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...]