Wow, loved your website's shots and story. Got me seriously looking at this $349 UWA. Love my Tamron 17-35 2.8-4 I picked up wicked cheap used but this 14mm could really come in handy when I go to San Francisco at the end of the month.
For anyone else considering this lens, check out Dan Carr's review here.
http://dancarrphotography.com/blog/2012/07/18/rokinon-14mm-f2-8-review/Note in the review that Dan links to another photographer's site, Thomas Berndt, who made a custom distortion profile on this lens for Lightroom. Here is the direct link to the profile.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30251825/5dmk2Samyang14profile.zipInstructions for installation of profile:
Download the Lens Profile
Open the profile in TextEdit
Find the line that reads: ” False”
Change the word “False” to “True”
Save it with a new name
Copy the profile to
User profiles location:
Mac OSX: /Users/(User Name)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/LensProfiles/1.0/Canon
Windows 7 or Vista: C:\User(User Name)\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\LensProfiles\1.0\Canon
Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings(User Name)\Application Data\Adobe\CameraRaw\LensProfiles\1.0\Canon
or
Shared profiles location:
Mac OSX: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/LensProfiles/1.0/Canon
Windows 7 or Vista: C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\LensProfiles\1.0\Canon
Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\CameraRaw\LensProfiles\1.0\Canon
Restart Lightroom
Your new lens will now be in the Canon section (if you put it in a Canon folder, you could also create a Rokinon folder)