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A few readers asked me again about those long time due new Schneider MFT lenses. The latest I heard is that “unofficial” release date is very late 2014. The delay reason Schneider is busy producing their highly requested Cine lenses. And that has a higher priority for them. Rumored price of the lenses is still around 1200 Euro….
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vapourware
This has been such a saga – was it ever official?
kind of happy they havent been released, my bank account has more in it!!!
Yea well, SK is bit slower when it comes to actually producing anything. Its been like that since forever.. 😀
Actually, right now, if you go to http://four-thirds.org/en/microft/lense.html and click “Lenses planned for release”, they aren’t even mentioned.
They also don’t mention the Voigtlander 10.5mm so….
Right, it is probably no conclusive evidence. Still, as the lenses used to be listed there before, someone must have actively removed them, which must have some reason…
Agree… I see a conspiracy!
At this point, does anyone even care?
I agree . It is too little too late. What is really missing in the line up is a 21mm equivalent fixed focal length, a 2x converter and a 150mm (300mm equivalent)
21mm equivalent?
The Voigtländer 10.5mm is due to ship soon.
A 150mm f2.8 would be nice. Too bad Panasonic canned theirs.
As far is i hered last month from a freind they will never built a mft Version. They cancel the project, because they never expect a big revenue with mft. They know, that olympus will bring alot (3) premium lenses in 2016. So, they will comete with olympus.
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steefen
We don’t want Schneider Kreuznach, can we have Carl Zeiss please?
Why? It’s not like they do a better job then Sigma, Panasonic or Olympus.
Who cares, they will be overpriced and miss the mark anyway for focal lenghts. We have so many other choices! Now Olympus….get us that 300mm…will Ya!!,!
Ditto, what we need is a nice 10mm (or 10.5mm), and maybe some superfast f/stop stuff in the sizes already known. I own a great Sigma 30mm and 60mm, and a not too shabby 19mm, as well as Oly 12 and 45. What’s to accomplish by making more of the same?
Lens selection is pretty well all taken care of in M 4/3rds. I switched over to M 4/3rds because I like the 4X5-ish aspect ratio (always hated the 35mm 3:2), and Canon and Nikon never made a full lens line for APS-C cameras. If Schneider is looking for something to do, they could be making a complete prime lens line for APS-C Canikons: 14mm, 16mm, 23mm, 35mm, 55mm, 70mm. Make them f/2 or f/2.8, so they’d be under $500.00 per, and size them to just cover APS-C so the physical size of the lenses would be smaller than what exists today in the Canon 24mm f/2.8, 35mm f/2. Now yer talkin’
you mean APS-C manual focus lenses?
No… APS-C prime lenses that used whatever technology the Canikon stuff uses, like buying a Sigma. The APS-C community has no prime lenses that are sized correctly for the sensor, except the 35mm f/1.8, and 40mm f/2.8 for Nikon, and the 24mm STM for Canon. Hell with manual focus, you can’t really focus on those screens in those cameras anyway, they’re not meant to be focused manually, they’re meant to be bright with f/4-5.6 zooms. You’d have to replace all those Canon and Nikon screens with a Katzeye screen to really focus as accurately as the old days. What APS-C people need is real, prime lenses sized for APS-C and using the technology of the individual camera companies.
I care .
Yes we have many choices but none of them perform in my standard ( 12mm to 15mm lenses ) .
m43 still lacked of ultra fast wide angle lens with exceptional optical quality even
with the Leica certified 15mm F1.7 , I’m not impress of it .
Just wondering, did you actually use the 15mm yourself?
I own the 15mm lens & sold it within 2 months time .
This 15mm lens can’t match the 25mm summilux in rendering .
I own the Panny/Leica 15mm. Sweet little lens for the system. I also like my Oly 12mm f/2.0. I am preordering the Voigtlander 10.5mm f/0.95. If you know what you are doing you can squeeze very good images from these lenses. Not to mention The Oly 7-14mm Pro?
The Schneider lense Re odd focal lengths not all that fast, and..um…not available???
The problem with the 15mm lens is it failed to produce that kind of rendering as the
25mm Summilux produced .
It also have serious “Imaging banding” problem , don’t know what to call that .
Otherwise everything is fine if you can accept it .
The banding might be RF interference of the AF motor in the lens with the amp in the sensor read circuitry. That’s at least the problem with the 20/1.7 when mounted on some Olympus bodies. The moment you switch off AF the banding is gone. But AF, too 🙂
What I’d like to see (and have) is a m43 tilt shift 12mm lens.
yes!
Yes. I know that it would be expensive, bigger and heavier than, for example, MZuiko12mm, but if Olympus is really aiming its Pro line to pro and serious photographer, they should keep it into consideration.
better to use a FF lens then use a tilt shift adapter
And how many 12mm FF lenses are there?
I guess your best bet would be a $370 Samyang 14mm and a $350 Kipon tilt shift adapter…but it’s still not 12mm.
There’s a 12mm f/2 Samyang, bought it two weeks ago. Very nice lens, no problems with it so far. Has a MFT mount version.
Can’t mount an adapter because it’s mirror less, and probably only covers APS-C, which isn’t useful for tilt shift on M4/3.
The doubled angle of view would defeat the architectural purpose of the lens. (That’s where I would use it)
The 60 macro sounds appealing assuming it would reach 1:1. The Olympus 60 is an okay performer but I have no doubt that Schneider would raise the bar at this focal length plus a quality metal build would be very welcome
Okay performance? It’s one of best mft now, really good performance.
Dreaming of a native 1.4/30………. anyone?
Me.
1.4mm and a f30.
kind of funny
inb4 troll
Some study would help you moron.
Some study before BS would be appreciated.
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead. Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive.
Waiting For Godot
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead. Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive…
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead.. Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive…
NX1 is a strong competitor to the GH4. Let’s see what the GH5 will have.
Schneider also announced lenses for DSLRs and never delivered. Equally the MFT lenses. Schneider is a big mouth company. Do not wait for that kind of attitudes…
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead. Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead.. Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive…
They are losing their opening. With the new Kipon EOS AF adapter for MFT, it is starting to look like that could be a viable alternative to native lenses, and still retain AF, exposure, OIS etc.
Canon lenses will not compare optically with Schneider.
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead.. Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive.
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead. Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive
Go home Schneider. No one cared 2 years ago. And no on cares now.
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive..
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead.. Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive.. .
Schneider lost all credibility. I don’t think I would trust their products, even if they do get released. Forget it, Schneider. You can fade away, just like Kodak, Rollei, …. So long!
Don’t care for them. I don’t mind looks too much, but thier blue line on black looks very cheap to me. The might be very good. But it would be just another expensive prime in the endless list of primes mFTs have. No one has the bals to come out with a complete line up like this:
12-60 f2.8
60-150 F2.8 to f4
150-300 F4
8-16 mm F4 that does accept filters…
All weathersealed, OIS so they can be used for both systems as well, fast focussing motors and not the fastest glass but fast enough. And small enough too (smaller than most f2.8 mFT lenses are now).
One, nice looking series clearly visible belonging to eachother to have a great looking line up. Now it is 2 fast Pany lenses here, add the OL 300 f4 there and a Leica 25 mm to top it off. Not bad at all, we have a great choice compared to others. But I think one, clearly connected enthusiast line up would seal great! If you have one that does it for you, you are more likely to get the others from the same series.
12-60 F2.8 to F4.0 I meant!
You mean f/1.8-f/2.8. 🙂
It is not like f/3.5-f/5.6 FF zooms are expensive. 🙂
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead . Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive..
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead.. Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive.
Schneider should make NX lens for samsung instead. Then the NX system will be a lot more attractive. .
You again, little troll?? Why they should?? NX is CRAP all plastic stuff. No manufacturer will jump into that system.
And still nobody cares about more overpriced and underspecced lenses.
If Tamron would make a weather-sealed 35-150/2-2.8 VC for $350, like their 70-300/4-5.6 SP VC for FF cameras, that would be newsworthy.