Samyang V-AF 24mm 35mm 75mm T1.9 Group Test and Review

[@shaocaholica]

Seriously Chris is a blessing for the community for soldiering on so long. Please support him!

[@sauzefilms]

Chris really came in clutch with his reviews. i've been watching his reviews ever since my family bought our first DSLR, the Canon 750D so it's almost a decade for me lol.

[@puertadlm163]

Finally a proper review of the lens. Not just a flipping un boxing.

[@parranoic]

you must be new to the channel. Those are the best reviews on youtube

[@shaocaholica]

Lol😂

[@EverythingCameFromNothing]

Welcome to the best photography great reviews on KZbin 🙃

[@TheTS1205]

7:37 Totally impressed of how she could hold her exact pose for all 3 shots with those 3 lenses!! That's boss level posing😁

[@jeans2679]

Thank you for the thorough and practical review! I've been trawling through reviews of these lenses and yours is the best so far!

[@Filmgoblin]

I see that you tested the 100mm lenses also but I don’t see a review of the 45mm that came out a couple months prior. Would it be possible to see a review of that lens?

[@gustenisfeldt6976]

The 35mm had visible loca at T8. That is impressive in a way...

[@myeclecticself]

I feel like all my dreams came true just now because I was hoping you made a review for these lenses and you did!

[@TechnoBabble]

What strange lenses. They have tally lights and a 0.8 pitch gear ring... But no hard focus stops, no dedicated aperture ring, and the same optics as the standard photography versions.

[@azuki2919]

Exactly

[@DiminishingAugmentation]

They stopped halfway towards a real cinema lens.

[@TechnoBabble]

@@DiminishingAugmentation seriously. They would have been better off upgrading their cine line with some more electronic controls rather than half bake cine lens features into their stills lenses.

[@maximilliannewcombe1719]

The answer to your confusion just got released- a front attachment that converts them to have a geared manual focus ring with hard stops and a 95mm front, your regular focus ring then becomes an aperture ring

[@brettalexander.studio]

​@@TechnoBabble there are 2 new attachments. One is a manual focusing adapter which gives it hard stops and a proper diameter to accommodate a mattebox. As well as a 1.7x anamorphic adapter.

[@somegeezer]

Maybe the front connection could be useful for an add on anamorphic lens. Perhaps it could allow the two parts to focus in tandem. One of the difficulties of a manual two lens anamorphic setup. This would also go along with them being a sort of cine style lens set, and allow you to use one anamorphic adapter for all three [later five] lenses.

[@chinchin9127]

Exactly what they have just prototyped.

[@SunnySoCal]

wow chris is always dishing out unique camera videos glad samyang finally made cine lenses 🎥

[@altruistx]

The 75 looks pretty good

[@Thomasmcse]

Interesting.... Thanks for your review.

[@EwenBell]

Thanks so much Chris. The chromatic aberrations shooting wide open with the 35mm is a real shame, as that's the entire point of the lens for me. Valuable review.

[@Na-xv6xi]

will there be a video about the 20mm?

[@juliansmart2326]

Funny to see such a lack of consistency with light transmission across the three lenses, considering that's the only reason you rate lenses in t-stop.

[@navpreetsingh8156]

Finally a image quality review, I'm probably going to stick with my f1.8 versions as they all seem to be sharper, I was hoping for better optics here

[@acouragefann]

They are the same optics.

[@grdprojekt]

Seems like the 35 mm was a defect product? Can't be _that_ bad regarding colour fringing among the others.

[@jeremytheoneofdestiny8691]

The breathing seems like a huge oversight. It’s going to be a dealbreaker for some of the audience they are trying to target.

[@ecmjr]

Nice Review!

[@agenericaccount3935]

Man, that thing was breathing harder than a London Copper rushing to arrest someone for praying.

[@aylwinwei5576]

Would be interesting to see a vs between fe85 f1.8 and this 75

[@Vinterloft]

Man, I really wish they had made the 35 first and based the rest around the form factor that would give the 35 no or the least possible focus breathing. The 35mm's focus breathing is a non starter. On the 24 and 75 I would have tolerated it, but they would have had less because they built around the middle lens.

[@raygamma8739]

75mm T1.9 best

[@tarvos_trigaranvs]

Wow, the 24mm at f1.9 seems better at the corners than in the middle! :D (at least the CA). Never seen something like that before.

[@vukhuat4251]

Looking forward to your review for the new Samyang 75 F/1.8 for Fujifilm and comparing it with the one for Sony.

[@onrecordcinematic7902]

There is no hood on these lenses. Maybe a reason for the purple? Have you tried it with a hood?

[@Twobarpsi]

Very nice lenses!

[@cagatota]

Thank you for reviewing “cine lenses” too. 🔥🔥🔥

[@Prjslayer]

What are those electronic points at the front?

[@gamedesign1]

Someone needs to come up with a way to record focussing data with video a bit like how gyro data is recorded with video. If there was data constantly being recorded about the focussing on each frame then NLE could compensate for focus breathing on any lens.

[@MotorHead-Shinjan]

Is this lens good for hybrid shooters ? as i take photos and videos

[@SHORTFILMMANTRA]

Can we use these lenseswith sony camera apsc?

[@Mionwang]

I want these!!

[@asouthafricanguy2697]

Hopefully the 35mm was a dud. I actually love the idea of these lenses, any onemanband shooting on a gimbal looking for something compact will love this. Hopefully the breathing can be fixed with software (maybe it can use sony's existing software?)

[@GungKrisna12]

The lens for future cameras, where advancements of AF technology will allow AF to be usable in cinema works

[@jeremytheoneofdestiny8691]

It’s already fully usable, especially for locked down shots, the industry just doesn’t trust it

[@GungKrisna12]

​@@jeremytheoneofdestiny8691and they consider focus pulling as some kind of art

[@4purs]

@@GungKrisna12it kinda is lol. AF can’t tell a story, it can’t pull in or out of focus on different subjects on the same frame at different rates.

[@maxhammick948]

I'm disappointed that the lens cap didn't use the front bayonet

[@rajeshchoubey435]

Can I make best quality feature film for theater of this lens and sony fx30 camera sir ?

[@mrwashur1991]

Imagine an electronic vnd attachment that could work in auto.

[@vaskoobscura_]

WOW i hope these lenses don't cost more than $50 each because the optical performance leaves a lot to be desired. I shoot a lot with vintage glass and the samples I'm seeing remind me a lot of vintage glass from the late 80's. So I guess if you're looking for a vintage-ish look these might be interesting. Thumbs up on the video.

[@noble_diamond]

👍🏻

[@classicboy97]

Interesting set, but honestly the loca on these lenses are absolutely terrible. These are marketed as "cine" towards vloggers, but should not be taken as serious workhorses.

[@shaocaholica]

Is loca that important for Cine work tho? I mean that’s a loaded question I know since not all Cine work is the same by a long shot.

[@dpc4548]

Is the notoriously bad build quality and lack of colour control in full force here?

[@michaelwhiles5282]

Sorry Chris - not impressed as they fail on several counts as ‘ cine ‘ glass 😵🤪😵‍💫

[@amabualrub]

Focus breathing with lots of video features, they lost me here

[@wewuwewu]

gimmicky

[@DiminishingAugmentation]

That 35mm lens is horrid.

[@THEJEDEYEMASTER]

gimmick lenses. not cine at all. bad focus breathing, no aperture ring and im not those are af/mf switches. forcing a specific lens design into a pre determine size shape and weight for all lenses from 18-75 is stupid as hell. terrible fringing too. waste of money

[@ritrattoaziendale]

Pretty bad lenses overall

[@jeremytheoneofdestiny8691]

For real. If it were $650 for the SET, then ok. But $650 each is a hard no from me.

[@julius4858]

But if you are shooting 8k you’re not using these lenses 😂

[@trebsanitytv7038]

Focus breathing not good. 🥲