Samyang lenses?

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Samyang AFAIK makes Phoenix and Quantray lenses

Phoenix, yes. Quantaray lenses used to be made by Sigma I'm pretty sure,
though I don't know if that's still true. It's basically just a brand name
with no specific manufacturer behind it.

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There have been some excellent reviews of the Samyang 85mm f1.4.

Is that the same as the 85mm f/1.4 sold under the Vivitar name, do you know?

The Vivitar 85/1.4 is manual focus only.

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There have been some excellent reviews of the Samyang 85mm f1.4.

Is that the same as the 85mm f/1.4 sold under the Vivitar name, do you know?

The Vivitar 85/1.4 is manual focus only.


I think it is - can be Vivitar/Bower/Quantaray/Samyang. It's not all
good - Thom Hogan tried the lens (Bower labelled) and has some less than
favourable comments in this thread on DPReview:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=31795434
It may have been a QA fault, but he had problems getting it to stop down
properly on Nikon bodies. Thom's not "anti" lower cost third party lenses.

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Neil Harrington wrote:
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There have been some excellent reviews of the Samyang 85mm f1.4.

Is that the same as the 85mm f/1.4 sold under the Vivitar name, do you
know?

The Vivitar 85/1.4 is manual focus only.
I think it is - can be Vivitar/Bower/Quantaray/Samyang. It's not all
good - Thom Hogan tried the lens (Bower labelled) and has some less than
favourable comments in this thread on DPReview:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=31795434
It may have been a QA fault, but he had problems getting it to stop down
properly on Nikon bodies. Thom's not "anti" lower cost third party lenses.

Thanks.

The one I saw advertised under the Vivitar name as I recall was about $350.
Heh. That's actually close to what I paid for my Nikkor 85/1.8, only about
two-thirds of a stop slower and of course autofocus.

Neil Harrington wrote:
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Neil Harrington wrote:
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There have been some excellent reviews of the Samyang 85mm f1.4.
Is that the same as the 85mm f/1.4 sold under the Vivitar name, do you
know?

The Vivitar 85/1.4 is manual focus only.
I think it is - can be Vivitar/Bower/Quantaray/Samyang. It's not all
good - Thom Hogan tried the lens (Bower labelled) and has some less than
favourable comments in this thread on DPReview:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=31795434
It may have been a QA fault, but he had problems getting it to stop down
properly on Nikon bodies. Thom's not "anti" lower cost third party lenses.

Thanks.

The one I saw advertised under the Vivitar name as I recall was about $350.
Heh. That's actually close to what I paid for my Nikkor 85/1.8, only about
two-thirds of a stop slower and of course autofocus.


Yep. While I like the build quality of Nikkor AI lenses, I'm not fond of
manual focus lenses any more, except for macro, but I guess that depends
on what and how you shoot. I'd rather have a Nikkor 85 AF D f1.8 than
the Samyang.