Samyang/Rokinon announced on facebook that they will launch a new lens in January. Easy to guess from their teaser that it’s likely to be a new 135mm lens 🙂
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found via Photorumors.
Samyang/Rokinon announced on facebook that they will launch a new lens in January. Easy to guess from their teaser that it’s likely to be a new 135mm lens 🙂
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found via Photorumors.
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Easy t guess that they won’t make it with any kind of Sony mount…
Samyang does offer most of their lenses for A-Mount and/or E-Mount.
And even if not, it should not be a big deal at least for E-Mount users, since those lenses are all fully manual anyway and an adapter (be it for Canon, Nikon or Pentax) would easily be found. Then again, being manual is what really makes most of those lenses less attractive for me. Especially in the telephoto range, I’d like to have AF.
Samyang fisheye is indispensable for A mounters. Never underestimate the power of the FISH!
Easy and uninformed.
What Samyang lenses are not available in either A or E mount?
Idiot_lol
I sure hope it’s at least a f2!!! Though it is likely to be f2.8. Hope I’m wrong.
If it’s F2 the price will likely be $1200, F2.8 $400.
No. Have you seen the price of the Canon 135mm f/2? A rokinon 135mm f/2 will be $499.
Err what? Oh because an 85mm f1.4 is $2000 the Samyang must be the same?
you don’t need f/2 at focal lengths >100, you’ll end up with one eye in and one out of focus, it looks silly using f/2 on a 135, 2.8 is about as wide as you need on a full frame camera at these longer focal lengths. < f/2 for <50mm
This has no basis in reality.
Look photography isn’t an exact science. Many people like HDRs and many hate it.
Similarly for 135mm lenses I have seen many shots that I love taken wide open with the Zeiss 135mm f1.8.
If you don’t need that aperture then thats cool too. But assuming no one does is wrong.
It is somewhat exacting, best performing 135mm with most contrast and gaussian bokeh at widest useful aperture for least use of ISO boosting of the authentic information hitting sensor from subject for realism and true to life dimensionality, acuity and authentic colours with the differential of cost/availability and lens size and automatic functions where required? Preference of how bokeh is rendered till gaussian were actually possible is subjective and i dislike the neutral bokeh common to most contrasty modern glass though for instance: Zeiss and smoothness often associated with the ‘sonnar’ designation forgoing whatever in each case that actually means objectively of course pleases me generally enough to get ultimate sharpness if i could afford it 🙂 Add smooth manual controls or ability to use manual control for both focus and the woefully disregarded manual aperture control and you have a lot to balance objectively for best choice! I would like a lockable/unlockable absolute focus stop at infinity preferably for convenience as well as accuracy 😉 and of course weather sealing in compact form factor XD thanks Zeiss!
Something to watch out for, APO has various meanings and only some APO designated lenses have all or some of these meanings regards their designation as APO.
It could also be a 157mm f 1.3, or a 359mm f 3.7 😉
Great, now can we have some ultra wide primes please?
Daaaa
Ultra Wide:
Let’s not forget the new 10mm FF fisheye, 12mm UWA f2 crop and the myriad of other fisheyes they do for crop (mirrorless and DSLR). Something longer than 85mm is definitely welcome.
I hope it is f2 . I wonder how close gonna be to Zeiss 135 f2 .
To be honest. Samyang don´t exite me any more. From now on its Leica for my A7. Used leica lenses is not that expensive
Are you going for Leica M or Leica R lenses. I have one Leica R now. A 28mm 2.8 and I like the build and of course the optical quality is very good. I am thinking of buying some more Leica lenses, but I am unsure if I should be looking for the more epensive M lenses or just buy the R versions and save some money. I consider them a long term investment and would like to be able to use them well into the future. As I already have A7II, A7R & S bodies, I do not think that I will be purchasing a Leica body in the future, so that is not an issue. I would like to hear from any users out there that can give any advice as to quality, usability & comparability Etc. Between the 2 different mounts.
Im going for the M lenses. Thats because those lenses, are far better when it comes to optical quality
Not unexpected at 3-4 times the price.
I have many ‘M’ lenses, but on the A7 I suspect that some of the wide angle lenses are best ‘R’. I can highly recommend the Leica M 90mm APO Aspheric.
some of the R and M lenses are identical when it comes to IQ (cron 50 comes to my mind)
I like M mount as well, but I bought the Rokinon 85/1.4 and I am very pleased with it for the price (it performs well above what it costs).
TBH…35mm doesn’t excite me anymore. I’m not even sure Medium Format does it either. I want full tilt, shift control. I want 8×10 digital large format, but carry around size. I’d even take a wonderlust travel version if someone at kickstarter would make it- digital of course.
Possible focal lengths
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Of those only 135mm is listed on B&H list of prime lenses for DSLRs.
Apertures are f/1.8, f/2 (most popular) and f/2.8. So a 135mm f/2 seems very possible although they do like to do fast lenses so f/1.8 is not impossible.
Hope for better flare control than the 85mm.
175mm f.95
175mm T.095 Still gonna return it to B&H
wow, 753 mm lens is coming 😉
Bought time.
Probably is a 135mm, but just maybe… it might be a 105mm macro?? Anything else than those two I’d regard as only a very slim possibility.
It’s three digits and they are all odd. See the problem with one of those options?
Zero is one of the oddest numbers out there. Just ask any mathematician. Damned nuisance, really.
Zero might have it’s quirks, but before the Indians invented it, mathematics was in a real mess.
I can personally recommend this book on the subject.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zero-Biography-Dangerous-Charles-Seife/dp/0285635948/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420154729&sr=1-1&keywords=zero
Oops…. my bad! Forgot about that they also said they’re all odd, of course it can’t be a 105mm. Must be a 135mm then.
admin, can you please make the ad with Carrot Top go away? what ever they are paying you, ill double it.
Some of the ads here that redirect you to another page without you hitting any buttons are onerous to say the least
my favorite are the talky ads.
Adblock is your friend
youre right but i dont use it…i dont generally have a problem with ads except for ads with audio and the carrot top one..he wont stop looking at me and hes far from easy on the eyes .. sometimes ad here can be neat gear related stuff and i imagine the help admin pay the bills so i just ignore them if they dont interest me.
Still there. Whenever I look over his stupid grin is staring at me. Doesn’t matter what computer at home or at work. It’s like he’s staring at all the comments from the outside, like a Canon shooter.
ha. so im not the only one!
No “x” to get rid of it either. Some ads on here let you get rid of them and then ask why. For this one, I’d pick “offensive.” It’s worse than pooorn.
i know..whats up with the embedded carrot top??? http://imgur.com/mdvxtCb
what’s wrong with people – why aren’t you using ABP or one of the myriad of other adblockers???
I guess I don’t mind the ads. I’ll even click on ads from time to time if it’s interesting. These sites make their money off of the ads so that we can get the content free. When I don’t want to click an ad, I don’t. Pretty easy.
For a long while there were these auto play ads that ran in the background on a browser, but on my mobile device they would pop up full screen literally every ten seconds. And no ad blocker is available. I actually tried a few times to click on the ad to see what it was about, what this thing that was SO annoying was all about, on my device and on a computer and neither ‘did’ anything and I’m sure admin never got any revenue for me trying. So it was annoying as heck and never did anything for anyone! My bet is the majority of revenue comes from sponsored links on this site (like many others) which are far more useful and less annoying to the target demographic. But it’s admins site and they can do what they want, but don’t think there is anything wrong with some user feedback. I find a lot of the ads quite distasteful, not because of the ads as such, but they are the same ‘type’ of ad I would find on a less ‘classy’ website.
I wish they would make a lens like the minolta/sony 135mm STF for about half the price.
Classic manual focus lenses can have softer rendering than the clinical modern ones: or at least less neutral, as in flat even lit to edge bokeh, with more spherical aberration fuzzy edging instead, and finding a good one with a reasonable price can mean contrasty and sharp too stopped down a little. I am a sucker for rounder aperture too and actually i don’t mind a bit of bokeh outlining on a fast lens so long as when i stop it down a bit it crimps it off leaving a cotton wool soft interior and doesn’t fold over into a sharply defined splat! XD Here you would be shooting at a narrower aperture too so not as shallow depth of field looking as the STF sadly unless it was really fast. Contrast contributes to the dimensional effect i think too, and the STF has longitudinal chromatic aberrations where the Zeiss 135mm f/2 APO does not whereas it is super sharp and contrasty but expensive, meaning not one good thing comes without some compromise on balance. Not cheap but there is also Nikon 105mm f/2 DC
This lens has ‘Defocus Control’ that allows you to change the amount of spherical aberration and thus for instance make the background quite blurry like the STF. I remember looking at example shots and seeing it had reasonable image quality as well as good blurring. Sadly it seems the process by which STF produces such effect requires all that complex and specific arrangement to work effectively and wouldn’t be found in more common lenses. Fujifilm 56mm F1.2 uses an apodization filter and apparently costs $500 more than the version without.
Medium format lenses tend to render out of focus well as you can see by looking at Medium format images that appear shallow depth of field but are taken at apertures of higher than f/2 on the medium format glass! I cant wait for Medium format digital from Sony to reproduce these desirable effects without ever faster glass with the corresponding aberration problems on 35mm cameras.
I wish they’d do a STF 135mm OTUS with AF. I’d sell everything I own for that.
Can anyone recommend a good flash for the A7? I need multiples, so cost is a factor. Doing more work outside, the strobes aren’t cutting it. Just sold my old minolta hotshoe Nissin flash.
Nissin i40. I wrote a short summary of it:
http://www.ejphoto.com/Quack%20PDF/Nissin%20i40%20Compact%20Flash%20For%20Sony%20Reviewx.pdf
I much prefer the fuji ef-x20 flash on mine, it’s tiny and has a nice manual dial on the top, you can also use it in slave mode and it’s cheaper that the i40 which looks pretty cheap and crappy on the A7
I’ll take function over looks anyday 😉
The Fuji EF-X20 flash has got no TTL, no bounce in either direction and its underpowered.
Basically one of the worst flashes you can get for an A7 IMO.
Cool, thanks. Didn’t know about that one.
What kind of work? 🙂
Outdoor portraits.
I know you’ve said “no strobes”, but what about PCB’s E640 ($500) + Vagabond Mini ($240) + CyberSync trigger ($60) + 1-5 stops B+W Vario ND filter (~$250 depends on size)? Everything fits into Sony LCSBP3 bag (even with the bigger Vagabond Extreme). You’ll get a powerful system capable to use any size light modifiers with fast recycle time for ~$1k. PCB’s PLMs are quite cheap and great quality (the smallest 51″ silver soft + diffuser is great for outdoors, for the bigger ones you’ll need a sandbag for your light stand probably) or Westcott 2016 is also an awesome universal solution.
I’ll have to check that out online when I get home. That sounds really good. Size was a factor but I don’t mind a small pack.
My other setup is 3x F60M + F43M as a trigger, works only with a translucent umbrella only since the F60Ms need to “see” the control flash when I stay behind the umbrella (usually). Much more expensive and less powerful setup IMO (but offers TTL and HSS). Still want to try the new Mitros+, but again, 3x Mitros+ and either Odin or another Mitros+ will be more expensive than the E640 kit, but at least with real radio triggering unlike Sony 🙂
I just want to know many copies it will take to find one without significant decentering. Took three for my 35mm f1.4 Rokinon. But the 35mm Sigma Art was a home run on the first try. Makes me think.
Nice!
Had been hoping for ages that Sigma or Samyang would release a fast 135mm, until I got an incredible deal on a ZA 135mm… never replacing this lens.
It’s the main reason I shoot Sony- period. Once that lens is replaced in FE mount- assuming they do this- I can’t say. Then again, the 50mm is another stellar performer. Sad really. I have no lack of want with the A mount Zeiss lenses. Just need some Sony support over here.
357 Magnum edition! 🙂