Designed for Nikon F-mount DSLRs, this 20mm f/1.8 ED AS UMC Lens from Rokinon is a bright wide-angle prime featuring an intuitive manual focus design and enhanced optical construction. Two aspherical elements and three extra-low dispersion elements are used to reduce both spherical and chromatic aberrations for greater sharpness, clarity, and reduced distortion. The optics also feature an Ultra Multi-Coating to guard against lens flare and ghosting for increased contrast and color neutrality when working in strong lighting conditions. The manual focus operation affords working with subjects as close as 7.9" away, and a rounded seven-blade diaphragm contributes to a pleasing bokeh quality.
Designed for Nikon F-mount DSLRs, this 20mm f/1.8 ED AS UMC Lens from Rokinon is a bright wide-angle prime featuring an intuitive manual focus design and enhanced optical construction. Two aspherical elements and three extra-low dispersion elements are used to reduce both spherical and chromatic aberrations for greater sharpness, clarity, and reduced distortion. The optics also feature an Ultra Multi-Coating to guard against lens flare and ghosting for increased contrast and color neutrality when working in strong lighting conditions. The manual focus operation affords working with subjects as close as 7.9" away, and a rounded seven-blade diaphragm contributes to a pleasing bokeh quality.
Designed for Nikon F-mount DSLRs, this 20mm f/1.8 ED AS UMC Lens from Rokinon is a bright wide-angle prime featuring an intuitive manual focus design and enhanced optical construction. Two aspherical elements and three extra-low dispersion elements are used to reduce both spherical and chromatic aberrations for greater sharpness, clarity, and reduced distortion. The optics also feature an Ultra Multi-Coating to guard against lens flare and ghosting for increased contrast and color neutrality when working in strong lighting conditions. The manual focus operation affords working with subjects as close as 7.9" away, and a rounded seven-blade diaphragm contributes to a pleasing bokeh quality.
Designed for Nikon F-mount DSLRs, this 20mm f/1.8 ED AS UMC Lens from Rokinon is a bright wide-angle prime featuring an intuitive manual focus design and enhanced optical construction. Two aspherical elements and three extra-low dispersion elements are used to reduce both spherical and chromatic aberrations for greater sharpness, clarity, and reduced distortion. The optics also feature an Ultra Multi-Coating to guard against lens flare and ghosting for increased contrast and color neutrality when working in strong lighting conditions. The manual focus operation affords working with subjects as close as 7.9" away, and a rounded seven-blade diaphragm contributes to a pleasing bokeh quality.
Last updated at 07/23/2026 02:22:35
Rokinon 20mm f/1.8 AS ED UMC Wide Angle Lens with Built-in AE Chip for Nikon
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Samyang 20mm f/1.8 ED AS UMC for Sony E Mount
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Rokinon 20mm F1.8 Full Frame Wide Angle Lens (micro 4/3)
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Samyang 20mm f/1.8 ED AS UMC Lens Micro Four Thirds Mount MFT M4/3
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Samyang 20mm F1.8 ED AS UMC Lens for Canon - Ultra-Wide, High-Performance Optics
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originally posted on bestbuy.com
If you're looking for an extreme wide-angle lens this is an excellent choice for the price. The lens feels solid and well made... much more than you'd expect. The images are extremely sharp provided you've focused correctly (the focus confirmation helps with this) and the depth of field is forgiving enough to achieve focus fairly easily. Images are slightly distorted if you are focusing up close but this can be easily fixed in post with Photoshop or Lightroom. I use this for landscape and architectural photography on my D600 and absolutely love it. Highly recommended!
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This is my first Rokinon lens for a Nikon camera. I have two Rokinon lenses for my Sony cameras and I am very pleased with them. I purchased the Rokinon 20mm for interiors. I wanted a wide angle lens on my full frame Nikon D800 and decided after much thought about what I wanted a lens to produce to go with 20mm. I had a 24mm – 85mm Nikkor and like it very much, but I wanted a lens to give a wider field of view for interiors but not so wide to exaggerate (or distort) the scene. I am very pleased with the lens quality and the images it produces. In the same scene, I compared images taken with it to the Nikkor 24-85 and also to my Canon lenses and found the Rokinon to be sharp and to have little to no distortion, just like the other lenses. For interiors I like the ... MoreThis is my first Rokinon lens for a Nikon camera. I have two Rokinon lenses for my Sony cameras and I am very pleased with them. I purchased the Rokinon 20mm for interiors. I wanted a wide angle lens on my full frame Nikon D800 and decided after much thought about what I wanted a lens to produce to go with 20mm. I had a 24mm – 85mm Nikkor and like it very much, but I wanted a lens to give a wider field of view for interiors but not so wide to exaggerate (or distort) the scene. I am very pleased with the lens quality and the images it produces. In the same scene, I compared images taken with it to the Nikkor 24-85 and also to my Canon lenses and found the Rokinon to be sharp and to have little to no distortion, just like the other lenses. For interiors I like the manual focus and a prime lens. I can set focus to where I want it and the focus remains set correctly throughout the house I am shooting except for small rooms, where I refocus. I blend my images so having a prime lens that stays put is preferred because any movement in focal length just causes extra work in post. For the Nikon mount, I like that I can set the aperture ring to f/22 and then adjust the aperture with my camera; this is a nice feature. In short and in my opinion, the Nikkor 24-85mm lens does not outperform the Rokinon lens and neither does my wide angle Canon lens. For an affordable price, the Rokinon 20mm lens gives me images that are deliverable and that is what counts. With 40 years of experience in photography I can say I am so far very well pleased with the Rokinon lenses I own.
originally posted on ebay.com
It's almost impossible to find a wide angle lens with excellent corners for under $2000 but this lens does it. It does have minor ca and vignetting but its sharper than the 18mm ziess straight across,better than Nikon and Canon primes and has less CA s. If you are a landscape photographer then yes I would highly recommend it.
Rokinon 20mm f/1.8 AS ED UMC Wide Angle Lens with Built-in AE Chip for Nikon
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Samyang 20mm f/1.8 ED AS UMC for Sony E Mount
Free delivery between 29 July – 5 Aug
Rokinon 20mm F1.8 Full Frame Wide Angle Lens (micro 4/3)
Delivery $59.93
Affiliate Disclosure: We may receive a small commission for purchases made through this link at no extra cost to you. This helps support our site. Thank you!
Samyang 20mm f/1.8 ED AS UMC Lens Micro Four Thirds Mount MFT M4/3
Delivery $36.40
Samyang 20mm F1.8 ED AS UMC Lens for Canon - Ultra-Wide, High-Performance Optics
Delivery $76.50
If you're looking for an extreme wide-angle lens this is an excellent choice for the price. The lens feels solid and well made... much more than you'd expect. The images are extremely sharp provided you've focused correctly (the focus confirmation helps with this) and the depth of field is forgiving enough to achieve focus fairly easily. Images are slightly distorted if you are focusing up close but this can be easily fixed in post with Photoshop or Lightroom. I use this for landscape and architectural photography on my D600 and absolutely love it. Highly recommended!
This is my first Rokinon lens for a Nikon camera. I have two Rokinon lenses for my Sony cameras and I am very pleased with them. I purchased the Rokinon 20mm for interiors. I wanted a wide angle lens on my full frame Nikon D800 and decided after much thought about what I wanted a lens to produce to go with 20mm. I had a 24mm – 85mm Nikkor and like it very much, but I wanted a lens to give a wider field of view for interiors but not so wide to exaggerate (or distort) the scene. I am very pleased with the lens quality and the images it produces. In the same scene, I compared images taken with it to the Nikkor 24-85 and also to my Canon lenses and found the Rokinon to be sharp and to have little to no distortion, just like the other lenses. For interiors I like the ... MoreThis is my first Rokinon lens for a Nikon camera. I have two Rokinon lenses for my Sony cameras and I am very pleased with them. I purchased the Rokinon 20mm for interiors. I wanted a wide angle lens on my full frame Nikon D800 and decided after much thought about what I wanted a lens to produce to go with 20mm. I had a 24mm – 85mm Nikkor and like it very much, but I wanted a lens to give a wider field of view for interiors but not so wide to exaggerate (or distort) the scene. I am very pleased with the lens quality and the images it produces. In the same scene, I compared images taken with it to the Nikkor 24-85 and also to my Canon lenses and found the Rokinon to be sharp and to have little to no distortion, just like the other lenses. For interiors I like the manual focus and a prime lens. I can set focus to where I want it and the focus remains set correctly throughout the house I am shooting except for small rooms, where I refocus. I blend my images so having a prime lens that stays put is preferred because any movement in focal length just causes extra work in post. For the Nikon mount, I like that I can set the aperture ring to f/22 and then adjust the aperture with my camera; this is a nice feature. In short and in my opinion, the Nikkor 24-85mm lens does not outperform the Rokinon lens and neither does my wide angle Canon lens. For an affordable price, the Rokinon 20mm lens gives me images that are deliverable and that is what counts. With 40 years of experience in photography I can say I am so far very well pleased with the Rokinon lenses I own.
It's almost impossible to find a wide angle lens with excellent corners for under $2000 but this lens does it. It does have minor ca and vignetting but its sharper than the 18mm ziess straight across,better than Nikon and Canon primes and has less CA s. If you are a landscape photographer then yes I would highly recommend it.
When I switched from Nikon to Pentax, I knew the one focal length I would have trouble covering is wide angle... Pentax simply doesn't have any full frame wides. The only viable option is the Pentax 15-30mm which is an exceptional lens, but it's expensive and doesn't take filters. I need a relatively inexpensive wide for landscape and long exposure work. The Rokinon has performed really well. Even wide open at 1.8 it was sharper than I expected. At f/5.6 through f/11 it's been fantastic. Corners, edges, mid frame and center have all been great. It's built well (doesn't feel shoddy) and the threads easily take my Formatt-Hitech filter adapter. The one area I haven't tested yet is astrophotography re: coma. The few night shots I have taken so far (with those rare ... MoreWhen I switched from Nikon to Pentax, I knew the one focal length I would have trouble covering is wide angle... Pentax simply doesn't have any full frame wides. The only viable option is the Pentax 15-30mm which is an exceptional lens, but it's expensive and doesn't take filters. I need a relatively inexpensive wide for landscape and long exposure work. The Rokinon has performed really well. Even wide open at 1.8 it was sharper than I expected. At f/5.6 through f/11 it's been fantastic. Corners, edges, mid frame and center have all been great. It's built well (doesn't feel shoddy) and the threads easily take my Formatt-Hitech filter adapter. The one area I haven't tested yet is astrophotography re: coma. The few night shots I have taken so far (with those rare clear skies), the stars looked great, but they weren't near the edge of the frame and I wasn't pixel peeping for coma. Besides, for astro work I'd probably go with the Rokinon 24mm, which is highly regarded for night shooting. Overall I'm borderline thrilled with this lens -- it hasn't left my camera body in the few weeks that I've owned it.
When I first received this lens, I immediately checked for any optical de-centering, which seems to be a prevalent problem in other Rokinon/Samyang lenses. I was unable to detect any problem. I then compared it to my Canon 17-40mm f/4 zoom at 20mm. At wide open (f/1.8 vs. f/4), the corner sharpness, though not particularly sharp, was better than the zoom. Central sharpness was not dramatically different. When compared at f/4, the Rokinon was clearly better, especially in the corners; but the Canon zoom still put up a good performance except for the extreme corners. While I didn't do a lot of comparisons at smaller apertures, I'd would say it seemed to be pretty much a horse race. Finally, despite a common complaint about the inaccurate infinity setting in other ... MoreWhen I first received this lens, I immediately checked for any optical de-centering, which seems to be a prevalent problem in other Rokinon/Samyang lenses. I was unable to detect any problem. I then compared it to my Canon 17-40mm f/4 zoom at 20mm. At wide open (f/1.8 vs. f/4), the corner sharpness, though not particularly sharp, was better than the zoom. Central sharpness was not dramatically different. When compared at f/4, the Rokinon was clearly better, especially in the corners; but the Canon zoom still put up a good performance except for the extreme corners. While I didn't do a lot of comparisons at smaller apertures, I'd would say it seemed to be pretty much a horse race. Finally, despite a common complaint about the inaccurate infinity setting in other Rokinon lens, this 20mm lens seemed spot on.Now for the caveat. On both my Canon 5D MKII and Canon 5Ds, metering was not accurate. It tended to overexpose at smaller apertures and increasingly underexpose when increasing the aperture (although that behavior wasn't exactly linear). The behavior was the same in either Manual or Aperture Preferred. I found a few similar complaints on the web; but since this is a relatively new lens, there isn't much user experience out there. Also, this may only be a Canon issue. The only theory I can concoct is maybe the metering algorithm, lacking the actual f-number, gets a bit befuddled regardless that it should only care about the actual light entering.I bought this lens only for astrophotography, so the exposure issue doesn't matter to me. For that purpose, I give it a 4-star rating (less one star for the exposure issue). For general photography, the lack of autofocus and potentially an exposure issue, I recommend you spend the extra bucks for a fully automatic lens.
This lens has good image quality and seems well built. It feels slightly large on a mirrorless camera and could be a little wider; but for the price, it's great.
I love this lens. It's so easy to focus for landscapes and doesn't nudge easily which is a plus. I used it once for astrophotography and it performed excellently. I stopped down to 2.2 for less coma on the edges. Sunsets are stunning as well. It's a keeper!
For less the price of other brands. Pretty sure it will do really great this coming milkyway season.
I used this lens all day on a Pentax K1. For those who haven't used K-mount Rokinons it acts like an A lens. It gives a nice wide FOV for locations where foot zooming back is not possible. It provided high-contrast and sharp images. I was manual focusing with the illuminated AF pts in the OVF as confirmation. This worked very well and accomplished fine focus. Mostly indoors in ambient light with shutters under 1/20 and SR turned on. Sr worked very well but a 20mm isn't hard to hand hold in any case. I haven't tried landscape or astro-photography yet but I like what I've seen so far.
