It works flawlessly with every manual focus Nikon camera made since 1977. It has no CPU or electronic contacts to work with the meters of lesser AF and digital cameras. This manual-focus Nikon-mount lens works great with most Nikon cameras, 35mm and digital. It's foolish to shoot this beast on smaller formats, for which DX and other lenses are far better suited. Likewise, I'm using it on full-frame as designed. I'm discussing the Nikon-mount version here feel free to extrapolate accordingly for the other camera mounts. This lens comes in versions to fit many different cameras. By comparison, this 14mm lens has great mechanics, but poor optics.įorget this 14mm FX lens for DX this lens sells at a premium to cover the large FX format DX lenses do a better job for less money on DX than FX lenses. The Samyang 8mm f/3.5 fisheye and Samyang 85mm f/1.4 have great optics, but each of the samples I used had mechanical sample defects. This 14mm lens is inexpensive, but it isn't a bargain as are the others. Unlike the Samyang 8mm f/3.5 fisheye and Samyang 85mm f/1.4 lenses, this 14mm lens' optics aren't very good. Samyang is a Korean maker of security camera lenses, much how Tamron does the same thing in Japan.Ĭompared critically to Nikon and Canon's 14mm lenses, this Samyang 14mm f/2.8 isn't very sharp, and has hellacious distortion, but for $400, it's the least expensive 14mm ultra-ultrawide lens ever made. It is not a fisheye lens, which would be much smaller and less expensive, but also curve everything into a ball.įor budget projects, this Samyang 14mm f/2.8 lens works fine on film and FX. It attempts to keep straight lines straight. This is a rectilinear ultra-ultrawide 14mm lens. I'd use any DX ultrawide lens, like the Tokina 11-16mm, instead.īuy from Adorama, Amazon, Ritz, B&H, Calumet and J&R. I wouldn't bother with this on a DX camera. Optically the worst 14mm FX lens sold today, but much better than nothing at all. This new 14mm lens sells for less than one-half the price of even a used Nikon or Canon 14mm lens! Pentax SMC 15mm f/3.5 (1980s-1990s, review coming)Ī functional ultra-ultra wide FX lens for less than one-quarter the price of a Nikon or Canon 14mm FX ultra-ultrawide lens. Thanks! Ken.Ĭanon FD 14mm f/2.8 (-1986 review coming) This free website's biggest source of support is when you use any of those or these links when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you live. It also comes branded as Bower, also specifically in Nikon, Canon EOS, Pentax/Samsung and Minolta Maxxum/Sony mounts. This one came from this link to it at Adorama, also specifically in Nikon, Canon EOS and Micro 4/3 mounts. Samyang 14mm f/2.8, Pro-Optic Nikon AI-s version (no filters, Korean, 18.7 oz./529g, about $400). Intro Specifications Performance Recommendations Home Donate New Search Gallery How-To Books Links Workshops About Contact 14mm f/2.8 Samyang, Pro Optic, Rokinon and Bower
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