Samyang 14mm f2.8

#1 J J

Its been out for a little bit under another name:
http://www.optyczne.pl/2238-nowość-Falcon_14_mm_f_2.8_ED_Asph._IF_-_zdjęcia_przykładowe.html

3:21 pm - Friday, September 18, 2009

#2 J J

Wrong link above:

http://www.optyczne.pl/2238-nowość-Falcon_14_mm_f_2.8_ED_Asph._IF_-_zdjęcia_przykładowe.html

(Falcon also makes an 8mm 3.5 fisheye lens, so you might see that also).

3:24 pm - Friday, September 18, 2009

#3 JJ

For whatever reason, this comments posting will not allow foreign charcters. (it changes the symbols to other letters which is why the links above are not working).
You can view the link at the top of this google search though:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Optyczne.pl+Falcon+14mm+2.8&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Lens is a:
Optyczne.pl Falcon 14mm 2.8

3:28 pm - Friday, September 18, 2009

#4 Craig

Try using a URL shortening service like tinyurl to help next time

3:48 pm - Friday, September 18, 2009

#5 toronto photographer

great price for 2.8 it may be worth to look at!

4:34 pm - Friday, September 18, 2009

#6 Ashley Pomeroy

Coo - the same company also makes an 85mm f/1.4 manual focus portrait lens that is sold under a dozen different names (Opteka, Vivitar, Rokinon, Bower, the list is endless). If it's anything like that lens it will be cheap, decently made, not very sharp. It'll be interesting to see the corner performance on a full-frame body at f/8.

6:10 pm - Friday, September 18, 2009

#7 Ashley Pomeroy

... and it'll also be interesting to see if it's manual focus only, like the 85mm. That must be one of the ways they keep the cost down whilst offering it for so many different lens mounts. There are some small-sized D3x samples at Samyang's Polish site:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/nfef48

The corner performance doesn't look too bad, although it seems to have an odd wavey distortion pattern.

Ha ha, Mr Heath. I'm going to have a cup of tea, anybody want one?

6:16 pm - Friday, September 18, 2009

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4:38 am - Sunday, September 20, 2009

#9 tommy

I;ve asked at Samyang website about this multibranding.. Samyang branded lenses are made of higher quality materials.

10:39 am - Tuesday, September 22, 2009

#10 Chandler

Looks like a nice lens...but I wonder how it compares to the Canon version.

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8:14 am - Sunday, September 27, 2009

#11 Ashley Pomeroy

"it'll also be interesting to see if it's manual focus only"

Before I get snarky comments, it looks as if the blog post has been updated; yes, it will be manual focus only. I assume it's also manual stop-down, which might be more a problem with this lens than the 85mm f/1.4 (which worked best wide-open).

Pro tip: if you have a Canon camera, buy the Nikon version of the lens plus a Nikon-Canon adapter with an autofocus confirmation chip. You get autofocus confirmation without having to glue your own chip onto the EOS mount. And you can use the lens on a D3X if you decide to buy one at some point in the future.

6:56 pm - Saturday, October 10, 2009

#12 Sam Obeid

Been looking for an a cheaper wide angle, this may bethe one.

3:26 pm - Monday, November 16, 2009

#13 Markus

I got mine today.
The wave like distrosion is the bad think about it.
My lens has a problem with very incorrect focus scale. But that is not a real problem, I cant work with it anyway.
The sharpness on a Canon EOS 5D seems to bee good. The shading is ok. For mee it looks very good regarding stray light and reflections inside the image. I have shot som eimages with the sun in the image - some reflections are there, but not too much.

9:11 am - Monday, April 19, 2010

#14 Toronto Photographer

I currently use the 16-35mm Canon but looking for something just a bit wider. This looks interesting.

2:58 pm - Friday, December 30, 2011