::Peleng 8mm Group -=NO MORE ORDERS=- (NEW INFO)

dbett wrote in post #2226001
I'm glad I sent the (nasty) email to Ryan early enough to get a refund without waiting.

And btw, I ordered from kievcamerausa.

They have said they shipped on October 26th, but I still haven't gotten it.

And they never responded to a "contact eBay seller" email from last week requesting shipping information. I sent another one earlier today...

I think this lens is cursed.

Same here. It got here quicker than it should have though...

i would really like a refund

this is taking a very long time

zacwolf wrote in post #2226550
i would really like a refund

this is taking a very long time

me too...

i'm trying to be patient...

but it's getting difficult...

Well I spoke too soon about kievcamerausa. The lens was sitting at my door when I got home.

Still would've been nice to get a response, but whatever at this point.

Now to figure out the whole manual exposure thingy.

Another email update was sent out. The refund should hopefully reach Ryan by this thursday.

you know you can use these lenses in Av Mode with the camera, not just manual.

lakiluno wrote in post #2229799
you know you can use these lenses in Av Mode with the camera, not just manual.

Yup.

When I said manual, I was talking about changing the aperture on the lens and also having to open and close it manually as well.

For folks that don't want to dig through the entire thread, here's a quick how to.

And btw, here's a quick shot I took last night:

Again....why doesnt Ryan post updates here.

I am tired of searching the forum looking for an update from HIM.

very frustrating, and at this point am requesting a refund.

calvin

he should be getting the check today

i could really use that money

Got my Peleng from KievCameraUSA on eBay today. From Georgia to Maryland it took about four days. Packed extremely well, neat new box for the lens and what looks like a new carrying case. Much nicer than the dozens of reviews I read stated.

The lens fit fine on the camera, but was getting hung up every now and then. A few minutes with some small files took care of this quickly. Seems the locking mechanism 'tabs' were just a little too wide. So about half an mm on two of the three tabs and its a perfect fit.

So far, the lens looks sharp. Love the images it capturees, I have a few indoors shots I took but hope to get more (much more) tomorrow while I have some daylight. This thing is really 180 degrees. Also cant wait to try panotools to de-fish the image and perhaps even make some QTVR's.

-John

milleker wrote in post #2242119
Got my Peleng from KievCameraUSA on eBay today. From Georgia to Maryland it took about four days. Packed extremely well, neat new box for the lens and what looks like a new carrying case. Much nicer than the dozens of reviews I read stated.

The lens fit fine on the camera, but was getting hung up every now and then. A few minutes with some small files took care of this quickly. Seems the locking mechanism 'tabs' were just a little too wide. So about half an mm on two of the three tabs and its a perfect fit.

So far, the lens looks sharp. Love the images it capturees, I have a few indoors shots I took but hope to get more (much more) tomorrow while I have some daylight. This thing is really 180 degrees. Also cant wait to try panotools to de-fish the image and perhaps even make some QTVR's.

-John

Good to hear.

If I understand correctly, this lens has aperture control on it, and is very easy to use? For manual focus you set it to infinity for shooting landscape or else you set it to the distance of the object or subject your focusing on, correct?

BTW, anyone wanna post up some more photos of this lens?

Still figuring that one out. You have three rings. First is aperture, f/16 to f/ '3,5'. This ring is nice and tight, and when set has some nice stopping clicks on the aperture selection. Next is an unlock/lock ring. More on this later. Third is the focusing ring. The focusing ring goes from 'M' to 0,22 0,26 ... and so on until 1, 2, and infinity. I thought that I read that the minimum focusing distance was '0,3' which i'm guessing is a third of a meter. I'll have to set up some tests and verify this.

The unlock/lock ring is nice, this lets you set apertures like f/11 or f/16 and then when you slide over this ring to Unlock it opens up your aperture so that you can get a bright preview. Go back to lock for your pre-set aperture. This is quite smooth, I figure that if you got used to this lens you would be able to set the lens on f/16 and using the slider adjust between 16 and 3.5 using only the unlock/lock ring.

As for a nice landscape hyperfocal, using the dofmaster.com website, it looks like ideal hyperfocal at f/16 for this lens is focused to 15 meters. This puts acceptable focus between 6.38 meters to infinity.

However, using the dof scale on the camera, this looks like you can get complete f/16 hyperfocal with the camera set to 0,3. So, perhaps 0,3 does not equal a third of a meter...

Anyone else have any insight on this?

JaGWiRE wrote in post #2242701
Good to hear.

If I understand correctly, this lens has aperture control on it, and is very easy to use? For manual focus you set it to infinity for shooting landscape or else you set it to the distance of the object or subject your focusing on, correct?

BTW, anyone wanna post up some more photos of this lens?

milleker wrote in post #2243245
Still figuring that one out. You have three rings. First is aperture, f/16 to f/ '3,5'. This ring is nice and tight, and when set has some nice stopping clicks on the aperture selection. Next is an unlock/lock ring. More on this later. Third is the focusing ring. The focusing ring goes from 'M' to 0,22 0,26 ... and so on until 1, 2, and infinity. I thought that I read that the minimum focusing distance was '0,3' which i'm guessing is a third of a meter. I'll have to set up some tests and verify this.

The unlock/lock ring is nice, this lets you set apertures like f/11 or f/16 and then when you slide over this ring to Unlock it opens up your aperture so that you can get a bright preview. Go back to lock for your pre-set aperture. This is quite smooth, I figure that if you got used to this lens you would be able to set the lens on f/16 and using the slider adjust between 16 and 3.5 using only the unlock/lock ring.

As for a nice landscape hyperfocal, using the dofmaster.com website, it looks like ideal hyperfocal at f/16 for this lens is focused to 15 meters. This puts acceptable focus between 6.38 meters to infinity.

However, using the dof scale on the camera, this looks like you can get complete f/16 hyperfocal with the camera set to 0,3. So, perhaps 0,3 does not equal a third of a meter...

Anyone else have any insight on this?

Cool. So you can still adjust aperture through the camera though, right? Like manual or AV?

JaGWiRE wrote in post #2243343
Cool. So you can still adjust aperture through the camera though, right? Like manual or AV?

No. You set the camera to AV so that the camera then chooses the appropriate shutter speed for the aperture you manually set on the lens.