Introduction
The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE is a quick normal zoom lens for Sony Alpha full-frame E-mount mirrorless cameras.
It’s going to additionally work with APS-C sensor cameras with an efficient enhance in focal size to 36-105mm because of the crop issue.
It options 17 components in 14 teams together with 2 aspherical components, a hybrid aspherical factor, 3 HR components and three ED components.
It has a near-circular 9 blade diaphragm which creates a pretty blur to the out-of-focus areas of the picture, a minimal focusing distance of 0.35m (1.15ft), a stepping AF motor for quick and quiet autofocusing, a configurable Customized change with two completely different modes, and it is also mud and moisture resistant.
The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE lens is out there now priced at £828 / $999 within the UK and the US, respectively. It’s made in Korea.
Ease of Use
Weighing in at a whopping 1,027g / 36.2oz and measuring almost 13cm in size, the aluminium alloy bodied Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE is definitely a considerable lens, somewhat dwarfing the Alpha A9 digicam that we examined it with (particularly with the equipped lens hood fitted), as proven within the pictures under.
It is truly considerably heavier than each of its major rivals, the Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM (886g) and the Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 DG DN Artwork (830g).
The lens extends even additional by virtually 4cms when it is set to the 70mm focal size, with the shortest size on the 24mm focal size.
Construct high quality is superb, which is one thing of a bonus given the finances price-tag.
This lens has a mud and moisture resistant design that’s sealed in seven completely different locations which makes it well-suited to life in each the sector and the studio.
The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE lens has a steel lens mount. It accepts 82mm filters through steel threads.
There’s a pretty huge and textured focus ring on the finish of the lens. There are not any laborious stops on the ends of the vary, making it tougher to set focus at infinity. Polariser customers must be happy that the 82mm filter thread would not rotate on focus.
The lens makes use of a Linear STM (Stepping Motor) for clean auto-focusing, and it’s totally quiet in operation making it well-suited to capturing video.
In terms of auto-focusing, this lens is a reasonably fast performer, taking about 0.20 seconds to lock onto the topic when mounted on the Sony Alpha A9 that we examined it with.
We did not expertise an excessive amount of “looking”, both in good or dangerous gentle, with the lens precisely focusing most, however not all the time. It is also a quiet performer, which makes this lens equally well-suited to each video recording and extra candid stills capturing.
The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE is supplied with a Customized Change on the aspect of the lens barrel. Primarily you should use it to program the main focus ring, with Mode 1 setting it to Handbook Focus and Mode 2 turning it into an Aperture Management ring. Samyang are additionally promising that extra features might be added in a future firmware replace.
This lens doesn’t characteristic optical picture stabilisation, so it depends on the digicam physique’s personal built-in stabilisation, which is ok until you are an proprietor of an early Sony Alpha digicam.
The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE lens is commendably equipped with each a smooth drawstring bag and a great high quality plastic petal-shaped lens hood which twists into place.
Focal Vary
The 24mm focal size supplies an angle of view of 85.6 levels.
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The 70mm focal size supplies an angle of view of 34.4 levels.
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Chromatic Aberrations
Chromatic aberrations, usually seen as purple or blue fringes alongside contrasty edges, will not be an excessive amount of of an issue with the Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE lens, besides in areas of very excessive distinction.
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Vignetting
With the lens set to its most aperture of f/2.8, there may be some gentle fall-off within the corners, requiring you to cease down by at the least 3 f-stops to utterly stop it.
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Distortion
The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE reveals lots of each barrel and pincushion distortion, as you’ll be able to see within the pictures under, which can it is advisable appropriate in post-processing.
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Sunstars and Flare
The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE is able to producing pretty good sunstars when stopped-down to f/16 or f/22, as proven under, and the lens is not very vulnerable to flare even when capturing immediately into the solar with the equipped lens hood fitted.
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Macro
The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE isn’t actually a macro lens, however it does supply a usefully shut focus level of 0.35m / 1.15ft throughout your complete zoom vary from the sensor airplane and a most magnification of 0.27x when set to 70mm.
Bokeh
Bokeh is a phrase used for the out-of-focus areas of {a photograph}, and is often described in qualitative phrases, equivalent to clean / creamy / harsh and so on.
Samyang have paid shut consideration to this facet of lens use, using a 9-segment diaphragm with rounded blades for extra pleasing bokeh.
In our view, their efforts have been fairly profitable for the standard zoom lens – see the examples under to guage for your self.
Sharpness
With a purpose to present you the way sharp the Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE lens is, we’re offering 100% crops on the next pages.
