Samyang AF 35mm F1.4 Autofocus Lens for Sony FE

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With lots of light directed towards the lens, you’ll get the spotty and dotted bokeh that many love, and while shooting on an angle to the sun you’ll get a beautiful, bright soft level of lens flare sweeping through your photo. Focus feels fine. It's more damped than Nikon lenses. The focus ring take up half the barrel, which is great. Generally speaking, it is on the larger size for a lens with a 35mm focal range and with the size does come a healthy amount of weight.

Toutes ces optiques sont excellentes en vidéo et offrent la possibilité d’avoir une bague d’ouverture sans clics. Mais il y a une différence clé : Le Sigma 35mm F1.2 DG DN Art et le Samyang 35mm f1.4 II ont très peu de focus breathing donc parfait en vidéo et le Sony GM et le Sigma 35 F1.4 en ont beaucoup In terms of full frame cameras the 35mm lens is favoured by many photographers as a “wide standard”, particularly useful for street photography/reportage shooting. There are relatively few 35mm f/1.4 lenses, most being f/2.8 designs, so the Samyang just might hit the spot for quite a few photographers. Handling is absolutely fine, although as there are really no controls on the lens apart from the MF ring, its contribution is as minimalistic as its appearance. Suffice it to say that it does the job in a very unobtrusive and efficient way. Manual focus isn't for everyone, but if you have the patience (and work more with subjects that sit still, like mountains and buildings) they can be highly rewarding and good fun to use. Many of Samyang's manual-focus primes have had no electronics at all, thus requiring the aperture to be set manually via the control ring. While this does limit the modes you can use, and cause a dark viewfinder image at narrow apertures, it can be an enjoyably tactile experience that feels like "pure" photography. Having the option of f/1.4 at 35mm helps elevate any ordinary photographic opportunity to a potentially extraordinary one. Your sample of lens and sample of camera will probably vary; be sure to test it before you go off shooting.

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Le Sony 35mm F1.4 GM est le plus piqué de tous suivi de très près par le Sigma 35mm F1.2 DG DN Art, le Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG DN suit de très près That said, if you’re willing to compromise for the sake of potentially stunning photos, be sure to at least give one of them a try from your local lens rental supplier! It may just sway you.

Closest focus distance is 0.29m (11.4in.) in manual focus resulting in a magnification of 1:5.3 (same as the Sony f1.4). Due to the long lens the working distance is only 16cm (6.3in.) even when the lens hood is removed. A magnification of 1:10 is achieved at 0.44m distance. The Sony f1.8 goes down to 1:3.9, the Sigma offers 1:4.5. [0]As I would expect from a lens that opens up to f/1.4, vignetting is noticeably present at wider apertures. By f/2.8 it is less noticeable and by f/4 the vignetting is all but gone. Edge detail is almost as strong as in the centre of the frame, which is impressive. is peanuts for any lens with a maximum aperture of f/1.4, but even so, Samyang haven't scrimped on the build quality of this lens. High quality plastics with a lightly textured finish have been used for much of the lens barrel, with a metallic red ring placed just after the aperture ring, denoting this is one of Samyang's premium lenses. The lens has a good weight to it, but isn't overly heavy and it balances perfectly on the Nikon D700 used for testing.

The CA level on the Sigma 35 F1.4 DG DN and the Sony GM are better than on the Sigma F1.2. The Samyang 35mm F1.4 II is the less good one The Samyang 35mm f/1.4 AS USM does not have the same solid build as the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 or the impressively built all-metal Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 lenses. Its outer barrel is fully made of plastic and the only metal component seems to be the lens mount. While the outer shell is plastic, I am sure the lens has plenty of metal inside, since the lens is as heavy as its Nikon and Sigma counterparts. Keep in mind, that while metal construction is generally good for protection and wear, good plastic does not expand and shrink as much as metal does in extreme weather conditions. So there are certainly advantages and disadvantages to both. Both axial and lateral chromatic aberrations are very negligible, the latter being barely noticeable even towards the extreme corners of the frame. There’s a touch of barrel distortion but it’s minor and of a uniform nature, so easily corrected automatically in-camera or during editing, if you feel the need.

Dustin Abbott

The full review of the Samyang AF 35mm f/1.4 FE II lens was highly complimentary and the lens was awarded Editor's Choice. The 35mm lens is an excellent choice for what has always been described as a "wide standard". It has been the go-to lens of reportage/street photographers, being slightly wider, enabling more to be included in the frame and giving more depth of field than the standard 50mm. If the 35mm lens should be used on a crop sensor APS-C format camera, then its "35mm format equivalent" field of view is around 52.5mm, as close to the 50mm standard as makes no difference.