 cameras. For lovers of mirror lenses the Tokina 300mm f/6.3 mirror reflex lens is even smaller and designed only for mirrorless micro 4/3 lenses and has the same equivalent focal length of 600mm . For me it is better to compare a mirror lens to another mirror lens than a mirror lens to a conventional lens with many glass elements inside. It is something like comparing at the same focal length a super zoom lens to a prime lens. No matter the price difference the super zoom lens is inferior than a prime lenses at a specific angle of view and aperture I love mirror reflex lenses and superzoom lenses because they are more convenient than optically good. The software nowadays is very advanced and can't correct many optical issues like barrel distortion, chromatic aberration, vignetting, low contrast, poor satisfaction and at a certain degree sharpness. In the case of using photos mostly in social networks the necessity for very high quality of optics is less. I have both full frame and APS-C e-mount cameras. I use the old autofocus Sony 500mm f/8 a-mount mirror reflex lens with the autofocus Sony LA-EA4 a-mount to e-mount adapter on a full frame Sony a7 camera. The combination is not very large neither heavy. The autofocus with this mirror reflex lens is unique and very convenient but after many hours of uninterrupted travel photography it feels a little heavy for me. I am strongly thinking of buying the e-mount version of the Samyang 300mm f/6.3 reflex mirror and use it without any adapter on my old APS-C e-mount Sony NEX camera. The Samyang has half the size and weight and the equivalent focal length is 450mm close to the full frame Sony 500mm f/8 a-mount lens. I should be mentioned that the Samyang 500mm f/6.3 can take a 58mm front filter and a much smaller back filter too.
For Bagel lovers the bokeh is great. Actually I will buy it and try to shoot bagels with this interesting bokeh.
Hey! Will this lense fit the Sony a6000?
Best explanation (talking about real world use) for this type of lens I found.
Did you pre-set the IBIS to handle 300mm manual focus lens? I'm asking because I have the Oly 75-300mm and I find that the IBIS on both my original E-M5 and in my E-M1 MK2 is extremely effective at 300mm. It makes it very easy to handle that lens at 300mm, but being an Automatic lens, the IBIS adjust the focal length as you zoom. With a manual lens, you need to tell the camera IBIS first what is the focal length you are using.
The best mirrorlenses can be sharper than many "traditional" lenses if using fast shuttertimes and a tripod ! Remember allways to use a lens hood, specially very important on cheaper lenses, you will get lower contrast without a lens hood !
its F6 , but if you calculate in the central obstruction because its useless for light , then its not F6 but F8 , or eqal to full glass F8 , and even that its not correct ,because mirrors loses more light then Glass , so its actually F10 /300mm , or exactly as bright as full glass lens at F10 . S othe price of 250$ is not a bargin , its 2x as it should be . Becosue chinese dont care about facts , they are selling F6 , its is you that will get F10 . Now these modern Reviewers have no clue what are they Reviweing , god forbid telling you what the damn thing actually is .But i told you so its all fixed . Even the F6 cheap Glass will be faster and sharper and cheaper
Mirror lenses are great. I was shooting with mine the other day2100mm f10. Great for wildlife and reading a newspaper a mile away.
Can i put another 2x convertor there? I was at a shop and the owner said no
This might be useful for some sneaky long range street portraits. Also, I really like the shots of those geese!
300 better than all or more than 300 if yes then which all
I love the bokeh on this
your accent is bizarre, it's not Britishor anything else
00:01 um, this is awkward but. if you "haven't got a budget" then that means you can afford anything you want you meant to say "for those who are on a budget"
can we use this lens on canon eos m50 ?
3:45 Oh no!
I got one made in Russia in the 80's, 800mm, a Maksutov type, it's an interesting lens and certainly a talking peice but deep down it's just a catadioptric telescope and not a very good at that, i don't even think it can focus to Infinity on my 1D Mark IV.
AFAIK this lens is not produced any longer.
This is a really small mirror reflex lens designed for APS-C cameras. Usually lenses designed for APS-C cameras loose some of their sharpness when attached to micro 4/3 cameras. For lovers of mirror lenses the Tokina 300mm f/6.3 mirror reflex lens is even smaller and designed only for mirrorless micro 4/3 lenses and has the same equivalent focal length of 600mm . For me it is better to compare a mirror lens to another mirror lens than a mirror lens to a conventional lens with many glass elements inside. It is something like comparing at the same focal length a super zoom lens to a prime lens. No matter the price difference the super zoom lens is inferior than a prime lenses at a specific angle of view and aperture I love mirror reflex lenses and superzoom lenses because they are more convenient than optically good. The software nowadays is very advanced and can't correct many optical issues like barrel distortion, chromatic aberration, vignetting, low contrast, poor satisfaction and at a certain degree sharpness. In the case of using photos mostly in social networks the necessity for very high quality of optics is less. I have both full frame and APS-C e-mount cameras. I use the old autofocus Sony 500mm f/8 a-mount mirror reflex lens with the autofocus Sony LA-EA4 a-mount to e-mount adapter on a full frame Sony a7 camera. The combination is not very large neither heavy. The autofocus with this mirror reflex lens is unique and very convenient but after many hours of uninterrupted travel photography it feels a little heavy for me. I am strongly thinking of buying the e-mount version of the Samyang 300mm f/6.3 reflex mirror and use it without any adapter on my old APS-C e-mount Sony NEX camera. The Samyang has half the size and weight and the equivalent focal length is 450mm close to the full frame Sony 500mm f/8 a-mount lens. I should be mentioned that the Samyang 500mm f/6.3 can take a 58mm front filter and a much smaller back filter too.
mirror lenses do not have chromatic abberation because mirrors essentially don't have dispersion at all
Sharper corners can occure on those kind of lenses, you have not seen enough lenses if it is your first time, next time use a camera with in-body stabilizer ;)
My Soviet MC Tair-3S Photosniper is way sharper and has great contrast, it is also steadier thanks to the weird focus mechanism and the rifle stock. Well, it is about 4-5 times the length and perhaps well over 10 times the weight, but who cares.
How Sharp the image quality of this lens was atatch on Canon EOS M6 Mark ii Christ?
I use a 800mm mirrorlens on my apsc Sony. It’s a fun lens. Great for pictures of the moon
Ngl some of the vingetting and pincushion distortion of this lens looks as bad as cheap clip on phone zoom lenses
Surely it's obvious why the lens is sharper at the edges than the middle.
MFT mount version of this lens is PERFECT for GH5. The stabalization works beautifully and you can great quality out of this handheld or on a monopod.
It's clearly softer in the center because the center is a corner in this lens! :)
A telescope on a camera
Mirror lenses have a secondary mirror in the middle of the front element of the lens to send the image back to the camera. This explains the ring shaped bokeh and the poor central quality compared to the corners
I think the quality problems in the centre of frame is typical of that kind of mirror setup. The second mirror is literally in the centre of the larger mirror's field of view after all! I recall this being a problem with telescopes (where this design originated) and if I recall the short distance between the lenses and the relatively large size of the second mirror to the first probably contribute to the quality loss. If there is anyone more knowledgable about mirror lenses or telescopes here, feel free to correct me.
I have the Samyang 500mm and 800mm reflex lenses. They came with a perfectly awful X2 tele-converter. They have a T (T2) thread for the camera adaptor, not M42 which has a different thread pitch. Used on micro four thirds (M4/3) they want the shallowest T-M4/3 adaptor available to ensure they focus at infinity, these short adapters can be found as astronomy accessories. Used on M4/3 we get a 2X crop factor which doubles the image size compared to FF, the 500mm essentially becomes as a 1000mm would on FF. Used on an Olympus M4/3 we have body stabilisation which reduces hand-shake effectively, and works on a tripod too. Used with a Panasonic we have less noise, because the sensor is mounted on a heat-sink, which is good for night-time. These lenses are rather pointless for close range, their focal lengths are comparable to astronomical catadioptric telescopes and can be used as such. For astronomy F/6.3 is considered "fast".
Thanks,. Seems interesting I think I'll stick with my Tele. are so damn heavy!.
It would be interesting to see this lense on a Startracker shooting deepsky images with
Nice review. I bought this a year ago, as a toy. Had this review not been lost, I likely would have seen it and not bought the lens. I certainly would not buy it today now that it is priced 50% more than it was a year ago. Perhaps I can sell it for close to what I paid for it, but this review has now provoked me to want to go play with this toy again. Donut bokeh!