The just announced Samyang (or Rokinon) 50mm T/1.5 Cine Lens will ship on September 5. And you can now preorder the A and E-mount versions in US:
A-mount 50mm 1.5 at Adorama (Click here) and Bhphoto (Click here).
E-mount 50mm 1.5 at Adorama (Click here) and Bhphoto (Click here).
Note: Covers the Full Frame area!
The eBay dela of the day is that Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 E-mount for $269 at [shoplink 28294 ebay]Adorama eBay page (Click here)[/shoplink].
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this is so efficient!! by the way, does anyone know whether this lens is weather sealing or not?
None of the other Samyang lenses are weather sealed so I doubt this one is either. 🙁
Weather sealing is a somewhat dubious phrase since it doesn’t define what weather it’s actually sealed against.
thanks for the answers. I really hope they still have a basic weather sealed feature, just my little wish 🙁
For that price it darn well better cover the full frame sensor !!!
Agreed, surely the marketing department would not sell a lens based on what they think they could get… as apposed to doing some calculations to determine what it’s worth. HA HA I crack myself up sometimes. Curse you Marketing.
That price has to be a joke. A 50mm lens is one of the easiest to make. This lens had better be amazing to justify that cost. I just bought a Canon FD 50/1.2L for $500 and couldn’t be happier.
you bought a canon lens and dont need the samyang. thanks for sharing the information!
Unless you’re a hard-core video shooter, why would any A-mount user spend $549 on this lens when the slightly-older but still very well-regarded Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX HSM is still available for $399? Even with SLTs and focus-peaking, I’ll take the option of SSM-type auto-focusing any day.
I was never a fan of the bokeh on the old Sigma (or the new one), although I know this can be subjective
But the bokeh samples from the Samyang posted earlier, look very promising so far.
I would always ask the opposite question: why would you buy a fast 50mm that doesn’t have nice bokeh, no matter how sharp it is?
Re “why would you buy a fast 50mm that doesn’t have nice bokeh, no matter how sharp it is?”, fair enough, I understand your interest. However, IMO the answers are (1) a brighter viewfinder for those of us using OVFs, (2) the ability to get an adequate shutter speed when the light is really low, (3) the ability to focus faster and/or more accurately. I guess I don’t regard 50mm as a focal length where bokeh is high on my list of priorities–maybe more in the 85mm to 135mm range.
Does anyone know if the Samyang Cine lenses are designed to focus without breathing?
I always hold my breath when focusing.
they are manual ….
No, they aren’t, but they do okay as far as breathing is concerned.
Hopefully with higher prices build quality of Rokinon/Samyang/Walimex has gone higher too…
I’ve been very disappointed by the 85/1.4 that I could use for some hours – not for IQ but because of an abnormal rough-runnning focus ring – remember, it’s a manual lens, so the focus ring has to go smooth, neither too sluggish/rough nor too easy…
And nowadays I expect correct EXIF data – even for recent manual lenses… and not just nothing…
I have read most of the comments people wrote, and I have noticed many people are complaining about the price. What I don’t understand is the new Sigma 50mm f1.4 cost nearly double of this lens, why is people saying Samyang has priced it too high? Is there really different between these two lens?
the 85mm cost almost half of the asking price for the 50mm and it is also a 1.5. I will wait to see the samples before I complain about the price but from what I know a 50mm is probably the easiest and most common lens to make.
It will be ~$250 soon. All Samyang/Rokinon/Bower/Kenko etc branded lenses do. I don’t get why they flood the market? Why would anyone preorder these?
Some troubles appears along with Apple releasing iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus.
I can’t play HD AVCHD movies on iPhone 6/6 Plus. This is kinda embarrassing.
But soon, I get a solution – Aunsoft Video Converter.