Richard CanonNews / Thursday, March 15, 2018 / Categories: Reviews, Third Party Reviews This post may contain affiliate links(s). An affiliate link means I may earn advertising/referral fees if you make a purchase through my link, without any additional cost to you. It helps to keep this site afloat. Thank you in advance for your support. If you like what we do here, maybe buy me a coffee. PhotographyBlog: Samyang XP 50mm F1.2 Review PhotographyBlog has released their Samyang XP 50mm F1.2 review today. This honking big hunk of glass tested out well for them, as they have these things to say for a conclusion: The build quality is outstanding, with the metal lens mount and housing adding to the high-quality feel, although the rubberised focusing ring does pickup dirt and fingerprints very easily. Samyang have also included a very good circular lens hood, although it's a very tight fit. As this is a manual-focus only lens, you'd expect this aspect of the operation to be intuitive, and so it proved, with the very wide focusing ring complete with hard stops and a large rotation angle of 180 degrees enabling smooth and precise focusing. The price of the Samyang XP 50mm F1.2 is reasonable enough given the headline grabbing f/1.2 aperture, excellent image quality, and solid construction. There are some significant drawbacks with this lens, though, most notably the softness when shooting wide-open, its manual-focus-only nature (very tricky at f/1.2), the lack of any weather-sealing, and the sheer weight of it. Product Highlights EF-Mount Lens/Full-Frame Format Aperture Range: f/1.2 to f/16 One Aspherical Element Two High Refractive Index Elements Ultra Multi-Coating Manual Focus Design Aluminum-Alloy Lens Housing Nine-Blade Diaphragm Read the entire review here.. Buy the Samyang XP 50mm F1.2 from B&H Photo Video on sale for $899 down from $999 today PhotographBlog Review Richard CanonNewsRichard CanonNews Richard has been using Canon cameras since the 1990s, with his first being the now legendary EOS-3. Since then, Richard has continued to use Canon cameras and now focuses mostly on infrared photography. Richard is the founder and editor of CanonNews since 2017, and has worked as a writer on CanonRumors and other websites in the past. Other posts by Richard CanonNews Contact author Facebook page Previous Article Canon Patent Application Roundup for March 15th Next Article Canon 6D Mark II refurbished on sale for $1359 Print Please login or register to post comments.