A fixed-aperture, wide-angle prime, the silver Sony E mount AstrHori 14mm f/4.5 Lens renders wide scenes with minimal distortion, making it an ideal choice for architectural, landscape, or night photography. With a minimum focus distance of 9.1", the lens offers a unique perspective for both striking portraits or expansive vistas. Its aspherical design, comprising six elements in five groups, maintains sharpness and resolution across the image. Despite its compact size, it's built tough with an all-metal body and layers of multicoating to protect image integrity. Its dedicated manual focus is perfect for those learning the intricacies of camera settings and creative control.

APS-C | f/4.5    21mm Full-Frame Equivalent    Fixed-Aperture, Wide-Angle Prime    Manual Focus Design    Aspherical Lens Design

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. What kind of horizontal distortion does this lens render on full frame around the top and bottom of the frame? Does it have barrel distortion, bulge distortion, pincushion distortion, or wave/ wiggle distortion? Do lines stay straight horizontally?

A: All extreme wide lenses exhibit some level of barrel, chromatic, and rectilinear distortion. If you wish to avoid these negatives while using wide lenses, do not get too close to your subject and cause barrel distortion or tilt and cause leaning lines. That being said, rarely are there any wide lenses that are truly bad otherwise lens manufacturers would not make any money. Getting on to your question, this Xeen 14mm lens' performance is not known at this time. However, it is based on the Rokinon 14mm and we know that to be very good, especially in light of its low price. Final note: Wide and tele lenses have characteristics unique unto themselves. In the beginning of their camera career, people often look at these characteristics as negatives to be overcome. In time, the user knows what to look for and then exploits these characteristics to storytelling advantage.

Q: 2. Why would this be more desirable than the Rokinon 14 mm f/2.8 IF ED UMC Lens For Nikon with AE Chip?

A: The Rokinon AF 14mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon F has the same AE feature plus it has auto focus. The other lens you are mentioned is manual focus only.

Q: 3. Is the aperture ring clicked or de-clicked?

A: The AstrHori 40mm f/5.6 Lens (Leica M, Silver) aperture ring is de-clicked.

Q: 4. Using this lens on my a7iii. The autofocus works fine in photo mode. However in AF-C mode while shooting video, the lens will not continuously auto focus. Is that how it is supposed to be, or did I get a bad unit?

A: Sorry i didn't finish my answer before. I would check settings on Camera such as putting focus area on wide. Also check and see if Center Lock Auto Focus is on/off. I usually turn mine off unless i need to lock on to object.

Q: 5. Is the autofocus and aperture on this lens compatible with the Canon C200?

A: The Rokinon AF 14mm f/2.8 Lens for Canon EF B&H # RO1428FFC will work perfectly with the Canon C200 in both auto focus and aperture control functions.

Q: 6. Will this come with the most recent firmware or will it need to be updated using the lens station?

A: The Rokinon AF 14mm f/2.8 FE Lens for Sony E that B&H offers, will feature firmware updates at the time it was created. It is always normal procedure to check new Firmware updates on the Rokinon Website, to see if there are new updates available.

Q: 7. Does this lens have image stablization?

A: This lens does not have image stabilization.

Q: 8. Is this lens fully compatible with film cameras, like the 35mm CL and/or M2, with good results?

A: The AstrHori 40mm f/5.6 Lens (Leica M) is fully compatible with a Leica M2. However, with the Leica CL, an APS-C L mount camera, you will need an adapter.

Q: 9. Is this lens already with the new firmware? Is auto focus improvement already present or will I have to upgrade?

A: Hi--all cameras and lenses delivered to us have the latest available firmware installed, but manufacturers don't tell us the version for each shipment--it's the latest that was available when the product shipped. A firmware update released in the last month is probably not installed. You will need to check the lens for the firmware version.

Q: 10. To B&H: why does the Kodak 3x3 ND filters show up as accessories at bottom of page? Is there some way to use these with this lens?

A: The Samyang AF 14mm f/2.8 RF Lens for Canon RF has a rear filter slot designed for use with gelatin filters. You would have to cut the filter down to size to fit inside the rear filter slot on the back of the Samyang AF 14mm f/2.8 RF Lens for Canon RF.