Thanks, Marcin. Appreciate you taking the time to watch!

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.

Thanks a lot, Stephan. Not much use for a lens if you aren't going to make photos with it, eh?

Haven't experienced that with the X-T4. Might be worth contacting Samyang about that! Hopefully, they can improve their support for your camera.

Hard to say without knowing how you work. If you need the f/2 aperture, perhaps the Samyang is the right choice. If you don't, the versatility of the 10-24 will likely make it a better overall choice. In the end, it's all about how you plan to use the lens.

Thanks for watching! At the time, I didn't have the XF 14mm. Now I have the 14 and not the 12! I won't be able to make a direct comparison, but the 14mm seems sharper to me. The Samyang definitely has better AF and the wider field of view is a lot of fun to work with. Hopefully those small takes will be helpful!

Thanks, Dylan, really much appreciated! @@DylanGoldbyPhotographer

Maybe take it out and test it for your purposes. You might find it's good enough for the results you're looking for. I'm basing this on pin-lights in a city (we have way too much light pollution here to see the stars).

I have one for Sony, using it for astrophotography. The coma is quite apparent, especially away from the center.

@@stewartlife thank you

Thanks for watching!

Cheers! You'll be surprised at how expensive this place has become when you return... it's wild.

I appreciate that. Thanks for watching and I hope the video helped.

I haven't noticed that at all. It's worked flawlessly for me.

Cheers, Christian! It's my day-to-day editing music, so very familiar for me. ;)

I have the manual one as well...I agree. I do not do much wide angle, but it does a great job.

Do you read FujiLove, by chance?

Samyang has a lens dock that they provide firmware updates through. My guess is that they'll improve it over time. I haven't checked yet to see whether the Fujifilm version of that is available here.

It's all about what you want to achieve. Stop down when you need to, open up when it feels right.

Definitely a consideration. The f/4 does have OIS, so that might help if nothing is moving. As for the old MF, my buddy Roy has it and we've been meaning to get together and test it. Next time he's in town, we'll likely do a comparison video, so stay tuned.

@@DylanGoldbyPhotographer I should mainly sports and want to do more documentary style photography. Not sure if OIS would be too beneficial. I currently shoot an XT3 at a minimum of 1/500-1/640 shutter speed at f2-2.8

Thanks for watching, Christine. Hard to say if the optics have improved as I don't have a lot of experience with the old lens. A quick look at the MTF charts of both lenses suggests that the new one is actually worse around the edges. I have a good friend who does own the manual focus one and we're are planning to get together and do a video on it. I'll have a more definite answer for you once that happens.

I've never used the 16mm. I can't really offer an opinion on that. However, those are extremely different focal lengths. I wouldn't say it is an "either/or" type of decision.

@@DylanGoldbyPhotographer thanks man. I plan to buy a budget wide lens but since in your video you mention the vignetting on Samyang 12mm is to much and it is not my style, I think this lens out of my list. Thanks again.

Never noticed it at all or I would have mentioned it. Perhaps it's a batch issue? Did you chat directly with Samyang about it?

@@DylanGoldbyPhotographer it was a problem with the new Sony ILCE 6700 - Samyang said that there is a firmwareupdate. I could not check it though as I sent my lens back.

I haven't seen that on my end. I was able to get great results with longer shutter speeds.

@@DylanGoldbyPhotographer Maybe together with the X-T4 it will work? Otherwise with the X-S10 it does not work. The Firmware in the lense is faulty and it does not give the IBIS required data to the camera. Wich is a bummer, because the lense is realy good. I hope they will fix it soon, because this problem was found since the lense is on the market.

​@@n3c2o how does perform the lens now on xs-10? Some improvement with firmware updates? Thanks

@@athlon1977Greetings! IBIS now works together with the lens. Samyang has released a firmware update for this. I had to buy the Lens Station from Samyang, but it was worth it. Performance is great. The lens was already great before, but now with the properly functioning image stabilizer, it's truly outstanding. The Samyang and a Sigma 56mm are currently my favorite lenses for Fuji.

Perhaps for your uses, this might be true. But consider someone with less-than-perfect eyesight who might want to use the close-up capabilities of this lens, someone working quickly who needs to ensure that a changing situation remains in focus, or someone who might need autofocus for filming themselves for something like KZfaq, to name just a few. There are plenty of use cases where autofocus is extremely useful.

@@DylanGoldbyPhotographer Just how close do you want to take it? Let's say the subject is only 3 feet away the DOF is sill extraordinarily in focus. Therefore changing situations do not matter. As far as "fast" is concerned nothing is faster than zone focusing. These numbers don't lie. If the subject is 3 feet away and you are at f11 using a 12 mm lens on an APS-C sensor camera then anything between 1.28 feet and infinity will be in focus.

@@tapasyatyaga4041 My point here is not that I want to do anything. It is simply that statements such as "AF is unnecessary" are unhelpful to those who might benefit from it. Not everybody works in the same way or photographs the same subjects.

@@DylanGoldbyPhotographer Respectfully, it may be true that for some very highly limited situations folks would like an AF in super wide angle. But any review of a super wide angle ought to mention that AF is much less necessary. Your example of closeup use of AF as being desirable on a 12 mm super wide angle lens was countered with a factual and scientific example indicating that is not the case even if the subject is only 3 feet away. That example came from computational software. Thank you for your review. However when reviews don't talk about obvious limitations of AF in super wide angle lenses then it appears as if the lens is being hyped and hawked. Some of us have limited funds and would find the AF feature totally irrelevant. I like your channel. However I think my critique here is fair.

@@tapasyatyaga4041 he said the lens feels like a 'hack job'. That coma, distortion, CA are all pronounced. That it forgets it focus point, doesn't display exposure correctly, and has inconsistent jumps between apertures. Plenty of things to turn people off from the lens. The fact he said it's fun, and encourages you to find wide angle subjects, doesn't mean he's hawking anything.. I have the MF version and image quality is subpar, yet it is a fun lens for the cost.

Nope more like 18mm f/3.0 cause 1.5x crop factor, you have to multiply the aperture too.

Thanks, Scott! Wide-angle composition is tough, for sure. I've got another video on it coming up next week. Hopefully it'll help!