I already reviewed a few of Canon’s TS-E lenses, but this Canon FD 35mm 2.8 TS is something special, as it was the first Tilt/Shift lens for the 35mm format (at least as far as I know and according to Canon’s marketing department).
This lens has first been released in 1973, so we are also celebrating its 50th anniversary with this review.
As you may or may not know we have several guides on fullframe E-mount lenses:
Keeping these guides up to date takes a lot of time but I nevertheless try to do it on a yearly basis.
That time has come again so I just spent about 3 weeks doing exactly that, this means many new lenses have been added and the prices and also the recommendations for many lenses have been updated.
Distortion is one of the classic lens aberrations and comes in various forms. We will have a look at them, see which ones are easy to correct and how to create correction profiles for those lenses with complicated wavy distortion patterns.
Continue reading How to: Creating Distortion Correction Profiles for Lightroom/Photoshop
A few days ago I asked you what you think would be a good platform to get announcements about new posts any maybe also start discussions or simply chatting.
Discord was mentioned quite often in your comments. I did some research – as I didn’t know much about it – and it does indeed offer some features I was looking for. I also like that it is you who decides what you want to see and not some algorithm. So I set up a phillipreeve.net Discord server where already some of you joined.
According to my statistics this is the 25th 35mm lens I am reviewing here. After so many you may think you have seen it all, but this one has a stand out feature: at $129 new it is definitely the cheapest fast 35mm and not only that: it is also very compact.
Now if you think you can get the quality of a Sony FE 35mm 1.4 GM for a fraction of the price here you can already stop reading, but for everyone else: let’s find out how much lens we can get for 130 bucks.
Continue reading Review: Pergear 35mm 1.4 – The cheapest 35mm fullframe lens