This is a good day for APS-C E-mount camera owners. We just got two new lenses from Samyang (Rokinon). The 50mm f/1.2 and 21mm f/1.4! Both are manual focusing lenses and I have o doubt they will be of very good optical quality (as usual with Rokinon). Here are the full specs of the lenses and preorder links to BHphoto:
Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 Lens for APS-C E-mount (Black) at BHphoto (Click here).
Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 Lens for APS-C E-mount (Silver) at BHphoto (Click here).
Rokinon 50mm f/1.2 Lens for APS-C E-mount (Black) at BHphoto (Click here).
Rokinon 50mm f/1.2 Lens for APS-C E-mount (Silver) at BHphoto (Click here).
via Mirrorlessrumors.
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I was just getting excited about the thought that maybe I’d finally consider a Rokinon lens that I saw “This is a good day for APS-C E-mount camera owners”…
Why make a half frame 50 and not a 58 or 60 anyway.
probably because its easier to make compact 50/1.2
Fuji X-mount too..
You could just make it FF and manufacture all the lenses with that coverage but with different mounts, since I suspect the M43 will have APSC coverage, but why do that when it will crank up prices. Their brand appeal has been built on good performance at a good price (with no AF), going up to FF would limit that. Also, FE has been getting more than enough primes of late.
More than enough…of the 35-85 range, it could certainly use a fast 21 and the 50 could appeal if it’s cheap enough.
But yeah of course they’re cheaper this way.
How dare they deliver products that *others* can use!!
So you don’t even know that others could use FF lenses?
Of course I know that. What do you want to say?
No, the question is, what do you want to say?
Probably because they are aiming for a wider market than just Sony? Successful at the A7 series may be, it’s still a fraction of the size of the combined APS-C & M43 market.
Yeah it’ll probably sell better this way, but that doesn’t explain why the telephoto is an awkward 75 equiv.
Nothing intrinsically awkward about 75mm on a mirrorless.
I believe leica kept theirs to 75 so as to…was it to steer clear of the viewfinder or was it…
Well it’s a little too short for a telephoto and a little too narrow for a normal lens, but it’s nothing compared to the awkwardness of 60-70 lenses of course.
60mm is great on crop sensor imo 🙂
Yeah I meant 60 equiv. so a half frame only 40 would be really awkward.
A lot of aps-c users choose 50 mm as portrait lens
obviously because of the ff 50s lying around and the lack of half frame 58/60s
there’s tamron 60/2
I immediately suspected that it’s a macro, and turns out it’s a macro, it’s weird but there are many macros at 60.
Very nice indeed. However, Samyang is definitely cranking up prices.
Wonder if they’re cranking up build quality to match? After the trouble I had finding a good copy of the 24mm for my a77, I wouldn’t touch them with a bargepole
I doubt it. I imagine they saw a lot of demand for their offerings, so they readjusted. As far as mirrorless is concerned, I don’t see the point of buying Samyang.
I have 8mm f2.8 and 12mm f2.0 and they are great lenses. These lenses look to be built same way.
If i use an A7. Then i use a FF, not aps-c. And it says aps-c, e-mount. So I’m a little confused. Why dont they just say 21mm f.1,4 for Nex, not e-mount
Cause originally E-Mount is APSC, then Sony made it into Full Frame and calls it by FE in its lenses but on the mount it still write E-Mount.
In general lens term speak, Sony FE will mean Full-Frame E mount and Sony E will refer to APSC E Mount
Also, they have killed the NEX brand, so there is no easy way to say APSC unless they invent a new lettering system – like Tan says APSC is implied by the absence of ‘FE’.
E-mount refers to things like the flange distance and specific ring diameter and locking mechanism which attaches the lens to the body. They have different sensor sizes but the mount is the same. You could put this on your A7 in crop mode.
They could go with AE, though that would probably just add to the confusion…
Samsung makes the best Aps-c sensor on the market and we have created a matching lens lineup!
#wethebest
Not interested. Samsung blowz.
Yes, we blow away Sony
Make a decent body below the NX1 with a viewfinder and people might care.
It’s funny that it really is mostly just that holding back so much of the western market. Utter product design fail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc9j1z3l42E&feature=youtu.be&t=128
Meanwhile the NX1 is an expensive DSLR (let’s be honest) that doesn’t appeal to most DSLR snobs, who’ve all gone FF. They made a camera that does 90% of what the A7rii does and excited about 30 people with it.
Not quite Sony still tops
http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Compare/Side-by-side/Samsung-NX1-versus-Nikon-D5500___976_998
Look, it’s easy:
FE-mount = Sony full frame
E-mount = Tiny waste of time mount (don’t bother)
A-mount = ?? Seems to happen a lot but probably a typo, they meant E-mount I think.
Because it IS E-mount and APS-C E-mount cameras are not limited to the NEX brand. Remember the A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000?
E-Mount lenses crop on the A7 unless you turn off auto crop. Then you get a black circle around your image. You can use it on A7, but they say aps-c so you know it will crop.
21mm, not 24
Samyang can now offer a full bundle of mirrorless lenses with a case like they do with thei DSLR lenses now. These two lenses look like a dream come true.
This is great news! It’s going to be difficult choosing between the 24mm f/1.4 and the 21mm f/1.4! With the FF lens, I can use a speed booster or a tilt-shift adapter. But the APS-C version would allow me to expose for a little bit longer (15s vs 13s) for stars, and also would be much smaller. But I’m still considering getting a FF camera… Tough choice!
Nobody regrets going fullframe … btw – Samyang 12mm for sell 🙂
Yeah but you get a stop advantage with the speed booster for star exposure. The size difference is enticing.
Without QC department this company is unstoppable!
All Samsung lenses are tested to the highest standards!
I heard runours that Samsung are getting out of the camera business business maybe the spent too much on r&d
Still no word on the new Loxia?
Have a look at our line-up!
Stick to TVs – you do an OK, if not spectacular, job of those. Your screens are too shiny.
Yeah we have to work on that. But if you like garish colors, Sony has a camera for you.
#wegotlenses
I really wish they would make these in M mount.
why? esp. M mount is FF only and these lenses are aps-c
Well for one that’s not quite true, of the ~5 digital cameras to come equipped with M-Mount 2 are FF, 2 are APS-C and 1 APS-H. But I wouldn’t really expect these to be rangefinder coupled anyway, more importantly an M mount version will work on all Mirrorless (except NX which isn’t available anyway) so you can buy once and use on many mounts.
Oh my bad. But then, you can buy it in m43 mount, adaptors m43-nex exist and m43-efm and m43-x should appear at some time. (m43 has the longest flange distance amongst them)
Yeah maybe, though it is more difficult and fiddly because the flanges are pretty similar. I just think M mount would be a neater solution (and really wouldn’t mind some of these on my M8).
We paid Rokinon to not release their lenses for the NX system, they do not posses the resolving power required to provide the user the imaging experience our sensors are capable of. #stillmorelensesthanyou
If you have this much time on your hands and choose to use it so poorly the only information conveyed is that you’re miserable.
Go play outside. Talk to real people. Take a class.
Good luck
You *might* want to have a chat with your manager.
The Korean Journal “NewsTomato” reports that Samsung will quit their digital camera business
#stillmorelensesthanyou = Sony users talking about Samsung? Otherwise it is completely incorrect.
The focal lengths are weird for APS-C and m43. 24mm and 58mm would be more usefull for me.
I own the 12mm/2 lens – small, cheap and quite good. So this could be a nice set.
Hmm. So around the same size as the Loxias, but only for APS-C? They need to be cheaper. You can pick up high quality Voigtlander M-Mount lenses for less
Most of them aren’t f/1.4 & f/1.2, but eh.
Headline says 24mm, spec sheet says 21mm…. ???
After seeing what Loxias can do even being MF only, it is a shame that other brands doesn’t work in the same way.
I love my 12mm, but if the focus ring is just as stiff on these new lenses, I might prefer to wait for Sigma to create some AF glass for these focal lengths.
9 aperture blades. Finally the end of those hideous 6 blade sun stars. Hopefully we see new versions of the FF lenses with the same.
Well I guess few people regret buying an SUV, because the people who buy them already liked the concept. I don’t want an SUV.
Even the 85 1.4 that is cheaper than any legacy glass at the FL?
I was generalizing. There are exceptions. One would be the 14mm F2.8.
And there are cheap 85mm 1.4, such as one from Vivitar. And, if you accept to go down to F1.7-1.8 for that 85mmm, it is suddenly a whole different story for a minor decrease in speed.
Already got the 12mm, he he! But yeah, it’s really difficult to choose. On one hand, I’d like to keep an APS-C camera. On the other, I’d also like to buy a FF camera at some point. I guess the best choice for me would be to get the 24mm f/1.4 + Speed Booster, but I’m worried I’ll get a bad copy of the 24mm. So far, I’ve been lucky with the 12mm, 16mm and 85mm, thought.