After reading the good reviews this lens has I am going to add this super afforable lens to my
wedding lens kit, I just need a wide lens of this kind for my FF (5D II) for those 6 o 7 ultra wide shots in the church basically so I can not allow myself to buy the Canon 14.
Last year I purchased the Rokinon version of this lens and am using it on my Canon 5DII. I also wanted something ultra wide for to take a few shots with during my shoots and decided to give this lens a try.
It's very sharp and is fulfilling the purpose for which I purchased it. Worth the money.
Here are a few images from it.
wow, the odd distortion is very visible in your shots, I did not expect it to show that badly in portrait type situations
i know, i know... but you need to switch only once, and then it is forever
did you, you know, knew, that... this lens can actually resolve up to say, 36Mpixels? I know it sounds like senseless lot but, you never know, in some distant future it can come handy
Kittyk wrote:
i know, i know... but you need to switch only once, and then it is forever
did you, you know, knew, that... this lens can actually resolve up to say, 36Mpixels? I know it sounds like senseless lot but, you never know, in some distant future it can come handy
This lens can resolve just as well as the nikon. The distortion and MF are its main issues.
DblDrgn wrote:
is that line in shot #2 (very near the bottom of the frame) supposed to be straight?!
The distortion is VERY easy to get rid of. I think PT lens has a correction and Samyang has a correction for photoshop on their facebook page. It's found on the left side under useful resources. I love mine, but havent used it many times at a wedding. Usually landscape and architecture stuff.
Well, as I said I just need this lens for those few kind of extreme wide shots in church to capture as much as possible from bottom to ceiling so far from doing portraits with it though I quite like the ones masaookano shared specially number two.
I suppose the 14L (which I cant think of at the moment) can do a lot of better in terms of distorsion but for wedding photography when a very wide lens is used I even think a little distorsion is nice and artistic if it doesnt affect the subjet so much, if I made my living out of architectural photography I guess I would have 2 or 3 14L .
I have the 135L for those perfect portraits which is unusable for extreme wide photography
