This silly little thing defies physics, warps space, and projects light in pandimensional ways. It makes you weep everytime you pull the cap off. It weighs as much as the land rover you use to transport it. When this lens enters the room, all other lenses genuflect. God doesn't have eyeballs. He has two of these things.
Posted by: Proslambanomenos
07/03/2018, 09:03 PM
Just got it today and it's fabulous! It opens up new ways to shoot wide!
Update; this lens is the best lens I've ever owned. Shooting wide at14 mm opens up new looks on my photos. And it's sharp with rectilinear lines all the way through just like everyone says.
It's pretty heavy but not cumbersome like the 70 to 200 mm. The build quality is great like everyone says, there's not much original that I can say except that it is a superlative lens and if I were starting over again I would start with this wide angle lens rather than the 24 to 70 mm, then I would go to the 24 to 70 and the 70 to 200 mm but I went 24 to 70 mm then onto the 70 to 200 mm. I just think this wide lens is much more versatile than the other two in the unique look you can achieve photographically and I absolutely love it for portraiture. I'm not a professional just an avid enthusiast. The 70 24 mm and 70 to 200 mm take fine portraits as everyone knows but the 14 to 24 mm takes different portraits and they look unusual but nice in a different way that can't be achieved with the other two lenses. Being able to photograph my grandchildren up close and getting expansive backgrounds, I like it and it looks different, more dramatic or comical. It's this kind of flexibility that makes this lens special or at least one of the attributes that make it so special.
It is expensive but I don't regret buying it.