Lenses from Samyang

Advice on Samyang lenses

Samyang is the South Korean lens manufacturer for fast photo and video lenses. Since its market launch in Germany in 2015, the brand has enjoyed growing popularity in this country. Samyang offers the market a large number of fixed focal lengths for classic photography, but also for the video sector with the VDSLR series. The range also includes other special lenses such as fisheye and tilt-shift lenses. The brand is now also part of the L-Alliance and it remains exciting to see what Samyang will bring to the L-mount.

Many users of Samyang lenses use them in landscape photography, portrait photography, as well as in insect / macro photography and architecture.

Fixed focal lengths from Samyang

The fixed focal lengths from Samyang are a real feast for the eyes for photographers. Thanks to their wide variety of focal lengths, they cover every focal length range that a photographer needs for their respective field of work. The lenses also differ in the number of functions: With autofocus or without autofocus - that is the question here! Samyang initially focused on manual focus and over the course of time Samyang has also been busy developing lenses with autofocus.

Samyang is particularly popular with users of Sony cameras. In the ultra wide-angle & wide-angle range, Samyang offers a huge selection with a focal length range of 7.5mm-24mm.

Focal length range of lenses with autofocus:

Focal length range of lenses with manual focus:

Zoom lenses from Samyang

The following zoom lenses offer a few exceptions to the fixed focal lengths from Samyang:

• 24-70mm AF
• 650-1300mm MF

Samyang lenses for videographers

Samyang offers its cine / film lenses in practical sets, which are sold in common combinations in flight cases / hard cases, the advantage of the VDSLR (video) series. These have a gear ring on the aperture and the focus ring, which is suitable for a follow focus.

Thanks to the hard case, the lenses can be transported easily and safely to the set, so they are also perfectly protected from the weather on set.

The cinemalens is also available under the name Xeen. Here the quality feature is aimed at 4K or even 8K film material.

For which mounts are Samyang lenses available?

The lenses are available for the most common brands and mounts, so Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm or Pentax get suitable lenses for their mounts. Be it Sony E, Nikon F, Canon EF / EF-S or Canon RF, or even Fuji X.

Users of MFT cameras do not have to look in vain, Samyang also offers suitable lenses for this mount.

Special features of Samyang lenses

• Very open aperture lenses even at ultra-wide angles
• Light weight
• Good compactness / size
• Suitable for every application
• Lenses made of aluminum
• Very good coating of the glass