The obvious lens to compare the Samyang with is the Pentax DA14. The barrel distortion is actually useful just to remind the viewer that they are looking at an image covering over 90° from corner to corner. Making such a wide rectilinear lens is of dubious value anyway and the linear distortion of this lens is nice and even and may be correctable in PP. The lens is not rectilinear, showing noticeable barrel distortion with straight edges, but it is by no means a fish-eye design either. The Samyang 14mm F2.8 is yet another great lens to go with their series of large aperture, high quality, manual focus primes.
Sharpness: 9 Aberrations: 9 Bokeh: 8 Handling: 7 Value: 10 Lack of filter facility, not able to focus close up. Price, performance and reasonable handling The lens cap is a plastic grip type, 35mm x 91.5mm.Īlso marketed as Rokinon, Bower, and various other brands The focus ring action is ~250° (in Pentax direction) by internal focus mechanism.Ĭonstruction: Metal body and mount with non-rotating, permanently fixed plastic bezel/hood. The mount is Pentax KA (Samyang calls this KR but there is no 'Ricoh pin'). "A" is setting included for aperture control from the camera body. The aperture range is F2.8 to F22 in half stop increments (except F19) via the aperture ring. Variations seem to be cosmetic although different weights have been reported between brands. This lens is also available branded as Rokinon, Vivitar, Sakar, Polar, Walimex, Bower, Bell+Howell and perhaps other brands.
This 14mm manual focus lens is fully compatible with full frame 35mm K-mount film and digital bodies. The fourth shortest focal length in the contemporary Samyang range of large aperture, manual focus, prime lenses after the two fish-eyes and the 10mm.