Samyang/Rokinon announced via facebook that they new 8mm f/2.8 for NEX will arrive in March. It should be about as small as the [shoplink 11233 ebay]7.5mm f/2.8 Micro Four Thirds[/shoplink] version (that I heard from my sources). As you already I am not a big fisheye fan but I like Samyang lenses that usually deliver a pretty decent quality considering the low price of their lenses.
Be aware that if you live in USA than you will find their lenses under the Rokinon brand (here on Amazon), in Europe they are branded as Samyang ([shoplink 11234 ebay]here on eBay[/shoplink]), in UK you can find them with the name Wallimex (here on Amazon UK). Quite confusing 🙂
Anyway, Sigma and Samyang really shoudl make some fast primes. We need them!
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Great!
Nice!
awesome!! samyang lenses are amazing
Finally!!! this is the lens i was waiting for to close ( for now ) my line up
(??) 8/2.8 fisheye (??)
16/2.8
voigthlander 28/2 ultron
Leica 40/2 Summicron-c
all in a nex-5, maybe a 7 when they arrive to the 2nd hand market…
really good news
Nice lineup!
wow..all of them excelent for low light…great!
very interesting! andrea please give us some news about new A-mount lens 🙂 thank you
I am very impressed. The future is looking very bright for E mount. This makes 12mm lens, cool. I like how Samyang lenses look.
This was supposed to have come out a while ago. I guess they are busy printing out the dozen or so brand names they sell them under! 🙂
I think you’re thinking about their Samyang 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye for NEX
No. They said (or the Polish site said) that they will bring out a NEX mount fisheye when they announced the 7.5mm fisheye for the m4/3rds. The title of this thread is a lens for the NEX! 🙂
i think JW keyword was F/3.5, not F2.8, but it could be really cool to have 2.8~ xD
I did overlook the f/3.5 but I was talking about the m4/3rds equivalent with f/2.8.
It isn’t necessarily a fisheye lens, right? I would love a non-fisheye 8mm wide!
The conversation the quote appears in is about their 8mm fisheye with a Canon mount.
“hey i have a sony nex, and wanted the rokinon 8mm, is there a difference if i buy the rokinon 8mm for canon and just use an adapter? or am i only entitled to the e-mount version thanks!
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Rokinon: “There is not much of a difference. However, we will be coming out with a much smaller 8mm F2.8 for Sony E Mount in about 2 months”
Is it AUTOFOCUS?
Nope.
There’s such DoF on an 8mm that focussing is often not much of an issue.
Yup. Set to infinity and anything closer than 1m (or less) will be in focus.
You got that backwards, also it’s a bit farther than 1m, but that’s the idea.
If this lens is anything like the prior versions, you’ll also want to stop down a couple stops and probably just leave it that way. Their past 8mm fish-eyes are excellent at about ƒ/5.6-ƒ/8.
Lol oops, I meant further than 1m!
The normal thing is to set 8mm to about 2M and most things will be in focus up to infinity.
Admin,
What about in Canada?
Rokinon (Samyang) are available in Canada via http://www.amazon.ca
I bought my 85mm f1.4 from them for $300.00 and the overnight shipping was a mere $7.00! Everything arrived perfect and the Rokinon box is quite decent/solid for shipping.
Very exciting news. Sounds like the glass will be here long before the NEX-7!
Sony just told me another batch of NEX7s will ship out on January 27 (3rd delay on my ‘ship date’). It’s hard to believe anything they say at this point, but I suspect everyone will have their orders filled by the end of April.
As much as I’d like to go with another manufacturer at this point, the NEX-7 is just a great fit for my needs. Maybe I’ll consider the new Fuji after some thorough reviews, but it’s a bit large at first glance and I think its video set won’t compare.
The biggest draw to the NEX7 system for me is all of this new 3rd party glass which is what makes it such a versatile beast. Sony has me by the nads and they know it! I’ll just cough when they want me to…
in the US they are also re badge as vivitar 1 too.
more rumors pls admin, CP+ getting close ^^
Really good news. Keep ’em coming!!!
Looks like it won’t have DOF scale. It’s pity.
DOF scale on 8mm is useless.
Correct! You can shoot with your eyes closed with this lens. Depth of field scale? Obviously someone who has never used this kind of lens before.
Sorry, but am I the only one who is thinking..WHAT ABOUT A MOUNT LENSES!!
Yes, I know that the NEX is Sony’s favourite child at the moment and that they have to support them, no argument about that, but that’s all we hear about these days.
Do Sony not realise, that A65/77 owners also need new glass. The lenses available are old and need urgent replacement but Sony does not seem to realise the need to support these cameras. Please also, Sony, remember the amateur photographers who buy the most A65/77 cameras. We need multi-purpose lenses of good quality. We cannot afford a lens for every occasion (can’t carry them nowadays either).
Come on Sony, Lets have some nice stuff for the A mount.
It’s pointless. SLT is dead from birth. Its the only advantage is fast phase auto focus, but this advantage will be eliminated in the very near future, with new defocus estimation algorithms based on learning are getting mature.
In your logic, all technologies will eventually be obsolete, including mirrorless and DSLR…. eventually, they will link a card to our eyes , and we can take ultra dynamic range pictures with a blink of an eye…..
Do a search in the thread, the new alpha mount supposed to be announced with the new Fullframe.
anyway, isnt the 16-50mm new ?
Huh? Which lenses are old and need urgent replacing?
Zeiss 24 is amazing
The 35G is brilliant too. I have one, and don’t listen to people who moan that it’s soft. It isn’t.
The 50 is slightly lacking, but a new one due soon
The 85/1.4 is incredible – better than the Canon 1.2L, and it can focus well unlike the Canon
135/1.8 is in a league of its own. Better than anything else you can get period.
16-35 is a fantastic lens. Optically superior to the canon L according to pretty much everyone who has used it
24-70 is the same. Better than the L which is a running joke among Canon users for terrible focus issues and corner softness
Sony 70-200 is pretty equivalent to the rest – still a great performer
The 70-400 is brilliant too
You also have the good value 35/1.8, 16-50/2.8 (far cheaper than Canon/Nikon alternatives) and the 85/2.8 which is surprisingly good.
I admit that the midrange is lacking, but the rest of Sony lenses are great. Add a 16-35/f4, 85/1.8, 24-105/f4 and other midrange lenses, and the lineup is fantastic.
PLUS, every lens is stabilised, so all those fast primes you can hand-hold another 2-4 stops. That’s a huge WIN in my books.
Would be nice if they bring the 85/1.4 to E-mount so I don’t have to buy an adapter.
are you factoring in the crop? If not, then the 50 1.8 should suit you fine (about 85 if I’m not mistaken on aps-c)
There is a significant difference between an 85 and a 50, even on ASP-C. If one requires or wants an 85, a 50 just will not do, especially the DOF difference on a fast lens.
An 85mm on APS-C is almost 135mm equivalent, which is/was popular FL on FF/film especially for portraiture.
The 50/1.8 is still a little off for portraits (particularly head shots) as it is a bit short at 75mm equivalent; that is, not enough compression. At the same time, it is too long or constricting for general purpose – a native 35/1.8 would have been good for this because it would be equivalent to a normal/standard lens. I still think Sony should have made a 35/1.8 before the 50/1.8. Maybe sometime this year we’ll see one.
Is there any difference between Samyang and Rokinon? Is it the same lens, just branding issue or the lens itself is different – like place of manufacturing, etc.?
I have the privilege of testing the new and soon to be released Samyang 8mm F/2.8 fisheye lens, and surely it doesn’t disappoint! I already have one on Nikon F-mount, and it is by far the best fisheye lens I’ve ever used. The lens design is unconventional, in the sense that it employs the use of stereographic projection instead of the more commonly favoured linear projection. Subjects i.e. people ar not distorted beyond proportions, and hence making it very usable in most situations. Check out some of the images taken with this lens on Sony NEX 5 : (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150517639303731.380031.561653730&type=3)
If the link doesn’t work, check out my FB Album under ‘Wesley Wong Soo Ming’.