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Hillside Park under a Watercolour Sky
Onto another lens I picked up for the Sony A6300. I doubt a cheaper or smaller lens could be found. Black Friday Sale price from Amazon including shipping was only $72.45 CAD ($54.16 USD) It is so small and only sticks out from the camera about 0.25". It looks likes a body cap with a tiny piece of glass in the center. It is the 7Artisans 18mm UFO ii, with a fixed aperture of f6.3 designed for use on an APS-c sensor, giving an approximate view of 27mm on a full frame camera so it is moderately wide.
Build quality is more than fine as it is pretty much all metal. There is a focus ring that turns quite smoothly.
Image quality...it is really only sharp in the center. Get a way from center just a bit and it is soft, borders and corners are downright smeary. I have posted a decent sized image here so in full view you can see what I mean.
Flare...absolutely terrible when facing the sun or a bright object.
Distortion is fairly bad, but easily correctable in photoshop at a setting of +14
Vignetting is pretty terrible as well. In photoshop I use settings of 70 for Vignette with a midpoint value of 30. those numbers are pretty high
Having said all of that it really is a fun little lens to play with and under the right conditions and wanting a certain character look it can still be useful. Here it makes for an acceptable look as the center is where most of the subject is while the perimeter is clouds and snow for the most part which which really needs little detail, so if one works with the limitations it can still produce useable images, especially if one is only shooting for posting lower resolution on the internet.
About the shot, I am standing on one of the mounds at the Bike Pump track at Hillside park. I liked the sweeping curve pointing towards the hill. Being a very dreary day I gave a cool blue tone to the monochrome image. (Under hue/saturation tab, (CTRL-U or CMD-U) and checked the Colourize box, and entered settings of 208 for hue and 8 for saturation)
Hillside Park under a Watercolour Sky
Onto another lens I picked up for the Sony A6300. I doubt a cheaper or smaller lens could be found. Black Friday Sale price from Amazon including shipping was only $72.45 CAD ($54.16 USD) It is so small and only sticks out from the camera about 0.25". It looks likes a body cap with a tiny piece of glass in the center. It is the 7Artisans 18mm UFO ii, with a fixed aperture of f6.3 designed for use on an APS-c sensor, giving an approximate view of 27mm on a full frame camera so it is moderately wide.
Build quality is more than fine as it is pretty much all metal. There is a focus ring that turns quite smoothly.
Image quality...it is really only sharp in the center. Get a way from center just a bit and it is soft, borders and corners are downright smeary. I have posted a decent sized image here so in full view you can see what I mean.
Flare...absolutely terrible when facing the sun or a bright object.
Distortion is fairly bad, but easily correctable in photoshop at a setting of +14
Vignetting is pretty terrible as well. In photoshop I use settings of 70 for Vignette with a midpoint value of 30. those numbers are pretty high
Having said all of that it really is a fun little lens to play with and under the right conditions and wanting a certain character look it can still be useful. Here it makes for an acceptable look as the center is where most of the subject is while the perimeter is clouds and snow for the most part which which really needs little detail, so if one works with the limitations it can still produce useable images, especially if one is only shooting for posting lower resolution on the internet.
About the shot, I am standing on one of the mounds at the Bike Pump track at Hillside park. I liked the sweeping curve pointing towards the hill. Being a very dreary day I gave a cool blue tone to the monochrome image. (Under hue/saturation tab, (CTRL-U or CMD-U) and checked the Colourize box, and entered settings of 208 for hue and 8 for saturation)