Sony FE 14mm F1.8 GM Full-Frame Large-Aperture Wide Angle Prime G Master Lens

I have been trying to get back into photography again. Like most people on a budget, I was hesitant to buy an ultra-wide prime lens. My kit til now was just up to the kit lens and the Sony 90mm macro (another great lens). I wanted good fast prime lens, and was mostly looking into 35-50mm lens that are typically recommended for general use, but then ran into this beast.

This lens is amazing! It is so light and compact. Its astoundingly sharp, and the colors looks so good! You can get some really great sunburst effects. At its widest opening, you get some amazingly sharpy photos. I have really come to love this lens for some street photography. You can fit so much of the bigger buildings in a photo. I need to take it out for some astrophotography next, will update this review after.

Excellent Len. Favorite to use on my Sony

This lens is not only a great apereture range, but it is sharp as a tack and lightweight.

I started with the Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 in 14 and there were stretched stars in the corners (pincushion distortion) due to keeping vertical things straight but things are wider at the sides causing the stretching. All Sony lenses from the 1635,1224 and the early aps-c 1018 (1527) @ 12mm in FF f/4s had no pincushion. Example look at a time lapse of the MW going across the sky and look at the sides where the stars are wider apart and travel faster than the center stars like being in a fishbowl with curved glass (yes we are in a fishbowl). Things get worse the faster the the glass with all the different coma. I have used the Sigma lens for two years and had to use at 2.2 or 2.8 because of coma and pincushion. You may not see it but use Capture One it has a pincushion correction even without a lens profile and watch the foreground change. small and light also, just WOW!

For an open wide F1.8 14mm youre not gonna find a better lens for Sony E mount. Worth every dollar. Buy it nice so you dont buy it twice.