I went for this Rokinon because I could not afford a dynamic Nikon super wide angle.

This lens has to be my favorite wide angle lens for the price!

Took some beautiful wide angle shots in Iceland.

I bought this Rokinon/Samyang lens (instead of a Nikon FX lens) because (a) it consistently joins DXOMark-*best/top* rank with Carl Zeiss and Nikon for the super wide-angle category, (b) my Nikon 24-70mm zoom is excellent all the way through the wide-angle range already, (c) the similarly-DXOMark-ranked Nikon lens is (only) 20 mm and not quite wider than my 24-70mm Nikon, and (d) my favorite (super) wide Tokina 11-16mm is only for DX format

A great super wide angle lens

An amazing wide-angle lens with virtually no chromatic aberration and an incredible price.

great wide angle lend for the money

Perfect low cost wide angle lens

its a great lens for the price ....brilliant wide angle pics!

Good for landscape and closeup wide angle shots.

Great wide angle lens

i like using polar filter aseptically on super wide angle

I went for this Rokinon because I could not afford a dynamic Nikon super wide angle.

(PTLens software mentioned by one of the reviewers also works just as well for this lens), so my contribution for the Nikon camera owners in this (long) review is in the areas of Focus, Exposure, Color Rendition and, specifically for the Nikon DX camera owners, a shoot-out between this lens and the highly-regarded Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X116 Pro DX II (super) wide-angle lens, which I have loved for my D300s and D40X.Focus

But this one provides excellent wide angle abilities with out an intense distortion... especially on a DX.

Great wide angle with minimal distortion

If you’re starting out and need a budget wide angle lens, great

Not as sharp as I'd like, as my kit lense are much sharper.

While this wide focus adjustment range is a nice engineering achievement, in close shots (especially one meter or closer as well as in low light conditions), it however becomes difficult to see which point is in focus since in the small view-finders literally everything appears in focus

That strikes me as so odd that it's probably something I'm not doing right