UPDATE: We just have been told that the company making the lens is “Shenyang Zhongyi” and not “SLRmagic”. Shenyang Zhongyi will make a new 35mm f/0.95 with native E-mount. There are even some image samples posted on via Xitek (Click here). I never heard about the company before!
P.S.: SLR magic made four lenses for the NEX system:
[shoplink 11187 ebay]SLR Magic 35mm f/1.7 MC (here on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 11186 ebay]SLR Magic Toy Lens 28mm Bokehmorphic lens (here on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 11185 ebay]SLR Magic HyperPrime 50mm f/0.95 (here on eBay)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 11186 ebay]SLR Magic 28mm f/2.8 lens (here on eBay)[/shoplink].
The 50mm for M-mount lens that has just been tested on a NEX camera at Photozone (Click here to read the review).
P.P.S.: Didn’t see it nefore but some Amazon stores also have a lens ranking: Amazon US (Click here to see the ranking), Amazon UK (Click here to see the ranking) and Amazon France (Click here to see the ranking).
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Ohdeargod let it not be gold… unless it’s brass, which is functional, then I guess it’s okay? 😐
the bokeh is HORRILBE. heavy outlines, not smooth bokeh. has the cat eyes appearing way too close to the center, where it should be round bokeh. also the bokeh looks like a reflex mirror lens inside a cat eye??? bokeh juss not render smoothly
I see what you mean about the cat eyes bokeh. But what seems odd to me is that in the shots where that effect appears it only shows up in one or two places in the background. Not sure why it’s not more prevalent.
If it’s solid brass, as opposed to being gold-plated, it would actually be quite cool.
Samples look quite okay to me. Better than the typical results from the Voigtlander if I may be so bold, though that may more the photographer than the lens. I assume it will be a pricey lens.
I find them terribly soft. probably has to stop a bit more down to get anything pin sharp.
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Terribly soft? I don’t know if you have shot with any lens faster than 1.4, but to say the posted result to be terribly soft shows you are quite ignorant (esp. expecting 0.95 to be pin sharp at WO). Provided the sample shots are not full res so I can’t really judge the IQ for sure, but it seems to be as sharp a the CV 35/1.2 II at WO. And yes, I have shot with the CV for many months now (one of the worst MF focus actions on an MF lens).
Which 35mm Voigtlander? 35/1.2 35/1.4 35/1.7 or 35/2.5?
Regardless, I think you’re seeing something I’m not, this 35/0.95 suffers from a lot of coma, purple fringing and wonky correction for spherical aberration. It’ll be interesting though, that’s for sure.
“SLRmagic is developing a new 35mm f/0.95 with native E-mount.”
HALLELUJAH!!!!! WHAT A RELIEF!!! One company finally grokked what enthusiast with Sony NEX cameras are craving for since the NEX entered the marked.
Well done SLRMagic, you make the other (lens) companies look as stupid as they are.
nice to see a new lens, but please don’t make it in gold? O_O
Nice to see SLRMagic reinventing themselves and build good quality lenses from scratch. Might be interested in this 35mm if Sony don’t announce anything soon, and price is right.
The golden lens is not design or made by SLRMagic, SLR magic is a broker, OK?!
The 50mm costs a grand and I doubt this one will be much cheaper. Probably gonna be a nice lens for the few who can justify the cost. If they make it gold they won’t sell more than 10. Tacky!
Who needs such lenses except persons that want to show off their gear? You probably need to stop down 2 stops anyway to get acceptable image quality, basically rendering that lens unusable below F1.4.
If you want good bokeh, this can be had much easier with longer lenses, even if they are much slower.
For low-light: increase ISO. Today’s cameras are handling high ISO very well.
I want wood version.
Sign me up for some bakelite.
Why not bismuth? Or ironically tungsten.
Gold is for bolcheviks, I want meteorite.
I’d buy it in a heartbeat if its by SLR Magic but if its not then I’d stay away. I did a good translate on the source and it says lenses made by this company is really bad quality and if the copy is good purely depends on luck. The lens does not get sharp till stopped down and it is more like a soft focus lens. I rather have a 70mm lens for soft focus.
BLING BLING!
Although the samples look suprisingly good!
I´ve bought their limited edition 23mm 1.7 and I adore this lens. It´s really an amazing piece of glass. If this lens is anything like that I´ll happily get one (if the price is similar). But they have to be realistic, if they set the price to 1k like the Voigtlander nobody will get this lens. The Sony 24mm is around 1k and SLR Magic made the 23mm for around us$400. If this is their price range then they will have a real winner on their hands.
Where are Sony AF lenses for NEX? Where three promised lenses?
What the hell!
The Samples seem to be pretty neat. The golden version isn,t really what i would want, however the silver one looks just fine.
Last week I was in Milan and two chinese guys parked their convertible BMW 6 next to mine.
Guess what paint color it was?
meteorite?
Kryptonite?
I can attest that this lens is not SLR Magics´. Since I´ve been a beta tester for SLR Magics´ 23mm 1.7 I´ve got in touch with them to check if I could be a beta tester for this lens too…they´ve just replied to me saying this lens is not actually theirs.
What the NEX system needs is a 35mm f1.4 autofocus in the E mount.
We have enough manual focus lenses. It is unfortunate that the likes of Sigma and Tamron chose to develop entry-level glass first.
It isn’t unfortunate, it is sound business sense.
Really?
What’s the point of buying a $1300 body and then attach a $200 lens? Is that the business sense you speak of?
entry level on any format of camera is a much bigger market than any other, just as there are far more people with NEX3 and 5s than there are 7’s and exactly why there’s no frickin’ A99 yet!
Never ceases to amaze me how some people here just can’t figure that out!
Clifton,
Who buys the lenses? The entry level?
The Xitek site is down! Too much traffic? Or wrong link?
Looking at those Amazon UK lens rankings, you would be forgiven for thinking Sony didn’t make ILCs or lenses at all..
Yeah because Amazon UK is THE last word on lens sales…
Ohh my goodness, this lens will sure be damn expensive. F0.95 for NEX, what else?
This is a hint for Sony to release a Gold version of a NEX, a new NEX-G! 🙂
to me, the images that lens produces are just Ok. if priced right and get the product shipped without problems worldwide, I’m sure this lens will sell just about right. More because of the ability to produce some candid shots…I would buy it, But I’m already on the boat of people waiting for my damn 3 lenses that are supposed to be released in 2012 (and not just being announced…they need to ship all of them by november 2012).
I must say that I’m intrigued by this lens. It’s hard to judge the quality of the lens from the posted samples, but they look okay to me.
If it’s not too expensive I might just buy one.
Personally I’d love to 28mm f.95. That would be right about normal for an APS-C sized sensor. Should be simpler, smaller, and a bit cheaper because of that.
EDIT: Also the edges look very soft here: http://forum.xitek.com/pics/201204/2903/290384/290384_1335575265.jpg
Of course, if you have objects not in the focus plane at f/0.95, they should be soft!
True, but it looks like the sign to the left is on the same plane as the sign in the center but even at web sized it looks considerably softer to my eye. Still an interesting lens. I’m stoked about another fast prime for the NEX system. Let’s hope they can work out the price/quality ratio better than SLR Magic’s 23mm.
LOL, I don’t understand what people are expecting from a lens shooting at f/0.95 WO. I have not seen any lens around this focal length faster than f/1.4 would give you an even resolution across the frame at WO.
But until I see more sample, I would not jump on this lens.
Well, this Shenyang Zhongyi is actually the lens maker behind SLR Magic. It is making the 28mm F2.8, which is rebranded as SLR Magic. You will soon see the SLR Magic version of this F0.95 lens, if I’m right.
Well, I’ve read though the XITEK website and the full 11 pages comments.
Apparently the engineer of Shenyang Zhongyi company is there answering questions.
According to their conversation, the lens will be released in July, the price will be around 6,000 RMB which is around 1,000 USD. A f/0.95 lens for 1,000 USD, I would love to give it a try.
Forgot to say, it will come in both Gold and Silver color. Unfortunately, I am afaid the silver is bling bling silver too… Hope they will change the color when its officially launched, they never made a gold color lens before.
Before you comment, could you please bare in mind this is a f/0.95 lens? All the sample pics were taken with lens wide open. The purple fringe is quite normal, for big aperature like 0.95, no one can solve the purple fringe issue. Even the leica 80K worth lens couldn’t solve it. So, just wait for it launched.
sorry rabbit i don’t think you know what you are talking about, please review
Wow, a Tiger… A little uncomfortable to see a tiger.
Anyway, The second paragraph was to answer an earlier comment who complained about the purple fringe. Just hope people do realize this is a f/0.95 lens.
That is one UGLY lens. The Chinese has no sense of design or quality !
Don’t take it personal, no one force you to buy that lens or anything made in China.
What’s really ugly is your English. Just looking at your grammar and syntax burns my eyes.
I heared about this company once before, which is a local Chinese company who’s been doing R&D for lenses in recent years. It’s said to produce some cheap and high image quality lenses so as to share part of the Chinese market. For what I know, they built a high quality Nikon 50/f1.6 lense, which is sold for no more than $100. But it’s not sold in public, only if u knew someone in the factory.
PS, the company has some kind of military background. State owned for sure.
Bokeh is horrible.