Image courtesy: ThePhoBlopgrapher.
ThePhoBlographer (Click here) tested the Rokinon 24mm T/1.5 lens which is also the first E-mount lens that covers the Full frame image circle. Actually Samyang/Rokinon announced five of these Cine Lenses:
8mm T/3.8 Fisheye Cine Lens for Sony E at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
14mm T3.1 Cine Lens for Sony E at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
24mm T1.5 Cine Lens for Sony E at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
35mm T1.5 Cine Lens for Sony E at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
85mm T1.5 Cine Lens for Sony E at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
If you buy them you can use them on your current APS-C NEX camera or the Vg900 and future NEX-9 FF camera! ThePhoBlographer writes about these lenses: “They’re sharp, contrasty, affordable, ergonomically excellent, and overall exhibit some excellent image quality. The textured exterior is wonderful when the lens is being held in a hand–though we overall still recommend one to use a follow focus system when using this lens.”
Reminder: As usual be aware that Samyang has many different brand names. Click on these Slidoo eBay links to see a list.
USA: Rokinon, Samyang, Opteka, Bower and in Europe: Samyang, Rokinon, Walimex, Falcon, Vivitar.
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Perfect picture, it illustrates all my doubts towards a FF Nex…
An E-mount camera doesn’t have to be small.
It’s not a lens for NEX, but rather Sony FS family. Camcoders with E-mount. Than it balances perfectly fine and you don’t need to be worried about breaking this small camera by simply panning too quickly 😉 :P.
Sony’s professional Digital Cine Cameras ARE NOT full frame!! Both the F5 http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-PMWF5/ and the F55 http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-PMWF55/ use Super 35 sensors. The Super 35 camera aperture is 24.89 mm × 18.66 mm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_35 The Sony NEX-7 uses a 23.4 x 15.6 mm Sensor.
So there is no need for a Full Frame lens for video or digital cinema cameras.
You also could use FF lenses like the Canon FD 50 f/1.2… it is smaller than the SEL1855 even with the adapter..
+1000!….;))
A true E-mount FF lens would be more the size of the Zeiss 35mm f/2 lens on the RX1. This is a standard manual SLR lens with an permanently attached e-mount adapter tube.
^^ +1 !
This isn’t a native NEX lens. Its a FF lens adapted to the NEX. It isn’t like the 8mm f3.5 fisheye which they actually made a native NEX version which was much smaller than their DSLR version.
Samyang fisheye for NEX is 8/2.8, not 8/3.5
My bad, yes the NEX version is 8mm f2.8.
Such a cute little lens, If fits so very nicely on the NEX camera……
One thing I really like is all of the surface area on the lens-tube to hold on to, It would be great if Rokinon would places a few programmable buttons on the lens body to control the camera and release the shutter.
Come to think of it, why not include a hot-shoe.
Sorry, I’m all In favor of smaller cameras, but till I see high quality optics that are also small like the NEX body I think I stay with what I have……………
But that’s me.
You gotta be kidding me…
Clever thing! You can put the camera body into your shirt pocket – but you need an extra suitcase for your lenses.
Ridiculous combo in the picture.
So you just screw an adapter to a SLR mount lens, to compensate for the flange distance and it suddenly becomes an e-mount native lens. Cool story Bro..
My thoughts exactly. Thanks Samyang we would never ever thought of that combo 🙂
All the lenses for e mount seem to be comming out with in the shorter focal lengths.
99% of the time I use either tele-macro or long telephoto lenses.
Something and like a 90 or 100mm macro 2.8 would be a very useful addition
yea that lens needs a tripod collar to be properly used with that tiny NEX… that said, I’d still want a mirrorless FF. Then you could make a line of slower, pancake lenses and a separate line of huge fast lenses and let people buy based on their needs. Personally I’d own both and just use each when appropriate. All this talk of “fast lenses will be big so don’t build the camera” are nonsense
Most e mount lenses are in the shorter focal lengths. 99% of the time i use macro and long lenses.
A 90mm or 100mmyou f2.8 would be a nice addition to any e mount collection.
It’s cine lens ppl.
Compact and good NEX lenses already exist and more are coming. Consider the 24/1.8 ZA, 35/1.8 OSS, and the upcoming Carl Zeiss trio
None of these are Full Frame.
Well, to some degree you can’t have your cake and eat it too… Nex FF will require LARGE lenses, especially with low aperture.
I understand arguments in both camps here:
If you want FF, stop complaining about large lenses
If you want Nex FF, it is a really odd system combo for sure.
Upcoming 35/1.8 seems to have the same size as 24/1.8 – they have the same FOV, the 35/1.8 is effectively faster by about 1 stop.
*nods*
Yeah, This picture is pretty much how I imagine a full frame nex. It seems pointless, especially at the high price point rumored.
Well, I see this as another turn-off for a NEX FF. Those lenses look very nicely made and I’m sure must have awesome IQ, but the size proves that they’re for a larger body than current NEX! Perfect for the VG900, for sure! To keep the NEX as the fantastic camera it is, the lenses have to be kept small and light, as they are today.
Again, I still don’t see sense in an FF NEX.
Oh please everybody!
You still don’t know that FF lenses can be small if they are designed specifically for mirrorless cameras? This Rokinon is just the DSLR Samyang with a different mount.
Take a look at Leica’s 24mm f/1.4 Summilux on a NEX-7 and everything will suddenly make sense.
If it had OSS in would have been even smaller!!!
My god, there’s a lot of whiny people.
The point to NEX, AND NEX FF, is that it CAN be smaller and lighter. Not that it will ALWAYS be smaller and lighter.
I use my NEX-C3 as my wide angle camera, with the 16mm pancake on it, it fits in my pocket while I shoot my a57 with the 70-200f2.8 …I can tuck the big camera under my arm and shoot one handed with the NEX, which means I can go back and forth from wide to long without changing lenses and without carrying TWO heavy cameras….sometimes I have the a57 on a tripod and am shooting both cameras simultaneously!
The NEX also serves as a backup to the a57…..and yes, sometimes I put a VERY large lens on the very tiny camera, and just because it LOOKS awkward, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work perfectly well as a photographic tool. You photographic tools, lol
And yes, the FF NEX will be larger…..and even the pancake lenses for FF will be larger….but it will still be SMALLLER than every other FF camera out there, which will serve a LOT of purposes.
If it’s not for you……then it’s just like the other 700 cameras a year you DON’T BUY.
I don’t know if I want one….but I want to see Sony give it a whirl….if I’m shooting the a99 with the Zeiss 135 f1.8 on it, total weight 2.7 tons, what I want out of my WIDE camera is smaller and lighter. Even if it’s NOT a pocket camera.
tl;dr
I agree with Dave. You can have a small and light camera lens combo with Nex, or not. You can put various manual focus lenses on it, older inexpensive 50mm’s or whatever you can find that will fit. You can put a 70-300mm zoom lens on it if you want, you primarily hold the lens not the camera. You can’t put so many lenses on an A mount Sony camera, they won’t fit or work. But you can with NEX. I wish Sony would make a more ‘regular’ sized Nex camera, the Nex body does not have to be small. They could make a NEX body the size of an A mount body if they wanted to, the flange distance would still be 18mm. Just deal with what is presently here, from a practical standpoint. The NEX (N ew, E ighteen mm, e Xperience)is very flexible, it is a positive development, not negative. That’s how i see it.
I agree with Dave. You can have a small and light camera lens combo with Nex, or not. You can put various manual focus lenses on it, older inexpensive 50mm’s or whatever you can find that will fit. You can put a 70-300mm zoom lens on it if you want, you primarily hold the lens not the camera. You can’t put so many lenses on an A mount Sony camera, they won’t fit or work. But you can with NEX. I wish Sony would make a more ‘regular’ sized Nex camera, the Nex body does not have to be small. They could make a NEX body the size of an A mount body if they wanted to, the flange distance would still be 18mm. Just deal with what is presently here, from a practical standpoint. The NEX (N ew, E ighteen mm, e Xperience)is very flexible, it is a positive development, not negative. That’s how i see it.
Dave, I also agree with you. I have the NEX-6 and love the compact body size with EVF (a necessity for video, tracking IMO). I use a variety of lenses on the camera. The default 16-50m pancake zoom handles a majority of my shooting conditions. I occasionally swap that out with a Minolta MC/MD Rokkor mount, 58mm, f1.4 from the past, MF mode of course. Another one I use is SLR Magic’s very compact 35mm f1.7. I also have the Sony 16mm/f2.8 pancake with the 0.75x magnification adapter which gives me 12mm/f2.8. Frankly I love the compact size of the NEX and am beginning to wonder if I will ever need/want an FF NEX. What I would want before that would be a second NEX body to avoid lens swapping as you do. Photography and video should be fun, not a chore. The last thing I want to do on a trip is to lug around a suitcase full of exessively large bodies, heavy lenses, etc. I can do without the bulk. The second NEX body, like yourself, would be used more for when I might want wide angle, or the brighter manual lenses attached. I am just not sure which NEX to go with as the second body. I am thinking to get one of the older models to get by on the cheap. Or, wait and see what the upcoming NEX-5 and NEX-7 bring and keep my equipment technoldogically ‘modernized’ so to speak. 🙂
I think it would be cool to have a little APSC NEX and a FF NEX. And then these lenses make sense. So hopefully the 7N will be brilliant and I will use it with small APSC lenses when I go diving and size is important. Then I will start saving for a FF NEX and when I get one the lenses for it will also fit on the 7N when I am on land and size is not important any more. So for me the NEX system is starting to look good. Now if it could all just be weather sealed……
More than half of the comments here a pointless, and most don’t have any idea – this is a SLR lens – any of the mounts Canon EF, Nikon, Pentax PK with a tube screwed to it’s back to compensate for the register distance. Proper designed lenses for an E-mount would be much more compact, compare the same rokinon 8mm/2.8 for the native e-mount with the SLR version – totally different stuff. So stop whyning and assuming how would a FF native lens look. You don’t have to look far – take a look at the Contax G lenses – made for FF, short flange distance, very compact.
Contax made some great glass but isn’t the average person going to want modern luxuries like oss and electronic aperture control? I’m struggling to see how sony is going to deliver this in a package that small…
I’ll be very interested to see what they come up with – if they can pull off a range of small fast primes with oss, I’ll be more than happy to switch. On the other hand, I can’t see any sense in investing in a pocketable body with a big lens…
Yes, and when you think about them, think that they’re not AF lenses nor do they have OSS.
I hope the FF NEX doesn’t use the e-mount or the lenses would be huge. The right thing for Sony would be to use a new mount which provides a better balance between the camera size and lens size. None of the existing Sony E-Mount lenses would work on the FF camera anyway so why force that camera to use the e-mount.
They would work in crop mode, so it makes sense to continue with E-mount.
Sure, but I would rather not have my lenses be huge just to gain the ability to use APS-C lenses in crop mode. The e-mount is fairly narrow. Even the APS-C lenses for e-mount are larger than they need to be due to the limitation of the mount. With FF, the situation would be worse. If I really need to use APS-C NEX lenses, I can get an APS-C NEX in addition to the FF NEX. Unlike DSLRs, an extra NEX body wouldn’t add much volume to the bag and at a few hundred dollars it would be a fraction of the cost of the FF NEX.
I agree with Dave. You can have a small and light camera lens combo with Nex, or not. You can put various manual focus lenses on it, older inexpensive 50mm’s or whatever you can find that will fit. You can put a 70-300mm zoom lens on it if you want, you primarily hold the lens not the camera. You can’t put so many lenses on an A mount Sony camera, they won’t fit or work. But you can with NEX. I wish Sony would make a more ‘regular’ sized Nex camera, the Nex body does not have to be small. They could make a NEX body the size of an A mount body if they wanted to, the flange distance would still be 18mm. Just deal with what is presently here, from a practical standpoint. The NEX (N ew, E ighteen mm, e Xperience)is very flexible, it is a positive development, not negative. That’s how i see it.
You agree so much, you said it three times. 😀
G-I-N-O-R-M-O-U-S !!!
Wow, I did not post that same comment three times, I posted two different comment at two different times, but hey, that’s how it goes I guess.
Man, my second comment was so cool and would have forever ended any bickering and caused peace to flow all around the world. But it was eaten by cyber goblins. There is no way I can duplicate that perfect comment that I had written, but maybe I will try again in a couple of hours after my disappointment wanes.
I’m sure we’ll all shiver with antici… pation.
While you guys are debating your cute little NEX lenses/cameras…I will be enjoying the beauty of my FF A99 with the pro Alpha lens line.
Well the toy camera will give better high ISO.
i’d rather get the Canon (or Nikon or A-) mount version and then adapt it to NEX. that way I have more flexibility. same price, same optics anyway.
+1
admin is so lame to post this
It’s look like normal lens with still adapter for flange distance, not new optics…
Oh wow, just what I’ve NEVER wanted. A small body and a huge lens makes no sense. The more I see of CaNiSony’s new cameras the more impressed I am with M4/3.
@c.d.embrey , Its really easy here is how it works small sensor smaller lens, bigger sensor bigger lens. Smaller sensor poorer performance larger sensor better performance .Assuming same sensor tech, I know how mFT guys like to compare to 7 or 8 year
old cameras and say wow look how good mFT is , its a damn shame time never stood still for you all.Well I guess it has for FT , how is the “one beautiful” system working out lol{ I mean actual products no fantasy cameras created inside your small heads }
Hi jshy. Check-this-out UK fashion shooter Jonathan Posner had a story published in Vogue Italia that he shot with a M4/3 Olympus OM-D E-M5 http://jonathanposner.tumblr.com/post/40780795719/my-olympus-challenge-10 As he said “Good enough for Vogue Italia, good enough for me.”
He switched from a Full Frame Canon 5D2 to the Olypmus M4/3 system and couldn’t be happier. I know several pros who have switched from Canon to M4/3.
At 11×14 an APS-C or M/43 camera can do the job. No Full Frame needed for editorial or advertising work.
Wow!.. This combo looks so ridiculous!
This is soo silly… I hope this come with a built it tripod of or glidecam… Can you imagine using this thing for more than 5 minutes… Silly, Silly, Silly…
Hur Dur, da nex is so compact let me put a huge full frame lens on it, durr so compact I gota nex is my poket wioth my converta and dis cool 20 yar old lans i baught on ebay hurrrr
Does it fit in my pocket??
Ah ok
I have all three of the t1.5 lenses and they are great. I didn’t get the 14mm because the distortion made me stay away.
Makes my D800 look like a point an shoot.
I still don’t understand the commotion behind the FF NEX. I rather stick with my A99 for lenses that large.
Why not do a test on a FF NEX ?
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8237/8512414701_3c2ebd5c6d_k.jpg
Agreed! But the VG900 is not getting a lot of good press.
On another note. NAB is around the corner. I say that Sony is going to upgrade the FS100 and come out with a new full frame video camera. Time will tell.
I meant to say full frame FS video camera.