Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE Evaluation

Introduction

Ease of Use

Weighing in at a whopping 1,027g / 36.2oz and measuring practically 13cm in size, the aluminium alloy bodied Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE is actually a considerable lens, slightly dwarfing the Alpha A9 digital camera that we examined it with (particularly with the provided lens hood fitted), as proven within the photographs under.

It is really considerably heavier than each of its essential 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 nearly 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 funds 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 sphere and the studio.

The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE lens has a metallic lens mount. It accepts 82mm filters by way of metallic threads.

There’s a pretty extensive and textured focus ring on the finish of the lens. There aren’t any onerous stops on the ends of the vary, making it tougher to set focus at infinity. Polariser customers ought to be happy that the 82mm filter thread does not rotate on focus.

The lens makes use of a Linear STM (Stepping Motor) for easy auto-focusing, and it’s totally quiet in operation making it well-suited to capturing video.

In the case 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 “searching”, 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 provided with a Customized Swap on the facet of the lens barrel. Basically 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 capabilities will probably be added in a future firmware replace.

This lens doesn’t characteristic optical picture stabilisation, so it depends on the digital camera physique’s personal built-in stabilisation, which is ok except you are an proprietor of an early Sony Alpha digital camera.

The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE lens is commendably provided with each a mushy drawstring bag and an excellent 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.

24mm

The 70mm focal size supplies an angle of view of 34.4 levels.

70mm

Chromatic Aberrations

Chromatic aberrations, usually seen as purple or blue fringes alongside contrasty edges, usually are not 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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70mm

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 no less than 3 f-stops to fully forestall it.

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70mm

Distortion

The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE displays lots of each barrel and pincushion distortion, as you may see within the photographs under, which is able to it’s essential right in post-processing.

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70mm

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 provided lens hood fitted.

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70mm

Macro

The Samyang AF 24-70mm F2.8 FE shouldn’t be actually a macro lens, but it surely does supply a usefully shut focus level of 0.35m / 1.15ft throughout all the 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 easy / creamy / harsh and so forth.

Samyang have paid shut consideration to this side 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 evaluate for your self.

Sharpness

With a view 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.