Review on 📸 Rokinon 300M-FX-BK 300mm F6.3 Mirror Lens for Fuji X Mirrorless Cameras, Black - Enhanced SEO by Kara Smith

If you're ready for what you get, this is a great lens. It won't take the sharpest images, it's very difficult to use handheld, and it has a surprisingly shallow depth of field - all of which means you'll have to focus very carefully and take a lot of shots to get a good one. If your subject moves even half a foot in ten steps, it's out of focus. But when you get it, maybe a shot out of five, it works great. I still like fun little donuts; if you don't like them, you have to be careful with the background. I've rarely been able to get good shots above 1/500 with the handheld camera, but luckily it has a large enough entrance pupil to be able to do that (at least on the Fuji X-T20) without setting the ISO too high. It's surprisingly useful for macro photography (the X-T20's field of view is maybe three inches at a meter?), although you should really want that effect with a focal plane this thin. See example succulent. Because the focus doesn't rotate as smoothly as desired, it can be difficult to get perfect flatness on distant shots, even with focus assists; It would be nice if the ring rotated about twice as much. The focus also shifts a bit (perhaps the print inside?). And annoyingly, it focuses beyond infinity. I'm not sure why that is, unless they make different lens mounts and don't bother reconfiguring each mount or anything. So, three small flaws = minus one star, but even that feels a bit mean because it's terribly small, light, and cheap for such a long lens. I've read that the Samyang/Rokinon build quality is inconsistent, but the one I received has no dust or stains or anything else I could find wrong with it. All examples featured in this review are hand-held with a Fuji X-T20.