I was in that spot a month ago too, and was about to pull the trigger on the canon 35/2 when a 2nd-hand samyang 35/1.4 came on ebay that I got for exactly the same price as a new canon 35/2. Biggest drawbacks are the MF-only, of course, but the IQ more than makes up for it.


And the size is nowhere near small, about the same size as my EFs 15-85.


If canon came out with an EFs 28-35ish f/1.4-1.8 in the same size as a niftyfifty, and the IQ was better than the EF 35/2, i