Samyang 100mm f2.8 ED UMC Macro

It’s a strictly manual affair

People often say that manual focusing is best for macro shooting, but this Samyang lens takes things to extremes. As well as having no autofocus facility, it also has a purely manual aperture adjustment in most of its mount options; only the Nikon fit enables aperture adjustment from the camera body. The upshot is that you have to reduce the aperture manually, and at the narrow apertures generally preferred for macro photography, the viewfinder image is quite dark. Accurate focusing tends to be easier in Live View mode. The focus ring has a particularly smooth operation, and a long travel that enables very precise adjustments. The high-spec optical path includes both ED (Extra-low Dispersion) and HR (High Refractive) elements. Performance The Samyang isn’t the outright sharpest tool on test but…

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