I've had this lens for a few months now but haven't really used it much. So today when I was bored I decided to take my Canon EOS 550D and this lens for a walk and test it out. The result of that walk can be seen in this video:
So now onto the review.
The manual focus is hard to use. Not just because it's a wide angle lens but more so because the distance scale on the lens is way off. The scale goes from 28cm to 3m and then infinity. My lens has infinity somewhere between 70cm and 1m. However if you use live view and zoom in to 10x it's fairly easy to find something far off in the distance to focus on. As long as it's a stationary object it shouldn't be a problem. When you do get the focus right it's very decent photos.
It does have barrel distortion (as seen in the first photo in the video), but other than that I haven't seen anything wrong.
I actually bought this lens to have a wide angle lens so I could photograph stars and possibly make time lapse videos. After about six months I still haven't had a chance to test it with stars. The alternative to buying this lens would've been to buy a lens with autofocus for a lot more money. So all in all I guess I can't complain too much.
In conclusion:
If you rely on autofocus you should not get this lens. It's manual focus only.
If you have more money than I have you could buy a wide angle zoom lens and get close to the 14mm with autofocus.
I will probably not use this lens much. If I get a chance to photograph stars then yes, but other than that I will most likely use my Sigma 30mm f1.4 that's on my camera almost all the time.
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