The lens arrived within three days, good for Shetland. The box was also sealed which was a good start as it indicated that this one was not a returned lens
On paper this looked a good lens but as with all Samyang lenses its let down by poor QA. This MK2 14mm lens has a few upgrades.1. Weather sealed
2. Lockable focus
3. increased resolution
Unfortunatley my copy didn't have weather sealing around the lens connection, it is shown on the advert photos but was missing. A couple of other people have returned their copies.
Lockable focus would have been a bonus for anyone doing astrophotography, once focus is found it can be locked for other nights.
My lens was decentred as well, where it was reasonably sharp on one side while the other side was way out
It showed lots of Coma even stopping down to F5.6, not a thing you want to do with astrophotography. More light the better.
It is frustrating, i would rather pay a bit more to get a better quailty lens but although they keep bringing out new lenses with new features the main problem still goes on.
You may have seen my other post of the 24mm Samyang Astro lens, i had to send back 6 lenses, the same happened with this 14mm. I have lost faith with Samyang, i started looking for a lens back in October and still haven't got one.
It is a very time consuming excerise send back lenses, getting a refund then search again just hoping that the lens you get is spot on.
Time to move to another make
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