{"id":4429,"date":"2011-04-10T16:10:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T06:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2011-04-10T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T06:19:52","slug":"rokinonsamyang-85mm-f1-4-lens-on-micro-four-thirds-definetly-a-must-have-photographers-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"Rokinon\/Samyang 85mm f\/1.4 lens on Micro Four Thirds – definitely a must have photographer’s lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought the Rokinon\/Samyang 85mm f\/1.4 manual focus lens to work with my Panasonic GH-1 Micro Four Thirds<\/a> camera to create a lighter, smaller, cheaper kit but with similar image quality, bokeh, depth of field, field of view and perspective as my Canon 1D Mark III with Canon EF 135mm f\/2.0L pro lens <\/strong>and the results are amazingly similar – see my last post<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Initial testing with a resolution target at same subject distance wide open on tripod with self timer seems to show that the Rokinon lens is significantly sharper in the centre than the Canon outfit<\/strong> which is so surprising to me, I am going to have to do further testing.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I took the Rokinon 85mm and my GH-1 on a walk through Adelaide’s botanical gardens this week to test it out a bit more, and I must say I am very happy that this $US265 lens is so good, it has to be a bargain buy for those looking for nice bokeh.<\/p>\n

So here are a few images without any Photoshop (other than resize and jpeg compression for the web) to show how versatile it is on the GH-1:<\/p>\n

Firstly, a casual shot of a painting in the hotel I was staying at with available light at f\/1.4:<\/p>\n

\"painting\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Botanicals in the shade at f\/1.4:<\/p>\n

\"botanicals\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Roses at f\/1.4:<\/p>\n

\"roses\"<\/a><\/p>\n

At close focus of 1m at f\/1.4:<\/p>\n

\"bees\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And to show that there is almost no geometric distortion even at f\/1.4:<\/p>\n

\"wall\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

And how to blur the background with buttery smooth bokeh for head and shoulders portrait with subject at about 3m (sorry, no subject available so I used the leaves to focus upon), first image is taken at f\/5.6 as would be the case had you used most kit lenses:<\/p>\n

\"f\/5.6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now see what you can achieve wide open at f\/1.4, superb, smooth bokeh which will make any portrait pop!<\/p>\n

\"f\/1.4\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

And here is one from last post at f\/1.4:<\/p>\n

\"f\/1.4\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

A must have lens for the photographer willing to use manual focus – if only Olympus would make an autofocus version!<\/p>\n

More images<\/strong> of this combination can be seen on my website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought the Rokinon\/Samyang 85mm f\/1.4 manual focus lens to work with my Panasonic GH-1 Micro Four Thirds camera to create a lighter, smaller, cheaper kit but with similar image quality, bokeh, depth of field, field of view and perspective as my Canon 1D Mark III with Canon EF 135mm f\/2.0L pro lens and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[212,18],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenses","tag-85mm","tag-four-thirds-micro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}