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Samyang/Rokinon


December 16, 2022 Samyang (Rokinon) AF 135mm F1.8 Review

I’ve noted that I’ve really enjoyed testing recent Samyang lenses because of their great mix of performance and price, but I don’t think that I’ve anticipated any Samyang lens as much as the new Samyang AF 135mm F1.8.  I was shocked when I reviewed their budget manual focus 135mm F2 nearly 8 years ago, as […] [Read more...]

December 3, 2022 Samyang (Rokinon) AF 135mm F1.8 Image Gallery

I’ve noted that I’ve really enjoyed testing recent Samyang lenses because of their great mix of performance and price, but I don’t think that I’ve anticipated any Samyang lens as much as the new Samyang AF 135mm F1.8.  I was shocked when I reviewed their budget manual focus 135mm F2 nearly 8 years ago, as […] [Read more...]

November 1, 2022 Samyang AF 85mm F1.4 Series II Review

My excitement over reviewing a new Samyang lens has grown by leaps and bounds over the past three years.  In my DSLR days I had treated Samyang much like some of the budget manual focus lens players on the market today (7Artisans, TTArtisan, Brightin Star, etc…).  They produced lenses that were sometimes optically in [Read more...]

November 1, 2022 Samyang AF 85mm F1.4 Series II Image Gallery

My excitement over reviewing a new Samyang lens has grown by leaps and bounds over the past three years.  In my DSLR days I had treated Samyang much like some of the budget manual focus lens players on the market today (7Artisans, TTArtisan, Brightin Star, etc…).  They produced lenses that were sometimes optically in [Read more...]

January 24, 2022 Samyang AF 50mm F1.4 II Review

When I first started reviewing Samyang (also sold as Rokinon – the products are identical), their products fell into one specific category.  They produced inexpensive manual everything lenses that often had fairly good optics housed in “cheap” bodies.  I was still a fan of some of their lenses because of the pric [Read more...]

January 23, 2022 Samyang AF 50mm F1.4 II Gallery

When I first started reviewing Samyang (also sold as Rokinon – the products are identical), their products fell into one specific category.  They produced inexpensive manual everything lenses that often had fairly good optics housed in “cheap” bodies.  I was still a fan of some of their lenses because of the pric [Read more...]

May 24, 2021 Samyang AF 12mm F2 Review

I had mixed feelings about some of Samyang’s (also sold under the Rokinon brand) early full frame lenses, but I really loved their compact APS-C primes whose design language was in many ways a precursor to their full frame “Tiny Series”.  I love the tiny series, and the newest lens in the series (the Samya [Read more...]

May 24, 2021 Samyang AF 12mm F2 Image Gallery

I had mixed feelings about some of Samyang’s (also sold under the Rokinon brand) early full frame lenses, but I really loved their compact APS-C primes whose design language was in many ways a precursor to their full frame “Tiny Series”.  I love the tiny series, and the newest lens in the series (the Samya [Read more...]