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Samyang’s Spring show

Lenses for full-frame mirrorless lead a stampede of springtime releases

Independent lens maker Samyang has certainly been busy of late, releasing a bevy of new barrels as part of a ‘Spring Collection’ promotion. Most of the new lenses are manual-focus primes for use on the new full-frame mirrorless camera systems from Canon and Nikon.

With eight diaphragm blades, Samyang’s 85mm f/1.4 is well known for its bokeh characteristics. It is now available for the Nikon Z mount, Canon RF mount and Sony E mount. (The respective systems are designated by ‘Z’, ‘RF’ and ‘FE’ appended to the lens name.) There’s also an 85mm f/1.4 for Nikon’s F mount (full-frame DSLRs); unlike the others,