And I already have the super tack sharp Canon M11-22mm lens. Staying with Samsung, maybe the NX12-24 would be a better choice for not much difference in $$. That and since I also tend to go very wide only in good light, the f/2.0 aperture became a little less appealing. The majority of the time I have it set to f/7.1, what my tests show to be its optimum aperture from center to corners. When it was recently on sale at B&H, I was tempted to get the Rokinon 12mm with its fast aperture to go with my 8mm. The Perkins Tower Gallery has additional images with the 8mm lens. Note that other NX images from Friday can be found through the 2 new announcements on my WHAT'S NEW page. For those who are interested in the habits of Meadowhawks, I did capture a very personal image of a male and female recently (not with my NX) that you can find here. I believe it was fascinated by its own reflection in the lens: It landed first on my face, then on my hand, then finally on some wood where I could get close to MFD near its face. I also had my NX60mm Macro with me and had the chance to use it later in the afternoon for this portrait of a Band-winged Meadowhawk.

All horizons required either some additional expansion or crushing to give a true feel for the curvature of the earth at each level of expanse. For example, the trees on the right of the second image were still very bowed (backwards C shape) before being straightened with liquify.

To get to the final rectilinear presentations above though, it still requires liberal use of Photoshop CC's warp and liquify tools. Here I can 'fix' or 'play with' many of the fisheye distortions. I start with Anglefish, inexpensive and worth the price. I am liking this lens, but keep in mind it does require a post processing workflow. The third image is from the summit of the mountain and shows a group of Appalachian Trail hikers near Perkins Tower taking a break to view the morning light over the valley: This time it's 1 and done with the 8mm lens: I usually create this scene each season with a stitch of 9 images.

It looks directly back to the place the first image was taken from in the center of the second image. The second image is from across the river near the summit of the mountain to the right. The first image is taken from The Goat Trail and looks west to Iona Island in the Hudson River with the terrain followed by The Applachian Trail going South in the background: But now I have the small and very light Rokinon 8mm lens in my backpack, so I gave it a workout. While on the Applachian Trail (and nearby Goat Trail below Anthony's Nose) on Friday, I passed scenes I have posted on this forum in the past that were stitched with up to 9 multiple images from the 16-50mm S.

Dxo viewpoint 2 rokinon 8mm