Gosh, leaking images is as easy as drinking a coffee in these days! Here we have two new images of a Zeiss 85mm f/1.8 E-mount lens and an image of the Olympus E-M1 with 12-40mm f/2.8 combo. Enjoy your coffee!
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Looks nice, but I am afraid of what it will cost. Probably a lot more than the 24mm, which is $1100 US. I agree, the Samsung 85mm looks more appealing since it will likely cost half as much. If you only go f/1.8, at least make it small. I am sure it will be a good lens anyway, but I am glad I didn’t hang around with my NEX waiting for them to release it.
Well the Samsung 85mm/1.4 has a ridiculous size. It is even bigger and slightly heavier than the Zeiss FF 85mm/1.4…
Price of the Samsung is great, but all that bulk makes it not so special in my mind. The Sony Zeiss 85mm will probably also have OSS which will more than make up the low light capabilities of 85mm/1.8 IF it turns out to be a true rumor.
Can you explain how to make an 85/1.4 “small”? How about a 50/1.4? Try a 35/1.4?
Eric, this lens will be definitely smaller and sharper than Samsung 85 mm. It would balance MUCH better on the camera than Samsung 85 mm. And it would have more than one exotic glass
And let’s not forget that Sony users have also Touit lenses. And macro lens is coming in October.
And samsung, instead of producing lenses, merge phone and the camera. And their 30 mm lens is so soft in the corners that Dpreview refused to use it for testing of Samsung camera.
Usually the developers are given a price range limit and to do the best out of it. It could be smaler or bigger if they were given no limitations. Exactly that happened with the Zeiss 55mm 1.4 I believe.
it’s quite embarrassing to say it pro itself.
I saw the Zeiss 85/1.8 and said, “Wow, the NEX is finally starting to really get some nice glass…the 16-70/4 looks really nice, now this lens for a good long portrait prime.” I’m not an NEX shooter, but it’s nice to see all the mirrorless companies doing good stuff.
Then I saw the filter size (which gives an idea of overall lens size). What the heck? Why on earth would an 85mm f/1.8 require a 72mm filter size? What possible reason could there be for this lens to be this large? Heck, the Canon 85mm f/1.2L, which is a FULL STOP faster, has a filter size of 72mm. The Canon 85mm f/1.8 has a filter size of 58mm. The Nikon 85/1.8 is larger at 67mm, but those are SLR lenses, and they’re STILL both smaller than the 85/1.8 for NEX.
you know all so-called zeiss lenses are huge, look at the size of the new 135mm f2 APO.
it is huge, anyone can design a great lens without AF in that kind of size.
size is one really important feature of any great lens.
What’s the problem? You have way less camera to carry and a touch more lens to carry. Tradeoffs can be panty-wadding, eh?
Did anyone else notice the enormous filter size? 72mm for a mirrorless 85mm f1.8.
Even SLR 85’s are smaller. If I remember correctly, the AF 85mm f1.8 Nikkors are only 62mm and 67mm, while Canon’s exceptional 85mm f1.8 is only 58mm.
Regarding mirrorless, I think a Summicron 90 is something like 55.
The gorgeous 85mm f1.4 for samsung nx is 67mm. Perhaps this sony covers ff area?
All three Nikon and Canons also cover FF, i love the 85 1.8G on my D800
The Zeiss has better be a highly corrected, FF lens.
Leaks are easy because a rumors society has been established to water peoples mouth like pavlov did with his dogs. The companies are pavlov, we are the dogs 😀
can we get a picture with out the text over it, korean nationalist going crazy again
Hi,
go to http://www.43rumors.com/ft5-new-e-m1-and-12-40mm-lens-picture/ and you will see the image without the text.
Admin stop using this source please. There are people who find this kind of stuff offensive.
Please delete the Japanese words located on the center of E-M1 picture, irrelevant political graffiti.
Okay, the E system is finally getting interesting. Every time I’ve considered Sony in the past, I’ve been stopped by the fact that they didn’t have anything comparable to the Olympus 75/1.8 (which I use for about 40% of my photos.)
With the 24, 50 and 85, Sony finally will have lenses corresponding roughly to the 20, 45, and 75mm lenses I use (nitpickers note that I did say “roughly.”)
If Samsung would get a fast portrait tele (50-60-ish) and if Fuji would get a fast medium tele (a 100/2 would be a fabulous companion to the roadmapped 56/1.2, wouldn’t it?) then all the major mirrorless systems would have all the lenses I need. Sooooo clooooose…
Re the filter size: I don’t care about the filter size being as small as possible; I’d rather have the sizes somewhat standardized across the lens line. Maybe Sony is trying to have all their bigger lenses take 72mm and all their smaller lenses take a smaller size? I don’t know enough about the other lenses to know if that’s the case, but it would be sensible…
Fine…but too expensive….in absolute…..I’ll wait for the new arrival Sony Nex FF…..I’ll think that for the new filosofy of prices of sony, the body cost will be not too different from 1700-1800 $…..
Love the bashing of this lens by NEX owners…”We need more lenses”, “We want higher quality primes!”, then all moan about the filter size, badging, etc. Seriously people, stop letting your nit-picky whining get in the way of actually going out there and being the best you can be, not just another posing gear-head.
According to Andrea (sonyalpharumors), this picture doesn’t show the final lens. So everybody calm down, and wait for more reliable informations about specs and size…
Too bad the 85mm is not a macro. Sony’s 30mm macro is way too short for mots macro application, the forthcoming Zeiss 50mm macro will help in that area, but it too being more than likely 1:2 magnification, is rather short too. A 85mm macro would be fantastic especially if it fit into the Nauticam underwater housing system. Please make some more NEX zooms Sony.