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Rokinon/Samyang 85mm f1.4 for Samsung nx300

Started Jul 28, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP JQuonDo Regular Member • Posts: 214
Re: Rokinon/Samyang 85mm f1.4 for Samsung nx300

SpacemanUA wrote:

ChuckTa wrote:

Unless you are well versed in legacy lens, stay away from unknown brands like Zikkor.

Minolta, Vivitar, Canon FD mount is relatively cheap and good quality.

There are TONS of 135/2.8 lenses. All of them have the same optical scheme and make almost no difference between each other. Almost all of them are pretty good. Check pentaxforums, they have pretty nice legacy lenses database. I used to have a few samples of Sears 135/2.8 with macro zone. It has some kind of controllable soft-effect, pretty interesting but of course not for serious work.

Overall, I dont really like this 135/2.8s. I reccomend you to go for 50/1.4 which are cheap too. I have owned Konica Hexanon 57/1.4 which cost me about 90$ and it was great

Are there any benefits of going with modern lenses over optical, outside of Image stabilization and auto focus?  Prices on the legacy lenses seem very affordable, but am I giving anything up going legacy versus modern.

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Samsung NX1 Samsung NX500 Samsung NX 30mm F2 Pancake Samsung 16-50mm F2.0-2.8 Samsung 50-150mm F2.8 S
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