thunder storm wrote:
Maybe you should take a look at the Samyang 14mm f/2.4 XP. It's not a zoom, but it covers the 14mm FL pretty well.
I use the AF 14mm Samyang, which is a pretty decent lens. Yes, works best stopped down a bit - it's an ultrawide. They tend to. At the moment, it's what I use when I can't be bothered to fit an adaptor to my 16-35 L.
I do find this thread pretty interesting in terms of credibility of reviewers. In the past, camera/lens reviewers in magazines tended to have done a form of apprenticeship, and learned their craft over time. These days, we're all reviewers, and even most of the well-respected YouTubers are self-taught - and by the same token, self-accredited. You say you're a lens reviewer, and you ARE a lens reviewer nowadays.
I've been friends with, known, met or conversed online with quite a few magazine and ex-magazine reviewers over the years (including several senior staff past and present here), and even these guys' reviews have to have the context of their prejudices taken into account when you read their reviews. That goes double for YouTubers, and even more so for people on here. That's not a criticism of anyone, merely a statement of fact. If you want to build up a fuller picture of any piece of kit, read more reviews of them, and be prepared to discard the outliers as perhaps not typical of the bit of kit in question - the tester could have had a bad (or especially good) example. Also with time, you'll work out whose opinions most closely match your own, and you can give them more credence. Doesn't mean that any of them are wrong about what they say, merely that some of their experiences might be more relevant to you than others.