Samyang AF 18mm f/2.8 FE Review
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The Samyang AF 18mm f/2.8 FE is a small, lightweight and inexpensive ultra-wide-angle lens that is great for landscapes and shooting at night. It has a reasonable price and impressive quality, making it a highly recommended lens.
The Samyang AF 18mm f/2.8 FE is a small, lightweight and inexpensive ultra-wide-angle lens that is great for landscapes and shooting at night. It has a reasonable price and impressive quality, making it a highly recommended lens.
Pros
- Small and lightweight
- Reasonable price
- Impressive quality
- Quick and confident autofocus
Cons
- Lacks weather sealing
- Moderate distortion and noticeable vignetting
- Slight color fringing at close-up
The lens has a quick and reasonably confident autofocus for stills mode, and is impressively quiet.
The Samyang AF 18mm f/2.8 FE is a small, lightweight and inexpensive ultra-wide-angle lens that is great for landscapes and shooting at night. It has a maximum aperture of f/2.8, making it bright enough for low-light conditions. The lens has a metal build with a body that feels metallic, but lacks weather sealing. It has a quick and reasonably confident autofocus for stills mode, and is impressively quiet. The lens is sharp in the middle of the image, with lovely and sharp image quality at F 2.8. It has a moderate distortion and noticeable vignetting, but is a surprisingly good lens for a full-frame sensor. The lens can focus down to 25 centimeters and offers resistance to flaring. Overall, it is a lovely and small lens, perfect for landscapes and useful for both full frame and APS-C frame cameras at a reasonable price.
The lens is sharp in the middle of the image, with lovely and sharp image quality at F 2.8.
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Christopher Frost
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