ePhotozine posted a full set of pictures with four(!) E-mount lenses. These are made for APS-C cameras:
24mm f/1.7:
Minimum focus distance of 15cm. 9 elements in 8 groups and uses ED lenses in order to minimise chromatic aberrations. It weights just 246g. Price $289.
35mm f/0.95
This is a relaunch of the already known [shoplink 14656 ebay]Mitakon 35mm 0.95 (here on eBay).[/shoplink] The lens features 10 elements in 7 groups, with 10 blades and 30cm min focus. It will be available for 799 USD.
42,5mm f/1.2
7 elements in 9 groups. Price $349.
50mm f/0.95
It will be available for 899 USD.
Pictures at ePhotozine
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24 f1.7 a dream come true for astro and aurora photography?!?
Oh dear, just C lenses. :-/
@Admin
How is the progress on the A-Mount front?
More like a nightmare at a blurry vignetted F1.7.
Why is E-Mount suddenly getting all of the fastest lenses?
Isn’t A-Mount supposed to be Sony’s professional system?
None of A-Mount glass goes wider than f/1.4!
*sigh*
Come on, this isn’t even funny anymore.
Need a prime shorter than 20mm and faster than f2.0 for A-Mount
What is the application of such a lens?
Landscape at night without trailing stars?
Auroras and astro maybe?
Shooting landscapes with aperture wide open? Ha ha ha ha, how stupid is that.
Not with auroras!
FF or crop?
FF A-Mount
E mount has samyang 12 f2
What full-frame system has that? Only Leica (and arguably E-mount) with the CV 21mm f/1.8 comes close.
I remember when Betamax was the system of choice. Eventually VHS took over. Live with it, move on.
I’m not sure if stupid or just trolling…
It’s not that A-Mount users couldn’t accept a new standard.
E-Mount so far has been inferior in every respect but size.
All E-mount lenes are more elegant and higher quality.
And f/4. And mirrorless AF. And ergonomics. And everything else listed on this board like 100500 times.
In what world is the 24-70/4 higher quality than the 24-70/2.8 ?
“42,5mm f/1.2
7 elements in 9 groups.”
So essentially Zhongyi did a “divide by zero” optical formula?
the biggest breakthrough in optics, physics and mathematics. Hey give Zhongyi a cookie 🙂
Some groups are empty.
These might be good choices for APS-C shooters. The prices and the specs are not bad at all.
Even K-Mount gets a lens roadmap!!!
http://www.dailycameranews.com/2014/09/ricoh-pentax-k-mount-lens-roadmap-2014-2015/
So what now trolls, who claim that Sony’s DSLR share was too low to develop A-Mount?
It’s cetrainly higher than Pentax!
Apart from updating certain lenses with SSM, what exactly is needed in A-mount? I’m asking because I really don’t know.
8mm fisheye, 14mm, 17-40 f/4, 24-105 f/4, 70-200 f/4, 28-300, longer than 400mm zoom, new 35mm, 85mm SSM, 135mm SSM, 400mm f/4, long macro, tilt-shift lenses, any f/1.2 lenses.
Decent mid-level lenses – not everybody can buy super-expensive Zeiss.
Almost all Sony lenses lack weather-resistance.
I’ll bookmark this comment… this has been written on this board numerous times, and every time a new guy pops up and asks the same thing.
E-mount has all you need. A mount is dead.
And trusted source continues to be brain dead, sign a DNR so you can be taken off life support troll.
Struggling to find a 24-70/2.8 in the road map.
Most if not all of those lenses are available from third party in all the major mounts including A. So what’s the problem?
Read what Earl wrote about a vibrant system.
Earl is an idiot and you are an enabler, you both need to get a life.
They’re often a bit compromised. I love my Sigma 35/1.4 but I’d love it more with ssm and weather sealing.
Ah, that’s why I don’t know about them :). Apart from 14mm, SSM updates and tilt shift lenses, I wouldn’t be interested in any of these.
decent quality, fast 35mm; updating 85 & 135 to apochromatic design; weather sealing of all high end lenses
A decent 35/1.4, some lighter weight and affordable f4 zooms, a modern IF macro, a UWA prime… And port the a7x sensor to a-mount.
a new camera to attach them.
45mm tilt shift.
I love tilt shift lenses and need a couple for my job too (17 mm and 24 mm for architecture and 120 mm for product shots) but I never justified the 45 mm focal length. What would be your purpose?
Also, right now the best TS lenses are in the Canon lineup and the best camera to use them is A7R. IMHO the only thing better would be the A99 for various reasons but we can’t adapt Canon lenses to A99.
So, I agree that Sony needs a selection of tilt shift lenses. That would steal masses from Canon and Nikon.
45mm tilt shift
Are these manual focus lenses?
There is a strong lens flare when using Mitakon’s Dark Kitten edition 50mm f/.95 manual prime lens. Is this a good thing or bad? I think it looks so cool for video and artistic enough for photo
http://youtu.be/glCS7eMNwjk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glCS7eMNwjk&feature=youtu.be