Oh Samsung…that hurts! The lens partner Schneider Kreuznach just joined the Micro Four Thirds group and announced they will soon release new lenses for the system. Confess, we all thought they would sooner or later join the NX system. Of course the chance still remains SK will also make NX lenses but the fact that they announced to go with m43 is a bad joke for the koreans!
Source: Photoscala (Click here to read the google english translation)
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Schneider and NEX? dont think so, what about Carl Zeiss
Samsung NX not Sony NEX 🙂
I doubt they’ve dropped Samsung and will probably produce optics for both mounts as they already committed to new NX lenses for this calendar year.
Pnutz, there was no official announcement about Schneider producing lenses for Samsung NX. It was pure speculation.
My guess is that Samsung probably felt that there may not be a need now for high premium quality Schneider lenses, when you look at the m43 system, barely any if any can afford those premium lenses. Samsung knows that the majority of users cant justify lenses that cost over a grand…after all, they are Samsung, not Leica with a tiny tiny niche market.This is something Olympus and Panasonic continues to forget when they keep releasing cameras and lenses near a grand.the new Olympus 12mm lens is said to be 800 usd. Good luck to them, maybe the Leica users will have some money left over to help buy some of these one thousand dollar lenses.
COuld Sneider Kreuznach give us a 10,5 mm (21mm for 35mm) lens It would hardly appreciated with a F2.5 !
Those zoom lenses aren’t wide enough neither is their f values. (4-5.6)
The 20mm f1.7 is very good now we need a 10.5 that is good as well… for M43