The Samyang 800mm f8.0 is a long telephoto squeezed into a barrel just 172mm long, 1kg in weight, and at a low price too. Is it too good to be true? Possibly, as Thomas discovered in his latest review.…
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The Samyang AF 35mm f1.4 FE is a mild wide-angle prime lens for Sony’s Alpha mirrorless cameras. It offers a bright aperture and autofocus, and is priced below the Sony FE 35mm f1.4 ZA, FE 35mm f1.8 and even the FE 35mm f2.8 ZA. Find out why it gives you a lot of bang for your buck in Thomas’s full review which includes many comparisons with rivals!…
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The Samyang 135mm f2.0 ED UMC is a top-performing lens. It delivers beautiful-looking images with excellent contrast and sharpness on a high resolution full-frame camera, even with the aperture opened to f2.0. In addition it has the very low longitudinal CAs of an apochromatic lens and offers a beautiful background Bokeh. And this all at…
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The Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS IF UMC is a wide-angle full-frame lens available for Nikon, Canon, Sony E-mount, and MFT DSLRs. Announced in January 2012, it’s the widest member of Samyang’s line-up of f1.4 full-frame primes comprising 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm f1.4 models. Samyang lenses are also sold under the Rokinon and Walimex…
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Samyang’s 12mm f2.8 is a fisheye lens available for Canon, Nikon, Sony (A and E) and Pentax mounts. Thomas checks out its full-frame quality.…
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Samyang’s 7.5mm is a low cost fisheye lens for Micro Four Thirds. It may not offer autofocus, but the price is right!…
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The Samyang Rokinon 85mm f1.4 is an affordable short telephoto lens with a bright focal ratio that’s ideal for portrait work. Like other Samyang lenses, it’s manual focus only, but comes in at a considerably lower price point than similar lenses from the big camera companies. Note Samyang lenses are branded as Rokinon and Walimex…
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