Unlike reported on yesterdays “leak” at BHphoto the 100mm macro has been designed for both DSLR and Mirrorless system. This means it will be available for both Sony A and E-mount. And there is also a Cine version of it.
Full press release and image samples can be seen here.
100mm f/2.8 macro at Syopt.com.
100mm T/3.1 macro Cine version at Syopt.com.
And you can preorder them here:
100mm f/2.8 E-mount at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
100mm f/2.8 A-mount at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
100mm T/3.1 macro Cine version E-mount at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
100mm T/3.1 macro Cine version A-mount at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
The Swedish magazine Fotosidan is the first site posting a review:
– Focus is smooth with just the right resistance
– Well built, better than [shoplink 35155 ebay]Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro[/shoplink] they compare it to.
– Pictures are warmer than Canon
– Sharpness are better on the Canon lens, all through 2.8-22. The Samyang never catch up.
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found via Dicahub.
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I wonder if they will ever start making AF lenses. I like my Samyang 85mm 1,4 for my A7II but sometimes i really wish it had autofocus.
Sigma make an excellent 85mm f1.4 with AF that is very reasonably priced.
Not as reasonably priced as the Samyang 85 1.4. You add AF to it and the price will jump. I also own the 85 1.4 Samyang and you can’t beat the optics for the price. They’re about as sharp as anything else out there. You learn a lot when you practice with these manual lenses. Embrace them and expand your skill!
Well yes, it adds to the cost, what is your point? THIS lens is MF and doesn’t do any better than AF ones with IS for similar money. The guy above that I was responding to was specifically asking for an AF version, unless he is in fantasy land and believes such a thing would cost no more, there essentially IS an af version in the Sigma. I don’t care if you are poor noob who has recently ‘discovered’ MF for the first time with your first ‘bokeh lens’. FWIW you can absolutely MF the Sigma, it also has better build and more accurate focus scale…
The Sigma 85 1.4 has a rather stiff focus ring, as reported in several places. Some like it, some don’t. Further, it sometimes has issues with its AF hitting different things depending on whether coming from mfd or infinity, see various Canon forums, http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Sigma_85mm_f1-4_EX_DG_HSM/ , and such was the case with my A-mount one. Sigma’s repair rep said they only calibrate from one direction, so anything wider than f/4 was useless for me. The Samyang 85 w. focus mag would have been terribly more useful.
That’s nice? Mine was perfect and could even focus track quite nicely. Focus ring was lovely and smooth and far better than my Samyang. My ZA is nicer than both but noisier than the Sigma.
That’s an exception? Do link to a review saying the focus ring has a nice resistance as I’ve not seen one. Munger as well a Cameralabs found it “a little stiff”.
I tried tracking rollerderbyers with an A77 and it worked so-so from side to side, not at all from or towards (large elements take a second or so to react and shift).
At the same time it has never been easier to mf, with magnification and peaking. A macro with AF…well maybe with its own focus motor and a limiter, but just maybe.
I have to say that even with focus magnifier and peaking, focusing while wide open on even a slightly mowing subject is extremely difficult. I have 1 for 10 pictures sharp on the eye when the kid is even trying to stay still 🙂 But i like the lens anyway. Just wishful thinking about accurate AF. Or at least electronics so magnification works immediately when i turn the focus ring. That would be nice too.
I attach my favourite picture i took with 85mm 1.4. Focusing on moving subjects while i was walking myself with camera on a waist level to try to block the setting sun a bit. Came out good i think. https://www.flickr.com/photos/130537553@N02/16302072543/
A perfect example of Sony posterization !
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130537553@N02/16302072543/sizes/o/
Also green and purple fringing, blown out highlights, faulty blacks, magenta and green cast (part of Sony’s algorithm). Just horrible.
I would respond to the merit but since you are just frustrated A-hole and pretty much crowned jackass of this website then i will just ask you nicely to stay away from my posts you little troll.
Agreed 100%. I am an a-hole. But not frustrated. Using Sony did make photography a frustrating experience. And Nikon initially was difficult but you should read my blog from the bottom up. It’s there to help people like you.
I almost felt sorry for you (and I should) but your photos are really horrible from a technical standpoint. You have talent and a good eye but your equipment is just getting in the absolute way. Many of your photos demonstrate almost every Sony shortcoming in a single shot.
You have a chance to learn and switch course, or take it like a hurt child and end up with a portfolio of 1000s of worthless faulty images.
Your choice.
https://sonyvnikon.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/dove-on-roof.jpg
First of all, learn from you? I am sorry but who are you? Apart from being holy crusader against Sony heresy? You are some kind of authority? You realise that by your actions, you made yourself least credible person on any photo related sites i have ever seen? Apart from that, you are saying that if i don’t switch to Nikon i will end up with 1000 s of worthless faulty pictures. Worthless for whom? You? And who said my pictures should be worth something for you or anybody else except me?
I make pictures for fun. Grab my camera, walking around and shoot what i like when i like. If i was suppose to drag 2kg of body and glass on my neck, i would not do that. Not even if the camera $hit gold. Get it? I do not care if Nikon has 20% more resolution, 3% more dynamic range, 4% less posterisation and whatever super awesome thing you will try to sell me. Nikon is not camera for me and i will not buy it. GET IT???
Btw, your a-holish comment about my picture is complately stupid either, just showing your level of knowledge and expertise. Blaming Sony for:
“posterization, green and purple fringing, blown out highlights, faulty blacks, magenta and green cast (part of Sony’s algorithm). Just horrible.”
So there you go. I am just an amateur but i will give you a bit of a lesson.
1: You are judging posterisation on compressed JPG? Really?
2: Blaming Sony for green and purple fringing? Call me stupid but i really thought chromatic aberration is a fault of the lens, in this case Samyang lens! But you know better, it’s Sony’s fault.
3: “blown out highlights”? Of course you know better, even though i have the raw file and there is no blown out highlights except 2 tiny dots that i pushet myself in post. Raw file had zero blown out highlights nor blacks in that matter.
4: “Faulty blacks”? I really do not even know what it means in your head. But i am sure you are right, the blacks are completely faulty
5: “magenta and green cast”. Sony’s fault? You haven;t even see the RAW file. I edited file to my liking including colour adjustments. In fact, the only thing i didn’t edit was correcting chromatic aberration. How do you judge what cast the camera sensor did then?
You see, i am just an amateur. I appreciate the constructive critique a lot because i would like to learn more. But i am smart enough to see what is a constructive critique and what is just being a-holish. You are just falling 100% to the second category.
If you said my editing skills are bad, then it would be something to talk about. But blaming Sony for mine or Samyang’s shortcomings, you are just making fool of yourself.
I never directly implied that the CA was caused by Sony. The POS lens and you’re choice to shoot wide open are entirely to blame for that. The rest of the defects are all Sony.
Who knows about your editing skills? It’s impossible to know when your files start out so far in the hole. That’s the problem with Sony.
You don’t want Nikon – neither did I for close to 3 years, I really believed my great lenses, the Sony system would give the best results.
But honestly, an open mind, a single comparison, side by side and I knew that Sony had robbed me of resolution, color and possibilities in post for tens of thousands of photos.
Maybe Canon does as well. Maybe not. But I made a commitment to the ZF.2 lenses when I was still using the NEX7 and in large part because I knew if I was headed towards the highest IQ possible, it was most likely going to come from Nikon.
You have the equivalent of $2000 in your Sony/Samyang system. For about that price you could have a new D5300 and Nikon’s excellent 70-200 VR lens (used).
While I rarely recommend zoom lenses this one shoots well enough that you won’t miss having a prime for a single length.
Another $600 (a rounding error for most people) and you could have the 7200.
if you wanted highest possible IQ you may well be shooting foveon 🙂
i think nearly all the “issues” with his pic stem from the lens, and bayer sensor
Not Sony’s fault. 🙂
It’s available in other mounts also, not just A and E mounts.
I still don’t get why they put “D-6” on their teaser
It has been bothered me for days. Someone help me please.
I guess it’s the 6th with DSLR design in their roadmap (of course, it’s not announced as the 6th, maybe because they changed the strategy)
6 days to go before release
Guys, get the excellent FE 90mm instead.
Twice the price, manual focus-by-wire. However I expect the by-wire feel to be pretty good and the final say will be images.
Don’t know, so far the fly-by-wire MF has been pretty bad, in every E-Mount kit config i’ve tried in the store. And it is one of the major showstoppers for me. I can see A6000 with a kit lens being in my camera bag, but A7II is not there yet to replace my A-mount gear.
I’m so-so about it as well, that sliight delay..looking toward the horizon I wonder what an FE 90 macro you paid 1099USD for in 2015 will cost to fix in 2025 if the motor is dead, preventing any kind of focusing, even if the parts can be acquired.
why would you still want to use it in 2025… come on, I will want to use a 2025 lens when it is 2025.
Have you actually looked at the photos of the the 90/2.8? It’s not focus by wire…
As much as I dislike people ending sentences like this……..
I shall say I’m somewhat embarrased and surprised. Good news, everyone! When the motor dies the lens won’t be completely useless, unlike many other Sony E lenses.
Still, someone saying “Eh, guys, get the Elise instead” obviously has a different set of monetary constraints than lots of others.
where is the A99 replacement? Wasn’t this rumored to release forever ago?
Manual Focus? creap!
I might have to sell my Tokina AT-X 90/2.5 for this. I’ve been waiting for this lens for a long time!
This is a nice looking MF lens! And the photo samples look amazing. This may be a steal $550 for a macro that quite possibly will make a good portrait lens as well on FF. I wonder how it will stack up against their 85mm. That lens is incredibly sharp.
Why do so many people complain they don’t make AF lenses? They just don’t. Its doesn’t work for their business model. Any MF lens user is appreciative of manufacturers that still build them because it keeps the cost down and the optics from this company have been really great. Ive used the 35mm and the 85mm and both are very very sharp, albeit a little big and heavy.
Possibly with a7ii, but I wouldn’t touch it on a body that doesn’t have ibis…
“body that doesn’t have ibis” sounds like someone suffering from a disease, but yes, image stabilization for a 100mm macro is very useful. Especially sans flash.
“Cine” version is same lens that holds small amount of popcorn in the lens hood.
This is a good option for Sony users since Sony is selling an outdated 100mm f2.8 at 749USD, The new Sony FE 90mm f2.8 G OSS at 999USD and Tamron offers their updated 90mm f2.8 VC USD at 749USD.
But in Canon, I don’t see the new Rokinon macro lens as a good deal at all. For 50USD less you can get a 100mm f2.8 macro that maintains the same lenght while focusing and has USM AF!