Top 5 Best Samsung NX Lenses 2014

Choosing the right lens for your Samsung Smart NX camera is important so we've rounded up the top 5 best rated Samsung NX lenses that we've reviewed on ePHOTOzine to help you choose. 

Samsung 45mm f/1.8 NX i-Function - 

This telephoto lens provides an angle of view equivalent to a 70mm lens on a 35mm camera, and has a fast f/1.8 aperture. 

The lens supports Samsung's innovative i-Function feature, which allows manual controls to be accessed quickly with a button on the lens body. It's ideal for portrait images.

It has excellent sharpness, good build quality and is lightweight. It features low distortion and low falloff, allowing you to capture brilliantly clear images, and has excellent sharpness from the maximum aperture. 

Samsung 60mm f/2.8 NX i-Function Macro - 

This macro lens provides an angle of view equivalent to a 90mm lens on a 35mm camera. It includes silent focusing and optical image stabilisation. 

The lens provides life size magnification at it closest focus, and has excellent sharpness throughout the aperture range. It's great for detailed close-ups of objects.

Image stabilisation is very effective, and the lens has a very good build quality, as well as fast autofocus for a macro lens. 

Samsung NX 50-200mm f/4-5.6 OIS II - 

This telephoto zoom provides an angle of view equivalent to a 75-300mm lens on a 35mm camera. It includes optical image stabilisation and an i-Function control button, allowing you to quickly access manual settings. 

Its zoom makes it perfect for wildlife and travel photography, letting you get closer to those far away objects. 

The lens is well built, and has low distortion,  making it ideal as an all-round versatile lens. Focussing is performed internally and the filter thread doesn't rotate, making it ideal for using with graduated filters.

Samsung 85mm f/1.4 ED SSA NX Lens - 

This prime telephoto lens has a fast f/1.4 aperture and a silent focussing motor which allows you to make manual focus adjustments at any time. 

The lens sports excellent sharpness levels, and low chromatic aberration, making for crisp and clear images. It too features the i-Function button, which makes accessing manual controls really easy. This lens is great for creating blurred backgrounds in portraits.

The manual focussing ring is well damped, which means making small adjustments is smooth and accurate.

Samsung 30mm f/2 NX Pancake Lens - 

This lens has an unusually fast f/2 maximum aperture and provides an angle of view similar to a 45mm lens on a 35mm camera. It's an ideal choice as a standard lens. 

This lens helps to keep your camera really compact. It has very good sharpness in the centre, is well made, lightweight and compact. This makes it great for those who want to keep the camera as small as possible. This lens performs really well in low light due to its bright f/2 aperture.