This is the first leaked image of the soon to be announced new Samyang 45mm f/1.8 FE autofocus lens!

This is a very small compact lens that I think could become very popular. Here you can see a size comparison between the new FE lens and the other three lenses announced by Samyang in April:

Nice!!!

Nokishita confirmed what we reported weeks ago: The new Zeiss Ventum 21mm f/2.8 is an E-mount lens meant to be used for aerial applications. It’s a stripped down Loxia 21mm lens: that is made to be as light as possible. Zeiss advertises this lens as:

– Lightweight lens for new perspectives
– excellent for aerial applications
– Fixed focus settings to reduce number of moving parts
– Splash-water and dust-regstant lens housing

The lens should be announced shortly…

Tokina will finally launch the new 100mm f/2.8 FE macro autofocus lens on April 26. This is Tokinas second autofocus FE lens after the well known FiRIN 20mm f/2 FE AF Lens (here at BHphoto and Adorama)

Below you can see this lens displayed at last years Photokina show:

via Nokishita

Yongnuo will soon launch three new E-mount products: On the image on top from left to right you see their new Flash for Sony camera, the 50mm f/1.8 Full Frame E-mount lens and the 50mm f/1.8 APS-C E-mount lens.

The lenses will be priced just below $100 just like these lenses.

This is the first image of the new Yongnuo 50mm f/1.8 APS-C E-mount autofocus lens. It should cost less than $100 and be available on Amazon.

And here is the 50mm f/1.8 Full Frame autofocus version. This should be E-mount too but I got no 100% confirmation on that:

Sigma CEO Yamaki got interview at Dpreview. There are two news that might be interesting for our readers:

1. Sigma plans to launch a couple of properly designed Full Frame mirrorless L-mount lenses by end 2019. While Yamaki doesn’t mention it I am certain those very same lenses will be launched as native E-mount versions too
2. Sigma is considering to launch smaller and more compact (f/2.0?) primes for mirrorless FF cameras. Nice idea!

Can’t wait to see all those new E-mount lenses!

We will soon et another new $5,000 lens from Zeiss. The Otus 100mm f/1.4 should be announced very soon and be available as usual in Canon EF and Nikon F mount version. This manual focus lens can be adapted on any Sony E-mount camera too. Here are the specs:

Lens constitution: 11 groups 14 pieces
Minimum shooting distance: 1.0 m
Maximum shooting magnification: 1: 8.6
Filter diameter: 86 mm
Maximum diameter: 100.7 mm
Focus ring diameter: 90.0 mm
Total length (including the lens cap): ZE: 152.3 mm ZF. 2: 150.1 mm
Total length (excluding the lens cap): ZE: 128.8 mm ZF. 2: 126.5 mm
Weight: ZE: 1405g ZF. 2: 1336g

via Nokishita