Is the Samyang 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC Lens right for you? Learn all you need to know in The-Digital-Picture.com's review!

Handling and features This lens is available to fit many different types of cameras, including Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony and Four Thirds SLRs as well as Samsung NX mirrorless cameras and costs around £260.

This is a rare combination of quality imaging, value and speed. Nothing else comes close. Is the lens perfect?. No lens is perfect but this lens is better than lenses costing far more.

Easily Corrected; Good Construction; Good Contrast; Low Light Capability; Sharp; Superior Performance

Heavy

This low-cost lens works well on my APS-C camera for shooting night photos. The wide aperture allows a lot of light in while the aspherical elements of the lens minimize coma around points of light (stars). It beats the higher priced Canon lenses, for example.

low cost; excellent sharpness

distortion

It's a great lens. there is a lot of distortion, but it's possibile to compensate using Camera Raw. Buy yhis just if you know how to work in iperfocal.

Upon first contact you will experience two immediate drawbacks - the lens does not offer AF nor any "native" coupling apart from the Canon EF-compatible mount. Consequently you have to focus manually either by checking the viewfinder image or by using Live-View.

After successful launches of an 85 mm f/1.4 model and an 8 mm f/3.5 fisheye, in September 2009 the Samyang company launched worldwide the next lens. It was a Samyang 14 mm f/2.8 IF ED MC Aspherical – an ultra wide angle prime lens designed to work on full frame cameras.

high and complicated distortion; significant vignetting on full frame; you can't use any filters

Such a wideangle lens is obviously of most use for landscape photographers. This product is very solid, well made and optically it is superb. No vigneting and whilst there is some "Moustache" distortion, this is easily fixed in Lightroom or Photoshop.

Durable; Great Picture Quality; Simple Controls

Completely Manual

stick a focus chip on it and you have a different lens only takes superglue and half a brain and use dxo for corrections automarically

I just bought this lens. It's great in the middle and on the right. However, the far left is way off. See for yourself here. http://flic.kr/p/iHQW62 I'll have to see about getting another copy. Assuming I get a good one, then I'll keep the 2 stars just for the hassle. Otherwise zero.