Did interior photography with this lens over the weekend and the images are super sharp.

Soft images with F2.8

Focusing with this lens is exactly like trying to focus it when the camera body is off; there is zero assistance to guide you to getting a sharp image.

Just compare with your smart phone images.

With a little editing, you see a lot more stars - but the raw images are pretty great too

Amazing image quality for an amazing price

Sharp images with F9 or higherCONS:

Awesome optics, images are clean, very sharp when stopped down around 5.6 or 8 (even quite sharp wide open), great smooth focus, solid feel, beautiful form factor

Although the image was good, I just felt that it wasn't smooth and stable enough

For around $300 the Samyang 14mm offers some amazing image quality for the price

This lens is cheap because it's manual focus, manual aperture, lacks image stabilization, has strong distortion, and getting a good copy is a gamble.

Will warp images so either that is acceptable or need software to help correct the edges.

Regardless of the far left softness, the images are still quite usable

The image is always smooth, stable and in focus

Poke around the interwebs and you will see that many of the most incredible images of the night sky were taken with this very lens

If you like putting motion in your videos and you're looking for a lens that can make your images look smooth, buy this baby and you won't regret it

And, frankly, the fact that someone stuck a little sticker on it to say that it has been "inspected" doesn't mean much if they didn't actually put it on a full frame E mount camera and look at what the image looks like