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Rokinon/Samyang 85mm f1.4 for Samsung nx300

Started Jul 28, 2015 | Discussions thread
bancika
bancika Regular Member • Posts: 421
Re: Rokinon/Samyang 85mm f1.4 for Samsung nx300

I recently bought a manual lens (not rokinon) for NX300, may be able to help.

1) generally yes, you can focus and move away. As long as you try to rotate the camera rather than move, the subject should stay at the same distance from the sensor Alternatively, what I did was to turn the focus assistance zoom off. That way you see the whole scene. You still get focus peaking, so you can easily see what's in focus.

2) yes, but you need to press OK key to activate focus zoom and focus peaking.

4) I got an old lens from the 80s and it works with an adapter. Many cheap adapters are crap and need to be modified to trigger the small internal button so that the camera knows that the lens is attached. Other than that there are no problems. Aperture and focus are adjusted on the lens, everything else on the camera.

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