Samsung 16mm f/2.4 Ultra Wide Pancake NX Lens

The Samsung 16mm f/2.4 Ultra Wide Pancake NX Lens is currently the widest prime lens available for the NX camera system, equaling the field of view of a 24mm lens in full-frame 35mm photography.

This image and the others in the slideshow were shot with the Samsung NX1000 and Samsung 16mm f/2.4 Ultra Wide Pancake NX Lens.

I tested the lens along with the Samsung NX1000, which automatically applies distortion correction to both Raw and JPG files.

I also used Imatest to check the sharpness of the lens. At f/2.4 it's quite sharp in the center—over 2,200 lines per picture height—but its overall score is a low 1,646 using a center-weighted metric.

If you're a wide-angle shooter and have bought into the NX system, the 16mm f/2.4 NX lens is right up your alley. It's compact and, once you stop down to f/4 it sharpens up nicely.