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Samyang 14mm for architecture

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p.1 #1 · Samyang 14mm for architecture

Hi everybody,

I am thinking about buying the Samyang 14mm lens, amongst else for architecture photography. I know about the moustache distortion, but I have heard good reviews of the use of PTLens to correct this distortion. I will be using this lens on de 5d mark II and III.
If you have this lens, and you use PTLens for correction, can you please share your experience with me (if possible with sample photo's)?

Thanks in regards,
Jeroen

Sep 08, 2012 at 08:50 PM

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p.1 #2 · Samyang 14mm for architecture

I have this lens, and all I can say is no amount of lens profiling from lightroom helped me as much as going to Adobe CS (4 in my case) and dealing with this personally. Luckily I dont need to do architecture otherwise this would be a major pain in the ass.

If PTLens can truly do this, I would be very impressed.

Sep 08, 2012 at 10:41 PM

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p.1 #3 · Samyang 14mm for architecture

What about the new Samyang 24mm f/3.5 tilt-shift lens instead ? That one will probably be very good for architecture photography

Sep 09, 2012 at 01:33 PM

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p.1 #4 · Samyang 14mm for architecture

I'm looking very closely at the Tokina 16-28 f/2.8 because it has very little pincushion / barrel / moustache distortion; much less than Canon 16-35 Mark II, 17-40, or Nikon 14-24.

Sep 09, 2012 at 05:06 PM

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p.1 #5 · Samyang 14mm for architecture

I have the 14 and use LR for correction. It's not absolutely perfect, but it is acceptable for the architectural shots I've used it on.

The new Samyang 24 TS should be nice, but quite a bit more expensive than the 14 (I am guessing 2X to 3X), and will only have nearly 50% of the angle of view -- that's a tremendous amount! With the 14's added coverage, if you level up your camera, you can crop to simulate a shifted lens. We are lucky the 14 is so sharp that it can pull this off without looking cheesy. With slight cropping, most of the moustache distortion is eliminated after PP, even with LR.

The 14 is quite noticeably wider than the 16 offerings.

Good luck on the PTLens, and please show us some examples after you use it.

Sep 09, 2012 at 05:20 PM

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p.1 #6 · Samyang 14mm for architecture

In case you don't need f/2.8 I'd also take a look at the Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX HSM (Version 1) which has nearly zero distortion even at 12mm. It's relatively cheap used.

Sep 09, 2012 at 11:20 PM

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p.1 #7 · Samyang 14mm for architecture

Fr3d wrote:
In case you don't need f/2.8 I'd also take a look at the Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX HSM (Version 1) which has nearly zero distortion even at 12mm. It's relatively cheap used.
Yes. Absolutely. If you want ultrawide angle, you want it cheap, and you want minimal distortion, this is the answer. Just don't shoot this lens wide open (which I can't imagine you would be since for architecture you should be using a tripod anyway).

Sep 10, 2012 at 04:31 AM

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p.1 #8 · Samyang 14mm for architecture

There are two available ACR profiles for the Samyang that are nearly perfect. If you need absolutely perfect, PTLens can provide that.

Sep 10, 2012 at 09:50 PM

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p.1 #9 · Samyang 14mm for architecture

Which are these profiles? I am using one on LR4 which is not very good.

Sep 10, 2012 at 11:13 PM

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p.1 #10 · Samyang 14mm for architecture

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/163210/share/various/Samyang14mm5D2.zip

They go in this folder:

C:\Users\[You]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\LensProfiles\1.0\Canon

The vignetting correction in one of the profiles is about right at 40.

Sep 11, 2012 at 02:44 AM

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p.1 #11 · Samyang 14mm for architecture

Thanks a lot, I will check these first thing tomorrow.

Sep 11, 2012 at 03:51 AM

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