Rokinon AF 35mm F1.8 Auto Focus Full Frame Lens for Sony E

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Customers find this lens to be an excellent value, praising its build quality and lightweight design that fits in a pocket. They appreciate its fast auto focus, sharpness, and image quality, with one customer noting its suitability for landscape photography. The noise level receives mixed feedback, with some customers finding it quiet while others describe it as very noisy.

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A quick rundown of this product’s key features:

For Sony E-Mount interchangeable Lens cameras and full frame compatible
Aperture range of F1.8-22; constructed of 10 elements in 8 groups
Ultra compact size with a maximum diameter of 2.56 inches and a minimum focusing distance of 11.4 inches
Uses 58mm size Filters and features 9 diaphragm blades. Minimum Focusing Distance: 11.4in (0.29m). Aluminum alloy housing is both lightweight and durable.
The integrated autofocus motor works in conjunction with Sony cameras’ focusing systems for quick, accurate, and precise AF control. Manual focus override is also available for refining your focus position.

Our Top Reviews

Reviewer: Andy L.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This lens very good !
Review: This lens very good quality and price very good too. Im not professional photographer but i been using it to take photos outdoors activities, my wife in-store products. Image very clear and it have options focus automatically and manually. For me, I can’t not compare to expensive one because i never has one, for me this one Absolutely wonderful and good quality. The Picture uploaded was used by this len. Recommend.

Reviewer: Huy Doan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great lens for the price!
Review: this is a great and lightweight lens, perfect for landscape and street photography. also its very good for video with is autofocusing. Works amazing great with my Sony a7iii

Reviewer: Dom R
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great lens, great price, just like the real deal
Review: The lens is great. I use it on my Sony a6700. I am a fitness influencer/affiliate marketer for fitness companies & my own products so I make alot of gym vids. This lens has helped give a nice aesthetic look to my page, the 1.8 aperture is amazing and subject is very sharp even at 2.8. I’m excited to see where this lens takes me and how much money it could potentially make me

Reviewer: Sean McCarty
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great, affordable prime
Review: Great image quality at this price point. If you’re looking to add a 35mm prime to your collection without breaking the bank you won’t go wrong here. Quick focus and clear images

Reviewer: Johnny
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Can the Rokinon 35mm f1.8 lens compete with Sony at half the price?
Review: In more than 30 years as a well-known pro, I had never desired to use a non-Nikon, Canon or Sony lens. Until now. New lens designs by third party manufacturers are beginning to equal and occasionally surpass the famous names. Of more than a dozen Sony FE mount lenses I own, my first non-Sony lenses were the Tamron 70-180mm f2.8 and the Sigma 105mm f2.8 macro. Both have distinct advantages over their Sony branded counterparts. For an easy to carry street lens, I have been very happy with my Sony 35mm f1.8. So why did I just purchase this Rokinon? Read on:When I made the decision to go mirrorless, saving weight to lighten camera bag load was a major factor. At almost all focal lengths, the Sony lens options and speed truly blow away the otherwise superb Canon and Nikon lenses I have used throughout my career. The Sony 35mm f1.8 is excellent—yet this Rokinon has distinct advantages. You likely already know Rokinon and the Samyang are identical lenses skillfully manufactured in Korea. You are safe to shop by price for either of this two twin brothers. It’s an extraordinary best buy at under $400—just over half the price of the Sony. Let’s discuss details to help you make your best decision:WEIGHT AND BUILD QUALITY COMPARISONS: ROKINON VS. SONYFor me, shooting comfort and non-fatiguing weight are high priorities when reaching for the right lens for the job. Although the Sony is lightweight at 9.9 ounces, the Rokinon is a true feather at only 7.2 ounces. I don’t even realize when it’s in my camera bag.Do you give up any build quality for the lighter weight? Very little. Both are weather sealed and solidly constructed. I don’t mind plastic as long as it is of the quality of recent lens designs by credible brands. Both Rokinon and Sony are impact resistant and look and feel excellent in hand. The focus ring on the Sony is very slightly smoother in normal operation and silent when auto focusing. The Rokinon ring is also smooth yet there is a very faint auto focus sound until full focus is achieved. This is a non-factor unless auto focusing as you shoot video.MOST IMPORTANT: IS THE ROKINON AS SHARP AS SONY?This was the true deal maker for me. I use a 61 megapixel Sony A7R4 that really reveals the finer points of sharpness. I’ve had zero complaints with my Sony 35mm f1.8 yet when compared head to head—Rokinon is sharper yet, particularly in the corners. With any lens with a shallow max aperture of f1.8, I recommend taking advantage of those shallow depth-of-field creamy out of focus backgrounds, especially for portraiture and selectively focused nature photography. I am not one of those “pixel-peepin’ bokeh boys” but when shopping for lenses there’s nothing wrong with comparing background transitions. Remember that smooth bokeh will never trump content. Captivating image making is key.Having judged many of the world’s leading competitions, I can tell you that not even once has a jury conversation mentioned bokeh or “jittery background transitions” when choosing a winner. If you are an intrepid pixel peeper, the Rokinon may be slightly smoother in these out of focus areas yet to my eye, any difference is nearly imperceptible. Honestly, nobody viewing your photos will notice either way.To clarify, sharpness is the primary must have lens quality. Without hesitation, I can say that the Rokinon gives Sony a run for its money in all situations except at the very closest focus possible.OTHER BUYING CHOICE COMPARISONS: ROKINON VS. SONY VS. SIGMAOne other Rokinon advantage is the wonderful ability to convert the ring on the lens to change the f-stop. I love how my Sony GM lenses have a dedicated f-stop ring—changing the aperture on the lens is my most natural way to shoot. A Sony can’t do this unless you spend nearly $1,000 more for the triple the weight yet absolutely superb Sony 35mm f1.4 GM. However, the new Sigma 35mm f2 also has an aperture ring and is another excellent option to consider. But it costs $300 more than the Rokinon and with a max f2 les in 33% less light. To allow the Rokinon to adjust aperture at the lens, you’ll need to also pick up the useful Rokinon Lens Station at just over $50.In which areas is the Sony f1.8 better than the Rokinon? Only if used often for extreme closeups or with specialized video work. The Sony can shoot to a max magnification of .24X while the Rokinon shoots to .17X. In real world composition, this is still quite tight. It focuses to about a foot away while the Sony focuses to 9 inches.If you shoot primarily video and often do focus pull transitions from foreground to background, the Sony’s f1.8 has virtually zero “focus breathing” and beats the Rokinon and even the Sony f1.4. This is not a need for me but if you desire a pure cine lens, consider the Sony f1.8 first.Although both lenses open up to an impressively bright f1.8, comparing files side by side shows the Sony to be a tiny bit brighter. This is known as lens transmission and translates to the true maximum f-stop of the lens. The difference is almost imperceptible, perhaps 1/6th of an f-stop and nothing to worry about. With each lens set to f1.8 the shutter speeds chosen by the camera are identical.CONCLUSION:Is this a glowing review? You betcha. For me, there are few tradeoffs and several advantages to the Rokinon. I’m seriously considering selling my Sony 35mm f1.8 in favor of this light and sharp gem.Hope this too long review has been of some small help. HAPPY SHOOTING!

Reviewer: Aadil Moosa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Lens for a an even better price!
Review: Product description matched the delivered product, works super well with my Sony A7C, i cannot be more happier. Its a lightweight lens, with all the technical aspects to shoot great audio and video!.

Reviewer: Dexter Varma
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A good lens for beginners
Review: It is a good lens. Its compact, great quality, and affordable price. But auto focus isn’t that fast. Thats the only con for this.

Reviewer: Laurence Young
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of the better Rokinon lenses
Review: I originally purchased the Rokinon 35mm f/1.4 AF FE II during Amazon Prime Day, but it ended up defective, so I returned it and purchased this lens instead. Wide open, there’s a little bit of chromatic aberration, but it isn’t bad, and it’s rare I’m going to shoot 35mm at f/1.8 anyway. It is pretty sharp, and I’ve been shooting in raw format on my Sony a7C, so I can’t comment on the colors, but I do think the contrast is just about right on this lens, perhaps on the end of being slightly more contrast than I want. However, that can be modified in post.I love the build quality of this lens. It comes with a case and the hood, and if you want to go low-profile for street photography, but stay full frame, this is a good candidate.

Reviewer: DR SAJI JOHN MATHEWS
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Hey I recommend this lens. Value for money

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: It’s a great value lens that is sharp and fast for photography, and for videography which is what I purchased this lens for is excellent. Allowing fast autofocus and very minimal focus breathing when pulling focus either automatically or manually. All in all I’m very happy with the Rokinon (Samyang) lenses, they’re one and the same and they’re a brilliant full frame lens for my apsc sensor camera, allowing me room to upgrade to a full frame Sony body later and still use the Sony E mount full frame with this lens, it’s an awesome ecosystem Sony has create and this Rokinon lens offers very sharp almost indistinguishable differences to the Sony line (I did say almost indistinguishable to me as a beginner, hence great value and money saved).

Reviewer: Rubén Hernández flores
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Me funciona muy bien, es niitido con muy buena calidad de imagen

Reviewer: Don W.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Used it on a shoot other day. It was just fantastic. Looks great!

Reviewer: Grecia Queen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Es una excelente opción y que mejor comprarlo en descuento. Un lente potente para darle versatilidad a tu fotografía si aun no tienes para comprar un lente más costoso. Es una gran opción lo mega recomiendo para salir del lente kit.