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<blockquote data-quote="Basilisk" data-source="post: 598842" data-attributes="member: 43068">Does anyone know where I can get the new Samyang XP 14mm f/2.4 Manual Focus FX format lens with Nikon mount? The only ones I have seen for sale have Canon mounts.For the kind of stuff I do a lot of an f/3.5 aperture is way too dark. Even when I had a 35mm film camera in the 1980s it came as standard with an f/1.8, the wide angles were f/2.8 or f/2.0. For astrophotography you need a wide angle lens with as wide a maximum aperture as possible. As I'm not good at Photoshopping 6 or 12 or 24 images into one, I need both wide angle and wide aperture. The Samyang offers both and is even wider than the Nikkor 14mm-24mm f/2.8 which I might otherwise get.I do wish there were more manual focus lenses and split screen viewfinders in cameras. Then we wouldn't have to pay through the nose just to get what were historically not very bright lenses.In case you're reading this in the US, Samyang = Rokinon.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Basilisk, post: 598842, member: 43068"] Does anyone know where I can get the new Samyang XP 14mm f/2.4 Manual Focus FX format lens with Nikon mount? The only ones I have seen for sale have Canon mounts. For the kind of stuff I do a lot of an f/3.5 aperture is way too dark. Even when I had a 35mm film camera in the 1980s it came as standard with an f/1.8, the wide angles were f/2.8 or f/2.0. For astrophotography you need a wide angle lens with as wide a maximum aperture as possible. As I'm not good at Photoshopping 6 or 12 or 24 images into one, I need both wide angle and wide aperture. The Samyang offers both and is even wider than the Nikkor 14mm-24mm f/2.8 which I might otherwise get. I do wish there were more manual focus lenses and split screen viewfinders in cameras. Then we wouldn't have to pay through the nose just to get what were historically not very bright lenses. In case you're reading this in the US, Samyang = Rokinon. [/QUOTE]

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