Samyang 14 mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC for Canon EOS

Samyang 14 mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC for Canon EOS

Samyang 14 mm is one of the most widespread lenses today for landscape photography. Many features make this lens interesting:

• price: at about 340€ (March 2013), it is *much* cheaper respect to the similar Canon EF 14mm f/2.8 L (1800 €) and Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 (2500€).
• field coverage: it is able to cover the full-frame (24x36 mm), but also works with APS-C cameras
• aperture: at f/2.8 it is the same as the best wide lenses cited above, and very interesting for night-time usage
• manual focus: in astrophotography there is no need for auto-focus, and so not to pay for it is a plus, imho
• image quality: even if the price is much much lower respect to the Canon 14 mm lens, the image quality is not too bad as the price would suggest
  

A drawback for traditional photographers is the distortion, quite noticeable, with a "wave" shape. However this can be easily corrected using proper softwares. The same for vignetting.

The Samyang 14mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC Aspherical Lens features high build quality, with a built in petal shaped lens hood to help shade the lens from light sources behind the camera. Constructed from metal and high quality plastic, the 14mm features a smooth dampened manual focus ring, the aperture ring features ½ EV steps.

The Samyang 14mm features a wide, ribbed manual focus ring which is smooth and well-damped. This provides a positive manual focus, particularly suitable for more professional videoing / filming with DSLR’s where manual focus is preferred, enabling focussing pulling whilst video recording.