Samyang 14mm F2.8 ED AS IF UMC A-mount lens review by gouldina

gouldina#9025 date: May-14-2011
sharpness: 5 color: 5 build: 4 distortion: 4 flare control: 5 overall: 4.6	tested on: film camera: APS-C: 6MP; 10MP; 12MP; 14MP; 16MP; 20MP; 24MP full frame: 12MP; 24MP; 36MP; 42MP; 61MP
ownership:	I own this lens
compared to:	missing
price paid:	missing
positive:	Sharp Wide as hell on FF Cheap
negative:	"Funny" distortion
comment:	I'm very happy with this lens I must say. On a full frame camera it's astonishingly wide - less so on APS-C but still pretty damn wide. Sharpness is extremely good and it's very hard to get it to flare. I really don't find manual focus a problem with this lens because being so wide, it's very easy to set for hyperfocus using the distance marks on the focus ring. Two small negatives - 1. there's some "interesting" distortion to the image which is hard to fix by hand and 2. The rear lens cap falls off a lot I find like the fit is too loose. Otherwise you can't fail to be happy with such a high quality lens at such a low price I don't think.