Comments on: Samyang Delays 14mm f/2.8

By: abret

abret — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:45:19 +0000

Could be useful for video, since you do not need AF, and could live with inferior sharpness due to lower resolution. The aperture ring is a good thing too.

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By: Daniel Mihai Condurachi - photographer from Iasi Romania

Daniel Mihai Condurachi - photographer from Iasi Romania — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:53:04 +0000

I have never heard about this company Samyang. So this is good advertising for them… we get to hear that they exist and we become curious about their products. It is too bad that the aperture and focus is manual. Otherwise I would be interested

By: Big Fred

Big Fred — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:17:27 +0000

> I’m still waiting for the Canon EF 14-600mm f/1.2 L hybrid IS. It might be a little heavy…

Oh I don’t know; if Canon replaces in-lens IS with an anti-grav unit it should be fine. ;-)

By: CPS_Guy08

CPS_Guy08 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:29:53 +0000

Ah. I see. Thanks for the info! I wonder if it being a prime will at least give it a decent IQ. Honestly I didn’t even know about Samyang until recently haha.

In better news:
I’m still waiting for the Canon EF 14-600mm f/1.2 L hybrid IS. It might be a little heavy at 3/4 of a pound but its gonna make a great all purpose lens. Rumor has it that they’re working on making it the size of a 24-105mm L.

By: CPS_Guy08

CPS_Guy08 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:53:36 +0000

Correction…I should say usually, or most of the time when you pay more the quality is better. Not always a guarantee :D.

By: CPS_Guy08

CPS_Guy08 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:52:26 +0000

Haha. Funny. But yes CanonMonster I would agree that the Samyang probably will probably not be able to provide the same IQ as the 14L.

I understand that when you pay more the quality is better. Most of my lenses are L but it’d still be interesting to see. My buddy actually uses a 50-500 Sigma if I remember correct…Sigma either way. And his work has been in National Geographic, so I think Samyang might have a good shot even if its not quite up to par with Canon’s L.

By: Big Fred

Big Fred — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:42:29 +0000

> you get what you pay for.

On one hand this is a tautology, since you wouldn’t pay for something that you didn’t get.

On the other hand, the idea that all items are of equal value is absurd.

But this hasn’t stopped people from posting “you get what you pay for” millions of times on Internet forums. I wonder how much disk space this has consumed since 1970.

By: canonmonster

canonmonster — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:44:51 +0000

you get what you pay for.
I love my 14mm L II.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:26:02 +0000

Reviews of the prototype indicated severe flare problems even when a pinpoint source of light was not near the scene. The re-design is apparently to add internal structures and perhaps a hood redesign to work on this.

The price is very low, so it isn’t a competitor with the Canon 14mm, but will allow some who want ultra wide and can’t justify the expense of Canon’s L lens to get reasonably good ultra wide photos.

By: Zac

Zac — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:16:36 +0000

Darn, I hear Samyang glass is quite superb among the third parties, just of mediocre build quality and lacking automatic aperture and auto-focus, a great, cheap, way to play with a rarely used focal length and still be able to deliver quality. Supposedly their 85mm f/1.4 is the optical match of the nikkor 85/1.4…

By: CPS_Guy08

CPS_Guy08 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:55:05 +0000

It’ll be nice to see the difference in IQ between the Samyang and the Canon version. The price difference will probably be pretty significant yea?

By: Canonmonster

Canonmonster — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:14:33 +0000

Ok, I’ll just pickup the canon14mm instead.