Samyang 85mm F1.4 Auto Focus Full Frame Weather Sealed High Speed Telephoto Lens for Nikon F Mount

Like many Canon shooters I have a tendency to convince myself that I "have" to have that shiny new L-series glass. "My clients will see the difference!" I say as I push the "Buy Now" button and watch $2300 disappear from my dwindling bank account yet again.No more - this lens has broken my curse. I have been shooting L-series glass for the past ten years for both personal and professional work and I have never seen a third-party lens this good, let alone on the RF mount. I have never owned a Samyang lens but this 85mm is tack sharp, so much so that I actually saw a reduction in sharpness with even my highest quality filters attached - this thing deserves to be left to shoot in the raw. The included lens hood is large and does great at keeping the front element safe without a UV filter in place.The colors run warm and with a green tint, but in a pleasing way. The vignette is strong, but easily corrected and I find myself leaving it in more and more rather than adding a vignette from Lightroom. Build quality is excellent. The lens box was shipped in the flimsiest paper bag which was ripped open during shipping and horribly re-taped by USPS. The lens inside was perfectly fine, in line with comments by others that this thing is hardy. The focus ring has a long throw, but that is absolutely necessary if you decide to focus manually at f/1.4 where you want finer focus adjustments. The autofocus on my EOS R is excellent and the lens keeps up just fine with eye-detect focus in AI Servo mode on portrait subjects walking directly towards the camera, probably one of the hardest focus situations when DOF is so shallow. Maybe 1 in 5 shots under that scenario has focus slightly off and I get the same results with my L-series glass.Honestly, this lens has made me question how much money I could have saved beforehand by not just defaulting to only buying L-series glass. This is an excellent piece of kit with a personality all its own that renders the world tack sharp where it needs to and buttery smooth elsewhere. Embrace that personality and it will give you some excellent images.

Picked this up as “semi disposable” 85mm prime for my Sony A7iii. I was blown away with how the pictures come out! Zero chromatic abbreviation. Focus’s super quick and has a decent weight to it but not too heavy. Doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles on the outside but the insides are high quality as I had no issues capturing portraits or sports when using the Samyang. Shot a flag football game and all the photos came out great, nothing out of focus due to the lens. Worth every penny & I will be buying more samyang lenses in the future!!

I really want the Canon RF 85 1.2L but that lens is almost 3k and it's hard to justify for business right now during the pandemic. So I bought this lens and gave it a go and I was surprised how really good it is. It's not as sharp as my RF 50 1.2L but it's also not as expensive. I think it is sharp enough. It's really more for my satisfaction, the clients really can't tell what lens I'm using, they love the images with whatever lenses I use hahaI like how light the lens feels though, which I wish these new RF L lenses from canon would be, instead of heavy lenses. Congratulations to Samyang for a great job making this lens I really think they have a big hit on this one. Light, sharp, affordable and it's an RF mount. I hope they continue to make more focal lengths because I think a lot of people will buy them over canon during this early phase into the RF system.sadly, my copy doesn't work with ibis for my R6. needs the dock to be updated.Samyang I hope would make a 1.2 version with AF!Great lens for the price! Definitely worth buying if you do a lot of portraits and want an RF mount and don't want to have adapters and can't afford the Canon RF 85 1.2L.Instagram @702marcjames

I'm more of a hobbyist rather than a professional but I've done a handful of weddings and this lens never failed me. I use the a7iii and riii . It's isnt the quickest to focus, but neither is the g-master. Sharpness is excellent at 1.4. I did not use it for video so I can't talk on that part.The photos straight out of the camera come with a warmer color and the bokeh that it creates has a uniqueness to it.I later found the g-master on a steal of a price used and bought it just because of the value but honestly the upgrade was incremental outside of bragging rights to say you have a gm lens. I had this lens for 3 years without any issues

I had the Viltrox 85mm f1.8 but wanted to upgrade to f1.4. I sold that & got the this lens. It hasn't disappointed me, except for 2 areas. The AF performance is great, picture quality is stellar & the bokeh rendering is lovely...it has a swirly quality to it that I like. The only thing I don't like about it is the build quality. Compared to the all metal Viltrox lens that was a tank, this lens is very plasticky. The up-side is that despite being bigger, it's actually less heavy than the Viltrox. My second issue is with the focus ring. It's not as big as the Viltrox & it moves way too fast for my liking. Sometimes when using flash the lens occasionally seems to overexpose the scene even when I have not changed any of the settings. If I flip the aperture to a new setting & back it corrects itself though. I'm not sure what that's about & I don't know if it may be an issue with my flash trigger. Overall great purchase.