No Problem (and that was the short version).Originally Posted by Sean Setters
I think the interesting thing is that Arax designed this 35mm themselves, which I didn't even know until today when I read it on their website.
Their 80mm (and the original 45/80/120mm superrotators) were all straight MF glass and a new mount, so much better quality. Like the 80mm MF standards, biometar/planar in zeiss and the vega/volna ripoffs are supersharp (as a standard lens length they beat the pants off any canon 50mm). So they're perfect for macro/product photography, but not wide enough for landscapes and architecture where t/s is also very handy.
I may have said it before, that I get paid waaay too much for the amount of work I actually do, which results in me being able to research any number of cameras from all points of the world, and afford to buy them to play around with for a while until I get bored of them (still, it's nothing compared to what some guys around here spend on L-glass). I've just recently started getting into rangefinders (the leica/zeiss/contax originals, their soviet kiev ripoffs, and their japanese cosina reincarnations) if anyone needs any info on them any time... I've got a Bessa L in the post, and a set of 35/50/135 Schneider Kodak-Retina glass also coming. That's an interesting one, a rangefinder lens that you can mount to M42 (and EF by adapter). Maybe I might have a new pancake walkaround instead of my 40mm (although i doubt it, i love my shorty).
Anyway, thinking more about the the upcoming Samyang, I'm totally guessing with reading no reviews, and before it's even been released. But I reckon a Samyang 24 on a 7D will give you better images than an Arax on a 5D (mk2or3) for about the same FOV (and almost same price, too). But that's just going on the wonderful quality of Samyang that i've seen so far, maybe they'll fail at TS? (I don't think so. It'll be good, but maybe they'll try cash in and put the price to high for the IQ that they deliver?)
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