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UPDATED: DicaHub (translated) clarified the rumors and said while they are sure there will be a fast 35mm lens they still don’t know if it’s an autofocus lens. The lens will be announced tomorrow morning (March 21). They will unveil a Canon mount version with a Nikon and Sony versions likely to follow later during the year. One more thing: I read on other rumor sites that this could be a f/1.2 fast 35mm lens!
There will be also a new Samyang 10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS CS (manual focusing) lens and the picture can be seen here:
I still don’t know if the 35mm autofocus lens will come for both A and E-mounts!
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10 mm sounds good. Wonder if this is for FF or crop
10mm full frame??? I’ll have two 🙂
I can put your mind at ease. Its crop sensor lens. Its practically impossible to make a non distorting (i.e. non fisheye) lens of 10mm on FF cameras. The widest ever FF lens is 12mm. You get wider fisheye lenses but they don’t cover the full sensor area.
Typical – just after I bought the sigma 35mm…
You know the Sigma is better than the (current) Samyang right?
Hopefully it’ll also beat the new version (assuming it’s af)
What about 12mm f2.0 they announced last year?
didn’t they cancel the 50mm 1.2?
35mm F1.2? Thats exactly my next lens, if only Samyang would make mirrorless lenses, so this one could compete against the Voigtlander. I absolutely love the pics my current samyang 35mm 1.4 makes, but it’s just too large for me. Voigtlander 35mm F1.2 is the largest I wanna go…
if only more of their lenses were AF…..although I use MF a lot, I still like to have the AF option for times when I need quick shots…..still waiting for more FE mount lenses 🙁
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Ahhhh, Samyang, pls make more lenses for mirrorless systems like your lovely fisheyes.
This is great news and I hope Samyang is successful with their line of auto focus lenses. However, I hope they continue to offer great quality manual focus lenses at a significant discount. It’s convenient but not an absolute need to have an autofocus lenses for portrait, macro or landscape photography.
Samyang have stated on their website that these are MF lenses only. No AF lenses coming out in the near future. 🙁
Canon.
And that’s a shame, we will have to wait for the lenses to be released for Nikon or Sony to see what the performance potential is on a modern high resolution sensor. 🙁
Not fully true, I just use a Metabones adapter and have Canon EF glass on my A7, works pretty good, as long as you can live with slower AF. For me this is no issue as manual focus works very smoothly on the A7.
True but I don’t expect DxOmark to test this lens on an adaptor, more likely will test on the native mount, likely the 5DM3. When the Nikon version is released it will likely be tested on the D800, then a direct comparison can be made to the Otus and others all using a 36 megapixel sensor.
Isn’t it MORE than enough 35mm lenses for DSLRs?
I’d rather be kicked in the nutz by a Camel than use a Samyang lens.
Your loss – some of the sharpest camel dung this side of the Sahara – no shit!
That is the funniest thing I’ve heard all day!
I have the Samyang 85 f/1.4 and the Rokinon 8mm fisheye. I also have 12 SONY lenses, the most expensive of which is the 70-400 GII. Point is that I have plenty of high-quality glass to compare the Samyang to and if you claim that these Korean gems are no good, you don’t know what you are talking about.
No AF lenses said Samyang on their FB.
I’d be more interested to see Samyang come up with some manual focus zooms than develop auto focus.
Fixed length zooms please!
“Our Past Is Just a Story”. Who comes up with that s%$t? In other words: It wasn’t real. All imagination. The Samyang lens that I have here is a virtual lens and I am only imagining it. I think someone in marketing in Korea decided that some random English words in a pleasant-sounding sequence would be cool enough.
“Our past is just a story”… does this make any sense?
Does anyone know if the 10mm will be for full-frame cameras?
Hypothetical question: Assuming the 35mm is 1.2, which one do you think will be better, Voigtlander or Samyang?
Samyang will be cheaper, Voigtlaender rock solid, the IQ has to be compared once it is there.
I bought a 35mm 1.7 CCTV HD lens on e-bay, for around 73$ with the C mount adapter, the result is absolutely stunning. It needs no expensive stuff to make good shots, one just needs to find the best material at the lowest price. Add to that the small size of a CCTV lens and you’re done. The DOF is absolutely rocking.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/35mm-F1-6-HD-Movie-Lens-C-to-Sony-NEX-3-5-6-7-E-mount-Adapter-Lens-Hood-/181339973282?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item2a38b466a2
rectification, it’s a 1.6. They have a flickr site with samples here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael_lens/