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[shoplink 21147 ebay]The Full Frame 85mm T1.5 Cine Lens for NEX[/shoplink]
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If you are considering to buy the soon to be announced NEX-FF cameras you will certainly look for compatible lenses. And you may don’t knwo that there are alreayd four E-mount FF lenses from Samyang (also branded under other names). These are Cine-Lenses with manual focusing. But there is an “problem” and one “qestion”. These lenses are very big and we also have to see if they are good enough for a high resolution FF sensor. Anyway, here are the links to the lenses (Click on them to see price):
14mm T3.1 Cine Lens for Sony E sold as [shoplink 21135 ebay]Samyang (eBay)[/shoplink], [shoplink 21136 ebay]Rokinon (eBay)[/shoplink], [shoplink 21137 ebay]Bower (eBay)[/shoplink].
24mm T1.5 Cine Lens for Sony E sold as [shoplink 21138 ebay]Samyang (eBay)[/shoplink], [shoplink 21141 ebay]Rokinon (eBay)[/shoplink], [shoplink 21142 ebay]Bower (eBay)[/shoplink].
35mm T1.5 Cine Lens for Sony E sold as [shoplink 21143 ebay]Samyang (eBay)[/shoplink], [shoplink 21144 ebay]Rokinon (eBay)[/shoplink], [shoplink 21145 ebay]Bower (eBay)[/shoplink].
85mm T1.5 Cine Lens for Sony E sold as [shoplink 21147 ebay]Samyang (eBay)[/shoplink], [shoplink 21146 ebay]Rokinon (eBay)[/shoplink], [shoplink 21148 ebay]Bower (eBay)[/shoplink].
It would be nice if NEX-VG900 owners could tell us more about the photoquality of the lenses!
A message for Samyang: If they would keep this specs to make a dedicated more compact (and non cine) lens for the NEX-FF system it would be a hotseller!
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I cannot tell fo others but I am not bying NEW lenses without AF…
With indecision, the best decision is no decision. Will wait until rumor becomes fact. And, the size / quality of the lenses relative to the NEX FF body is reviewed. Vigilance and prudence.
all of these lenses are top optical quality. would very much recommended them.
the 85 and 35 are amongst the best lenses in the market, paired up with Zeiss glass at much lower price.
Full frame NEX-VG900 with the 35mm and 85mm versions:
“Some more video of ladies smoking once again filmed with the Sony NEX-VG900 camera. This time I used two new lenses, the Rokinon 35mm and 85mm T1.5 Cine Lenses. I have to say I love these lenses, so much so that I ended up selling some of my other lenses. They are a bargain for the quality they provide, and I love having an aperture control ring right on the lens.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNH0YqYVgYw
You may think i m a bad guy, but did the film director choose the “actresses” by chance or he needed to cast them from amateur models agency? Indeed i did not see any of “average” girls on this video?
Moreover the text at the beginning looked like it would be more naughty :p 😉
By the way to talk about the main topic, i really like the quality of image :D. thanks for the sample video
i would end with:
It looks like a video of “smoking hot girls” fetish :p
The first one is better IMHO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAbwAgtSerc
It’s disgusting.
You’re right.
Selling lenses for a camera whose the specs are not known and which is not released yet is not serious from manufacturers
Does nobody know the statement like “il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué” or “mettre la charrue avant les boeufs” ?
these are cine lenses are out for quite a while for the already released E-mount Full-Frame FS700 camcorder. Making comments about things they don’t know is not serious from these commenters 😉
You caught me!!!
I ‘m out
Yeah, the image quality is great. Not sure how these will balance on a rangefinder body. I’m sure they’re great on the VG900. They are basically the SLR version with a built in adapter.
They are not SLR lenses with an adapter,they are full frame E mount cine lenses.
http://static.bhphoto.com/images/images1000x1000/970417.jpg
24mm F1.4 Rokinon with Sony LA-EA3 A to E mount adapter on the NEX-VG900 :
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8237/8512414701_3c2ebd5c6d_k.jpg
Joel is right. He said “Basically the SLR version with a built in adapter.” He didn’t say it’s exactly an SLR lens with an adapter, but just very much like it. That’s true.
I think it’s more economical to buy a Canon or Nikon (or even A-mount) version and adapt it to E-mount. More flexibility.
Too bulky.
Better to go with the (old) LA-E1 adapter and A-mount glass??
or even buy fully mechanical adaptor – samyang hasn’t autofocus or iris connectors, so la-ea1 only for this is pointless.
I don’t think the baffles in the LA-EA1 allow for full frame coverage – That’s why they released the LA-EA3 with the VG900
I have the 24mm f1.4 (same optics as the T1.5) and its a great lens. Sharp wide open even on APS-C, and it seems to be about equal to Canon’s 24L (though the Samyang has worse distortion, it controls coma much better). It makes a great 36mm lens on APS-C for blurring backgrounds a bit, and it’s even better on FF. I still have to get used to how wide it is but I plan on using it with a maxxum 700 (I have a PM screen). The size is between their 35 and 85, so overall pretty great. At around $440 for A mount it’s a great purchase
Wrong image in the post, looks like some DSLR-mount version, the NEX-version is longer:
http://www.hireacamera.com/cameras/detail.asp?model=928
Of course it’s wrong. E-mount is like dslr-lens WITH built-in adapter.
I have the Rokinon 85mm T1.5 Cine Lens with A99.
This objective is of very high quality. ESPECIALLY FOR VIDEO.
This is the best value out there for a cine objective report.
A bestseller !
Andrea how the heck to you make a 85mm t1.5 (f1.2 probably) smaller?
They are f1.4 in the non-cine version.
These lenses seem affordable, and if the NEX FF does have the sensor movement autofocus, it won’t matter too much if they don’t have autofocus (I wouldn’t care either anyway if the lens quality is good and if I can afford the lens). Like said previously, better wait for the actual camera to be out before buying a bunch of FF lenses!
Why mention cine lenses? I prefer the 85mm F1.4 Samyang lens. I’m sure it will be sharp enough for whichever pixel count the FF sensor will have. I am currently using it with MFT @ 16 MP, so it is easily shar enough for FF @ 30 MP.
Here is my VG900 with PK mount 85mm F1.4 Rokinon w/PK-NEX adapter:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8489/8159590765_803d943a74_k.jpg
They are the same lens optically. I think they only make the cine version in straight E-Mount (a lot of ppl on here whine about having to use adapters – this one is built in).
lol – no AF … only ok for video … good starting point for NEX FF
it sounds like the FF NEX will have a sensor that moves forward and backward to autofocus, instead of the lens.
i would like to believe this but i don’t see it happening with nex.
Also i would the lens also need to be at infinity. if so they you need to make something to keep the focus ring locked at infinity.
Piece of duct tape! 😀
slide lock like on the aperture ring of many many lenses.
I already have lenses for the NEX-FF. There is a reason why I’ve kept my LeicaM-to-E and NikonF-to-E adapters, even if I’ve sold the NEX bodies I’ve had. If I’m to manual focus anyway, I’d rather go this route.
“If they would keep this specs to make a dedicated more compact (and non cine) lens for the NEX-FF system it would be a hotseller!”
Small or fast lens, you can’t have both. Especially for FF sensor.
Sonnar 50/1.5 is small. Various M-mount 40/1.4 and 35/1.4 are small too.
50mm can be small because it’s close to flange distance of most DSLR mounts.
M mount is a whole another story: short flange distance, MF and requires offset microlenses in sensor.
Samyang makes lenses for multiple mounts which means they won’t be optimized for any of them size wise.
Can anyone give a hint to a newbie? Why would you need other lenses for FF at all? What would happen if I used the SEL50 1.8 on an FF camera? Is it a quality issue only or are lenses made for APS-C simply not usable on an FF camera for physical/optical reasons?
Seriously… I just have no clue…
50mm F1.8 is an APS-C lens. On FF body it would work in crop mode, i.e. cover only central APS-C sized part of the sensor. The rest would be unused, so you’d give a lot more money than for APS-C camera for nothing.
Your photos would look like a black rectangle with a circle in the middle, with the image inside.
On the full frame NEX-VG900 there is an APS-C mode so you could use current APS-C NEX lenses.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8260/8665471357_d3c9644f38_k.jpg