While we are all waiting for Sony and Zeiss to release new high quality lenses Samyang is not resting at all. After releasing that 35mm f/1.4 super quality and super cheap manual lens they now announced first on facebook than on their website that their next lens will be the 24mm f/1.4 fast wide angle! It will have 13 elements (in 12 groups) including four ED elements and two aspheric lenses. The Samyang 24mm should be in Stock by end of this year with Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Samsung NX, Sony Alpha and Four Thirds mounts.
Those are the two current Rokinon/Samyang lenses I recommend to you:
1) The 35mm f/1.4: In US you can find it as Rokinon at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and on [shoplink 7453 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. In Europe the name is Samyang and you can find it on [shoplink 7380 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and with the name Wallimex again on [shoplink 7831 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
2) The 85mm f/1.4: You can get for $274 on Amazon (Click here), branded with the name Rokinon on [shoplink 7456 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and branded with the name Samyang on [shoplink 7454 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
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No sony nex E mount?
Samyang are selling others of their lenses as E-Mount, therefore α might include E-Mount as well.
But to be honest, full frame wide angle lenses don’t really make sense on a NEX camera, since those are the few candidates that really could be constructed as pancakes or at least much smaller than their full frame equivalents…
awesome!
no e-mount?
and no AF either …
and no filter mount?
They said 77mm on their facebook page.
I’ll buy it! The fisheye I have is good cheap fun.
The 85/1.4 is an incredible lens for the price. Nice to see them making more, though I would like to see a smaller version for the mirrorless mounts, like e-mount and m43 mount
Damn Samyang! Why must you tempt me so.
Any one know how good the 85mm f/1.4, really is????
for lens reviews you should go to photozone.de (it is all english)
i personally think it is the best side because the test environment is always the same and they reviewed a ton of lenses so that you can compare them.
I wounder how much would it cost for Samyang to add a chip to Sony lenses, so that we could have them all stabilized. It would really be incredible.. and an incredible added value compared to canikon counterparts..
The problem I have with these high-value lenses besides not have any circuits back to the camera is light fall off is justa little too much on full-frames.
Take a good read of Kurt Munger’s review of the 35mm/f1.4
I only have so much room in my bag, and carrying a lens that doesn’t deliver at the opening (f1.4) I purchased it for is just a waste of money and bag space.
Me, I have both 24 and 35 covered with a 16-35/f2.8 & 24-70/f2.8 and the reason I would buy one of these is for the f/1.4 speed
if you don’t have a FF the little Sony 35mm does a nice job.
We shall see after it ships if its any good.
In the absence of an f1.4 wideangle from Minolta/Sony, it looks like I might have to get one of these.
I wonder how it’ll compare to the Canon FD equivalent.
All good focal lengths for the NEX-7, I’d think. Samyang are smart, and those lenses will handle great on that NEX too.
End of line.
I’m not sure if this is to scale or not.
http://peltarion.eu/img/comp/24mm.jpg
Will you have any rumors about the VG20 soon?
Amazing 24? amazingly large? 🙂
Slightly bigger than the 35/1.4, they said, so big for a prime.
There is no such thing as a compact 24/1.4, though. Even the Leica is fairly large.
Somehow I think Sony users are better off with the Zeiss 24 f2 or the Sigma 24 1.8. As nice as the Samyang will be optically, the extra stop or 2/3 of a stop will be made up for by SSS and AF.
If you shoot hand-held at twilight, then it matters. It means the difference between 1/3 and 1/6 of a second.
Sure, but it will cost more than double.
this lens is going to appeal to the filmmakers and MF junkies.. i know im excited as hell about this lens.
Now they are working on T/S lenses, which is good news!
Since there’s already a respectable amount of Sony NEX users, an E-Mount version would definitely make sense. If you manage to make it more compact, even better.
Very much looking forward to it happen!
Yup, an E-mount version would be great! Is the A-mount version already out?