Samyang SY12M-E-BK 12mm F2.0 Ultra Wide Angle Lens for Sony E Cameras, Black

This is a manual focus lens and it is not digitally connected to your camera btw. So you will need to make sure that your Fuji is properly adjusted to be able to shoot with this thing on. But once you get it working, I will tell you that this thing is a dream. It is a perfect lens for landscapes, food, and realty shots. If you've never used a manual focus lens before, don't be deterred as it is extremely easy to use. The settings on the Fuji X series will help you identify what is in and out of focus very quickly. You'll be shooting from you lens like a pro in no time. As far as the individual lens goes. It takes very nice photos with soft edges. The lens itself is superbly built in a nice metal housing that looks like it can take a beating. I would wager to say that it appears to be more solidly built than significantly more expensive Fujinon XF WR lenses that I also own. I would not want to test this len's water resistance, as it doesn't claim to be weather resistant. But I will say that the focus ring is very very smooth and that the aperture ring is very smooth and clicks at each setting. This is going to help me check out other lenses in their lineup down the road.

I purchased this for a road trip through the southwest US with my new Fuji XT-2. It worked great for my wide-angle landscape shots with incredibly sharp images from the foreground to infinity (see images attached). Though it's fully manual, for landscape shots on a tripod, it works perfectly and intuitively. The focus peaking with Fuji also make it very easy to check what will be in sharp focus when composing. It's appears to be very well built and super light weight. Overall, I'm very happy with this purchase and would recommend it to anyone wanting a sharp, wide-angle prime for Fuji X mount cameras. The filter size is 67 mm which also makes it a great addition with the Fujinon 16 mm f1.4 lens and 18-135 mm lens for a light weight travel kit (all with the same filter size!).

I bought a 8m f2.8 lens for my Fuji xpro2. I had had a fisheye lens like this for a Sony Alpha and a Sony Nex so I was familiar with it. The image quality was good. After two weeks I also bought this lens 12mm f2 I was so impressed by the 12mm I sent the Fisheye back. The Fisheye is good for a little experimenting weird effects. But that got old with me fast. I could not take the edge distortion. The 12mm F2 is not as wide but it is wide great image quality and little or no distortion depending on what you are shooting. Photoshop has the ability to correct any distortion the 12mm causes not so with the Fisheye but why would you on a Fisheye. As for the manual focus. I set it at infinity or a little shy and I can get everything in focus from 4-5 feet to infinity. It will focus down to 7 inches which is amazing for a wide Angle lens. I found the focus features split image and focus peaking don’t really work for me. I just use standard focus and magnify when shooting below 4-5 feet. Its great for environmental portrait photography to tell the story.

I'd been searching for a good wide angle lens for full body portraits because of the cool angles that can be achieved with it and WOW this is a purchase I do *not* regret!! I was a little scared to buy this because I'm not as financially secure as most everyone saying this is a "budget" lens plus none of the reviews on any sites featured portrait examples so this was a big gamble for me lol but it soooo paid off. As you can see by the billion example photos I've uploaded, this lens works really well for photographing people in close quarters. Almost all of these pics were taken up close and personal which allows for a really nice field of depth while not distorting facial features or limbs and keeping the subject nice and sharp. I've had this lens for almost a year and it has not let up!! Anyway, I decided to write this review for anyone else looking for wide angle lens for portraits rather than landscape or architectural photography. I use this lens in my Sony a6300 which is cropped sensor 1.5x so it's not as wide as it could be btw!

I purchased this for low light landscape and astrophotography mostly while backpacking. The lens is sturdy and well made, but not heavy. The focus ring has the right amount of control to get the focus right- use focus peaking. My copy is a little soft at f2, but up from that it just steps down into wonderful sharpness. The only drawback to this lens is it only has 6 blades, so sun stars and moon stars are not as great as a more expensive lens.

I purchased this lens mainly for landscaping photography as well as video shooting for hiking. So for me this lens is perfect - compact (not as the kit lens), lightweight, at 12mm F2.0 is optimal for night photography of the sky . The videos are also tack sharp. Only drawback is autofocusing but that would increase the price. I noticed lack of autofocus means more time spent on focusing leading to more battery consumption. Don't use the built in flash with this lens, it will leave a shadow at the bottom left of the photo.

This is probably the best ultra wide angel option for your Fuji X system. You can spend a lot more for Fuji 14mm or 16mm f/1.4 but this lens is actually very close to their image quality while providing even wider angle of view at a fast f-stop. The focus ring is stiff which is normal and there is slight lens mount play which is also normal as with most other Fuji X lenses. The center image quality is already good wide open and reaches optimal image quality from f/4.0 to f/5.6. Corner to corner sharpness is average but considering the focal length that is more than good compared to others. This lens is actually said to be sharper than Carl Zeiss 12mm Touit f/2.8. Review Update: I have to revise my review as of September 2016. I've had several copies of this lens in various mounts and feel that there are too many manufacturing variances. Lens focusing is too stiff and infinity focus/marking is often inaccurate and different depending on your copy. If you get a good copy it performance really well but there are simply too many variances and inconsistent quality control issues. In the end I've decided to sell these lenses or return them and look for better built alternatives.

This is a nice little sturdy lens that is great for landscape on the cheap. However mine was only focus-able from an aperture of f12 and up anything below f12 would not be in focus at all, no matter what I was shooting, what time of day, how far or close it just would not be sharp at all. The focus ring on mine also was not smooth and took more effort than it should to turn, so much so that when I took it out of the box when I got it, I actually thought it was broken because I couldn't get it to turn. The actual construction of the lens for the price is decent, it really feels like it could get roughed up a fair bit and not have any issues resulting. I decided to return the lens since nothing under f12 was in focus for me, and I will evetually buy another wide angle lens to replace it.