Samyang AF 24mm F1.8 for Sony FE

Samyang AF 24mm F1.8 for Sony FE

Extra fast wide-angle lens with highest image quality, perfect for landscape and astrophotography
With a focal length of 24mm, you'll capture even large subjects with ease! The impressive angle of view of 83.7° on full-frame and 60.9° on APS-C gives you plenty of freedom in image composition. Thanks to its special features, high speed, uniform imaging performance and excellent resolution right to the edge of the shot, the Samyang 24mm F1.8 is ideally suited for astrophotography and landscape photography. It was specifically designed for mirrorless Sony Alpha E-mount cameras. The high speed of 1:1.8 allows a lot of light to reach the sensor, so that even in dark shooting situations you can work without flash and freehand. Thanks to the particularly high light intensity, this lens is also suitable for indoor shooting.

Programmable Custom Switch, LED indicator for focus at infinity and another revolutionary special function for astrophotography
The programmable custom switch can be assigned an astro mode. This switch allows you to choose between two settings. For the astromode, it can be assigned with manual focus. As a novelty of this lens, the Samyang 24mm F1.8 can additionally be automatically focused to infinity with the push of a button on the focus hold button. An LED indicator on the side of the lens gives a green light when focusing has been successful. The factory pre-calibrated focus setting to infinity can be recalibrated by the user, overwriting the factory setting. This function is particularly useful for astrophotography, as it is difficult to focus automatically in the dark.

Extensive range of functions thanks to Focus Hold Button
The focus hold button on the side of the lens can be assigned various functions in addition to the astro mode and like the custom switch. For example, eye detection autofocus, a program that continuously focuses on the eyes of people or animals in the image. As soon as the Focus Hold button is held, the camera searches for eyes in the subject and the lens focuses unerringly on them. This allows you to work efficiently without having to take the camera off your eye. By default, the Focus Hold button is set to AF-Lock: When the button is held down, the currently selected focus is maintained.

Small, lightweight and compact
Weighing only 230 g, measuring just 71.5 mm in length and only 65 mm in diameter, the Samyang AF 24 mm F1.8 is extremely compact and the ideal companion on any stargazing trip. The compact dimensions make the lens up to 24% shorter and up to 48% lighter than many comparable lenses of this focal length. With the Samyang AF 24mm F1.8, you'll be equipped for a variety of photographic challenges, both in everyday life and on the road. The lens hood is removable, and filters with a 58 mm thread can be attached.

Fast and quiet autofocus
The autofocus in this lens is driven by a linear stepper motor (LSTM) that is fast, quiet and precise. The LSTM focusing is very fast in photo and video shooting, and especially in video shooting, it provides continuous focusing without any noise from the focus drive interfering with video recording.

Highest optical quality
The high-quality optical construction of 11 lenses in 8 groups, including 2 aspherical lenses (ASP), 3 high-refractive (HR) lenses, and 2 extra-low dispersion (ED) glass lenses, ensures crystal-clear, high-resolution images from center to edge, even at F1.8 open aperture. All glass lenses are coated with Samyang's proprietary Ultra Multi Coating (UMC). Thanks to the 9 rounded aperture blades, you'll get nice round highlights in bokeh as well as 18-beam sun stars at light sources in focus. The closest focusing distance is only 19 cm, which is significantly less than many comparable lenses from other manufacturers. A short closest focusing distance makes it possible to take pictures even in tight situations. The particularly fast F1.8 aperture gives you up to two stops more light than comparable lenses.

Weather protection for all elements
The built-in Samyang Weather Sealing allows you to capture great subjects even in adverse conditions. The rubber lips in the lens and on the bayonet effectively prevent dust and splashing water from entering, so you can work in snowfall, light rain or dusty environments without any problems.