Good news folks! We have four new (expensive) A-mount lenses from Schneider Kreuznach! These are the new lenses:
85 mm/2.4 Makro-Symmar
28 mm/4.5 Super-Angulon Aspheric
35 mm/1.4 Xenon
50 mm/1.4 Xenon
There is no info about price and availability yet. We already have two Schneider lenses for Sony (here at BHphoto) and they are pretty expensive but maybe because they are T/S. Checked the [shoplink 14252 ebay]Xenon lenses on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] but they are too old to get an idea about the price of the modern lenses. Anyway, I am pretty exited about the two 35mm and 50mm fast lenses! I am sure they are top quality!
Source: Photoscala (translation here).
One more surprise could arrive soon from Zeiss. As you know they will show new lenses for mirrorless system soon…fingers crossed guys!
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WOW! My dreams come true!! What a cool news!!!
better than leica!
Any rumors of A-Mount Zeiss besides the 50/f1.4?
maybe zeiss 50mm/1.2 😀 for a mount and zeiss 85mm for mirrorless 😀
There is no f1.2 coming please forget about it.
35mm 1.4… Alpha users should be walking on air now!!! 🙂
And another from sigma but with AF!
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/09/17/Sigma-launches-three-lenses-35mm-f1-4-DG-17-70mm-f2-8-4-DC-MACRO-120-300-F2-8-OS-HSM
The Sigma 35/1.4 looks good. Let’s hope it perfroms and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
Thanks for the link.
waiit… how could I miss that?! These lenses don’t look like Sigma at all… they hired some decent designers finally!? Hm… I don’t know if it’s just me, but these look like really decent lenses 🙂 (although MTF and vignetting charts make me kinda… less excited)
I don’t see anything wrong with the MTF of the new 35/1.4. And since they classified it as an “art” lens, the heavy vignette might be on purpose :D.
They certainly look a lot more modern and professional now, more so than Canons do, even. Now they just need to fix the unpleasant colour cast of their lenses and they’ll be a serious contender.
Big plus, on A-mount Sigma 35mm will get IBIS. I think it could be nice on A99.. 😉
True. Sony’s own 35mm 1.4 is not on par with any of the competition. Would have liked to see one from Zeiss first but we’ll see how much Schneider wants for these.
These lenses are optimised for video and does not do AF am i right?
Mmm, I cannot open the BH site… so which ones issued for Alpha mount? 50 f1.4 and 35 f1.4? And btw admin, what is the SR level here? Or this is a confirmed story and not a rumor anymore? (apologies, I cannot open the BH site).
All for Alpha, press release from Schneider, to be announced tomorrow at Photokina, with more details
No AF (goes without saying for the PC-TS lens). It’s a pity though, the 35 mm/1.4 Xenon und 50 mm/1.4 Xenon with AF would have found a lot of takers.
Also, Hassy mirrorless (???) announcement tomorrow. E-mount????
Where is the Zeiss 50mm f1.2? Is this not happening now, Admin? Tell us why didn’t Sony/Zeiss go with a 1.2?
Hugely disappointed–this would have been the real game changer.
Who will buy theses?
People who need them and can afford them, simple really.
people who want quality lenses not crap lenses, unlike u, troll
lol
Not for me………I do stills and have just a passing interest in video as of now, so expensive MF lenses are not for me.
I would be happy to purchase a new Zeiss 35/1.4 in addition to the 50/f1.4 if I decide to stay with Sony and not move.
I need to see so Sony A-Mount lens love before I reinvest in a new Sony full-frame.
People using an FS-700 on big budget video productions, for example
Normally they will be 3 new Zeiss e-mount lenses ! from what i’m heard ! A wide angle, a standard and a Macro lens ! Hope this is true !!!!
All of them are MF or some AF?
These. lenses will be on a par with the Zeiss manual focus lenses which are sadly only available in Canon & Nikon mounts. Schneider have also given information on 3 new lenses for Micro four thirds a 14mm f2, 30mm f1.4 & 60mm f2.4 macro, will these also be available in e mount or do they not cover the APS-C sensor, which would be a shame as the focal lengths seem more suited to APS-C sensor?
Zeiss MF glass with F bayonet in fact has… interchangeable bayonet! You can unscrew it and use A-mount instead quite easily. I did it myself and got one Zeiss converted to the A-mount. Really good lens 🙂
Try to google Leitax (Voigtlander SL II adapters work on ZF/ZF.2 lenses).
This is Fantastic Valuable News I have Used Schneider Lenses. These are Excellent Lenses with Great Contrast & fine Detail & Resolving Power.
Sony Will Capture the SLR Market soon with this type of Different Lenses. Already Has the Carl Zeiss. What Next???
MF lenses is not “only for video”.
Exactly!
The price is..about right. About to say goodbye.
Don’t you think that goes without saying
How soon is the Zeiss announcement? :O
Very interested in the Sigma 35mm – here’s hoping they decide against recycling LensIDs this time (real pain in the arse trying to microadjust them on an a77 when it thinks they’re all the same lens…)
I quit trying third-party lens in part because of problems with micro adj on my a850.
Maybe new Sigma’s will be better than sigma lenses older than the camera itself 😉
“Good news folks! We have four new (expensive) A-mount lenses…”
I wonder if you really thought about that wording before you typed it. Why is super expensive lenses good news? More humble Alpha mount users would really welcome mid-range Zeiss glass. You know, the 1500~1800 dollar stuff.
1500$ for a lens is really humble ahahaha.
Full frame eMount lenses would be interesting, as a solution to compete with Zeiss Compact Primes for the VG900, but also for stills shooters as it would pave the way for Sony to eventually release an interchangeable lens version of the RX-1.
Those Xenons sound interesting. I wonder how they’ll perform.