Platja de Cavalleria, Menorca

[vastunghia]

An experiment I finally found the time to carry on: use my APS-C Samyang 16mm f/2.0 full-manual lens on my 5D3, wide open, with my favorite preset by Danne -- 3.5k 1:1 centered, 14 bit (1.6x crop).

Just an unordered sequence of clips.

Mixed results here -- some clips show the left 1/3 of the frame as out of focus / blurred. Weird. Something wrong going on with the lens? Or with the ND filters maybe? Will have to experiment more.

Thanks for wathching

[ML700D]

nice result..👍

[a.sintes]

the colors on some sequence are dope!
makes me want to be on vacation already...

[vastunghia]

Thank you guys!

Yes, I instantly fell in love with the color contrast between reddish rocks and all the different nuances of green and blue of the sea. I swear I did not boost colors in post! Did my best to reflect my memory.

[Skinny]

I also see some vignetting on some shots on the left side, maybe sometimes your preset wasn't centered? Like some bug in settings..

[vastunghia]

Yeah, thanks, I considered the possibility of a preset not correctly centered.

However using an APS-C lens full open @f/2.0, and with a 1.6x crop preset, I guess that vignetting should come up to be huge (literally a black corner) in that case. Instead, vignetting was heavy (partially compensated in post), but in line with expectations (given the configuration and the use of two stacked medium-quality ND filters).

Also, I thought that using the 3.5K 1:1 centered preset, the frame cannot be moved. But I'm not sure. Will take a look.