ePhotozine (Click here) posted the first review of the new Samyang 16mm f/2.0 lens. The lens gets Highly Recommended:
“Those looking for wide aperture lenses for the APS-C or smaller format camera need not continue looking at full frame lenses, that generally cost and weigh more now this lens is available. Although some photographers may find manual focusing off putting, spending a little time practising and getting used to how the lens behaves will pay dividends in the long run. This is especially true when considering how little this lens costs for what you get.”
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Finally a bright, small lens we can use without having to resort to full frame lenses!
Finally a bright, small lens we can use without having to resort to full frame lenses!
This lens is designed to be used also on DSLR systems (with a long register distance). That is why it is so gigantic. Had it been designed to be used only on mirrorless systems, it could have been a lot smaller.
Size/focal lenght no so great for m43, obviously.
OTOH, even if I was a Nex user, I think I would still prefer using Sony’s own crappy 16mm than carrying this behemoth.
nothing wrong with 32mm equiv.
As for size, if its a trade-off for decent image quality without excessive correction, its not too big either.
What I meant is that there are good and small alternatives for this focal lenght for the m43 mount (14mm and 17,5mm – Oly and Voightlander – are close enough). I’m sure this lens is very good, and is not needing software correction like Oly/Pana native lenses, but it is not for me.
I’m thinking this lens would be great on nikon F mount w/ speedbooster? I already have a standard Nikon F to MFT adapter, so then this would be like 2 lenses, depending which adapter is used.
Has anyone heard any feedback on the quality of the Nikon F to MFT metabones speedbooster yet? I was also thinking if I ever get a Black Magic Pocket Cinema camera, then the Speedbooster would negate the extra crop factor from standard MFT sensor, while also gaining one stop in aperture.
That’s sounds like fun but expensive – getting the chipped Nikon version of this lens as that would have all the electronics AND mounting it with a Speed Booster on a M43 camera, to get metering, as well as the boosted speed and extra width.
Would that work?
My micro 4/3 to Nikon speed booster arrived yesterday and my testing so far has been really promising. So far I can’t see any degradation of image quality. Only wider lenses and a stop of extra light.
Now that its confirmed that this 16mm will be done in the cine version I can’t wait to use it as a 22mm and a 32mm on my gh3 (provided the APSC designed lens will cover the 1.4 crop of the speed booster
Small? This lens weighs 615g and it isn´t small either. The Canon 24mm 1.4 weighs 650g…. No, this Samyang is a big and heavy beast – good for APS-C DSLRs maybe – but too heavy and big for mirrorless. The Samyang 14mm 2.8 is a usefull lens because at 14mm almost everything is in focus but a 24 or 32 mm lens with f 2.0 is way harder to focus especially without focus indication on canon bodies.
its big and heavy but not too big and too heavy. You will be amazed how well balanced a halve kilo lens behaves on a m43 body. The 500 gr. Nokton 50mm f/1.1 was a pleasure on an EP2 while the 1000 gr. Helios 85mm f/1.5 was still acceptable on my current OMD with the HLD6.
It would be just fine for a Panasonic GH3.
Besides, micro Four-Thirds isn’t the only mirror-less format on the block now. Sony and Samsung mirror-less users are accustomed to somewhat larger lenses.
My Olympus 17mm 1.8 is compact, lightweight and I’m very happy with it!
My 20/1.7 is even more compact, lightweight, tack sharp and im very very happy with it.
But this is not really one for the M43 crowd. Unless you are an uber-camera geek.
I think this is not so good for photography, but good for video – easier to get a matte box and follow focus on this than on any other lenses at the price w/ this speed/focal range. Samyang 14mm Cine is nice, but it is 2 stops slower.
It would be 32mm equiv on standard MFT sensor, or 22mm f1.4 on a speedbooster.
On a Black Magic Cinema camera, it would be 45mm equiv, or with speedboster 32 mm f1.4
It’s the same price as the Olympus 17/1.8, and four times as heavy.
No thanks.
m43 system is being FLOODED with primes!
oh yes, an no midrange zooms with better quality then the kit zooms for 600, 700 Swiss Francs available… Imagine, how much money they could make with such lenses.
You can not use it with speedbuster .This is aps-c lens ,not full frame !!!
Wrong! It is true that you can not use APS-C lens with Speedbooster on Fuji or Sony mirrorless, BUT it is possible to use APS-C lenses with Speedbooster on MFT sensor. Only works with MFT. Especially the BlackMagic Design Cinema camera with Super 16 sensor.
Here’s a thought that will really bake your noodle… If MetaBones were to make a Four Thirds to MFT speedbooster, then all of the Olympus FT glass could be used on the BlackMagic Design Cinema cameras.