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Last year we reported that Samyang will make autoficus lenses for the E-mount system. Well, within the next couple fo days Samyang will officially launch the new logo you see here on top. And they will also announce the development of their first autofocus lenses! Great news for all E and A-mount camera owners because Samyang is well-known for their high optical quality and relatively low priced lenses.
P.S.: Currently Samyang sells their lenses under different brands. Don’t know if they will get rid of that confusing strategy. Here are the brands linked to ebay lens search results:
[shoplink 5759 ebay]Samyang[/shoplink]
[shoplink 5755 ebay]Walimex[/shoplink]
[shoplink 5756 ebay]Rokinon[/shoplink]
[shoplink 5757 ebay]Opteka[/shoplink]
[shoplink 5758 ebay]Falcon[/shoplink]
[shoplink 5760 ebay]Vivitar[/shoplink]
[shoplink 5761 ebay]Bower[/shoplink]
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They bought Vivitar? Wow…
I din’t know whether they did, but they re-brand under names of other companies. These companies may well be completely independent still.
No, I don’t think that Samyang bought Vivitar. Instead, I’d say that Vivitar asked Samyang to put the name Vivitar on a batch of their lenses.
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Just like most chineese companies, it looks like aside from having its own brand name, Samyang is also acting as an OEM for other companies, allowing them to put their company logos as well as perform minor outer design changes.
Well, I wouldn’t expect too much since it’s first gen. stuff.
I’d prefer compact manual mirrorless lenses with good optics. Electronics stuff breaks easier, is more expensive, usually more compromised and Samyang doesn’t have any experience whatsoever.
Also, the AF will be guaranteed to be slow as Samyang will most likely not have figured out the protocols for hybrid PDAF AF.
First gen Minolta AF lenses were excellent in the 80s. why shouldn’t that be possible now.
Tele primes please, because no one else seems to be jumping into that E-mount gap.
…then we need OSS in their lenses also.
How small do you think they’ll be compared to dslr models? If they’re going to make the lenses much shorter (I.e. very telephoto), the quality is going to drop a lot.
But if Sony itself makes them, at least the AF will be better without needing to resort to SLT adapters.
Duh. They can make them COLLAPSIBLE. Typical 75-300 has so much air in it, so you can squeeze it into size of 18-55 albeit with more weight.
Also the size surely will go down as lens designers learn news tricks needed to make it smaller. Noone believed 4x zoom for 1″ sensor can easily fit in pocket before RX100 came.
LOL in that case then the real issue is not the lack of E mount telephotos, it’s the lack of collapsible telephotos even for DSLRs. Even then the barrels are going to be fairly wide, complex and fragile compared to fixed ones… making them heavier.
The original point I made still remains, with long lenses, there’s hardly anything to gain at all by making them specifically for E mount. Have a look at where the rear-most element of a long DSLR tele prime is relative to the sensor… if they could make the overall lens size smaller by bringing it closer to the sensor, they would have done that already for DSLRs too.
I’m not wildly optimistic, to be honest… They’ve made some great lenses (35mm and 85mm are great) but qc can be pretty shocking, especially on the 24mm. There’s a lot more to screw up with af lenses, especially if they’re reverse engineering for the a-mount.
Please launch the 24mm f/1.4 and 35mm f/1.4 FF and AF for E-mount 😉
Well I’m blissful to read this !! I have a 85/1.4 on loan and it’s shockingly good !! Since Sony still doesn’t seem to develop any more E lenses, and since, against all odds, I’m still sticking with E cameras because no other makers do something I like more (retro controls, yikes, not for me), I’m glad to see *any* manufacturer possibly coming up with more native E mount choice
“Since Sony still doesn’t seem to develop any more E lenses”.
Eh?
“retro controls, yikes, not for me”
Weren’t you considering the X-T1?
It’ll probably go 1 of 2 ways. Either they’ll develop a-mount versions, then adapt the design to e-mount (like they do now) or they’ll design e-mount lenses from the ground up (as it’s open and they don’t have to reverse engineer). My money’s on the 1st approach…
The retarded still continue calling e-mount open.
Sony did release the mount specifications and lens protocols, so the E-mount certainly is an open standard. Nothing retarded about that.
Have they?? Eh, send me a copy!
The very fact you ignored my comment below (about VCC, GND) suggests you are.
E-mount is open? Ok, tell me, which pins are GND, VCC, data in, data out?
Dont know anything about the mount specs, however this is what the sony pages says about the matter:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201102/11-018E/
The Samyang 85 is a full frame lens.
See http://www.dpreview.com/products/rokinon/lenses/rokinon_85_1p4/overview (the cine E mount is the same lens as the A mount it just has a smooth aperture change).
It is an FE mount lens, not aspc E mount. I think this is one reason the lens is as heavy as it is.
That’s actually one more reason to buy it because if you eventually buy a full frame Sony it will be fully usable.
It is a FF lens, but you cannot tell it from its size.
Both 85/1.4 for FF and APSC have small FOV. With small FOV, lens size is unaffected by image size – physical aperture is the same. Even 50/1.8 made for APS-C and FF have barely differing sizes.
It seems like they have only been developing e-mount lenses lately. There certainly has not been a slew of a-mount releases.
Good news! In worst case we have more choice, in best case a couple of good and affordable lenses. The 85mm with reasonable good AF please…
yeah, but their E-mount lenses will probably just be A-mount lenses with an extra metal tube attached..
Not necessarily. They do build E-mount lenses where the rear element is really close to the sensor.
Actually Cosina is producing the optics for all those brands, I’m inclined to think that the the whole lens series is produced by Cosina.
This is a great news throw, Cosina is producing very good optics for the money they sell, the AF option is a nice addition.
Are you sure it’s Cosina that’s making optics for Samyang?
I thought Cosina is the Japanese company who’s making optics for Zeiss and Voigtlander, while Samyang is a Korean company who makes its own optics under its own brand, while rebranding it as Walimex, Rokinon, Opteka, Falcon, Vivitar and Bower?
I think you’re right. Cosina work for Zeiss (the Zeiss lenses made for Canon and Nikon are made in Japan by Cosina)and also produce optic for Sony and I think Nikon too. Voigtlander is own by Cosina, It’s their public selling brand.
Samyang made their own optics.
Good news for all of us.
Sounds greta. 85 mm f.1,4 and 14 mm f.2,8 is on my wish list
More choice is almost always good.
I would like their 300mm mirror made for the FF E mount- the APS-C version is brilliant while being compact.
Also, I would like an E mount 14mm lens.
There is an mount 14mm. It is just the retro focus SLR version with a tube attached. Native mount AF lens are exciting but I want assurances that they won’t be SLR designs. If that’s the case I think I’d rather use an LAE4 and some old Minolta lenses.
Already own one (14/2.8 and it is spectacular on the A7R) and am using it with an adapter. I don’t care for AF but would like a new design specifically made for the E mount which will hopefully be a bit smaller.
When will the A79 news come ?
@Admin: Please we are all waiting for A79 news.
Will it come in spring with SLT or is it delayed to Photokina, without?
Is there any FW upgrade for A99 in sight? How about SAL400F4 ? Will it be delayed?
And the 24-105mm f4?
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Samyang seems to be a fan of the Sony branding strategy: Confusion.
Not one comment about the terrible new logo? It looks like a terrible 70’s/80’s mash-up. They need to get all the marketing people into one building and figure their stuff out. I have a Rokinon lens and I really like it. I’ve owned Vivitar and Opteka gear when I was just starting out that was so bad I literally threw it in the trash. Rokin/Bower/Samyang should just become Rokinon (or whatever brand has the best appeal) and do their own thing with lenses. I hope their AF lenses do well.
Your comment implies that they actually have somebody working on the marketing?
What could be better for brand recognition than selling the same thing under five different names?
And then you remember that your E-mount body doesn’t have in-body stabilization…
What kind of company brands their lenses in so many different names … Vivitar, Falcon, Rokinon, Walimex, Bower, Opteka, Polar and Pro-Optic … and that’s all we know of …
I know Korean companies, as well as Chinese and Taiwanese companies love to play OEM all the time, but in the optics game, it might pay to build a name for yourself.
I hope their new logo spells Samyang like AC/DC. Maybe with a really over exaggerated Y and a lightning bolt at the end. Real hardcore and in your face.
After they AF it, the price maybe very high. No point, back to square one that people will buy sony, canon or nikon instead for one or two hundred more.