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I’d be all in on the 13/1.4 if I didn’t already have the 16/1.4. I think 13 would be too close to the 16 to justify both.

I have no interest in getting a Leica, but this thread has me hooked and I have been checking each day waiting for your camera to arrive! (I hope that this isn’t the start of a Leica itch…) Good luck with it, and I look forward to seeing your pictures…

Makes sense, though all my manual lenses on Fuji report f/0 but can report a focal length (if I bother to select one :) ).

I really like this one. Did you notice that the focal length information in the EXIF looks a little off? It is reporting 0/1mm f4.0 on my view

Excellent picture, looks like Viltrox have another great lens available.

After eight years I finally deleted my dpReview account. I have always tried to be civil and helpful, but when folks start to attack you for that it feels time to move on. I am glad that this corner of the internet has avoided that particular behaviour.

Looks great @davidzvi thanks for doing this!

That was the thinking that led to me selling my copy, just didn’t use it enough and when I did use it my lack of practise showed. I might look to get a 70-300 if I see one cheap enough whilst I am in funds.

Very interested to know how this lens works out for you on Fuji - i am still toying with getting a Laowa 9mm but 10mm would probably be fine if the lens performs well

Not a bad final day considering. Thanks to @MoonMind for excellent organisation of this challenge. Finally, an architecture picture

What was I thinking on this one? Didn’t enjoy Heathrow at all today…

Heathrow, sometime during the last 24 hours. Just rolled off the plane into a long immigration queue then finally got to the hotel and had to pay for a colleague’s taxi because his card wouldn’t work and then wandered to the hotel bar to discover that last orders are at 8:30pm. Oh, and using the...

Tomorrow I head over to the US for a few days with work. I always carry a camera on these trips, usually with the 16/1.4 lens but for this trip I am confident enough in this 12mm to just take that with me...

I can answer that pretty easily. I swapped my first copy of this lens because it was decentred, which caused it to go "mushy" on the RHS. I bought from Amazon in the UK knowing I could just return, but I did contact 7Artisans via Facebook and they were confident that a second copy would be...

Helping my daughter with an assignment for her GCSE Art course...

I head out on a work trip tomorrow, this shows some of my preparation. As well as the Urban Photography book I have "The Essence of Photography" downloaded to my ipad - so plenty to inspire on a plane ride. I have packed my iPad so I do hope to process and post over the next couple of days to...

St Peters, Tollerton in Nottinghamshire

This was my safety for today - I call it "Forgotten in February"

Found a new church to point a camera at today - this one is in the village of Tollerton

Had an hour in Tollerton today, waiting for my daughter's dance lesson to finish. I've been there a few times but today I decided to find the local church, and I'm glad I did.

I don't remember when I last saw one that is still used for a telephone - well spotted!

Just realised that I haven’t posted any pictures of my camera/lens combination. These are taken on an iPhone so hopefully not breaking the SiF rules

That is an excellent butterfly subject for black and white

I am really enjoying this lens this month. I haven’t had enough opportunities to shoot architecture with it though, so it is still a toss up between keeping this one or getting the Laowa 9/2.8. I will be in London in March for a couple of days, I hope to get to try it out there to see how it...

Didn’t get this posted during the actual day, due to Picard episode 2 dropping on Amazon I’m afraid to admit. This was my Friday night treat at the end of another week…. I massively underexposed this, but it came back okay in Affinity. Applied my favourite High Pass Filter with linear light...

Not sure to be honest. Covid is still circulating in the U.K. I think, but stopped being news about a year ago iirc.

These look pretty good already, but if you want study material I have been working through Light: Science and Magic which is a heavy read but very thorough.

Covid Memorial in West Bridgford, Nottingham. Taken with 7Artisans 12/2.8mkII

Today was what I would class a good day. I had the afternoon off to go into West Bridgford to help uninstall our exhibition and I got there an hour early to take some pictures. This is the only one I have processed so far, but I think I have a few more that I will be able to use in future. This...

So, that’s where it went!

I won't say which room this is in, but I was contemplating what to shoot today and I looked up and remembered that I planned to take a picture here. This is a canvas print of an LS Lowry from 1937 called The Black Stairs. The reason we have a print of this, is that this scene is from my home...

Wanted to try something different, didn't work out the way I wanted so I vented my frustrations on this one with high pass filters. The close focus on this lens is good outdoors but there are three other lenses that I own that could probably have done a better job on this one for me.

I am so sorry to read through this thread and I hope things can somehow improve for SA

Setup a small scene tonight. For some reason I has "Star Trekking" on repeat in my brain as I shot this...

I started on Fuji with manual lenses then went all in on Autofocus but seem to have come full circle but with modern lenses. I’m still thinking a lot about the Laowa 9mm but also considering buying another copy of the Samyang 21/1.4 which I still miss

The one thing that has surprised me about the 7Artisans 12/2.8mkII is that I don’t mind the clickless aperture ring. I returned a Meike 35/1.4 a few months ago because of the clickless aperture, so I decided that they were a red line for me. However, when I first saw the 7Artisans lens and...

I was thinking one of these for today, but then I was put onto kitchen supervision duty. I am a member of two (soon to be three) photo groups. One is a traditional camera club with competitions etc. but the other is a limited group that is dedicated to mono prints. We aim to exhibit 2-3 times a...

Practising for pancake day (which is Tuesday, I think)

I’m using a 12mm on Fuji, so 18mm equivalent (on 35mm) and I am finding it okay. That said, my ordinary go-to lens is the Fuji 16/1.4 so I already working wide angle most of the time. I had planned to do more “small stuff” pictures but the 12mm is actually too wide for my backdrop, even at its...

I’m glad I am not the only one that prefers flowers after they are dead 😁

No, this is the new 7Artisans 12/2.8 that came out in December. I do have a Laowa on my wish list but it is the 9/2.8-ZeroD

Thanks, I need to do more with my 35/1.2 having seen your posts this month

I didn't plan to buy anything this month (saving for paper and mounting supplies) but was idly looking around and spotted that Benro columns for the Tortoise tripods are finally in stock. However, not that many around so I have jumped and grabbed a #2 model for the occasions where I need a...

Had a few possibles from a lovely walk this morning (I am really feeling attached to this lens now).

Sorry, I have looked, but please remind me which 35mm lens this is with.

Reverting to type, and shooting lone trees. Had a few minutes of bright sunshine with a lovely cloud pattern whilst dog walking on the hill above our village and couldn't resist. This was taken at f/5.6

My favourite local tree on this morning's dog walk with a good black and white sky.

This isn't what I originally planned, but I decided that I should include a few more objects for a still life. Lit with a couple of Godox flashes.

I enjoyed taking this one, but not sure about the end result

Sunshine and a morning walk...