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hi i'm dustin abbott i recently reviewed
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the snyder cruise notch and lk samyang
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14 to 24 millimeter f/2.8 wide angle
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zoom lens on sony e-mount those of you
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that watch that review know that i was
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quite impressed with the lens i like the
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package when it comes to the size and
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weight the autofocus capabilities the
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image quality and it even has great
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close focus capabilities but as people
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began to respond to that review i was
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surprised by how many of you asked about
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how well it would work adapted to nikon
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z using an adapter like the mega and
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frankly i hadn't even it hadn't really
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crossed my mind and i was actually
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delighted to uh for you to pose that
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question because it's like you know what
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i have a nikon camera i should test to
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see how it works because that could be
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an intriguing option there obviously
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nikon does have their own 14 to 24
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millimeter f2.8s lens however it is
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significantly bigger it's about 30 mm
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longer and about 200 grams heavier and
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it cost about $800 more about $2,000 and
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so particularly if you're someone like
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myself who has two platforms that the
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lens could be used on both so i was
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intrigued by the idea so i've shot you
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know pretty much exclusively with this
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combination over the past week for both
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photos and videos using the megaap etz
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21 pro adapter and here's what i have
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found when it comes to the you know
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build side of things really not a whole
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lot changes the mega dap adds 2
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millimeters of you know length to the
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lens and 43 g and so it's negligible in
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both metrics it means that the
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combination is still only around 500 g
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the one kind of fly in the ointment is
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if you are concerned about shooting in
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adverse conditions the megadap is not
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weather sealed and so you are
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potentially adding a compromised point
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because while the lens itself is
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thoroughly weather sealed obviously and
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the the camera is weather sealed that
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adapter there in between there is a
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slight possibility that some moisture
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could get in there it's probably not
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very much because everything does
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connect tightly together however that's
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just a potential risk there i did note
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one situational glitch in terms of the
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handling and operation of the lens and
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that was if i had gone into their uh
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their software and i had changed the
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function of the afmf switch to where if
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it's in the af position the uh focus
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ring will work as an aperture ring i
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found that that did create a bit of a
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glitch on nikon to where sometimes
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aperture would jump around a little bit
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but more importantly as i was zooming in
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and out it's where i particularly
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noticed it i would see a little bit of
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some flashing here and there because i
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think aperture wasn't responding
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consistently and so i went back into the
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software i changed the setting back to
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the default setting where in the af
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position it just functions the ring
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isn't really doing anything and then i
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went where the manual focus obviously
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controls manual focus when i changed
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that back to the default setting for the
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switch that problem went away and so i
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was able to zoom in and out as you can
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see here without any kind of glitching
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aperture works completely normally and
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it works in that sense just like a
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native lens so as far as the handling of
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the lens those are the only two
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potential flies in the ointment one of
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those is a kind of a theoretical problem
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if you're shooting in really nasty
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environment maybe not the best
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combination and then the other is easily
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solved just by eliminate that issue i
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suspect it has to do with nikon's
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perception of a uh you know customizable
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control ring and so it isn't really that
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and so i think that there's a little bit
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of a miscommunication that comes as a
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byproduct so how about on the autof
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focus side of things here's where i was
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actually shocked autofocus is still
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shockingly fast and good and you can see
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here that focus is still nearly
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instantaneous it zips back and forth uh
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with extreme speed it's it's actually
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one of the better nikon zmount lenses
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that i've used in terms of autofocus
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speed and so i i think that that part is
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definitely impressing i found that i had
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good accuracy focus remains nearly
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silent i mean bottom line is it felt
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like using a native lens and i was able
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to just snap photos without any kind of
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thought about autofocus at all other
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than the fact that autofocus was fast
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and so that was great on the video side
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of things here's where i i had low
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expectations and once again my
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expectations really were exceeded so yes
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you can see that focus pools they might
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be a little bit slower however you can
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see that while they're not fast they are
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accurate and they're well damped you're
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not seeing any kind of pulsing uh any
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kind of visible steps any kind of
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settling it's not moving fast from point
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a to point b and back but it is moving
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consistently and smoothly in fact i shot
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a whole segment that i was putting
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together uh just kind of an intro to a
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space and and talking about it i shot
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the whole thing using this combination
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and i never noticed any kind of
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autofocus glitching along the way
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furthermore there does seem to be uh
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communication of the correction profile
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and so while as we'll get to in a moment
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correction isn't perfect uh it is still
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sufficiently good even at 14 mm for
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shooting in the space with a lot of
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lightly colored walls that i wasn't
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seeing you know visible vignette heavily
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showing up and distortion was corrected
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well enough that it really didn't seem
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to be a factor even here on nikon kudos
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so how about image quality obviously
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this is a lower resolution point even at
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its highest my z8 is 45 megapixel but my
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a7r5 is 61 megapixels and so in that
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sense this is having an easier go here
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on nikon than what it did on sony so i
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would say if anything results look like
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almost even sharper because it's a lower
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resolution point and it basically it
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looks fantastic and particularly i felt
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like the 14 millimeter corners rather
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than looking worse actually looked
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better and and so and i would say that
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at 24 millimeters i you know at wide
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open there was a little bit less
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contrast as it was on on sony but
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stopping down to f4 restore that and you
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can see by f5.6 it's sharp in the center
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sharp in the mid-frame sharp in the
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corners at 24 millm as well so uh you
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know testing all across 14 mm testing
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all across 24 millime even wide open
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it's looking very good you stop it down
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to f5.6 it's sharp everywhere and so
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zero problems there now that's not to
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say that there was no issue again the
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correction pro profile does come over
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but as i have found on every lens that i
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have reviewed on both sony e and nikon z
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whether they're developing a fresh uh
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you know mount for the lens for nikon z
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or i'm adapting it there's always a lot
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more vignette on nikon and the reason
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for that is simple the diameter of
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nikon's mount is much larger
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particularly compared to e-mount and so
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as a byproduct it just means that uh
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lenses have not necessarily been
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engineered to go all the way to the
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edges of that that mounted so there
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there is more vignette that comes as a
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byproduct and here i found that i could
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max out particularly at 14 millimeters i
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could max out the slider and i still
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felt like i could use a little bit more
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so it's a lot of vignette very heavy and
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at 24 millimeters or and basically
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anything other than 14 millimeters it's
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it's still a lot i need to pretty much
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max out the slider but it's still it's
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correcting everything so i mean outside
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of that all the same optical attributes
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other than that remain the same i mean
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it still has very low fringing either of
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longitudinal or lateral style chromatic
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aberrations every you know flare
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resistance is the same it's basically
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doing all the same stuff other than with
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more vignette and so at the end of the
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day i would say the only new issue is
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the additional vignette but optically it
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looks great so no problems there so my
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conclusion is this if you're intrigued
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at that combination this is a shockably
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shockingly viable uh transition i mean
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it's the lens works very much like
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natively i've enjoyed using it on nikon
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you know full stop no caveat there it's
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it's been a blast to use and so i mean
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other than needing to correct for a bit
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more vignette in post sometimes that's
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really been the only factor that i've
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run into and it's hardly the first wide-
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angle zoom that i've used before or
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wide-angle prime for that matter that
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suffers from a lot of vignette and so
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you know that's part of the lens to
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begin with and it's just magnified on
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nikon z i think that this makes it an
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extra intriguing lens if you happen to
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have multiple systems and you're looking
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at it and saying "it's something i could
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use on e-mount and on zmount as well."
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and i would say absolutely if you have
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an adapter like the mega dap it works
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like a treat and is actually one of the
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better ported over or adapted lenses
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that i have used using the mega dap so
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uh great and so if you're one of the
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ones that was intrigued on how well it
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worked great news on almost all fronts
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and hopefully this little video has
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helped you to determine whether or not
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this is a lens that should be on your
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radar if you're a nikon zmount shooter
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as always thanks for watching have a
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great day let the light in
