Samyang just announced the new 35mm f/1.4 lens. It will be also available with FourThirds mount! Those lenses are manual focus only and very cheap. But the quality is surprisely good!
Read for example the Samyang 85mm f/1.4 Photozone review (Click here). That lens is available with FourThirds mount [shoplink 14887]on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]
More info here: http://www.samyang.pl/article,8,news?PHPSESSID=a80e9b76f05b4e80b46c870a74e10177
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Maybe this announcement will shut-up all the MFT and Canikon fanboys…. Long live FourThirds bitches……
Very interesting Lens. If the price and the quality perform well, this would be a great portraitlens for Fourthirds Cameras.
If it’s sold as lowpriced as the other Samyang Lenses, i’m sure i’ll buy this one.
@ Jason: best comment ever!
Ye, I’m tired of reading constant complaints that no one is making FourThirds lenses anymore.
yay more manual focus chinese lenses.
not chinese, but Korean very good lenses
sorry, they can’t shut up until those 3rd party lens autofocus. A crappy welcome from host Panasonic & Olympus
You want some cheese with your whine?
What is the difference between a non-chipped MF lens with m43 mount and any other MF lens from any other mount used with an adaptor?
mechanically … a bit more of a solid mount with the 43 mount (not m43 by the way) than with a lens + adpator
optically … a tough call, you could argue that a lens made today is potentially better optically than an older used lens which may perhaps have some dust fleck inside. But its a big assumption, and this is a cheap lens.
I’ve seen mixed (mainly good) reviews of the Samyang ’85/1.4′, so this 35/1.4 could be an alternative to the Sigma 30/1.4. But I’m personally still a little reluctant to putting a full-frame lens on our 1/2 frame cropped sensor, I’d rather see a native f1.4 lens designed specifically for the 43 fit.
Heck, its a good thing to see another lens in our mount. But I still want a ‘real’ f1,4 lens designed only for the 43 mount.
The Leica 25mm f/1.4 is a nice FourThirds mount lens, the price is steep, but you get what you pay for…
Which was exactly my point, there is little to be gained by slapping a 43 or m43 mount on a FF lens. Using a proper 43 lens with an adaptor (like the Leica 25 mm f/1.4) on m43 is much more useful.
Samyang looks interesting, but I wish it were something else…
The leica 25 1.4 is the type of lens that many people have wanted for their 43rds camera, but this particular one is just too expensive. I guess the loyals (I call anyone who’ve had an olympus camera for the past 2 years and are still olympus customers!) just wanted something from Olympus to fill that gap… Too bad that there is no indication that it will ever happen. I really need something like the leica, cause MF doesn’t work well for me (bad eye sight).
I know that it’s frustrating to hear people gripe and complain about Olympus, but people just want to have some assurance that their investment is still worth holding on to based on their personal needs. I invested in Olympus e3 cause of the body style (I like big bodies). Some invested cause of their lenses. When olympuses’ vague statements makes us question what we can expect in the future, owners are feeling anxiety and are feeling betrayed. We’ve invested in a company that we hoped would be with us on our own defined journey, but Olympus has decided (maybe for good reason) to change the destination,or change the mode of transportation. People are just nervous and scared. So, don’t blast the individuals because they are not quitely following the olympus path without feeling the need to be heard.
I’ll probably buy this samyang lens, even though I probably can’t use it effectively. I’ll even probably buy the E5 when the price drops. But I think I’ve paid my dues (to Olympus, in cash), and if Olympus keeps doing things that distances themselves from what I’ve invested in, I’ll exercise my right to gripe every once-in-a-while…
100% totally agree.