Samyang AF 35mm f/2.8 FE Lens (Sony E, Auto Focus)

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Samyang AF 35mm f/2.8 FE Lens (Sony E, Auto Focus)

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20 reviews for Samyang AF 35mm f/2.8 FE Lens (Sony E, Auto Focus)

  1. Ruth Robinson

    For the money it is a great addition. It also gives my Sony a7 a really small profile so I can travel with it in a (large) pocket, which, for a full frame 35mm camera is really handy. IÂ’ve only been using for the past couple of weeks but already managed to have it to hand at the right time due to its portability alone!

  2. Ros F

    Let me start by admitting I have owned the lens before – and hated it. To explain: I bought it direct before it was available in Europe (let alone on ClickElectronics!) and at the time I was playing with a Sony A7 (original) and using an old NEX6 too. I had bought a Sony (“Zeiss”) 35/2.8 that worked pretty well but was hardly exceptional in anything but size – and it was very expensive of course – so I returned it. I bought the Samyang as a replacement and although it was optically great it struggled to focus properly on both the A7 and NEX6, a real disappointment, so I disposed of it through that great auction site in the sky… and got back more than I paid for it ;-)Fast forward to now; I have abandoned the clunky A7 (and NEX6) and settled on APS-C using a A6500. While looking for something else I stumbled across a recent review of the Samyang using a A6500 and it was so overwhelmingly positive I dug deeper and found that all the reviews were positive. When I discovered that ClickElectronics sells it for a good price I knew it I had to go for it… again. Better luck this time, hopefully, I thought.And so it was. There’s no returning this one. It’s absolutely brilliant in all regards on the A6500: eye-waveringly sharp at all apertures and corner to corner, lovely colours and general rendering, no hint of CA even wide open… and it focuses fast, silently and seems to be able to use any AF mode and all AF points just like a native Sony lens. Maybe my first, early copy has been updated, or perhaps the design just doesn’t get on well with the older, clunkier Sony E-mount cameras; who knows? But I can say with certainty that it works perfectly on a more modern camera like the A6500 – and just to prove it I’ve attached three samples I shot this morning on my walk to the shops… the first outing for the lens.Is it perfect? Very nearly. The lens is near-perfect but the little “hood” is badly designed compared with its (expensive) Sony counterpart. On the Sony “Zeiss” lens you can fit a super-slim 49mm filter inside the hood for protection (you need the kind with no front thread) but the Samyang hood leaves zero space for any kind of filter, not even an unmounted piece of glass, so the only option is to use a 40.5mm filter on the outside of the hood which is a terrible option just asking for reflections and flare. I’ll need to find a better option that’s still small – watch this space.Of course it’s a decent performer on a (modern) full-frame camera too according to tests I’ve looked at, but on APS-C it’s positively stellar (with much better corners because of the crop) and can be recommended unreservedly.Update: after a bit of research I discovered that version 02 firmware produced a significant AF improvement along with other things, and as the lens I just got is version 03 I imagine this is even better. My original was of course version 01 so this is almost certainly the explanation for the change of behaviour. This was confirmed when I tested the new lens with a NEX-7 – a camera even older than the A7 I tried with the original lens – and it worked perfectly, at least as well as a native Sony lens.So if you use an older camera the lens will work just fine. And I now use it with the brilliant B+W rubber lens hood and a standard 49mm filter. Very little size gain and much more functionality. Perfect 🙂

  3. Paul Montemayor Sr.

    A great value addition to the Alpha FE mount

  4. Harold Boughen

    Great lens

  5. Janine Hedley

    DonÂ’t expect too much from this lens.ItÂ’s a great bargain if you need something small to carry around for street photography, but doesnÂ’t really give you the best quality.But even so, I love it. Love the fact itÂ’s the smallest available lens to date for my sony cams.I hate the way it isnÂ’t always fast and compatible though. Cam switched off a few times, so surely thereÂ’s some compatibility issues there.Anyway it gets four stars as for the price itÂ’s become my on the go lens. I even shot a few pro jobs with it and results were good.Own the 35mm one as well with AF at 1.4. Samsung have definitely got some good stuff for a decent price. But both unusable for video AF.

  6. jonathan abdiel

    Great lens for the money!

  7. Laura RodrĂ­guez

    Stellar performer on APS-C

  8. Martin Fever

    Great street lens for the A7 or A9!

  9. Sheila Wellings

    Outstanding lens.

  10. Hypatia

    This is possibly the smallest, lightest prime lens for Sony E. It’s not quite a pancake lens but close.Optically the performance is excellent. Autofocus on the A7R iii is very responsive and quiet. The manual focus ring has a very nice resistance.I gave it a four for value for money because apart from the lens mount, which is solid and well made, the construction feels a bit plasticky and the it would have been better if the focussing ring had been rubberised.However don’t let that put you off: in practice it works very well, it’s feather light and performs superbly.

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