Approaching the Scene 139: NiSi's Light, Unique Sun Star Lens for Nikon, Sony, Canon & Fuji

(LINKS BELOW)If you love creating sun star images like I do, then I have a fun new, small, affordable 15mm lens to introduce you to: the NiSi 15mm F4 Sunstar for Nikon, Canon, Fuji, and Sony. You can shoot with the whole sun in the frame, you don't have to stop way down and edge to edge contrast and sharpness are astounding. I'll show you why I dig it. TWO QUICK CORRECTIONS 1) The birds eating from my wife's hand are Canadian Jays not Nutcrackers and 2) NO BIRDS SHOULUD BE FED BREAD OR SNACK FOOD, appropriate bird feed only from here on. Thanks everyone! Apologies in advance for the audio glitch that is intermittent in this video. I had one setting wrong and no time to reshoot this one. Lesson learned.
LINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Intro to ATS 138
00:30 Linked table of contents
00:40 NiSi's unique new 15mm F4 Sunstar for Nikon, Canon, Fuji & Sony
02:55 Why the NiSi is better than my old favorite sunstar lenses
03:45 How I tested its sharpness and vignetting
06:15 Build quality and how to use manual lenses with mirrorless
07:05 NiSi 15mm Sunstar image examples, quality and unique sunstar capability
12:13 Studio sunstar comparison with 14-24 and 20mm Nikkors
15:40 Ghosting and flare
16:49 Studio test of sharpness and distortion. Wow, it's sharp!
18:33 Studio vignetting test
19:55 My free preset for this lens' vignetting and distortion
21:20 Why this lens has me selling my old 20mm 1.8 Nikkor F
22:08 An invitation to my free Office Hours on March 23rd at 10AM Pacific
22:55 Upcoming workshops update

LINKS:
NiSi 15mm Sunstar (Nikon): https://bhpho.to/3clZJ5y
NiSi 15mm Sunstar (Canon): https://bhpho.to/3vEdJk0
NiSi 15mm Sunstar (Fuji): https://bhpho.to/3bUw3xE
NiSi 15mm Sunstar (Sony): https://bhpho.to/3bHhm0P
My NiSi distortion/vignette Lightroom preset: http://bit.ly/NiSiPreset
Old sun star comparison video: https://youtu.be/-AfDcQ8rUdo

Frequently updated links to all the gear I use: http://bit.ly/HudsonsLinks
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I invite you to join Rick, Woody, Darren, David and me for our free live Office Hours Tuesday March 23rd at 10AM Pacific. We'll take your questions and talk about mastering contrast and tone and how understanding histograms can help accomplish that in the field as well as post production.

Office Hour signup site: https://bit.ly/2UgDaX4

Thanks to everyone for the great questions you are sending in. Keep them coming either in the comments below or by emailing me directly. I hope to see you in the next Office Hours Session.

Stay safe and stay creative.

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