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B and H has this lens on sale for a few days and I am tempted to give it a try. It's totally manual focus and manual aperture, but with such a wide lens, that should not be a problem. Anyone else tried this lens and have any opinions?

B and H has this lens on sale for a few days and I am tempted to give it a try. It's totally manual focus and manual aperture, but with such a wide lens, that should not be a problem. Anyone else tried this lens and have any opinions?

Well, I ran into a bit of a problem with my flash setup, and wasted most of the weekend diagnosing it, but finally came to the following conclusion: The Sony a6000 (v. 3.10) will not correctly operate a shoe mounted flash with a manual lens attached. My setup is a Odin II and Mitros +. I've tested with both the Odin II and Mitros + mounted in the shoe. With a Rokinon 12mm F/2 attached (love that lens), TTL works but the flash output cannot be adjusted by flash group, FEL (all groups), or the on camera flash adjustment. In manual mode the flash will only put out a weak flash, that cannot be adjusted. Oddly enough, the pop-up R2D2 flash works in TTL, with flash exposure compensation also working. And, I did check my Sony 50 mm F/1.8 works perfectly. The whole reason I was first interested in mirrorless cameras was to shoot a bag full of manual primes. This is really really disappointing. (What's the chances we can talk Sony into a software update?) Has anyone found a fix? Thanks!

Hi everybody! I have bought a Sony a7 (first model) to make some critical focus portraits with an old Summicron 90 mm lens from Leica. I use the zoom magnification and the max level of focus peaking for best results and I am impressed. Only problem is I have to press twice the C1 button to zoom in: is there any way to start the zoom function with a single press of a single button action? Thanks!

As I saw the announcement ( http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/meyer-optik-gorlitz-launhces-a-new-soap-bubble-focused-trioplan-100mm-f2-8-e-mount-lens/ ) about the over the top Price Tag of the new to be released Trioplan (at 1500 you'd easily get some other photo gear ... ), I thought I had to post one taken with my old 50ies Trioplan: Bokeh Onion Ring Bubbles by Henrik Fessler, auf Flickr Currently I am getting it hauled up at a small optics repair shop (these shops get rare, and the art of repairing sich fine mechanical things is dying out in face of mass production and consumption ... )