ePhotozine posted a full set of pictures with four MFT lenses. Two of them are the newly announced 24 and 42,5mm lenses. These are all four lens details:
24mm f/1.7:
Minimum focus distance of 15cm. 9 elements in 8 groups and uses ED lenses in order to minimise chromatic aberrations. It weights just 246g. Price $289.
35mm f/0.95
This is a relaunch of the already known [shoplink 37365 ebay]Mitakon 35mm 0.95 (here on eBay).[/shoplink] The lens features 10 elements in 7 groups, with 10 blades and 30cm min focus. It will be available for 799 USD.
42,5mm f/1.2
7 elements in 9 groups. Price $349.
50mm f/0.95
It will be available for 899 USD.
Some image samples taken on the GH2 with the new 42,5mm lens can be seen at Zyoptics.net.
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Had put up a pre-order for the 24 and 42.5mm already. 😀 Exciting schtuff!
good luck with them, maybe 43rumors will let you post a review when you’ve had a chance to use them. I’m interested in these as well.
do they AF or just M focus?
MF, all of them.
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The only lens having my attention is the 50mm F0.95 ( 100mm F0.95 ) .
Pretty nice pics with NEX 7 in Flickr .
Let’s wait for reviews on it .
I think its better to buy voigtlander because they are really made for mft.
if you dont care about optimal resolution charts its not, as the CV are more expensive. Esp. that 42.5 is promising, just bit surprised it has a black mount. But we see that on some cheaper kitlenses too
And, yes, you shouldn’t post info about AF or stabilisation there.
Zyoptics + m43, it cracks me up.
Promise?
No AF, not interested.
When those cheap companies finally put in a usable AF in their lenses I will consider buying them, until then its just overpriced dead weight.
This is no longer the 19th century, people. AF is a MUST!
Don´t forget: With focus peaking it´s REALLY easy to focus with manual glass. I am using 4 manual lenses (and one AF for everyday shooting) on Micro 4/3 and it´s a dream to use. If you need (or want) AF, just check out the Olympus 45mm F1.8. Also quite cheap and also EXTREMELY good (optically wise). At least it´s a good alternative with AF to the announced 42.5mm F1.2 zyoptics lens ^^.
I agree focus peaking makes life easy, and for an amateur photographer there is just about no drawback to going all manual. For a professional wedding photographer I would say most NEED AF.
Sure. If it´s one of your main lenses (and you´re earning money with shooting pictures – Especially on weddings) AF is a “must have”. There the Olympus Lenses are perfect – Fast F1.8 aperture, good optical performance and fast AF (at least the 25mm and 45mm F1.8 editions).
But for a hobby shooter manual glass is also more than ok. At least if you don´t need it THAT often (and not that often with fast scenery). In studio conditions it´s also more than ok to use manual glass – Though it´s sometimes a little bit annoying (over time) ^^.
from a videographer perspective, these lenses are an incredible deal. i know it must be frustrating for photographers, but many videographers do not use AF, so to have such an affordable, fast lens is quite exciting!
newbie here. This picture looks like one from a movie (for me)http://www.zyoptics.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/P1130432-copy.jpg How do you name it, character? Thanks
It´s called “Shallow DOF” (shallow depth of field).
Because of the very large aperture (F1.2 with the 42.5mm lens for example) you get a very nice blurry & “creamy” background and you get only a very small (distance) area, which is in focus. But be aware – With very large aperture primes (F1.2 for example) it´s quite hard to focus (especially without focus peaking which is only available in the newer system camera bodies for example) – AND there´s a high risk that for example one part of the face is in focus and another one is already blurry – Which is sometimes not wanted ^^.
So you need time to focus – Especially because the Zyoptics lenses are manually (with no AF system built in). But with the large aperture you can (kind of) “detach” the subject (or object) from the blurry background (as you can see in the picture you linked to for example). Btw.: That one is from the 42.5mm F1.2 lens – Seems to be a quite nice portrait lens (with a very smooth and “creamy” background).
HTH (hope that helps) ^^.
Btw.: Which camera system do you have / use?
It’s called “shallow depth of field”. It means that the plane (actually, the parallelepipedus) on which the subject is in focus is very thin.
To achieve shallow depth of field:
1) Use cameras with larger sensors (not m43 if you can help it)
2) Use very fast lenses (low F numbers)
3) Get very close to the subject
This particular picture is a feast of chromatic aberration, often observed with cheap lenses and tiny sensors.
Haha. Jealous!
Wow. First, the price — sub $300 lens at retail price for the first time? This is good progress. Then, the size — how on earth did they manage to do an f1.2 lens with a 49mm filter size? All in all, very, very good progress for the system. Here’s hoping it will bring prices of the 1.8 AF lenses down at retail.
olympus om 50 1.2 had a 49mm filter, and that was for full frame. Cheap chinese crap lenses are unlikely to be “good progress”
I prefer to see the glass as a half full, thanks.
To those who moan about no AF, go buy the Panasonic-leica 42.5 instead, guess you would moan its high price too…
Have I understood wrong that they have posted image samples “taken with the lenses in question” with “they have posted pictures off the lenses themselves” ??
Are there some image samples?
http://www.zyoptics.net/uncategorized/sample-photos-of-our-zhongyi-mitakon-42-5mm-f1-2/
Thanks. Looks good at this res.
Backgrond is not exacly blured on the last pic with the girl waving, though
These lenses bring new frontiers to MFT….cheap ultra fast lenses (hope the quality is great too)…..for video shooting it is prefered to manually focus the lenses so these fit the tag and hopefully will give brilliant results haha
Cheap ultra fast lenses on a small sensor are a recipe for disaster…
Idiot comment from a tiny brain is a disaster FOR SURE!!!!
Like yours? Do you play with your tiny sensor a lot? LOL.
Cheap, ultra-fast lens on a small sensor travels back in time to 1912, falls into the North Atlantic and becomes a nucleation site for supercooled water, eventually turning into the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
It’s physics! Look it up!
42.5 1.2 for 349.00. Hello Leica, did you get that? No, I’m afraid it won’t be as good. But hey, at least I can enjoy the lens and still have enough money in my wallet for a fat steak.