Samyang just announced the new 12mm f/2.8 Fisheye Full Frame lens. Full press release text and images here:
Samyang Europe announces the upcoming Autumn release of the full-frame Samyang 12mm 1:2.8 ED AS NCS Fish-eye lens. The new model is yet another product of the Korean manufacturer and its widest 35mm film format lens. The lens will be officially introduced during Photokina fairs in Cologne on September 16th 2014.
Samyang 12mm 1:2.8 ED AS NCS Fish-eye is a bright, super wide-angle fish-eye lens designed especially for full-frame cameras. It offers the image area in 24 x 36mm format and the diagonal angle of view of 180 degrees. In terms of the optics, it is one of the most advanced “fish-eye” lenses. The product’s sophisticated optics consists of 12 lens elements arranged in 8 groups. This includes three elements made of low dispersion ED glass and two aspherical lens elements to ensure perfect image depth and minimized chromatic aberration. Samyang 12mm 1:2.8 ED AS NCS Fish-eye is the third lens of the brand (along with 10mm f/2.8 and 12mm f/2.0) with highly effective nanocrystal anti-reflection NCS coating applied together with standard UMC coatings. Owing to this solution and the fast aperture ratio (f/2.8) the lens can be used as a perfect tool in diverse lighting conditions, as it provides great focus, high contrast and natural colour reproduction even with the fully opened aperture. The premiere of Samyang 12mm 1:2.8 ED AS NCS Fish-eye is like a dream coming true for professional photographers and filmmakers who seem to have an increasing demand for this type of lenses since the release of 8mm and 7.5mm models, which are considered to be the best “fish-eye” lenses on the market.
You will have an opportunity to take a look at the pre-production copy of the new lens on the Samyang stand (hall 2.1, A-025) during the upcoming Photokina 2014 fairs in Cologne. The visitors will be also able to test two other recently introduced lenses: Samyang 50mm 1:4 AS UMC and Samyang V-DSLR 50mm T1.5 AS UMC.
The market release date for the new lens and its retail price will be announced at a later date.
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lol, thought for a moment it was a rectilinear lens…
object blending lens
I hope the hood is detachable
As the on of the 14mm isn’t this one also won’t be I guess…
http://www.foto-klik.si/images/stories/SAMYANG-12MM-FISH-EYE/Samyang-12mm-Fish-eye-lens-3.JPG
These look pretty nice and sharp to me, even in the corners. Wonder how well it holds up at F2.8?
It could be because I’m viewing this on my smartphone (cable internet down) but I was going to say the opposite. The images look a bit off to me. Colors a bit muddy; pictures a bit mushy. I dunno.
Fisheye lenses are known for having huge amounts of chromatic problems at the edges. These images actually look very good for this type of lens, and much of the corner blurring looks to be from depth-of-field limits.
I have the 1st gen APS-C version of this lens from Samyang, and it outperforms other manufacturer’s lenses that cost 4x the price or more. If this full-frame version is as good, they have a big winner on their hands.
Going by the file names, I’d guess that the first 2 are taken at f/2.8 and the others at f/5.6?
Im always on the look for a fast wide angel. So this maybe my wet dream. The widest wide-angel lens that i kow of is a 14 mm f.2,8. So maybe this could be my budget lens to wide angel photograph
Sigma 12-24mm and Voigtlander 12mm.
Yes. But not fast lenses. I have the Sigma 12-24 mm. But i need faster lens
Small typo: It’s a Samyang 50mm 1:1.4 AS UMC not an 1:4. But I guess that’s obvious…
Is it for DSLRs or for mirrorless?
SLRs
A mount I hope. Curious about the comal distortion for widefield astrophotography. Been very dissatisfied with the Sigma 15mm diagonal fish.
I don’t always shoot fisheye, but when I do…I choose Samyang.
Samyang needs to start making mirrorless-specific lenses for the new wave of mirrorless shooters. That would be kickass.
I’m digging these sample photos.
I did a test shot with my 7s at the Photokina:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaherdin/15258392136/in/photostream/lightbox/