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Samyang has announced the AF 35-150mm f/2-2.8 FE lens, a new fast, all-around zoom for full-frame Sony mirrorless cameras.
After viewing the lens' features and specifications, it seems similar to the existing rebranded Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 lens, Imaging Resource's "Best Standard Lens, Runner-Up" in our 2022 Camera...
For a long time, Samyang's name was synonymous with full manual lenses for a wide variety of camera mounts. However, lately, Samyang is becoming better known for releasing autofocus lenses for the Sony e-mount.
The Korean optics company has announced their fourth full-frame autofocus lens for Sony E-mount cameras, the...
Samyang has announced a new lightweight 35mm f/2.8 FE lens that weighs just 85g and measures 3.3cm in length (without the hood and rear cap). Samyang says that despite the small size, their technology has allowed them to maximize performance and features of the lens. According to their product page, the 35mm f/2.8...
Samyang/Rokinon launched their XEEN lineup in 2015 and are now expanding it further with a new cinema lens, the XEEN 20mm T/1.9. The 20mm T/1.9 joins their existing XEEN lens lineup, which includes 14mm T/3.1, 16mm T/2.6, 24mm T/1.5, 35mm T/1.5, 50mm T/1.5, 85mm T/1.5 and 135mm T/2.2 optics.
The lens is designed for...
Astrophotography is a particularly demanding genre of photography that emphasizes a distinct set of qualities and characteristics of lenses. Qualities such as autofocus speeds (or being capable of autofocus at all) and sharpness when stopped down become less important, whereas characteristics such as having a focus scale...
2016 is turning out to be a huge year for South Korean optics manufacturer Samyang. The company has already launched nine lenses this year with, between their different mounts, a total of close to 50 different variants. Now it has launched a new premium lens line, and populated it with two new prime lenses, one of...
Five weeks ago, we told you about a interesting promotion from the folks at Korean lens maker Samyang. Today, the eponymous Samyang Blockbusters event comes to its close with the launch of the fifth new lens for the company in as many weeks. This time around, the new optic is one which was hinted at back in May,...
Autofocus is great, but what if you are on a budget and don't want to sacrifice image quality? There are numerous great manual focus lenses available that offer good optical quality, just without all the perks we generally expect with new gear. In a new episode of Budgetography, Matt Granger uses Samyang lenses...
Samyang has announced yet another lens as part of their "2016 Summer Samyang Blockbusters" promotion, this time a 20mm f/1.8 full-frame manual lens. The new lens will be available both in stills and video-centric bodies (f/1.8 and t/1.9 versions).
The f/1.8 version of the lens offers a bright, fast maximum aperture and...
As part of their five lenses in five weeks launch event, Samyang has announced two new 35mm lenses, both of which are designed for mirrorless cameras with APS-C sensors.
For photographers, the 35mm f/1.2 ED AS UMC CS lens offers a "standard" focal length, bright f/1.2 maximum aperture, nine-bladed circular aperture and...
In early May, Samyang announced its first-ever autofocus lenses: the Samyang 14mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC and 50mm f/1.4 AS IF UMC. These two lenses are both for the Sony FE mount and the Korean optics company has revealed that the 50mm f/1.4 lens will be shipping worldwide in early August.
The 50mm f/1.4 is designed for...
Samyang isn't pulling any punches this summer. They've just announced on their Facebook page that they are going to reveal five news lenses over the next five weeks, unveiling a new one each Monday starting July 18.
However, that's not all! If you publicly share the Facebook post and leave a comment that states the...
For the first time in the 40 years of manufacturing lenses, Samyang Optics is releasing autofocus lenses. Announced today in Seoul, both the 14mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.4 Sony E mount mirrorless lenses are designed for full frame cameras (such as the A7 II, A7R II, and A7S II) and are compatible with both contrast- and phase-detect autofocus for "fast...
After teasing the upcoming announcement of a "dream" lens, the Korean optics manufcaturer Samyang, whose products are also sold under the Rokinon and Bower brands in the US, has announced a new 50mm f/1.4 "dream lens" as well as a T1.5 cine counterpart in various mounts. Both lenses compelemt the company's lineup of DSLR and cine lenses which so far...
Following yet another round of teases and speculation, Samyang has announced five new lenses. Each is really just a re-worked version of a pre-existing model, and they're all still manual focus. But there's nothing wrong with good, cheap glass in any form.
While...
A couple of days ago, we reported about Samyang's upcoming big announcement. Back then, word had it that besides a new logo, the company might (finally) be announcing some autofocus lenses. As it turns out, though, the main announcement of today is a new 12mm f/2 lens for APS-C mirrorless cameras, plus some overhauls to older lens models.
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Samyang looks ready to announce, well, something about lenses this Friday, March 21, and the rumor mill is churning hard, trying to figure out exactly what it’s going to be.
Most of the photo world's cloak-and-dagger sites have come to their own conclusions, but the speculation is largely centered around...
The folks over at DxOMark have just published a new 24mm full-frame lens review, and boy is it ever a doozie. After passing through DxO's in-depth testing, the Samyang 24mm f/1.4 ED AS IF UMC lens earned itself a DxOMark score of 31 -- tied for first-place among 24mm Canon-mount lenses. And it did so despite...
In January of last year, Samyang stated on a Facebook page that a 50mm f/1.2 lens was on the roadmap, maybe for 2014. Now, appropriately enough over Facebook again, Samyang has stated that "The 50mm f1.2 is not realising," killing off that self-same lens. But why would the popular manual focus lens maker nix piece of...
Ultra wide-angle lenses often sport strongly curved front lens elements, due to which it is impossible to attach regular screw-in filters. This is also true for Samyang's 14mm f/2.8 lens, for which the company that is otherwise known as...