Samyang just released the new 50mm T/1.5 Cine lens. It’s going to be available as Micro Four Thirds mount too:
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Samyang announces the release of a new cine lens V-DSLR 50mm T1.5 AS UMC. The product will be officially introduced during upcoming Photokina 2014 photographic fairs in Cologne.
The presented lens with the focal length of 50mm is yet another product released by the Korean manufacturer. And it will perfectly fill the gap between Samyang 35mm and 85mm models. Cine version will be introduced along with the photographic version of the lens. As a result, Samyang brand will now be selling a complete set of bright lenses with exceptionally wide and useful focus ranges to meet expectation of both filmmakers and photographers.
Samyang 50 mm T1.5 AS UMC has been designed for cameras and camcorders fitted with photosensitive 24x36mm or smaller sensor. It gives 46.2 degrees field of view, and thanks to high brightness value of T1.5 (f/1.4) it comes as a great tool in poor lighting conditions, ensuring splendid image quality and small depth of field. Optics of the lens consists of nine lens elements arranged in six groups (including one aspherical and one hybrid aspherical lens element). To ensure high contrast and faithful colour reproduction, all lens elements have been covered with multi-layered UMC anti-reflective coatings.
Samyang 50mm T1.5 VDSLR ensures exceptionally smooth and aesthetic mapping for out of focus areas beyond the focal plain, producing the so called bokeh effect. Thanks to the eight-bladed aperture, the subjects located outside the depth of field are shown with extremely smooth features. This feature will be appreciated by professional filmmakers and photographers taking portrait photos.
New Samyang 50mm T1.5 VDSLR will be first presented at Photokina 2014 photographic fairs. Samyang company invites all guests to visit the company’s stand (No. A-025, hall 2.1) during the fairs which are to be held in Cologne from 16th to 21st of September 2014. For all those who want to visit Photokina 2014 fairs, Samyang has prepared free guest passes. Please, visit our official website www.samyang-europe.com or the company’s fanpages in socialnetworking services to view the upcoming information about our free guest passes: facebook.com/samyang.
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That lens has really lovely rendering on that 5DMK2.. and colors. Actually seems very good.
yes but its too bad its all rather close, except for the sunflower. Ofcourse the rendering looks different when using it on MFT…its good to see more lenses with a direct to mft mount.
It’s good to see more lenses specifically made for MFT, APS-C lenses are optimized for APS-C and not for MFT.
i dont think many need optimised lenses
Great lenses for GH-4 use!
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AF ,please
Why do you need AF in a cine lens? I agree that AF is a must for dslr or mirroless lenses geared towards photography and that Samyang lacks behind in this regard with their photo lenses. But I repeat, this is a cine lens!
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You should change the facebook link to: http://www.facebook.com/samyangeurope
OMG, it’s a huge full frame lens with a mft mount…As a photographer totally uninterested in video, this is a total non sense ! The drawbacks of both words: the huge size of a full frame lens and the small size of m43 sensor…
No thanks, maybe videographer could I argue such a lens ?
“maybe videographer could I argue such a lens”
Gee, I wonder if that’s where the “cine” comes from.
What I mean (maybe not very clear) is: as a photographer it’s totally stupid to put a FF lens on a m43 body (except you already have this lens and use an adaptor or you use old legacy lenses), just take a FF body it will be better…or use a m43 lens, it will be as good and smaller…but maybe one could say that a gh4 is better than any FF body for video ? I don’t know, I don’t care about video despite I like to watch them…
Dude, just relax… GH4 + Speedbooster + Rokinon 50mm = Perfect Combo for filmmaking.
Most people with crop sensors buy lenses knowing how the crop sensor affects focal length.
If you have an M4/3 camera and buy a 50mm lens as a “standard” lens, you’re doing it wrong. This is a portrait lens, or a short telephoto, on M4/3.
worlds not words…
to each his own maybe, Me ,like many, used a 50mm 24×38 on MFT, and i never found this huge lens to be nonsense on such combo. I think there is too much emphasis on compactness within the MFT, like everything must be small. yes even the superzooms or super teles have to be small. and when they are actually smalll. a compact mft body will make people say that it still is not small enough. basicly , according to many on this forum, all mft stuff is either too expensive, too big, too fast, too whatever. maybe the system is too good because it offers too much flexibility.
FF lenses are mostly the same size as M43 lenses, if they are equivalent. If you don’t know about equivalencies, I suggest you get yourself some books *before* throwing money away on toys.
I’ve got my Zuiko 50 1.4, no need for this peice.
So is this the 50mm f1.2 that was rumoured? Downgrade?
I was hoping for the rumored f1.2, but as a f1.4 manual lens there are so many legacy options that I wouldn’t be buying this, even for my FF cameras. the other Samyang lenses have their niche, but unfortunately not this one
Well, there *is* supposed to be an F/1.2 manual 42.5mm coming, but it was announced by Mitakon, not Samyang. Pretty sweet from the looks of it… actually designed for M/43 and none of that adapted APS-C dreck, and it look downright *tiny* when compared to the monstruous Voigtlanders and Nocticron.
Don’t really see the appeal here. Isn’t there like a bajillion options at 100mm FoV for m43’s already? Maybe not native options, but really… since the lens is MF only it doesn’t really matter if its native or not. Depending on the price, wouldn’t it be more worth it to get a 50mm f1.8 nikon and a speedbooster?
The “cinema version” is why this lens exists. If you need proof, just look at their own website. It fills a glaring hole in their cinema lineup. I will definitely be picking one up. The fact that I can use it across all of my camera systems is just a bonus.
i’m sorry, can’t find lens description (size, diameter, etc…)
IMO buying this in m4/3 mount is unwise. Nikon or Canon mount + adapter is a far more flexible arrangement. Want to move to Sony A7 series later? No problem. Got the money for a speed booster? Now it’s an f/1.0. Stronger resale, too. Granted a quality adapter will set you back a bit, but it’s well worth it.
i agree with you. having 3 primes at 24mm, 50mm, 85mm + adapter + focal reducer basically gives you six lenses at all common focal lengths.
It seems that all of the Samyang lenses are optimized for 2mm sensor stack, whereas m4/3 uses a 4mm sensor stack. The Metabones Speedbooster is designed to compensate for this, so you’ll likely get better results with these lenses in Canon or Nikon mount and with a Speedbooster, than in native m4/3 mount, or Canon or Nikon with a simple mechanical adapter.
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/06/the-glass-in-the-path-sensor-stacks-and-adapted-lenses
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/06/sensor-stack-thickness-when-does-it-matter
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/07/sensor-stack-thickness-part-iii-the-summary
Which makes little real world difference, even if shooting fast lenses wide open, which is where those articles show there is the most impact. Shooting video, I think I’d take it as a benefit since a slight decrease in sharpness would lessen aliasing and moire. All of which becomes irrelevant when shooting f/2.8-f/8, which is where 90% of my photography/videography takes place.