I’ve wanted a proper wide-angle lens for as long as I can remember photographing, but unfortunatly a proper wide-angle are dreadfullt expensive. Sure, you could go for a ‘cheap’ fisheye, but the distortion are so heavy that I would probably only use it for snowboarding. Or I could go for a lens-baby, but they just feel so. Well, plastic. What I really, really want is the Canon 14mm, by god that’s a sweet piece of equipment, but it’s so fucking pricey.
Luckily I stumbled upon the relatively new Samyang 14mm the other day! Samyang are basically known for making really crappy tele-lenses, but rumor has it that their new wide-angles delivers an (keeping in mind the low cost) outstanding quality, compared to the Canon 14mm.
In Denmark, the Samyang sets you back 2.400 kr, and Canon the mindblowing amount of 16.200 kr. Naturally I would prefer the Canon, but you get the picture.