Last week Samyang announced the new 16mm f/2.0 MFT lens. You can now preorder this lens at BHphoto (Click here). It will ship in July! It is yet unclear when this lens (and for what price) will ship in European ans Asian countries. The only image of the lens we have now is that one:
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This is the second native Micro Four Thirds lens after the fisheye lens:
In USA it’s named Rokinon 7.5mm and you find it on [shoplink 29105 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink], Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
In Europe it’s named Samyang 7.5mm and you find it on [shoplink 29106 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink], Amazon (Click here).
In UK it’s named Walimex and you find it on [shoplink 29109 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and Amazon UK (Click here).
eBay links on all Olympus Four Thirds lenses:
[shoplink 20647 ebay]Samyang [/shoplink], [shoplink 20684 ebay]Walimex [/shoplink], [shoplink 20649 ebay]Rokinon [/shoplink], [shoplink 20650 ebay]Opteka [/shoplink], [shoplink 20651 ebay]Falcon [/shoplink], [shoplink 20653 ebay]Vivitar [/shoplink] and[shoplink 20652 ebay]Bower [/shoplink].
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For the same price I think I’d rather have the new Oly 17mm 1.8…
I’d have to agree. One of the reasons why the full-frame MF lenses are a great deal is… that they’re cheaper and either around as fast or faster than the native AF offerings. With this one, an extra $50 USD and 1mm, you’re better off with the size of the oly.
+1
And the samyang is so big…It’s a good lens for…APS-C !! not for m43
It hurts to see products get released that have almost no chance of doing well. Why would anyone get this over the Oly 17mm? Maybe if it turns out to have stellar sharpness…
they’re releasing it because its available for most other mounts also? all they have to do is change the mount and it can be fitted on most of the major branded interchangable cameras including EOS and Nikon mount (though its APS-C only). just because it may not do so well on a m4/3 doesn’t mean it will fail as a product
I’m inclined to agree… They probably saw some APS-C system that needed a lens like this and figured they’d just adapt it to every other system while they were at it.
That said, even with a design in hand I can’t really see why they would produce it for m43. I just can’t see them selling enough to make back the overhead of making the mount and stocking them…
Let’s hope they will be inspired to use the m43 overstock mount units for a native m43 designed 9mm.
+1000
I’m waiting for it ! Come on the fuji X system will soo have it (Zeiss 12 mm f2.8)
This lens is one of the most needed lenses on APS-C. It will sell like hot cakes. I will buy one for Nikon mount. Finally a 24mm equivalent prime !!!
On MFT the other options (12mm f/2, 14mm f/2.5 and 17mm f/1.8) make much more sense.
Not worth it for m4/3 mount – too bulky. Or maybe if it is gonna be bulky anyways, get the lens for another mount, but use it with a speedbooster?
For photo.. almost no reason to buy it
For video… maybe, but i would rather go for SLR magic 12mm t1.6
At the mentioned price, it makes little sense. If they’re purely altering the mount, and keeping a rather huge lens (77mm filter thread!) with a relatively large front element, it makes even less sense for the micro 4/3 system, in my eyes anyway.
IF, Samyang/Rokinon were to create a lower profile 16mm f/2 lens and priced it in the neighborhood with their killer fisheye (250-300usd), I think they’d sell really well, or at least be positioned to do so assuming the optics were on par with what they’ve been able to produce in their other lenses. Without AF and having to compete with faster and or cheaper AF lenses in the system (14/2.5, 17/1.8, 20/1.7) in that range is a nail in the coffin for this guy it seems.
Hopefully we will see this come to be as a redesigned, smaller, $250-300 16mm f/2 fully manual lens. I’d be interested in that, but not otherwise.
Well, the ability to mount filters with size 77mm clearly sets this lens apart. Together with its weight and size this clearly indicates: „LOOOK AT ME! I’M A SERIOUS PHOTOGRAPHER!”.
I stay with my 17/1.8 for now…
LOL at that!
can’t see buying this lens even for video use. too many other good options at the price level
Makes sense only in FT mount – just…
really not sure where this is supposed to fit in?
MF 16/2.0 or AF 17/1.8 … plus the Samyang is not a native m43 lens, it may well have the m43 fitting so that it goes on our bodies without an adaptor, but just like the Sigma 19mm and 30mm – they are lenses designed for CSC but for ones with an APS sensor, our sensor is smaller so all we’d be doing is just like putting a FF lens on an APS camera. Taking the sweet spot as some say, but actually you are using a lens that is designed for a bigger system. We have a small 16mp sensor (18mp coming soon) and need purpose made m43 lenses not some bigger camera’s lenses to benefit from the resolution posibilities.
I guess the only positive is that it is ‘another’ lens and its also ‘another’ prime to chose from expanding our system.
Buy it in dslr mount and slap it on a speed booster, instant m43 sharpish 12mm f1.4.
…which is available from SLR Magic as a native and smaller lens for less money.
+10
The SLR Magic 12mm is a really nice lens. I’m very happy with mine!
This Samyang thing seems like an afterthought. And a bad one. I’d rather pick up an Oly 17mm at that price.
Useless lens
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usless, no AF, huge (77mm filter size), expensive, not designed for micro43
So we are all assuming the IQ isn’t better than the 17 1.8?
The 17/1.8 is ENOUGH good, so does the 20/1.7.
With a lens designed for a larger format, its pretty reasonable to assume that it probably will have lower IQ on a m4/3 body then the native options will offer, or at best (if this is a really really good lens) it will achieve similar IQ, but its not very important really. What matters is that the competing lenses are more then ‘good enough’ and provide clear advantages like size and auto focus.
16mm is near 17mm of Olympus and 14mm of Panasonic.
17mm is a fucking nice street lens at same price. And 14mm is a wide angle so not the same range but cheap and small can provide nbices pictures.
Mind your language Kiki
Anyway, if you like expensive lens and manual, buy voightlander 17.5/0.95
i thought Samyangs were always cheaper…except for that its useful lens, even in the presence of the current mft 17 lenses.
MFT will never be taken seriously as a system until we get more prime lenses in the 12-25mm range!
I’d like to see a LOT more lenses in the 21-24mm range and a few more in the 13-15mm range.
I just hope that no one even thinks about releasing anything longer than 75mm!!
Any particular reason you want any mm getting covered in that range(which in fact has enough primes to choose from),maybe you should consider the 12-35 zoom and accept one stop less.
That’s was a joke, Ulli. Humor from Sally.
(We have so many prime lenses in the 12-25mm range)
she tricked me!
Come on !! you already have 12, 14, 17, 17.5, 19, 20, 25 primes. Don’t you think this is enough ??? We need WIDER primes: something between 7 and 10, f2.8 very sharp ! I know we have the 7-14 pany zoom but I want filters and somthing less than 1000 euros… and weathersealed if possible…
Weather sealed would be nice indeed, also the 7-14 doesn’t accept filters, which generally isn’t an issue for me since the only filters that imo are generally useful on wide-angle lenses are ND filters, which you won’t need very often with a max aperture of f/4, but ymmv.
I got one recently for less then 800 euros, and so far it is looking really good. A very nice surprise is how small and light this lens is, and the way in which the integrated lens hood and zoom mechanism work together to make the hood longer at longer focal lengths.
Regardless, a f/2.8 9mm or 10mm would be a really good addition to the system.
Bart, I agree, the only thing to keep in mind is the lensflare, but for the rest it’s really a nice lens. J Shin formed a group on Flickr, named 43rumors.
The intent is to “meet” also there, to see what other people in this forum do in the photography world.
@admin, can you kindly spread the word? 🙂
Totally agree about the 7-14 and lens flare, Marco. Its not unusual for such a wide angle lens to be flare sensitive, but on top of that the flare effects are spread across the frame with a tendency to be strongest at the center, which can spoil things quite badly.
You are forgetting the most important one, we need a 18mm!
18mm would be BEST! I personally find 17mm just TOO wide for me, distorts the subject and all that.
77mm filter size, manual focus, f/2, and 571g !!(olympus 17mm f/1.8 AF lens 120g)
ROFL
Why?????
Olympus is putting an APSC sensor into a m43 mount camera. It will act like a normal m43 but will be able to take advantage of wider image circles that some lenses have and FF adapted lenses. (FF + speedbooster)
Look out for the SuperM43 equipped camera.
That would be an interesting solution.