Samyang 50mm f/1.4 – Sony A

Bright times: the Samyang 50mm

• Hybrid aspheric lens (H-ASP) and aspheric lens (ASP)
• Samyang UMC multi-coating
• Wide and soft focus ring
• Round eight-blade dimming aperture

The Samyang Optics 50mm F1.4 AS UMC is a manual focus, high aperture normal lens designed for full-frame cameras.

Optical structure

The lens has nine lenses in six groups of six, which include one aspherical lens (ASP) and one hybrid aspherical lens (H-ASP) for high resolution. The H-ASP lens in particular reduces colour aberrations and achieves excellent image quality and high contrast even at the edges of the image, when shooting at full aperture. Ultra Multi Coating (UMC) optimises light transmission and reduces reflections and ghosting. The lens has a closest focusing distance of 0.45m, allowing close-up photography of subjects.

Lens construction

The eight-blade shutter is almost perfectly circular at full aperture and forms beautiful star-shaped rays when dimmed. The lens body is compact and really sturdy, made entirely of high-quality aluminium alloy. In addition, a removable lens hood prevents reflections from stray light.