The Samyang 24mm T1.5 ED AS UMC VDSLR (Video DSLR) version has been developed primarily for the professional needs of cinema, where fast, high-quality prime lenses are essential. The VDSLR version features a geared focus system and de-clicked aperture ring, which allow the user to adjust focus and aperture/depth of field smoothly and silently during shooting, and to connect to professional follow focus systems.

The aperture and focus scale has also been moved to the side of the lens to improve scale visibility.

The 24mm VDSLR version is compatible with full-frame or APS-C sensors and is available in Canon, Nikon, Sony A, Sony E, Pentax K and Micro Four Thirds (MFT) mounts. It is ideal for full-frame cameras, offering a high-quality wide-angle lens perfect for street, landscape and architectural photography, even in low-light conditions. Photographers using Canon DX/APS-C sensors will obtain a field of view of approximately 38 mm (35 mm equivalent) suited to photojournalism and general photography.

Cinema lenses are rated by a T-number rather than an F-number. The F-number expresses the speed of the lens assuming the lens transmits 100% of the incident light. The T-number expresses the actual light transmission.

The Samyang 24mm VDSLR version is optically identical to the standard version of the Samyang 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC lens.

Sharpness is excellent, even at the edges of the frame at wide aperture, and the fast T1.5 aperture allows a shallow depth of field to separate subjects from the background, and enables faster shutter speeds in low-light conditions.

The Samyang 24mm T1.5 VDSLR is a manual focus lens. The focus ring features geared rings compatible with professional follow focus systems available in the cinema industry, as well as a geared and de-clicked aperture ring. These modifications allow precise and smooth control of focus and aperture during video recording. This enables ultimate manual control of focus and exposure when shooting scene by scene with different light source intensities, such as changing exposure values (EV) from indoors to outdoors, or even in-camera dissolves, etc.

For cinema and video applications, manual focus is the preferred choice, allowing focus changes during shooting, and there is a growing number of users using DSLRs for high definition (HD) shooting and video.

The Samyang 24mm VDSLR lens offers magnificent bokeh (the character of out-of-focus areas), thanks to its design and fast aperture.

The optical construction of the Samyang 24mm lens comprises 13 elements arranged in 12 groups, 4 elements are made from extra-low dispersion (ED) glass, plus two aspherical elements. The 24mm features an Ultra Multi Coating (UMC) treatment for the best possible light transmission, and resistance to ghosting and flare.

The Samyang 24mm T1.5 ED AS UMC VDSLR lens offers a professional wide-angle lens with excellent optics, while managing to deliver an excellent price-to-performance ratio.

Supplied with a removable petal-shaped lens hood, lens caps and a soft pouch. Filter size is 77 mm.


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