looking for best prime lens for NX500

benatis · Jan 29, 2016

hi everyone, I just need to asking about the lens for Samsung NX500, I just bought this camera 3 days ago with 16-50mm powerzoom lens. and actually I am not really happy with the powerzoom lens, and I am planning looking for the best prime lens, has wide aperture, and sharpest quality. any suggestion ???

and, is anyone ever using non-Samsung lens, example like: Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS UMC Lens for Samsung NX ?? are the lens working well with Samsung nx500, like the auto focus and some features??

Krazyheaven · Jan 29, 2016

benatis said:
hi everyone, I just need to asking about the lens for Samsung NX500, I just bought this camera 3 days ago with 16-50mm powerzoom lens. and actually I am not really happy with the powerzoom lens, and I am planning looking for the best prime lens, has wide aperture, and sharpest quality. any suggestion ???

and, is anyone ever using non-Samsung lens, example like: Samyang 24mm f1.4 ED AS UMC Lens for Samsung NX ?? are the lens working well with Samsung nx500, like the auto focus and some features??

Samyang lens are manual only. So no auto focus. But they do work well. They are a little on the heavy side.

For a samsung prime I would recommend the 45. It has the fastest auto focus and imo the best picture quality.

zipcode · Jan 30, 2016

Yeah, the 30mm probably because it's useful for all situations. And it's cheap. The samyang is big and heavy, and not that great at 1.4-2 according to tests, but still a good lens. If I'd have money I'd take the 85 1.4 besides the 30 f2.

simontramper · Jan 30, 2016

zipcode said:
Yeah, the 30mm probably because it's useful for all situations. And it's cheap. The samyang is big and heavy, and not that great at 1.4-2 according to tests, but still a good lens. If I'd have money I'd take the 85 1.4 besides the 30 f2.

Samyang 24mm is big but have you considered the 12mm or the 16mm
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link gaetz · Jan 30, 2016

The 45 and 30 are both great. If I had to pick one I'd take the 30, as it's a more generally useful focal length and more compact, although the autofocus is lousy. The 45 is quite light and comes with a hood but unfortunately a screw on, not reversible. The 20 is just not very good, unfortunately.

TravelPhotos · Jan 31, 2016

I also tried the 20mm, 30mm and 45mm 3D, as well as the kit lens. The 20mm was blurry in the center as well as the edges at F2.8. Even stopped down to the match the kit lens at 20mm, the kit lens was clearly sharper towards the edges. So the 20mm went back.

The 30mm and the 45mm were already sharp in the center wide open. Stopping down, they were both sharper than the kit lens from edge to edge, so I kept both.

The 45mm is especially sharp. Even though it is little wide for portrait lens, it can still be used for that purpose, if you use crop a little with the i-zoom function.

The 30mm is great for general purpose street photography, and being so small, the camera can fit in your coat pocket. That's the lens I have on the camera by default.

Finally, the kit lens is sharpest at the wide end, so hopefully it should cover you for wide angle shots.

Kisaha · Jan 31, 2016

TravelPhotos said:
I also tried the 20mm, 30mm and 45mm 3D, as well as the kit lens. The 20mm was blurry in the center as well as the edges at F2.8. Even stopped down to the match the kit lens at 20mm, the kit lens was clearly sharper towards the edges. So the 20mm went back.

The 30mm and the 45mm were already sharp in the center wide open. Stopping down, they were both sharper than the kit lens from edge to edge, so I kept both.

The 45mm is especially sharp. Even though it is little wide for portrait lens, it can still be used for that purpose, if you use crop a little with the i-zoom function.

The 30mm is great for general purpose street photography, and being so small, the camera can fit in your coat pocket. That's the lens I have on the camera by default.

Finally, the kit lens is sharpest at the wide end, so hopefully it should cover you for wide angle shots.

I totaly agree with the aforementioned. I have the 30 on the NX500 and the whole thing fits a lens neoprene protective case I have, that I can take with me at all times, and the 45 on the NX1.
These two lenses are a must for any NX user.

The pz is good for wide, and all purpose compact lens (usually for video), so I didn't got any of the 16/20 primes, but I prefer the 12-24 for general photography (I like'em wide!), and the the 50-200 is surprisingly good, at least to the 70-150mm range (+-10%) that I am using it most. I have order the Sammy pancake as well, for fun or specialized photography or video (the widest for 4K NX500 crop).

MFiftysomething · Jan 31, 2016

30mm F2 nice for stills and tiny but awful for video -continuous focus noisy and takes for ever.

20mm is quicker focusing but not as nice

45mm is less versatile (67mm equivalent) but very good for portraits

Really this is the weakness of the system ...don't expect any new lenses -the system is dean now.

The 16-50s lens is the best one lens solution but big heavy and expensive

MFiftysomething · Jan 31, 2016

I did of course mean the system is dead!

markyboy81 · Jan 31, 2016

MFiftysomething said:
I did of course mean the system is dead!

I was going to ask who Dean was and whether he was going to make any more lenses

Gesture · Jan 31, 2016

If you don't mind working with legacy lenses, many of the traditional 55mm macro lenses adapt well with digital sensors. The Nikon 55mm f/3.5 won't be that expensive any longer. Good luck.

TJL LTFF · Jan 31, 2016

benatis said:
hi everyone, I just need to asking about the lens for Samsung NX500, I just bought this camera 3 days ago with 16-50mm powerzoom lens. and actually I am not really happy with the powerzoom lens, and I am planning looking for the best prime lens, has wide aperture, and sharpest quality. any suggestion ???

My sharpest primes among the NX lenses are the 30 and 45mm's. My most useful ( I like to shoot wide often) are the 16 and 30mm's. I also have the 20mm which was used a lot until I received the 16mm. I have two of the power zooms and neither one works well enough for my type of photography - so I'm with your unhappiness on that.

benatis said:
and, is anyone ever using non-Samsung lens,

I have really enjoyed my Rokinon 12mm 2.0; very sharp lens across the frame at f/4 and smaller apertures. It is large compared to NX pancakes, but very light and easy to use despite the manual focus.

creaDVty · Feb 1, 2016

The fisheye is also very good, although of course it is very specialized.

mike geier · Feb 1, 2016

I purchased EVERY lens Samsung offers, and strangely enough their 60mm macro is my absolute favorite. Sharp, accurate color rendition and great bokeh. It is in my opinion the perfect prime lens for the NX cameras, especially the NX 500 with its extra strong 28MP output

If I could have just one lens this would be it. I wonder why all the previous posts have not referred to it

wpstl · Feb 1, 2016

mike geier said:
I purchased EVERY lens Samsung offers, and strangely enough their 60mm macro is my absolute favorite. Sharp, accurate color rendition and great bokeh. It is in my opinion the perfect prime lens for the NX cameras, especially the NX 500 with its extra strong 28MP output

If I could have just one lens this would be it. I wonder why all the previous posts have not referred to it

I own all of them and the 60 is my favorite too. Sure the 45 is a 1.8, sharp and fast focusng but the focal length really limits it usefulness. It's best quality is the 1.8 aperture but it's too much of a telephoto for a walkaround lens or "street" lens. Shooting full length portraits in low light or for very shallow DOF and it's your lens. Mine doesn't see much use. The 60 is different. Yes, it's bigger and slow to focus. But it's a classic portait focal length (90 equivalent), still fast at 2.8, and a wonderful macro lens. And, as Mike said, the image quality is fantastic. I bet I could be happy with just the 12-24, 16-50 S, 30 f/2, and the 60 macro.

Kisaha · Feb 1, 2016

wpstl said:
mike geier said:

I purchased EVERY lens Samsung offers, and strangely enough their 60mm macro is my absolute favorite. Sharp, accurate color rendition and great bokeh. It is in my opinion the perfect prime lens for the NX cameras, especially the NX 500 with its extra strong 28MP output

If I could have just one lens this would be it. I wonder why all the previous posts have not referred to it

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I own all of them and the 60 is my favorite too. Sure the 45 is a 1.8, sharp and fast focusng but the focal length really limits it usefulness. It's best quality is the 1.8 aperture but it's too much of a telephoto for a walkaround lens or "street" lens. Shooting full length portraits in low light or for very shallow DOF and it's your lens. Mine doesn't see much use. The 60 is different. Yes, it's bigger and slow to focus. But it's a classic portait focal length (90 equivalent), still fast at 2.8, and a wonderful macro lens. And, as Mike said, the image quality is fantastic. I bet I could be happy with just the 12-24, 16-50 S, 30 f/2, and the 60 macro.

ttbek · Feb 2, 2016

I think because if you're going to choose only one prime in isolation, 60 mm doesn't have as wide of application as a 45 or 30. The 30 and 45 can fit very general use. The 60 can be very limiting for those that like wide/normal angle of view, but it does open up the macro avenue and the portraits with it are very nice though they are too sharp for some people's tastes. I think I will be more partial to the 60 after I get around to updating the lens firmware, currently some focus quirks are irritants. If I was choosing myself, I might go for the 60 or the 85 because I know that they suit my style of shooting and my subjects best among the primes (since we didn't get a 300 prime ;P ).

ttbek · Feb 2, 2016

I would agree, but it seems like there are actually a lot of people that just have no interest in shooting long.

Kisaha · Feb 2, 2016

ttbek said:
I would agree, but it seems like there are actually a lot of people that just have no interest in shooting long.

As I can't afford any of the S lenses (no samsungparts in EU!), I miss greatly the 50-150, rather than the 16-50. In L lenses I use the 70-200 more than any other Canon zoom, but ofcourse people have different styles. The 50-200 is quite ok for what it is, better than other cheap long zooms I have used in the past, and it seems that QC is better than pz lenses or other cheap NX zooms.

Chris62 · Feb 5, 2016

The most often used NX lens for me is 16/F2,4 - wide angle is ...wide angle

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30 and 45 are great but sometimes to narrow angle of view is problem

kit zoom is great but slow.

55-200 is to slow for me and 170-200 range for far objects shots seems wrong not sharp enough.

But in night scenes when long shutter used 18-55 kit lens is OK or with external flash and no shaloww DOF required als because is sharp.

Pancakes are small and fast this what I like and no need more lens.

16 is universal lens - architekturę, inside pictures, landscapes.

30 less universal but better DOF control

45/F1,8 @ 70 mm inside is to narrow sometimes outside also and not long enough.

Let say portrait lens and I use it on concerts when distance is OK (fast AF and F1,8 help in dark scenes)

I think these three pancakes are must have for every NX user who wants small and powerful set.

To avoid lens changing (problem in some situations) second small body is also good idea.

looking for best prime lens for NX500

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