As a serious amateur landscape photographer, I find this lens to be an excellent choice. It yields razor sharp imagery with extreme depth of field on my D800E. This lens is one of the best price to value propositions on the market today.

Consistent Output; Durable; Excellent sharpness; Rugged; Strong Construction

Samyang 14mm F2.8 is a Fixed aperture Manual Focus (MF) Ultra-Wideangle Prime lens with 35mm FF max sensor coverage, and it is designed to be used with F(FX) Mount cameras. What type of photography is the Samyang 14mm F2.8 lens good for?

Aperture Ring, Distance Scale, Hood supplied, Covers Full-Frame Sensor, Extreme Wide-angle capability, Minimum focus distance of, 0.28m / 11.0 inch, No Weather Sealing, No Autofocus

Aperture Ring, Distance Scale, Hood supplied, Covers Full-Frame Sensor, Extreme Wide-angle capability, Minimum focus distance of, 0.28m / 11.0 inch, No Weather Sealing, No Autofocus

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

An excellant choice and surely better than canon or nikon at the same focal length as it maintain sharpness across the while frane range unlike others. Manual focus is a challenge specially at night when aiming at stars

Excellant for wideopen photography and landscape

Manual focuse

Excellent optical performance with rugged construction. No electronic connection to the camera, so manual aperture and focus. Better on mirrorless cameras where the manual aperture is not a problem. Good value.

Durable; Sharp Focus; Strong Construction

Heavy

I love tthe Samyang 14mm f2.8 Full Manual Lens, it is extremely sharp and especially at f4.0. On a nice day it is easy to focus in live veiw but if it is low light or very bright Sun it can be difficult to focus ( That is the only reason it didn't get 5 stars from me and unfortunatly, I can't give...

Sharp, wide correctable distortion, Nikon version with AE chip gives exposure, changing f stop and shutter speed from camera, manual focus but there is focus confirmation dot. For landscapes at F11 the depth of field is huge and I leave it to infinity focus.

Korean optics company Samyang is known for fully manual lenses and superb optical quality, and this ultra-wide 14mm has a fast maximum aperture of f/2.8 which lets you capture stunning scenes in low light...

Firstly I am a happy user of Samyang 85 and 8 mm lenses and I was looking forward to adding the Samyang 14mm to my lenses! Unfortunately mine came with 2 issues: 1. Lens could not achieve infinity focus (easily adjusted at least) 2.

Good price if you get a good one Sharp if you get a good one AE along with focus confirm works on Pentax mount Reasonably fast

Quality control FF distortion but could live with it FF vignetting but could live with it

I love the wide capability of this lens, although it can be tricky to tell if things are in focus even with an external monitor. I have used it to shoot a music video in some abandoned castles and Ireland and it worked perfectly for some creepy shots and haunted effects.