Industry Optic Website SyOpt.co.kr Founded 1972 | Area served Worldwide Headquarters South Korea Number of employees 105 | |
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Samyang optics cine lenses 16mm 35mm 85mm
Samyang Optics Company Limited is a Korean company founded in 1972, manufacturing optical equipment, CCTV and photographic accessories. All Samyang lenses are produced in the company's plant in Masan, South Korea. Samyang is known for producing varifocal and monofocal lenses, autoiris and fixed iris lenses, interchangeable lenses that are compatible with the cameras produced by other companies.
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- Samyang optics cine lenses 16mm 35mm 85mm
- Autofocus prime lenses
- Manual focus prime lenses
- Manual focus prime mirror lenses T mount
- Manual focus prime lenses T mount
- Manual focus zoom lenses T mount
- References
In 2004 it was merged with the Japanese CCTV optical devices maker Seikou.
Samyang produces lenses to fit cameras from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Pentax, Samsung, Yashica, Olympus and Panasonic, plus a wide range of T-mount lenses.
Samyang SLR lenses are also branded as Vivitar, Falcon, Rokinon, Walimex, Bower, Opteka, Bell and Howell, Polar, and Pro-Optic.
Autofocus prime lenses
On 3 May 2016 Samyang announced their first two autofocus lenses. These two are the 14mm f/2.8 and the 50mm f/1.4 full-frame lenses with the Sony E-mount.
Manual focus prime lenses
The 8mm f3.5 fisheye, 14mm, 16mm, 24mm, 35mm and 85mm lenses are also sold as cine variants with clickless aperture stops, T stops and follow focus gears. Nikon F mount lenses (except 'a cine variant') also feature a CPU and aperture connection for Exif data and exposure measuring, they are labelled as AE.