Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC Wide-Angle Lens for Canon

Comments about Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC Wide-Angle Lens for Canon:

Great for video which is what I bought it for. Great for portraits too but not regular photos.

1.4 let's in a lot of light. Very wide too. Great.

Comments about Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC Wide-Angle Lens for Canon:

Its a good lens for APSC but not so good for FF.
If you buy this lens, please install the ML firmware and you will find a easy way to focusing your subject. Vigneting until f4 on FF, less on APSC. I apreciate de wide angle, construction and after f4 - the sharpness. I didnt like the price in comparation with Rokinon/Bower/Samyang 35 mm f1.4, but is a good lens for filmmakers with DSLR.
PS: excuse my English please.

Comments about Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC Wide-Angle Lens for Canon:

Great continuation from samyang/bower of their "cheap" and fast lense series after the 35mmm and 85mm.
I use it mostly for video work and it delivers surprisingly well. Very sharp and (to my eye and the kind of work I use it for) no kind of aberrations.
No IS, autofocus or iris control, but then again I have no use for that in video.

Comments about Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC Wide-Angle Lens for Canon:

If you can live without autofocus and want an extremely fast, extremely sharp wide angle that won't break the bank, look no further.

Rokinon's 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC is a bit pricier than their stunninly-sharp-and-cheap 35mm f/1.4 but is still worth every penny in my opinion. I use it mainly for landscape and 24mm is my favorite landscape focal length. The build quality is solid and I love the huge, dampened focus ring. This lens is an absolute joy to use!

Bottom line: Good sharpness and microcontrast across the frame. Distortion is fairly well controlled. Heavy vignetting when used wide open but that's pretty standard for these kinds of lenses (so no points off for that). Not *quite* as sharp as the aforementioned 35mm but 24mm is a more difficult design - hence the higher price.

If you're considering Canon's 24mm L, this is definitely worth a look first, especially if your main use will be landscape or staged shots. In many ways I think the performance exceeds the more expensive lens.

Comments about Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC Wide-Angle Lens for Canon:

First, you have to check that you have a well adjusted focus ring. Some have complained that their rings are loose. Thankfully, that was not a problem with my lens. (For the Rokinon 8mm, Ken Rockwell has a link for how to adjust the focus ring yourself.) Assuming your lens is calibrated OK, this lens delivers a rounder and creamier bokeh than the Canon 24mm 1.4L, which costs 1600 dollars. The out-of-focus areas of the Canon lens give "squiggly" bokeh, as well as odd distortion in the corners. Mind you, this is when shooting at the minimum focal distance where the distortions are most pronounced. But the Rokinon performs the same task with astonishing accuracy. This lens is built tough, and the photos are beautiful. At the wider focal length, I found it much more forgiving than the Rokinon 35mm 1.4, which is an excellent lens, but it is much more demanding with a depth of field of literally fractions of an inch. I found that I can use this 24 in candid shots much more easily, even when wide open. I started shooting photos with this lens even before I left B and H. I posted these photos in a video review on Amzn, which you can check out over there.