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)?
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 05:41 PM
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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.
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.
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.
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).
