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The Samyany 85 mm lens is awesome. I own about $3000 worth of Nikon glass and this lens is easily as good as any Nikon glass I've used. The price is outstanding. Jump on one of these lenses.
I was looking for a portrait lens for a FF Nikon digital camera that could be used in low light. This lens has a 1.4 maximum aperture and 85mm focal length that was just what I needed. The Nikkor options were 1.4D at $850 or 1.4G at $1500 on eBay. Since I don't do a lot of portrait work the lens would be on the camera only 10% of the time. I found the Samyang by accident on eBay for a price of $330 shipped which was very reasonable. There is a special Nikon version with inbuilt CPU (Samyang AE model) to set EXIF data on my shots. The only downside was this is a Manual Focus lens, and I was concerned whether this would be a nuisance to use - but it isn't at all. No worse really than turning the zoom ring on a zoom lens. My camera viewfinder assists sharp focus with a display that has left and right arrows to tell me which way to turn the focus ring, and a green dot comes on when the lens is in focus. Much easier than I thought really. The lens itself feels very solid, gives great bokeh - probably the best and "buttery" bokeh of all my prime lenses. OK, the edges aren't perfect if you're wider than f3.5, but for portraits this is probably a benefit rather than an issue. I like this lens a real lot - optically it's very sharp on a D800 (36 megapixels) and pixel peeping shows some mild CA when open wide, but not enough to really worry about especially given it's about 40% the price of the older Nikkor 85mm 1.4D, and 20% of the price of the latest Nikkor 85mm 1.4G. Optically it's about as good as the Nikkor 1.4D but obviously not as good as the Nikkor 1.4G but I'd expect that to be the case due to price differences. It comes with a lens hood and soft pouch case. The two things I least like are the front lens cap which is cheap and fiddly to clip into place, and the lens hood which although locks into position isn't really a "solid" lock - it can fairly easily unlock if carrying about. Manual focus is difficult with the lens hood fitted in reverse position as well. To wrap up, if you're after a nice 85mm 1.4 Prime for your Nikon, and can't justify or afford the spend on a genuine Nikkor, and you love fantastic bokeh, then have a serious look at this lens as the price and quality are right.Read full review
An excellent lens for the Nikon. Great performer in low light with high resolution results, especially on an APS-C (crop sensor) camera. It's a manual focus lens. If Samyang ever produce an auto focus version, I'll be sure to upgrade. Highly recommended