Samsung just showed their new lens roadmap. It includes the following lenses:
Wide Pancake 16mm F2.8 iFn
Macro 60mm OIS F2.8 iFn
Movie Pro 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 OIS iFn
Movie Home 16-80mm F3.5-4.5 OIS iFn
Portrait 85mm F1.4 iFn
Those lenses all feature the new iFn function which has been well explained at SamsungImaging (Click here)
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Love to see a 70mm pancake like the Pentax ones.
That said, seeing the 85 @ 1.4 is very nice. Something that neither the m43 or Sony NEX range has.
I wish they would offer the 20 and 30 in a two lens kit with the NX100. Then I’d just have to get the 16, 60, and 85 and I’d be set. Love that Samsung is introducing affordable primes. Wonder how small they can get that 85mm.
The 16-80 is a very interesting lens for the kind of work I do, but I don’t care much for the features of the Samsung cameras so…
Short rant: when people ask for an 85 1.4 portrait lens, they want an 85mm lens (a very standard portrait lens length), Samsung goes and makes a 85×1.5= 127mm lens which is a stupid length for a portrait lens. What they should have made is an 85/1.5= 57mm (or about 60mm). Way to fail on simple math, Samsung. I would never spend money on a portrait lens, I don’t take portraits, but I do know that most people don’t want a 130 mm portrait lens. I hope Samsung figures this out before releasing their lens, selling a few and having a bunch of pissed off and/or bamboozled users. If they were to just make their 60 mm macro lens an f2, it would work well for portraits (like the zuiko 50mm macro doubles as a portrait lens on old 4/3).
End rant.
That’s not always the case, Tom. The standard portrait focal length range is actually between 85-135 mm on full-frame. There are many examples of well-regarded portrait lenses longer than 85 mm. For example:
1. Nikon’s 105/2 DC and 135/2 DC. These were designed specifically for portraiture.
2. Minolta and Sony’s 135/2.8 STF (soft transition focus). This was also expressly designed for portraiture, and some Sony/Minolta shooters will boast that this is the best portrait lens on any system.
3. Canon’s 135/2L. Along with the 85/1.2L, the 135/2 are most often regarded as the top portrait lenses in the Canon camp.
4. Sony Zeiss’s 135/1.8. I have an A900 and the first lens i bought for it was the 135/1.8 due to the widespread initial hype on how amazing this lens was for portraiture… that it was a lens that was worth switching systems for, that it was better than Canon’s 135/2L, etc.
Having said that, i personally prefer the 70-105 mm range on full-frame for portraiture myself, but that doesn’t change the fact that the typical focal length range for portraits on full-frame is generally accepted to be 85-135 mm.