samyang archives (30 posts)
New Samyang 300mm f6.3 mirror lens for mirror less systems, June 10, 2013
The previously mentioned Samyang 16mm f2 APS-C lens is going to start shipping next month (see B&H Photo, but Samyang is not done. They have also revealed that coming this year is a new 300mm f6.3 mirror lens for mirror...
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Samyang working on new 16mm f2 APS-C lens for 10 different mounts, May 29, 2013
Samyang continues to push forward with new lenses, they have now revealed that they are working on a new 16mm f2 APS-C that will be available in ten (yes, 10) different mounts, five SLR mounts (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Four...
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The $1000 Samyang Tilt Shift Lens: Pixel-Peeped, Sampled and In-Stock Nao in both Samyang and Rokinon flavors, May 6, 2013
Samyang continues to challenge the lens market status quo and one of their latest challenges is a $1000 tilt shift lens. We have more action on this curiosity lens as follows: The Lens Rentals blog posted part #1 of their...
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Curiosity factor: Samyang 24mm f3.5 Tilt Shift lens review, April 27, 2013
Samyang is pushing the envelope on the value frontier and giving the traditional lens manufacturers a run for their money, at least with some of their lenses. One new area where they apparently want to make in-roads is tilt-shift lenses....
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New IBE Optics 26mm f1.4 M43rds lens, February 7, 2013
A new wave of updates is coming as we finally caught up with the Timeline without the help of Doctor Who. We will start with the more newsy items and then proceed accordingly... It is raining new third-party lenses these...
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Dxomark Group-Test of five Super Wide Primes (Nikon, Zeiss, Sigma, Samyang), February 6, 2013
Dxomark has been busy with new lens reviews, and perhaps the most interesting of their latest output is a group test of five super wide prime lenses from Canon, Nikon, Zeiss, Sigma and Samyang. They are all full frame primes,...
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Opinion: Samyang is shooting itself in the foot with branding confusion, January 23, 2013
Samyang has been generating a lot of lensaholic buzz the last couple of years with their affordable manual focus lenses. However, Samyang has an enemy. It's a hidden enemy. The only way they can see their enemy is if they...
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New Cine Lens announcement: Samyang 85mm T1.5 (Alpha), September 30, 2012
You can never ever have too many lenses! Even if they are Cine lenses and you are stills photographer. With that in mind, Samyang has announced a new 85mm T1.5 Cine lens for the Alpha mount. Some details via Le...
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Lenses Trade Show Floor round-up: Zeiss, Samyang, Voigtlander, Schneider, Tamron, Sigma, September 19, 2012
And now we have a catch-all round-up, we feature the various lens manufacturers, some of which generated a lot of excitement (see new lens announcements)... Earlier on we posted the Sony and Leica round-up and the Olympus round-up and the...
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Samyang 10mm f2.8 DX prime at Photokina, September 14, 2012
Samyang has announced that they will be showing prototypes of a new wide wide lens at Photokina, a 10mm f2.8 DX, with a full name of Samyang 10mm 1:2.8 ED AS UMC CS. Availability is late 2012 or early 2013....
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Newsbytes: Samsung T-primes, RED Dragon fire, Panasonic X-Ray SD, etc, August 10, 2012
A number of newsy items have filled up the buffers, time to empty the buffers with a new edition of the Newsbytes! + Samyang announces Cinema T-versions of their 14mm, 21mm and 35mm primes via dpreview and LMdlP et al...
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New Lens Announcement: Samyang 8mm f2.8 fisheye for NEX and NX, June 11, 2012
New lens trumpets! Samyang has officially announced a brand new fisheye lens for the Sony NEX and Samsung NX mirrorless systems, the 8mm f2.8 fisheye ED AS IF UMC, with a starting price of 350 euro! Details at ephotozine and...
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Reviews (new Sonys, M43rds, Pentax Q, GXR A12, X100, superzooms, meta news, etc), September 9, 2011
Time to check the latest reviews, previews and hands-ons! This turned out to be a super-sized edition, so fire up the coffee machine! Completed lens reviews can be found at the lens reviews mini-site< which also has an easy to...
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New Samyang 24mm f1.4 lens coming in six lens mounts, August 12, 2011
We have a new lens announcement! Samyang continues to push ahead with the announcement of a new 24mm f1.4 lens coming in late-2011 or early-2012. The lens will be available in the five main SLR mounts of our time (Canon,...
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Newsbytes (Samyang 35/1.4 (A,K), Varioptic, Leica record, 1DMk4 and X100 firmware, etc), May 31, 2011
In this new experiment, in an attempt to de-congest the review round-ups, we are spinning off part of the "Etc" in its own segment, "Newsbytes". This includes news, alerts and other non-review-related things. (this is an experiment at the moment)....
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