Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I wanted to wait to do a thorough test of this lens before I wrote my review. I will try to keep it short..... First off, for the price you pay, the build quality of this lens is amazing. In my opinion, nothing about this lens feels cheap. Others reviews say that the lens hood feel cheap, I don't know if they are referring to an earlier model (gold lettering) but the newer one (red ring), is amazing. Also, other reviews have stated that the focus ring is stiff. I can vouch and say that this is true. It is not smooth as other brands. What I did to smooth mine out was constantly turning the focus ring. I think it just needs to be "broken in". Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that you will need a monkey wrench to use the focusing ring, I am just letting you know that it is not as smooth as other manufacturers focus ring. Now for picture quality: this lens should have been labeled an F2.0 lens instead of f1.4. At f1.4 the picture is soft. At first, I thought I forgot how to manually focus. This was not the case since I have several manual focus Minolta lens. Luckily, by f2.0 the image sharpens up. I thought that I had a bad copy, but if you google "Rokinon 85 f1.4 soft at f1.4", you will get several sites where people have stated the same thing.I am not sure if this is QC thing at the plant since some people say that the lens is sharp wide open. Maybe I just had a bad copy. Lastly, I there's a chipped version and a non-chipped version. I am guessing that the ones made for Nikon and Canon are the chipped ones that gives focus confirmation. I have the Sony E-mount version and I can say that this does not have it. So, with all of that, why didn't I rate this lower? Well, when you factor the price and the value that you are getting, I can overlook it short comings at f1.4. If it started sharpening up at f3ish, then I would have been more upset. If you are a professional, I can't recommend this lens to you. Hopes this review helps, sorry for the length. I've included photos of a focus chart. I focused on the center. The camera was put on a tripod with a two (2) second delay. The last two images, I just took a photo of one of my manual lens (handheld). All photos were cropped, and no enhancement was done to photos.