Bought this lens to take on our trip to the Grand Tetons specifically for Milky Way and star photography. This lens didn't disappoint with its wide view and ease of use. The price was great and the pictures of the Milky Way turned out awesome.

That's right! This lens was a game changer for me and saving me so loot to boot. I light to shoot a lot of the Milky Way. The night I received my new 14mm f2.8 happened to be on a night during the new moon. I spent the next several hours capturing some of the best images to date. You definitely can go wrong this lens.

Works great for what I'm doing with Astro photography .. Can't wait to see what more it can do :)

Good image quality, easy to use with Nikon. Not so expensive

Bought this lens for astrophotography, cityscapes, and landscapes. Previously had bought Rokinon's 24mm/f1.4 lens and had been very happy with it. Did not have any concern about the build quality. Testing the 14mm on a Canon 5DIII, the images were focus sharp, no noticeable vignetting no color shifting, etc. Bought the AE chip to avoid having to write down my exposure setting in the dark. Focus at infinity is about 1/3 of the way between the vertical line and the infinity symbol, but no real issue there. Because of the front lens element, you cannot mount any filters. No aperture ring, it is controlled by the camera, as is Canon's L lenses. Lightroom read the EXIF data without any problems. Future wish is for Rokinon to offer the AE chip on other lenses, hopefully the 24mm/f1.4 which is a great lens by the way. I would buy the 14mm lens again.

I love this lens! I am using it with an A99 and have captured some amazing landscapes, skies, wedding images and even some band shots at a live venue. There is definitely some distortion with the 14mm if your subject is not in the middle of the frame. I haven't noticed as much of an issue near the top and bottom of the image it has mostly been on the left and right. This is something you will run into with any wide angle lens. That said... Its nothing that photo editing software cannot fix. The manual focus is fast and smooth, I have not once wished I had an AF setting on this lens. I have used it at fast paced events like weddings and live music venues and generally setting the focus to infinity does the trick. This is a solid build and totally worth the investment if you need a wide angle lens.

I hate it when people praise a piece of equipment and then qualify that praise with ...for the money. I've read a lot of reviews about this lens that end with that qualifier. It leaves me wondering, well, what if I spent 5,6X for a Nikon 14mm to 24mm f/2.8 or the Tamron 15 - 30mm f/2.8, will my shots be that much better? I played tug of war over this thought for better than an year and then finally said, just buy it. And I did. It's a wonderful lens. I bought it for taking shots of real estate listings for agents. I figured an MLS picture doesn't need to uber sharp; any decent lens will render an image shot in RAW and touched up to at least 8X10 with clarity and sharpness. This delivers in spades. If I had any regret, and I knew this going in, is that it's not a zoom. Sometimes, I want to just spin the zoom ring to change composition but it's not there. No real issue, I just move and that works well enough. I thought the lack of AF would be a problem but I found it really isn't. Most the time you're shoot at infinity so you're usually in focus but you do have to remember to check your focus often or suffer the result. The picture I uploaded, you can see no fall off at the corners and over all good image quality even though I had to save as Jpeg and reduce overall image size from 25meg to just 2.3meg in order to upload.

I bought this lens mainly to photograph northern lights.
It works like a charm and no calibration needed.

Used this for mostly rental properties, does wonderful job. Doesn't need to hire anybody to take photos for me anymore.

Just received this lens and took some test shots using a Canon 6D -- results so far are very good, which I expected since I rented this lens (without the AE chip) before buying. A pleasant surprise was that the AE chip, in addition to providing focus confirm, allows the camera body to control the aperture setting -- the manual aperture setting ring on the lens as shown in the photos is not present on the AE chip model. Also, the AE chip model sets the EXIF Focal Length and Lens tags to 14 mm and 14mm, respectively. (The non-AE chip model I rented did not set these tags.)