The 85mm f/1.4 Lens for Sony E Mount from Rokinon is a manual focus, manual aperture, telephoto prime lens compatible with full frame and APS-C format Sony NEX mirrorless digital cameras. On APS-C format cameras it provides a 35mm format focal length equivalency of 127.5mm. It is ideal for portraiture and other telephoto applications. Its bright f/1.4 maximum aperture is very effective in low light situations and provides shallow depth of field focus control. An aspherical lens element aids in the reduction of aberrations and UMC multi-layer coating minimizes flare and ghosting and contributes to overall sharp imaging. The lens offers a minimum focus distance of 3.3', its filter thread diameter is 72mm and included with the lens is a bayonet-type lens hood that deflects unwanted light and protects the lens from damage.
- Sony E Mount Lens
- Aperture Range: f/1.4-22
- Compatible with Full Frame & APS-C
- 127.5mm (35mm Equivalence on APS-C)
Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 Overview
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Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 Reviews
Lens is good. Attention to detail could improve.
The lens itself is great. However, slightly disappointed after having to first return the wrong item, having to re-order a better condition lens for a difference in price because of not having a similar replacement in stock, and then receiving it without the expected bayonet-style lens hood in the replacement package.
just another bad one?
3 stars because my usage of the lens could be on the extreme end. It may work for other applications. My one and only use for the lens was astrophotography. I therefore gave it THE TEST - stars. I tested the lens with a Canon 6D (full-frame) and a Canon 7D-II (APS-C). I will comment on the 7D-II results since a cropped sensor should hide some of a lens' imperfections. The test: using LiveView, I centered a moderately bright star and used 10X for focusing. I took a center photo, then adjusted such that I could take photos of the same star in each corner of the FoV. The results: I used FastRawViewer to inspect the photos. The center star photo was fairly sharp and the star was round. The corner star photos had significant distortion of the star. For all photos, all mid to fairly bright stars displayed significant purple/magenta fringing. I repeated this test on a few different stars. The results were the same. While I could reduce the fringing effect with some manual adjustments using DxO PhotoLab 6, it would be problematic if working on a batch of photos for stacking. The lens may work well/okay for daylight imaging. I did not test that. Of course, it could be the notoriously poor QC for Samyang/Rokinon lenses and I got a bad one. I did not bother getting a replacement, and just returned the lens for refund. Buyer Beware.