Hi! My name is John and I'm new to the web.I bought the Samyang 18mm- 28mm
f4.0 last summer from Cameta Camera for $150.00.I like shooting wide angle
occasionally and this lense was reasonably priced for my OM2000 + highly
rated.I saw somewhere a reference to a test in Pop Photo which was done a
couple years back on this lense but have sinse lost the month/year. If I
come across it again I'll send it to you. Meanwhile
I've been shooting on a regular basis with it. My humble opinion on the
lense--it's great.I mostly complain about not having a wider flash in low
light areas because of occasional vignetting. outdoors on sunny days or well
lit indoors it performs just fine. I may pick up a Zuiko 18mm someday,but
for now, this will do swell.Here is a portion from the lense pamphlet. "The
18-28mm automatic two-touch lense has two rotating rings on the lens barrel
which performs both zooming and focusing operations. it is a true zoom lense
which means that focusing can be done at any focal length without having an
effect on your focusing as the lense is zoomed to different positions.For
most critical focus with these lenses,your lense should first be set to the
longest focal length of the zoom range[28mm],focused to the sharpest image
in the view finder and then zoomed back to the desired composition.The
larger image and shallower depth of feild at the longest focal setting in
the zoom range will help you to get more critical focusing. Naturally,your
lense may be focused at any point within the zoom range,but focusing at the
shortest focal setting and zooming up should be avoided unless focus is
re-checked before shooting." By the way
it's an 18 to 28mm f4.0 to 4.5 and it also says phoenix/samyang on the edge
of lense hood . It has ft and mm markings and half click f stops and as
viewed through the viewfinder also focuses clockwise to infinity. I think
that it is a very well built lense. Heavy! cheers!
>From: "Giles" <cnocbui@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] (Fwd) Anybody Used any of these Lenses or know anything
about?
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:45:02 +0000
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 10:06:30 -0800
From: Dan Boardman <doberman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Anybody Used any of these Lenses or know anything about?
Phoenix 100mm-500mmf5.6(OM)(Highly Rated)(Boxed/New/U.S.A. Warranty)
$339
Samyang 18mm-28mmf4.0(OM) (Highly Rated)
(Boxed/New/U.S.A. Warranty) $149
Sun 38mm-90mmf3.5(F3.5 Throughout) Macro(OM)(Mint-) $25
No they aren't the beloved Zuikos.....but for the money does anybody
know if they are decent or not. The 100-500 sounds real interesting. No
nothing beats the Zuikos but the money is a killer!
Any comments or thoughts welcome
Dan Boardman
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