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Kelvin from Venus Optics sent me an interetsing news about their new 60mm Ultra-Macro lens which comes for A-mount too. The lens can be bought already on [shoplink 32302 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
My name is Kevin and I am from Venus Optics, a new Chinese manufacturer of camera lenses. We have just launched the world’s first 60mm f/2.8 2X Ultra-Macro lens with below key features.
– Magnification range from 0.1x to 2x. Easily alter the magnification ratio without installing any extension tube or teleconverter. Ideally suited for rapidly changing macro photography scenarios.
– Wide magnification range also makes it extremely useful for shooting macro objects (e.g. insects) with different sizes.
– Designed also for normal shooting purposes with a 60mm focal length. An all-in-one solution for normal portrait shooting as well as ultra-macro photography.
– Houses with 9 elements in 7 groups patented optical structure to provide great deal of image clarity and color renderness.
– The optical system consists of 2 major moving lenses groups in order to minimize the barrel distortion.
– 14 pieces of aperture blades form a close-to-circular aperture, capable of creating creamy shallow depth of view.
– The enclosure of the lens is made of metal to strengthen its durability.
– A complimentary lens pouch and filter are included in the package.
– Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony Alpha and Pentax K mount are availableKevin
Sales Director
Anhui ChangGeng Optical Technology Company Limited (Venus Optics)
Email: sales@venuslens.net
Web: http://www.venuslens.net/
Image samples and full press text can be seen here:
Anhui China, Sept 14, 2014 – Venus Optics, a new Chinese manufacturer of camera lenses, has unveiled the world’s first 60mm f/2.8 2X Ultra-Macro lens, with focusing range from 18.5mm to infinity.
The new [shoplink 32302 ebay]Venus 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens[/shoplink] features a magnification range from 0.1x to 2x. Users could easily alter the magnification ratio without installing any extension tube or teleconverter, making it ideally suited for rapidly changing macro photography scenarios. This wide magnification range also makes it extremely useful for shooting macro objects (e.g. insects) with different sizes. Moreover, the lens is also designed for normal shooting purposes with a 60mm focal length, which provides an all-in-one solution for normal portrait shooting as well as ultra-macro photography.
The lens houses with 9 elements in 7 groups patented optical structure to provide great deal of image clarity and color renderness. The optical system consists of 2 major moving lenses groups in order to minimize the barrel distortion. 14 pieces of aperture blades form a close-to-circular aperture, capable of creating creamy shallow depth of view. The enclosure of the lens is made of metal to strengthen its durability. A complimentary lens pouch and filter are included in the package. Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony Alpha and Pentax K mount are available.
Sample photos and videos can be found in our English website (http://www.venuslens.net)
Pricing and Availability
Venus 60mm f/2.8 2X Ultra-Macro Lens is currently available at authorized resellers and at the English official website (http://www.venuslens.net). The recommended retail price is at USD 379. Free shipping will be provided during the promotion period.
About Us
Anhui ChangGeng Optical Technology Company Limited (Venus Optics) is a new Chinese camera lens manufacturer based in Hefei, Anhui. We currently manufacture and distribute Macro lenses under the brand name of ‘Venus’.
For more information about Anhui ChangGeng Optical Technology Company Limited and our products information, visit http://www.venuslens.net/
50 Responses
Interesting, but working distance probably wont be that great with a 60mm 2:1 macro
Nice logo ripoff (Infiniti)
Yeah. The total logo ripoff makes the company seem very serious. Not.
Upside down Infiniti lol
Seems to be an APS-C lens, so equivalent 90mm.
I think they always state the FF equivalent even if its an APS-C lens, so its still 60mm Im afraid. 90mm would have been better though. At 2:1 and 60mm, I bet you are mm away from the subject, so have to provide your own light (ringflash, etc).
In fact it is an APS-C lens, and they claim that it is usable with slight vignetting for macro functionality on FF as well.
It is a “real” 60mm lens, so it is 90mm (96mm on Canon) on APS-C. That’s what I meant.
Obscure Chinese manufacturers are doing a better job in releasing A-Mount lenses than Sony. Sony FAIL.
There are macro lenses in a-mount. But don’t let that get in the way.
2x macro?
Looks like a complete scam. Exif for the last pictures shows a 50/1.4 lens being used at 2.0 so it’s not even that lens. No picture of the “product” show any lens elements and the lens is quite obviously made of cheap Chinese plastic. The poor fools buying this from eBay will get an empty barrel.
Reading the press release on their website; WTF is “color rendernesss”? ROFL
I guess it means “precise color rendering”.
(I looked over their Chinese website but it seems this is not a direct translation from the original Chinese press release.)
wtf? who uses a-mount? a-mount is dead. give me e-mount lenses! start with FE 24-105 f4 🙂
f/3.5? 🙂
F/2.8… 😀
FE 24-105 f0.95 i have no use for 🙂 but
FE 24-105 f4 can be really usable lens 🙂
I have a good vintage 28mm to 50mm lens that is 3.5 and good wide open and translated into modern and compact 24 to 105 might be ok but 2.8? that may not even be worth it as it wont be as sharp and well balanced for the size and long range also..f/3.5 as a final enhancement of it is what i mean taking all those factors into consideration 🙂 otherwise keep the f/4 and make it go all the way to 21mm or 135mm etc…21mm to 135mm f/4.5? ‘:I as long as its constant aperture whatever it is i guess 🙂 and a really neat and good image quality for all focal lengths in one lens zoom while not super expensive..hence marginal and esoteric f/3.5 as you could shoot well at that aperture most of the time anyway and it could be refined to that rather than the baggage of perfecting a 2.8 aperture lens with all the weight compromise and cost for small benefit…I have an f/2.8 vintage zoom at a unique and very useful range but it is very heavy!
Wall of letters as usually.
Positive discrimination and falsehood proven by reiteration: as ever
a contradiction is moot you know trolls, you are losing ALL conTROLL XD
It’s extremely hard to read a stream of consciousness post like that one, especially with the lack of punctuation. You might want to slow it down a little if you want to get your point across.
You might want to leave your profile open so i know who you even are to criticize stuff you JUST don’t understand or have any knowledge of whatsoever XD
A hipster i presume ‘:I
Ok sorry, basically i suggest this idea, and like YOU the trolls like to post it like it is in fact your idea, basically for all the actual facts regards photography that you ever post that are in any way meaningful or interesting, because you know i am the master photographer XD I JUST fill in the details…and the ..bits…i ..left …out..like those that suggest an even more ideal lens than the one mentioned, you know, the stuff that requires some kind of photography understanding IN ACTION
Nevermind, I just looked and your posting history. There’s clearly no point in trying to have an adult conversation with you.
Your f/3.5 vintage lenses is a 28-50mm that ‘translates’ into 24-105mm? If you can ask for f/3.5 why can’t I ask for f/2.8 then? Or heck even f/0.95! 🙂
I agree. It should have been an E mount lens.
Why? If this is an A-mount lens means it is also being made for other SLR cameras, not mirrorless. Anyways, you can adapt it, no issues there.
what about focus stacking? none? 🙁
How does altering the magnification differ from zooming? Honest question.
I would think that they both do allmost the same thing… Change field of view.
To Magnus W:
Exif data can be incorrect because of light room (or camera or hosting site). When I look at my exif data on flickr on a photo taken with sigma 18-50mm f2.8, flickr tells me that the photo is taken with some sony lens (don’t remember wich one). So this might be an actual product… I hope. Because changeable magnification is interesting.
@bibis There is no difference, except you can’t zoom beyond 1:1 on a macro because that is the maximum zoom. Beyond that you lose focus. This lens stays in focus up to twice the magnification, which is good… although we would need to know how close to the subject you would have to be (you may for example be so close that there is no light, or you end up squashing the bug!). I find a 90mm+ the best for macro because you are further away from the subject at 1:1, and you can therefore get more natural light on the subject.
Okay. So this is basically a zoom lens but it’s 60 mm all the time. What remains a mystery is what range of field of views this covers. If we know that we can calculate approximately what range of focal lenghts this lens equals to. Right?
I thought… Well Chinese should not be taken slightly. But after reading the comments below, they still have a lot to learn. Oh dear.
Does it come with side airbags ? 🙂 Just kidding. But the snagged their logo is the same as Infinity cars.
Interesting lens. And use of English: “great deal of image clarity and color renderness”. 🙂
Kevin forgot to mention one thing – does it cover FF?
I was just looking for a macro lens. Does it covers the Fullframe circle?
Thanks China, but I’ll stick to my Canon 100mm Is macro, it’s lovely.
^ is a girl
Yes he is, and so is my wife!
Anybody notice the flare pattern in the frog sample photo (on fleabay)?? That was not shot with a lens with 14 aperture blades!
That’s the variable apperture blade invocation feature… goes from 1 to 14. Next feature will be rotating blades which will create perfectly circle flares.
They are still working out the bugs on that …
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/jamesbond/images/3/33/Goldfinger-oddjob-throws-hat-auric-sean-connery-bond.jpg
By what you are implying there is a really good chance that you have not an honest clue of what you are talking about. All of what you seem to know is that of which you have been told… and that is not intelligence, only text book or forum knowledge, which is pretty much only another way of expressing stupidity.
Admin, I will asume that you’ve never heard about Canon 65mm mp-e, since you started photography last year with the start of the e mount. BTW it is the world first 5:1 ratio 🙂
The 65mm MP-E is an awesome lens but it lacks infinity focus.
Yeah because good macro lenses are meant to shoot star trails.
And what do telescopes do? Telescopes are lenses that are arranged to take macro shots of celestial objects, and the telescopes do focus to infinity. Also, macro lenses of the right focal length are often used in portrait and product photography, so this lens and it’s attributes are indeed welcome to the the one or the few that know how to use it.
2:1 Magnification Lens with INFINITI Focus
HULK see…Chinese CPR for A-mount…