Samyang SY12M-MFT-SIL 12mm F2.0 Ultra Wide Angle Lens for Olympus/Panasonic Micro 4/3 Cameras, Silver: A Perfect Lens for Stunning Landscape and Architectural Photography Review

The photo is quite nice and beautiful! The same Olympus 12mm looks clearly worse in the stars. The lens is good for night and astronomical landscapes. BUT it was not without tar, a little refinement is required. Photo examples: ? nc=user ? nc=user ? nc=user ? nc=user

Well built, bright lens with detachable/reversible lens hood and delicate cloth case. Excellent image quality in the center even at full aperture. Significantly cheaper than the Olympus 12mm f2, for example. Recommended for astrophotography. Like other Samyang/Rokinon lenses, it doesn't have electronics: manual iris, manual focus (but the ultra-wide angle has a large depth of field, so it's not that important). 67mm filters are used. Unfortunately there are no focus markings and no depth of…

I received a bad copy. It wasn't able to focus decently at every distance or setting. While my sample was good, I'm not sure how to get sharp focus on my OM-D E-M5. When focus looked normal, all frames were blurry. I tried it in astrophotography as every lens needs to be able to focus at infinity. nope Blobs instead of dots. Color rendition was good though, so I think someone who gets a working copy of this lens will be pretty happy with it. I'm not that lucky. Two stars for color rendering…

Several pictures included. The first was on f5,6, the second on f4 and the third I don't remember. I really like this lens. I bought it thinking I'd see all the hype and just return it if it doesn't live up to expectations, but I have to say I really love this product. It's a fairly heavy lens and feels like it's of decent quality. The optics are not bad, except for glare. I think they may have missed some of the premium coatings that would be on glass on more expensive lenses. It doesn't…