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miran
Joined: 01 Aug 2012 Posts: 1364 Location: Slovenia
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:01 pm Post subject: First walk in the park with Meike 6.5mm/2.0 |
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miran wrote:
I'm not sure this belongs here because the Meike 6.5mm/2.0 is not a vintage lens but the title of this section of the forum does say "Manual Focus Lenses" not "Vintage Manual Focus Lenses" so I suppose it's ok.
So this is a relatively new lens and doesn't seem to be very well known. There aren't that many reviews around yet. For those who don't know, it's a circular fisheye that covers APS-C. Focal length is 6.5mm, max aperture f/2.0 and the field of view is 190°. Not a typo, it's actually 190°, the lens can see behind itself! If you shoot from about waist height, you will have your feet and the top of your head in the frame, simultaneously!
It's chinese and very cheap (around 150) and completely manual (no AF of course, manual aperture and even no contacts on the mount, so no EXIF). Despite the low price it is exceptionally well made. All metal (except rubber on the focus ring), very small and compact, mount is metal and fits perfectly on the camera (no play), the focus ring is smooth and with perfect resistance, aperture ring likewise (though no click stops and no click/declick option). Even the lens cap is metal. Top tier manufacturers could take a few notes from Meike.
Optically it's more than adequate. Reasonably sharp in the center from f/2.0, sharp across the circle stopped down. High contrast from what I can see so far and handles large light sources well (no obvious loss of contrast with lots of bright sky in the frame). I wasn't able to point it towards the sun yet though. Minimum focus distance is 0.2m which sounds good, but actually could be better for some spectacular close ups. There are some purple edges around high contrast bits (tree branches and such). Nothing too problematic, but you need to turn the defringe function in your raw converter on for affected shots.
One weak point of the lens is that the circle it projects seems to be ever so slightly larger than APS-C and not completely 100% perfectly centered. The result is that a small portion at the top of the circle gets cut off. If you want a completely circular image, you need to apply a circular crop which then makes the view cover around 180° I suppose. I've seen samples from others that show the same behaviour so this might be a design flaw.
But overall the quality is easily good enough and you will have much harder problems to solve when shooting this lens than worry about technical quality. Can't say much about that yet because I have a lot to learn and it's a steep learning curve. Still, here are some of my first shots with this lens, shot on a NEX-6, raw format, converted with RT and adjusted to taste. I find that circular fisheye images work well when presented in threes:
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2. All wide open and near or at MFD:
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6. And finally a typical circular fish selfie
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kds315*
Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 16497 Location: Weinheim, Germany
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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kds315* wrote:
nice!! _________________ Klaus - Admin
"S'il vient a point, me souviendra" [Thomas Bohier (1460-1523)]
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/kds315/albums my albums using various lenses
http://photographyoftheinvisibleworld.blogspot.com/ my UV BLOG
http://www.travelmeetsfood.com/blog Food + Travel BLOG
https://galeriafotografia.com Architecture + Drone photography
Currently most FAV lens(es):
X80QF f3.2/80mm
Hypergon f11/26mm
ELCAN UV f5.6/52mm
Zeiss UV-Planar f4/60mm
Zeiss UV-Planar f2/62mm
Lomo Уфар-12 f2.5/41mm
Lomo Зуфар-2 f4.0/350mm
Lomo ZIKAR-1A f1.2/100mm
Nikon UV Nikkor f4.5/105mm
Zeiss UV-Sonnar f4.3/105mm
CERCO UV-VIS-NIR f1.8/45mm
CERCO UV-VIS-NIR f4.1/94mm
CERCO UV-VIS-NIR f2.8/100mm
Steinheil Quarzobjektiv f1.8/50mm
Pentax Quartz Takumar f3.5/85mm
Carl Zeiss Jena UV-Objektiv f4/60mm
NYE OPTICAL Lyman-Alpha II f1.1/90mm
NYE OPTICAL Lyman-Alpha I f2.8/200mm
COASTAL OPTICS f4/60mm UV-VIS-IR Apo
COASTAL OPTICS f4.5/105mm UV-Micro-Apo
Pentax Ultra-Achromatic Takumar f4.5/85mm
Pentax Ultra-Achromatic Takumar f5.6/300mm
Rodenstock UV-Rodagon f5.6/60mm + 105mm + 150mm
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kryss
Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 2169 Location: Canada
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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kryss wrote:
last one...... great composition and mood _________________ Do not trust Atoms....they make up everything. |
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miran
Joined: 01 Aug 2012 Posts: 1364 Location: Slovenia
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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miran wrote:
A few more:
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kryss
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kryss wrote:
Again the last one... _________________ Do not trust Atoms....they make up everything. |
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kds315*
Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 16497 Location: Weinheim, Germany
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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kds315* wrote:
_________________ Klaus - Admin
"S'il vient a point, me souviendra" [Thomas Bohier (1460-1523)]
http://www.macrolenses.de for macro and special lens info
http://www.pbase.com/kds315/uv_photos for UV Images and lens/filter info
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kds315/albums my albums using various lenses
http://photographyoftheinvisibleworld.blogspot.com/ my UV BLOG
http://www.travelmeetsfood.com/blog Food + Travel BLOG
https://galeriafotografia.com Architecture + Drone photography
Currently most FAV lens(es):
X80QF f3.2/80mm
Hypergon f11/26mm
ELCAN UV f5.6/52mm
Zeiss UV-Planar f4/60mm
Zeiss UV-Planar f2/62mm
Lomo Уфар-12 f2.5/41mm
Lomo Зуфар-2 f4.0/350mm
Lomo ZIKAR-1A f1.2/100mm
Nikon UV Nikkor f4.5/105mm
Zeiss UV-Sonnar f4.3/105mm
CERCO UV-VIS-NIR f1.8/45mm
CERCO UV-VIS-NIR f4.1/94mm
CERCO UV-VIS-NIR f2.8/100mm
Steinheil Quarzobjektiv f1.8/50mm
Pentax Quartz Takumar f3.5/85mm
Carl Zeiss Jena UV-Objektiv f4/60mm
NYE OPTICAL Lyman-Alpha II f1.1/90mm
NYE OPTICAL Lyman-Alpha I f2.8/200mm
COASTAL OPTICS f4/60mm UV-VIS-IR Apo
COASTAL OPTICS f4.5/105mm UV-Micro-Apo
Pentax Ultra-Achromatic Takumar f4.5/85mm
Pentax Ultra-Achromatic Takumar f5.6/300mm
Rodenstock UV-Rodagon f5.6/60mm + 105mm + 150mm
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tomzcafe
Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 196
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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tomzcafe wrote:
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exaklaus
Joined: 11 Aug 2009 Posts: 1633 Location: Niederrhein, Germany
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 7:37 am Post subject: |
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exaklaus wrote:
Must be fun using this Meike!
Great results! _________________ my Ebay auctions
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