You can separate foreground from background, which is great. More expensive lenses will give you better colors, though. So while this gives you good depth of field and nice blurry background, the look of the picture is only going to get so good. You might do better with a used zeiss, nikon, canon, or pentax lens that will give you nicer colors and compose your shots with the background farther away. But if you want to save money and blur a background that is right behind your subject, shoot black and white, or don't really care if the colors are beautiful or kind of meh, this lens is a great deal. For black and white it gets 5 stars, though.
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I have four Rokinon lenses and love them all. Sharp as a tack, highest quality at a faction of the cost of their competitors. Most complain about it being a manual lens, but that's what makes it so much fun to use it takes me back the to old days of when we did our own processing..
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Used on EOS M3 for videos. Love the shallow DOF.
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This lens is everything that was said about it and more. Yes, its a manual focus lens, but the focus is very easy. I bought this lens specifically to shoot some astronomy photos, and while I am not very experienced, I got some great shots. For the money, this is a fantastic purchase. This is a great prime lens to have in your kit!
Very sharp edge to edge. Plan to use it for astrophysics photography mainly
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