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Tag: 35mm

  • Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew

    Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew

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    The Palm House at Kew Garden is set to close for 5 years for renovations in 2027, I have been meaning to visit for some time but this deadline gave me the push needed to finally make the visit a reality. The gardens are expansive, filled with a collection of beautiful Victorian cast iron and…

  • Cornwall on Samyang’s 35mm and 21mm primes

    Cornwall on Samyang’s 35mm and 21mm primes

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    Cornwall is an area of the UK that I have wanted to visit for many years, mostly due to it housing The Eden Project. However geographically it has always been very distant from me, both when I have lived in Suffolk and in Yorkshire. So up until now I had not got round to making…

  • 7Artisans 35mm F1.2 Mk2 thoughts and impressions

    7Artisans 35mm F1.2 Mk2 thoughts and impressions

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    Earlier this year I saw a used copy of the 7artisans 35mm f1.2 mark 2 for Fujifilm X mount. It only cost £70 and so curiosity won the battle over my wallet that day.I have previously tried their f1.4 35mm lens that retails at roughly half the price of this one and while I was…

  • The Industrial North

    The Industrial North

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    Recently I have been working my way North along the North East coast of england visiting the various towns and beaches that I have not previously been to in an attempt to experience new parts of the country and discover new photographic oportunities. Redcar is a place we visited often when I was a child…

  • Kamlan 21mm F1.8 Review

    Kamlan 21mm F1.8 Review

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    Kamlan is a fairly young brand, I believe that they started life in 2016 when they released their 50mm f1.1 mk1, on paper this lens was promising and good value proposition but ultimately it was too optically simple and lacked an acceptable level of sharpness. Since then they have followed up with a range of…

  • Kipon Iberit 35mm F2.4 Review

    Kipon Iberit 35mm F2.4 Review

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    The Kipon 35mm F2.4 is a lens that I have had an interest in trying for some time now, however up until recently the price tag was too high to justify a purchase purely to satisfy my curiosity. Kipon has currently got the lens on sale for an advertised 51% off bringing the current price…

  • Meike 28mm f2.8 Review

    Meike 28mm f2.8 Review

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    The Meike 28mm f2.8 is a pancake prime lens for APSC and MFT mirrorless cameras, it has a full frame equivalent focal length of around 40mm on APSC and 56mm on MFT. The copy used in this review is the Fujifilm X mount version on an X-T2. This “review” is not scientific or wholly comprehensive,…

  • Fujifilm XF 35mm F1.4 Lens Thoughts

    Fujifilm XF 35mm F1.4 Lens Thoughts

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    Use as a Landscape lens and comparison to other primes Over the last couple of years I I have managed to work my way through my fair share of both first and third party prime lenses for the Fuji X mount system.Through this constant churn of lenses i have come to realise a few things,…

  • Meike 35mm f1.7 lens review

    Meike 35mm f1.7 lens review

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    Performance beyond its price Meike are a Chinese company that are pumping out cheap manual focus primes for mirror less systems.I am currently unsure if they design and manufacture their own lenses or just rebrand third party OEM lenses, I say this because i have seen company’s such as Neweer selling identical lenses under their…