The Sub Lagoon - Disneyland
The view from the Monorail platform is my favorite view in all of Disneyland, which explains why I always head here to test some new gear or methods...Friday evening I did exactly that, with my new Rokinon 14mm f2.8 lens.
My vision of Disneyland (as seen through my camera) has always been a wide one, where I was most happy with Canon's 10-22mm lens on my cropped-sensor 7D. Most of my pals were already shooting full-frame cameras which left me a feeling a little "inadequate" when viewing similar scenes from both cameras. When I (finaly!) switched to a full-frame camera a couple of months ago, I bought Canon's 5D Mk III with a 24-105 f4 "L" lens which left me a little cramped in my compositions at Disneyland. Additionally, I found myself having to re-learn tricks that I had mastered with the 7D and was floundering a bit, feeling like I had a new toy that was broken.
Time being a premium this year, as I am a father of a high school senior planning college, etc., I have not been able to get into the Park for some quality shooting and tinkering. This past Friday found me at Disneyland able to play and experiment and I finally am feeling at home again.
Since I am most comfortable shooting wide, and hoping to find my sweetspot again, I went looking for a wide lens to use until I win the Lottery...with a suggestion from my friend Corey Dorsey, and after borrowing his lens a couplke of times, I commited to buying the Rokinon 14mm f 2.8 and, so far, I am completely happy with this little gem of a lens. With manual focus only, and manual aperture controls, it is already comfortable to me because I manually focus anyway when shooting landscapes...Also it is extremely affordable. Happily, with f 2.8. I was able to stop all the motion in this dynamic scene to acceptable levels.
This lens has been criticized for some unusual "mustache" distortion, but there are correction profiles available for Lightroom that fixed things right up...
All in all I am very happy with this lens!
The Sub Lagoon - Disneyland
The view from the Monorail platform is my favorite view in all of Disneyland, which explains why I always head here to test some new gear or methods...Friday evening I did exactly that, with my new Rokinon 14mm f2.8 lens.
My vision of Disneyland (as seen through my camera) has always been a wide one, where I was most happy with Canon's 10-22mm lens on my cropped-sensor 7D. Most of my pals were already shooting full-frame cameras which left me a feeling a little "inadequate" when viewing similar scenes from both cameras. When I (finaly!) switched to a full-frame camera a couple of months ago, I bought Canon's 5D Mk III with a 24-105 f4 "L" lens which left me a little cramped in my compositions at Disneyland. Additionally, I found myself having to re-learn tricks that I had mastered with the 7D and was floundering a bit, feeling like I had a new toy that was broken.
Time being a premium this year, as I am a father of a high school senior planning college, etc., I have not been able to get into the Park for some quality shooting and tinkering. This past Friday found me at Disneyland able to play and experiment and I finally am feeling at home again.
Since I am most comfortable shooting wide, and hoping to find my sweetspot again, I went looking for a wide lens to use until I win the Lottery...with a suggestion from my friend Corey Dorsey, and after borrowing his lens a couplke of times, I commited to buying the Rokinon 14mm f 2.8 and, so far, I am completely happy with this little gem of a lens. With manual focus only, and manual aperture controls, it is already comfortable to me because I manually focus anyway when shooting landscapes...Also it is extremely affordable. Happily, with f 2.8. I was able to stop all the motion in this dynamic scene to acceptable levels.
This lens has been criticized for some unusual "mustache" distortion, but there are correction profiles available for Lightroom that fixed things right up...
All in all I am very happy with this lens!