Samyang AF 12mm F2.0 Autofocus Lens for Sony E

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I’ve also been using the Sony 16mm prime lately. It’s super soft and not good for high quality prints, but very serviceable for ‘web use only’ photos on my hiking trip reports. I use the Samyang 12/2 a lot. It's a great travel lens due to its weight, size, excellent image quality, and a useful focal length. Highly recommended! Thanks to its 7-blade aperture, the Samyang AF 12mm F2 X gives attractive 14-ray sunstars. Fujifilm X-T5, Samyang AF 12mm F2 X, 1/50sec at f/11, ISO 125. Image credit: Andy Westlake I have Samyang APSC 12/2.0 ncs CS E and on infinity and also at 0.2mm and between it is one of the sharpest lenses ever with fantastic DOF and very nice colours.

Samyang 12mm f/2.0 NCS CS MFT Lens Review | ePHOTOzine Samyang 12mm f/2.0 NCS CS MFT Lens Review | ePHOTOzine

As far as I can tell, many of these new third party lenses compete for best-in-class at their price points, sometimes beating out more expensive first-party glass. Can YOU point out the new deficient lenses and which first-party lenses beat them out? Fujifilm cameras are engineered to control the aperture according to the minimum exposure value(F-stop), so when the camera controls the aperture, it blinks momentarily to set the proper exposure.

The lens is small and light, weighing in at just 213g without caps or hood. It seems well made using high-quality plastics and has a solidly made metal lens mount of high precision. It fits onto the camera body smoothly. The lens is quite fat though compared to the A5100 body and this results in two handling quirks. The first is that the lens/camera does not sit flat on a flat surface and is not stable. It wobbles about, making use of say a tabletop as a lens support impractical. The second is that the lens can foul the tripod and really a spacer might be needed in some cases, or the camera may need to be mounted quite far forwards on the tripod platform. This shouldn't be an issue with larger APS-C cameras, such as the Sony A6000 series. Samyang, which may use the Rokinon or Bower branding depending on your region, has announced the 12mm F2 E, a new autofocus wide-angle prime lens for Sony APS-C mirrorless camera systems.

Samyang 1220506101 12 mm F2.0 Manual Focus Lens for Sony-E Samyang 1220506101 12 mm F2.0 Manual Focus Lens for Sony-E

The Google Pixel 6 may not be the latest Google smartphone any more, but it might still be the best valueMind that i dont like colour rendering of other Samyang lenses. Because i often use Zeiss lenses with the T coating.