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Samyang is now shipping the 8mm for NEX. I looked around but I didn’t find any store having it available for preorder. Usually you can find them on [shoplink 6779 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. Let me know if you can find the lens somewhere! Thanks!
That’s the official Samyang press release:
Krakow, May 5TH 2011.
Delta company, the sole distributor of Samyang products for Europe is proud to announce that Samyang 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 designed especially for Sony NEX-VG10, has been released for retail sale at price of EUR 299
Samyang 8mm f/3.6 Fish-eye CS VG10 is equipped with a bayonet Sony E mount and was designed for digital camcorder Sony NEX-VG10. Due to the camcorder’s one-off construction, the bayonet mount was carefully adjusted to ensure possibly widest field of vision and prevent vignetting. Just like in other lenses constructed for filming purposes, aperture adjustment is perfectly smooth.
Warranty
8mm f/3.6 Fish-eye CS VG10 lens is under 36-months warranty.
Price
Samyang 8mm f/3.6 Fish-eye CS VG10 – EUR 299 (gross)
Links to
– The Sony NEX-VG10 at [shopcountry 3058]
– Samyang 8mm lenses at [shopcountry 6779]
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well.. is it manual or automagic focus?
Sorting through other press release links and my previous ebay searches, everything had pointed to manual focus… I highly doubt this would be auto focus
Looking at the enlarged photo, it has a manual adjustable Aperature & Focus Ring. This would indicate manual.
as dpreview.com stated on 28 of february:
Samyang has released a version of its 8mm F3.5 Fish-eye lens optimized for the Sony NEX-VG10 camcorder. The 8mm f/3.5 Fish-Eye CS VG10 manual focus lens features the same optical construction as the still photography version, but has been adapted for smoother focusing. The company also plans to introduce a smaller f/2.8 E-mount optically redesigned version of the lens for the NEX-5/3 cameras.
It should be manual.
Only the next “official” Sony/Carl Zeiss lenses will be autofocus.
Samyang doesn’t produce AF Lenses since day one. Correct me if I am wrong.
Do want.
and manual focus is fine with lenses that wide, everything is in focus anyway!
any good mounting it on Nex camera to get some nice wide angle?
today 6th May, 54days to go A77/Nex7 😀
Thx Jinx for the link.