Samyang is a South Korean company that was founded in 1972, and has steadily been building its business of making high-quality, competitively priced lenses ever since. Manual-focus lenses make up most of the company’s back catalog, also being sold as Rokinon in the USA, but there have been a growing range of autofocus lenses coming on stream more recently. Last year the company changed its name to LK Samyang.
The lens that I’m reviewing here is the AF 12mm f/2, which I originally saw in its Sony E mount edition, back in 2021. A Fujifilm X version has also been available and now the lens is also offered in Canon RF-S mount, to suit APS-C format Canon EOS R system mirrorless cameras. The last of these aims to be one of the best Canon wide-angle lenses on the market.
