Lens: Yongnuo 14mm f/2.8 (Canon)
First wide-angle lens from Yongnuo. This is it, the Yongnuo 14mm f/2.8 (Canon) is there…
I’m really looking forward to discovering this new lens. I hope Yongnuo won’t disappoint us and offer us a superb wide angle lens.
First of all: big surprise, the auto-focus! I personally expected a 14mm manual like the Tokina or Samyang model.
The second surprise is the build quality. The first pictures give a really good impression, both in terms of design and manufacturing.
I find similarities with the 14mm f/2.8L II USM from Canon, which costs $2000. That’s right, Wide-angle and Ultra-wide-angle lenses aren’t cheap. Thanks for Asian brands, you could have a nice prime lens at a pretty good price, but this will be a manual lens (no autofocus).
Yongnuo 14mm f/2.8 Specifications:
- Release date: January 2018
- Structure: 9 groups / 12 elements
- 7-blade diaphragm
- Minimum aperture: f/22
- Minimum focusing distance: 20cm
- Amplification factor: 0.15x
- Gold plated contacts
- USB port: firmware update
- Dimensions 86mm x 105mm
- Weight: 780g (1.7 lb)
- Price: ~$550
This sounds good, the 14mm manual lenses of the brands like Samyang, Tokina or Walimex have very good press at a quality/price ratio level.
The Yongnuo 14mm f/2.8 (Canon mount) version has been released in January 2018 and costs around $550.
There is also the Yongnuo 14mm F/2.8 (Nikon mount) which followed a few weeks after, for about $50-100€ cheaper.
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I have bought this lens. I use it on Canon 90D and 6D mark II. If I close the aperture in video mode it closes down to 22 at 5.6! And if stepping from 3.2 to 3.5 it closes a whole step but backwards it opens only 1/3 step. So I can close it to 22 at 3.5 in some back and forth stepping! And if I switch the camera off and on, it reboots in the right 3.5.
Do you know anything about this kind of problem?