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That’s a suprise! Samyang just announced the new 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 lens designed specifically(!) for the [shoplink 3058]Sony NEX-VG10[/shoplink]. There are no info about the price and availability yet. They also said that “We are also about to introduce Samyang lens with Sony E mount for NEX system cameras.” You can find a few images of the lens at optyczne.pl.
Press release:
“Kraków, February 28 2011 – Delta company, the sole distributor of Samyang Optics for Poland and Europe, wishes to inform about the release of the manual Samyang 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 lens. The new lens comes with the bayonet mount and has been designed especially for Sony NEX-VG10 digital camcorder.
Due to its unique construction, the bayonet mount has been adjusted to ensure possibly wide field of vision without producing the vignetting effect. Just like in other lenses manufactured for filming purposes, aperture can be easily and smoothly adjusted.
New Samyang 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 lens will be officially introduced during the forthcoming Focus on Imaging fairs held in Birmingham. Exact date of the release as well as the product’s retail price will be given later.
We are also about to introduce Samyang lens with Sony E mount for NEX system cameras.”
Links to
– The Sony NEX-VG10 at [shopcountry 3058]
– The current Smayang 8mm lenses at [shopcountry 5654]
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I’ll ask the obvious question: How can the lens be designed specifically for the NEX-VG10 rather than for all E-mount cameras in general?
Wondering same here Kevin 🙂
I think the difference will be “smoothly adjustable aperture”, normal version of that lens (i have the alpha mount version) has a normal aperture with notches. Also the manual focus could be differen. Samyang has a “video” version of this lens already, equipped with follow focus system, but this does not seem to have that:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1009/10092209samyangvdslr8mm.asp
Just like in other lenses manufactured for filming purposes, aperture can be easily and smoothly adjusted.
I guess thats what they mean, you wouldn’t need that for a still camera lens.
unless the still camera is really meant for video like the SLTs
Of course, when you compare this to the 8mm they already made for Canon and Nikon, they basically just took that design and added more length to the lens, so I’m not sure what the advantage of this would be over just adapting the already available version.
Boooooommmmm!!!! That’s what I was waiting for!! No doubt: my next lens for my Nex!!!
I’d be very wary of this translation. Things that make me doubt the accuracy of this translation are “possibly wide field of vision”. What the hell do they mean “possibly”? Definitely poorly worded.
Another translation error is when they write about the distributor “for Poland and Europe”. Poland couldn’t be more central Europe, so shouldn’t this simply read “distributor for Europe”.
Therefore I’m convinced we need a better translation of this story.
Lenstip are rather proud of their Polishness. I’d say the redundancy is an intentional shout-out to their home market.
That said, they’re pretty notorious for dreadful English translations. So are Samyang Optics Co. for that matter.
Interesting lens.
Samyang, bring more lenses for E mount please.