Maybe a Rokinson 14mm lens purchase in the future

[Jon Ruyle]

I bought this lens about a month ago after reading the review at photozone. I think I payed closer to $379 than $289, but I don

[freelanceshots]

I read the photozone review and they rated this lens really high. I'm expecting wonderful things. As long as the lens distortion software can work out the bugs then things will be golden. I'm excited to test it out against the less then stellar Canon 16-35mm II. Maybe putting the 16-35 up for sale and looking at the Canon 24mm L f/1.4 lens or 35mm 1.4 or even the 24-70mm IS if they come out with that option.


I do use a polarizer filter indoors from time to time to cut glare on furniture so I guess I won't be doing that anymore with this new lens. I just made the connection that the Canon EF 14mm II lens you can't use a filter on it either because it has an attached hood as well. Even the almighty Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G lens does not except a filter. They all have a large bubble front lens element so its not as big as a let down as I first thought about it after you mentioned the fact.

[Jon Ruyle]

True, they all have bubbles. I didn

[freelanceshots]

I don't mean to insinuate that the 16-35 is bad as it is a great lens for a zoom where it has been my main lens for the last 3 years. I'm just thinking that the few more mm will be huge for me as I always need just smidge more in the corners on the tops of my images from interiors shots after perspective correction. I really don't need to be spending even this amount of additional money but how can one pass up a nice speciality lens for 289.00. If they are as good as people are reporting and more people start buying this lens (minus no electronics and DOF scale being off) then the prices could go up so I just want to get in on it early. The main feature that I am interested in is the corner to corner sharpness where the 16-35mm starts to stumble. With the vignetting and distortion correction being an easy fix with low dollar software these days then this lens becomes an even better lens with a few extra key strokes. The Nikon and the Canon counterpart are also reported to have heavy vignetting at 14mm so that just adds to the value of the Rokinson since they all have it.


The pictures taken by the 5D2 and the Roki on the photozone site look amazingly sharp with very clear detail even at the 100 percent crop. I don't think my $1500 16-35 lens' images looks that good. They can start to get a little fuzzy. It will be interesting to see these results in person. I hope the old adage "if its to good to be true then it probably is" does not pertain to this product.