Samyang 35mm T1.5 Cine Lens for Nikon F

Comments about Samyang 35mm T1.5 Cine Lens for Nikon F:

Just received my SAMYANG T1.5/35mm Cine lens with Nikon mount for my D7000. Yes, I can focus manually, but from the look through the viewfinder the lens itself is not quite focusing on the camera's focal plane. It does not seem to have that problem when viewing on the camera's LED screen. Weird. The camera does not recognize there is a lens on it in "shutter priority" mode (duh, it's a manual lens, took me 20 minutes to figure that out), so when I switch to live view/video mode I get the "F--" error message and no video functionality or operation. The camera works fine with the lens in "manual" and "aperture priority" modes. It does NOT adjust the shutter while in "aperture priority," but I've already settled on shutter speeds as multiples of the 24p I'm recording in anyway so I can use the LED screen and aperture ring to handle that if I forget to put it in manual mode. I tried taking some photos with it, including multiple consecutive shots. The auto white balance was confused on some shots and the camera's viewfinder shows no difference when turning the aperture ring during multiple shots, other than to show the aperture number itself. Put the Nikkor photo lens back on and everything changes in the viewfinder as the aperture is adjusted. I'll have to remember to put on my video hat when mounting this lens, as this is really not a bad thing. The results are obvious when reviewing those same multiple shots in the LED viewscreen. Use the LED screen to set the aperture for photos, use the viewfinder to take your shots and bracket them with the aperture ring. It will work fine. It's a smooth-turning ring (on my lens, anyway) so you can fade to and from black with it. I thought this lens was a lemon five minutes after I unboxed it; an hour later I wondered how I've done without one of these for so long. And I haven't done a real video yet. What a great buy!