Samyang 14mm F/2.8 First Light

[Atmos]

Picked this up off Gum Tree earlier this week and managed to have a play with it last night. One of my jobs this afternoon is trying to figure out how to take a reasonable flat frame! Ultra Wide Angle and even illumination I think is going to be a bit of a headache. Maybe get some darks tonight to help with some contrast.

Optically... It's soft. However compared to most of the lens' in this range (except the Nikon 14-24mm), they're all pretty soft and have reasonable distortion and other optical aberrations.

Am I happy with it? For the price point it certainly does the job. I think I'll end up using it with my Nikon D700 (it is VERY forgiving on lens') for super wide field. 3.91 micron pixels + no anti-aliasing filter isn't the best lens for a $350 SWA 14mm lens :P

30x300s with Nikon D7200 & Samyang 14mm F/2.8 @ F/5.6

[strongmanmike]

Really nice...but now what do you photograph with it...? :lol:

Mike

[Atmos]

You're looking at it :lol:
With an APS-C (my D7200) it gives almost the same FOV as what you get naturally with your eyes so it is crazy wide. This makes it a reasonable landscape lens because it is largely WYSIWYG.

[gregbradley]

That's terrific Milky Way.

I just sent a copy of the Samyang 14mm F2.8 back as it was bad in the corners. unusable bad.

Sigma 14mm F2.8 Art is what I am looking at. Irix 15mm F2.4 also gets good reviews.

Samyang 12mm F2 for APS cameras is quite good.

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

No, that's what I mean, after this image what is left to photograph? everything is in it, that's it, done :lol:

Mike

[atalas]

Love these super wide shot of the MW:thumbsup:

[Atmos]

Thanks Greg. The coma isn't great with the lens I've got but it is kinda what I expected after seeing how it performed on Lenstip.com
I'll have to check out those lens' and see how they go. There are a lot of Nikon 14-24mm lens' that pop up though, a lot but then and cannot think of a use for them hehe



I can go wider! Or I can do a full 360° of the sky! Oh the possibilities! :lol:



Has me wanting a Nikon 14-24 and borrow a Nikon D810 for some crazy wide field ;)

[Ryderscope]

Excellent. Go for the 360d Colin. The opportunities are endless ;)

[RickS]

Looks great, Colin.

[Decimus]

A very striking image for such an affordable lens, Colin! I would be thrilled with a result like this:thumbsup:

Cheers,
Richard

[Atmos]

I am kinda tempted to splash out and get a Nikon 14-24mm as it has considerably better full frame performance and doesn't have some weird distortion. Borrow a D810 and go really wide ;)



:thumbsup:



The individual 300s subs have really messy stars but they're good in the stack. Quite happy with the performance of the lens given it's price and shortness.

[Slawomir]

I think the image looks great Colin. One day I will certainly investigate this aspect of astro imaging.

[Atmos]

It is easy in that you don't even need a tracking mount. Just a tripod and 30s exposures will do fine as long as you manually revenges every so often :)

[topheart]

That is very nice Colin!
Fantastic for the price!
Cheers,
Tim

[Atmos]

If you're not pixel peeping then there is no real difference between this lens and one 3x the price (Nikon 14-24)

[codemonkey]

Beautiful shot, Colin, very well processed.