Samyang 75mm f/1.8 AF : Specifications and Opinions

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Fascione

sent on 16 Dicembre 2025

Pros: price, lightness, focal, tropicalized, IQ

Cons: nothing for the price it has

Opinion: Guys but for 270 euros to have a light, tropicalized, bright lens... of excellent quality... What more could you ask for? On Fujifilm it seems to marry with camera bodies. You can carry it around with the bulk of a 50mm FF, in addition to the fact that it is still very bright! I wouldn't ask any further for the price it has, I really can't find where to complain, Great best buy for me

Giorgiomilone

sent on 28 Maggio 2024

Pros: Sharpness, price, weight and size

Cons: Tropicalization and construction

Opinion: Honest optics with good overall performance, it excels only in price and size, which nowadays is not cheap. Poor construction in toy plastic, no tropicalization, after a few days of use you can already see dust between the lenses. I recommend it only to those who need a very light lens to always carry with them, or for those who need to optimize their budget a lot without sacrificing too much optical performance.

Simoneerba

sent on 23 Febbraio 2024

Pros: Size, price, yield

Cons: Nobody

Opinion: Used for a year on A7C. Super portable and cheap, good AF, shots with amazing rendering in terms of colors, contrast and sharpness already at TA. Very good bokeh. It's the telephoto of my set of little Samyangs (18 f2.8, 45 f1.8 and 75 f1.8). Of build quality a little better than the others, although I prefer the 45mm, it is perhaps the lens that returns the best shots.

Sihmels

sent on 21 Novembre 2023

Pros: Weight, size, colors, sharpness, rendering, bokeh, microcontrast, customizable key, price.

Cons: Materials, lens hood, button customization & firmware update via Lens Station (to be purchased separately).

Opinion: Great value for money. The bright lens, quite sharp already at full aperture even if in my opinion at f2 it improves a lot. Decent color rendering, good contrast, pleasant soft and surprisingly gradual bokeh, fast autofocus. Very convenient is the customizable Mode 1 / Mode 2 button (via Lens Station also necessary for any firmware update) with which you can choose whether to use the ring for manual focus or to manage the aperture aperture. The materials are not great to the touch, it looks like a toy, but in fact it is the quality that counts and at the proposed price of € 260 it is definitely worth it. In addition, the weight, precisely because of its build quality, is extremely low.

Darp

sent on 27 Maggio 2021

Pros: Aperture, bokeh, sharpness, colors, weight and size

Cons: Some flares, variable samples

Opinion: It is an excellent lens, sharp already ta in the center, excellent colors, good hold against light and little flare, very low ac (a little coma) weight and also excellent size; af fast enough even on a7 first version, a flaw... variable sample, I happened to have a decentralized version... unfortunately with samyang some failed pieces happen..

Marcopieropan

sent on 22 Maggio 2021

Pros: yield, af, size and weight

Cons: flares, materials

Opinion: Excellent portrait lens, if you like the 75 as a focal length. Better than the 85 1.8 Sony. Perfect AF, the images are crisp, with good contrast. He suffers slightly from flare. The materials give a plsticous feeling, but not so much as to give the impression of breaking easily. Perfect weight and size to always have it in your bag. Very good price. I use it constantly on A7C, but the overall yield doesn't even drop on A7RIII.

Marcusbblond

sent on 05 Ottobre 2020

Pros: Optical quality, lightness, custom button that can be useful to control the diaphragm from dial mf, af and eye af sniper.

Cons: Missing the real af/mf button, cheap material, customizable button (if we really want)

Opinion: I have already done a couple of shots with this lens, leaving out the negative aspects that I mentioned in the "cons", the lens behaves well in optical terms, indeed, very well. At TA is already very good in the center of the frame, loses something at the edges, but closing at f2 recovers a lot, already from 2.8 is perfect from side to side. The use on rIII, does not make a fold, I think it is upper cmq, although different focal, at 45 Samyang. Having had 85 1.8 in the past, I would say that the yield of the 75 is crisper and at ta works even better, it does not have that veiled effect of the sony. I use it together with the 135 gm, found used equal to the new at 1350 euros. The yield of the gm is spectacular, and this sammy accompanies it great. M.

Lorenzo Crovetto

sent on 24 Settembre 2020

Pros: TA image quality. AF above average. Customization of the focus dial. Fantastic import price. Light and small in size.

Cons: A little "cheap" in materials. Indecent lampshade.

Opinion: The "little" Brands, the less emblazoned ones, for a couple of years tend to amaze me starting from the small things. Like packaging. I open the box and find myself the lens sealed inside a case as rigid as that of the glasses. A solution I hadn't seen yet. However, I had few expectations about the construction given the import price of 309 euros. And in fact I had a very, very cheap feeling. A feeling of Chinese plastichina. Like the really obscene lampshade. In short, I did not expect a Sony Sonnar but something of a more robust thread maybe yes. The design of this new Samyang line is pleasant to the eye. Very minimalist. But at the end of the day, it's the glass that counts, and here we are. And a lot. When I buy a portrait lens at 1.8 to 90% I use it in TA or a more closed wire. And I want you to give me a great result already. And this little, light Sammy succeeds. It's clear. Damn sharp. And fast. It will also be the miraculous AF of the AIII but does not miss a blow on the eyes even in the presence of glasses. Moving from the eyes to the background and vice versa I found a certain responsiveness, not miraculous but already above average. Pleasant and creamy the blurry, a little tending to warm tones the image. However, we are talking about a lens that is on the market between 350 and 310 euros. Certain results are double-priced if not triple. Of the feature of commanding the dial of the focus (which also has a very good response in manual) for the aperture diaphragm, personally, I really do not care. It should be further customizable with the dock. I am happy that the market has opened up to such excellent third-party lenses at human prices. I was amazed by Tamron with the 45mm 1.8 and the superb 70-200 2.8 G2 and today I was amazed by Samyang with this line, a little cheap on the barrel materials but with character lenses. I would say over-recommended!

CesareCallisto

sent on 30 Maggio 2020

Pros: Lightness, micro-contract, AF, dial that can be used for opening change

Cons: I don't find any, maybe a little flare in brutal situations

Opinion: Very light, very cheap, very sharp. I had the Sony 85 1.8, the overall yield never convinced me, I found it... Tasteless. I bought this Samyang and the AF goes really well, equal to a fast native, I use it on A7III and I made pure bursts in HI' chasing the fast moving subject. The microcontract is high, the images are crispy and sharp, keeping a really beautiful, soft and gradual bokeh, it does not even go into crisis in the light points in the middle of the vegetation. The color stamp is a bit warm, it does not seem to me that closes the shadows, maintains a balanced contrast. I filled the gallery with photos in HD, I think they can talk more than I can ever say, honestly it's a must have.