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I finally have a good news to report for “Old” Four Thirds users too! You just got a new lens from Samyang! The enw 50mm f/1.4 lens comes for both MicroFourThirds and FourThirds mounts! No official info on pricing yet but price should be around $549 just like the Cine version (Click here).
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It’s about the only focal length they haven’t covered yet 😉
Primes ? sure, hopefully they start doing affordable but good quality zooms now
Exactly the focal length & aperture of lens I waiting for but it’s under Samyang .
I really doubt if such brand can deliver .
Why not from Zuiko or PanaLeica ???
Let’s wait & see from Lenstip .
1st: Whatever old preconceived notion you have of Samyang/rokinon from pre-mirrorless days, through them out the window. Their lenses from (at least for m43) the past couple of years have been quite good. Case in point, the samyang/rokinon 7.5 mm
2nd: WTH are you talking about, both Olympus and Panasonic feature 45mm AF lenses, do you REALLY need those extra 5mm ? Did you ignore this or were you intentionally waiting for a 3rd party alternative ? it’s not like the Oly 45 is an expensive lens.
I think she wants a 50mm because she read it is the “normal focal length” LOL.
ah Yun is a woman?:-) anyway…nothing to add about the lenses from me.
Yun can be Cloud in Chinese, and it’s usually used in girls’ names.
No doubt the Oly 45mm is a lovely lens & I did owe it .
It will be even greater if the lens can be bit longer & faster such as the specs of lens introduced as above .
A 5mm ( 10mm ) + F1.4 did make different in out of focus effect ( bokeh ) in my portraiture works .
As for the Nocticron , I have explained it in my previous post , 42.5 F1.2 is not for m4/3 format , it should be 50mm F1.2 for more bokehlicious & compression effect that comparable with 56mm APCmos or 85mm fullframe format .
Then buy an old OM 50/1.2 lens+adapter. It’ll be from Zuiko and will deliver (whatever you mean with that word)…
I don’t see the point in that lens. There is the formidable Olympus 45 1.8 for half the price, small and with AF. And there a dozen of very good legacy lenses in that range which are cheap and cost a fraction and deliver a decent image quality.
The Samyang is a full frame lens intended for full frame cameras. They just slap on different mounts, but what you are getting is a full frame lens with MFT adapter soldered on. The resolution of this lens is not at all optimized for the MFT crop, so the IQ of the 48/1.8 is probably lightyears ahead of this.
What’s the point? Compared to the excellent Olympus 45mm f/1.8, you gain 5mm, 1/2 stop, but a lot more weight, plus, you lose AF!
However, it is good to see more lenses for M43. I suppose it is good for 43 users, assuming they are still using their 43 cameras. If they are using E-M1, then again the 45mm is clearly a better choice.
price, maybe. Depends what this will cost. Samyang lenses are generally pretty cheap.
As others have noted, it’ll be pretty hard to beat the 45/1.8, also in terms of price.
Yeah, the Oly 45 can be found used for under $300 just about everywhere.
Mitakon 42.5mm f/1.2 & 24mm 1.7 lens??
$250 maybe, not $550 imo
As some already said, the question is, is manual focus what I want, and if it is, this lens may well be interesting, because with the small sensor format every third of an F-stop counts when I want to reduce depth of field.
On the other hand, there are so many decent, adaptable manual-focus standard primes on the 2nd hand market that the Samyang would really have to be both really good and moderately priced, too, in order to become attractive.
I can get a nice OM 50/1.4 in great condition for $100, why would I spend 5x for the same speed/focal length? I can get the faster 50/1.2 for not much more than Samyang wants for this.
I agree with you. Though keep in mind that sometimes the older lensesperform a bit less wideopen. and a cheap adapter can make it harder to nail the focus wideopen. both have good reasons. you reason i can dig as a cheap solution.
Since it covers 35 mm frame (and carries the size and weight to match) and is fully manual it is much better to buy the Nikon version and use with a passive adapter for $30. That way you can also buy the Metabones Speed Booster later and make use of that extra weight producing a 35.5/0.99. If you are crazy about having the 50*2=100 mm equivalent FOV, then for the price it is better to get any old manual 50/1.4 from Olympus, Canon or Nikon and again use a passive adapter. Another option is the Samyang 85/1.4 with Speed Booster giving 60/0.99 for not so much more money.
With that said, I love my Samyang 7.5/3.5 and really wish they made more native mirrorless lenses (currently there are only the fisheye, the 12/2 and the 300/6.3 – all the other lenses are for APS-C or FF, and so are big and weigh a lot!). I do a lot of video so I prefer manual aperture, especially on these bigger lenses since they can so easily be adapted without electronic converters. (Nikon with their physical aperture levers are great as well! Take note, Canon.)
Definitely! The most underrated lens in the entire system.
You never figure it out until you own one! 🙂
The Samyang 12 f2 it’s a native MFT mount, but it’s designed for APS-C sensor (I have the one for Sony Nex E-Mount). So their size is not optimized for MFT sensor.
The Samyang 7.5 f3.5, on the other side, it’s made specifically for MFT sensor, so it’s as small that it can be.
I never like lenses that are not engineered specifically for MFT.
This lens is made for an APS-C sensor, and for me defeats the purpose of the format, which is to be “small”. Put that honker next to the Oly 45mm? There is no advantage in size OR price. And it’s manual focus!! There isn’t one plus???? I just don’t get it.
Well the camera you mount it on is still going to be smaller than any with an APS-C sensor, so it’ll still be a smaller and lighter solution. Production costs will increase when making a specific lens for MFT, and the price is important for consumers. As long as my camera is smaller I’m happy to put any lens on that gets the job done.
There is one “plus”..its 0.5 stop faster. I still don’t get it. LOL!
Use a reducer and it’s 1.5 stops faster, and 35mm effective.
You can expect much less vignetting.
Funny, I just bought a nice OM-mount 50mm 1.8 for $20.
Old lenses FTW!
Number of old SLR 50/1.4 for around $70 is huge. And they work with focal reducers, unlike this Samyang.
They better start working on their electronics and autofocus.
I’ve a lot of 50’s in my collection. The problem with the old lenses is their wide open performance in general, how they cope with brighter light, coma. My 50mm F1.7 CY definitely has an edge over most of my other lenses, but I never got why there’s so few fast manual 50mm asphericals. The only fast option out there is what? canon’s FD lens and the new zeiss?
I love my Nikon 50mm F1.2 on focal reducer. It’s insane what it can do in low light. but even that more modern 50 has it’s flaws. Samyang’s 24mm F1.4 which I use along side it, much less so. If they maintain the optical quality they’ve shown on several of their lenses, then it’s a winner. Of course i’d get a nikon/canon mount to adapt via focal reducer instead.