I am by no means a professional lens tester but I really was curious about these two. If there\'s one thing I have a lot of in the house its toys, so I set a couple up and took some quick snaps of them with the same settings. Each shot was on a tripod with a 2 second delay @ ISO 800 because of the lighting. I used live view to focus both lenses manually on the zebra thing in the middle.
The Rokinon looks good, but not quite as good as the Canon, especially in the foreground blur ability near wide open. The Canon is also sharper in the 100% crop, though that may not matter much all things considered.
This is only one indoor comparison in dim light, but I have also done an outdoor comparison and the results are pretty much the same. When you consider the cost of these two the Rok is really a great buy if you can stomach the manual focus.
I am by no means a professional lens tester but I really was curious about these two. If there\'s one thing I have a lot of in the house its toys, so I set a couple up and took some quick snaps of them with the same settings. Each shot was on a tripod with a 2 second delay @ ISO 800 because of the lighting. I used live view to focus both lenses manually on the zebra thing in the middle.
The Rokinon looks good, but not quite as good as the Canon, especially in the foreground blur ability near wide open. The Canon is also sharper in the 100% crop, though that may not matter much all things considered.
This is only one indoor comparison in dim light, but I have also done an outdoor comparison and the results are pretty much the same. When you consider the cost of these two the Rok is really a great buy if you can stomach the manual focus.
I am by no means a professional lens tester but I really was curious about these two. If there\'s one thing I have a lot of in the house its toys, so I set a couple up and took some quick snaps of them with the same settings. Each shot was on a tripod with a 2 second delay @ ISO 800 because of the lighting. I used live view to focus both lenses manually on the zebra thing in the middle.
The Rokinon looks good, but not quite as good as the Canon, especially in the foreground blur ability near wide open. The Canon is also sharper in the 100% crop, though that may not matter much all things considered.
This is only one indoor comparison in dim light, but I have also done an outdoor comparison and the results are pretty much the same.
I am by no means a professional lens tester but I really was curious about these two. If there\'s one thing I have a lot of in the house its toys, so I set a couple up and took some quick snaps of them with the same settings. Each shot was on a tripod with a 2 second delay @ ISO 800 because of the lighting. I used live view to focus both lenses manually on the zebra thing in the middle.
The Rokinon looks good, but not quite as good as the Canon, especially in the foreground blur ability. The Canon is also sharper in the 100% crop, though that may not matter much all things considered.
This is only one indoor comparison in dim light, but I have also done an outdoor comparison and the results are pretty much the same.
I am by no means a professional lens tester but I really was curious about these two. If there\'s one thing I have a lot of in the house its toys, so I set a couple up and took some quick snaps of them with the same settings. Each shot was on a tripod with a 2 second delay @ ISO 800 because of the lighting. I used live view to focus both lenses manually on the zebra thing in the middle.
The Rokinon looks good, but not quite as good as the Canon in the crop - though that may not matter much. This is only one indoor comparison in dim light, but I have also done an outdoor comparison and the results are pretty much the same.
Jun 18, 2010 at 08:20 PM
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