Had not seen a thread devoted to the Samyang 14mm so I though I would share some of my test shots with this lens. Wow! This is a very sharp lens – even at f/2.8. I’ve only had the lens a few weeks but what I am shooting so far is exciting and I believe it will be a great lens for landscape photography.
Although there is a fair amount of vignette at f/2.8, I’m impressed with its wide-open performance. I was a little concerned with the manual focus but if you shoot tripod (which I do) and just set the focus to 3 feet and f/16 - then everything is in sharp focus from 1’3” to infinity. Not bad!
I have sample test shots with 100% crops at http://www.pbase.com/dbehrens/samyang14mm. However, I want to share a few of the results here.
Dave
Taken with 1Ds Mk2 at f/2.8 with focus set on infinity:
At f/16 with focus set on 3 feet:
100% crops at f/16 with focus set on 3 feet:
One last pic taken at f/2.8 with the 1DMk4 (19.5mm equivalent).
