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It looks great lens 🙂 I like the flatness of image (due to first lens. It is quite flat in compare to eg. Distagon 2.8/15) and adaptation of removable hood.
Great work Samyang, it looks amazing, best super ultra-wide prime for APS-C
I think the picture used is of the version shown at the last Photokina [2012], which had a separate hood. I understand the production models will have an integrated hood.
No, I understand that hood is detachable. When it is attached, it looks like integrated one. But it is quite smart and lovely made that it could be detached anytime. Am I true?
@jojo:
> I think the picture used is of the version shown at the last Photokina [2012],
Nice catch!
I’m sure the picture (above) is old/outdated, because you can clearly see the “UMC” designation on the pictured lens, but the actual shipping model is “NCS” which replaces “UMC” (cannot do both).
There’s a different image here:
http://www.samyang-europe.com/index.php/new-products/the-price-of-new-samyang-10mm-f-2-8
The lens is shown with a hood. It isn’t clear to me whether the hood is detachable or integrated. Markings on the lens in this shot are slightly different (from the above, as used here on SAR), but neither “NCS” nor “UMC” is visible, so we don’t know how this was designated. Maybe they shot it that way on purpose, because they hoped to have their NCS system in place, but weren’t willing to hold up the lens and planned to ship it UMC if they had to…?
Any rumors about the mirrorless 12mm f/2 from Samyang?
You van not use any filter . Sorry Sanyang not this time .
Alonzo, see the filter adapter for the 14mm Samyang? Pretty cool, Cokin filters. I’m SURE Samyang will do similar for this bad boy. Now why’d anybody buy the E-mount is beyond me, though…I use lots of A-mount lenses on my A7R and I’m guessing the E-mount version has the same flange distance.
Gah. Hating on *ALL* the lensmakers, with their varying acronymns and lettercodes…
This lens is “ED AS NCS CS” —
ED = Extra Low Dispersion element(s)
AS = Aspherical element(s)
NCS = “Nano Coating System”
(I believe this is Samyang’s first Nanocoat, which they say is upgrade to “UMC” (which in turn replaced “MC”)
CS = uhh… ?
I too was irritated at the acronyms.
Who decides the naming convention, a committee of really cool 13-year-old’s?
Great lenses. I’m eyeing up their 14mm wide-angle. Manual? No problem…..
… and for full-frame?
Their 14mm is a FullFrame lens. The new 10mm seems to be aps-c specific.
If you mount the 14mm on a FF, and the 10mm on an aps-c, they will be almost identical in FOV. Just think of the new lens as a shrunk-down / lighter-weight version, specific to aps-c bodies. Both are 14element/10group builds… so it might even be the case that the new one is based on the older one!
Thanks for the helpful reply. Cheers.
I quite doubt it.
The 14mm is “14 lens elements, 10 groups, 1 ASP, 1 Hybrid ASP, 2 ED, 3 HR”
The new 10mm is “14 elements in 9 groups (2 ASP, 1 ED)”
They are different lenses, completely. The shape of the elements also differs.
@Max:
> The 14mm is “14 lens elements, 10 groups, 1 ASP, 1 Hybrid ASP, 2 ED, 3 HR”
> The new 10mm is “14 elements in 9 groups (2 ASP, 1 ED)”
> The shape of the elements also differs.
The 10mm is “14 elements divided into 10 groups” according to:
http://samyang-europe.com/index.php/new-products/new-samyang-10mm-f-2-8
Not sure where you got the info suggesting “9 groups”…?
But you seem to have more info than I turned up, since you seem to have seen a cutaway showing shape of the individual elements… I’d love a link to your source! I was looking for that info too, before I suggested they might be related designs.
Nano coating?
I want this lens but I shoot infrared as well as colour and the coatings on some lenses can affect the infrared light coming through to the sensor.
Any ideas on nano coating for an infrared converted camera?