Samyang announces a 8mm fisheye lens for the Sony VG10!
That’s a suprise! Samyang just announced the new 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 lens designed specifically(!) for the Sony NEX-VG10. There are no info about the price and availability yet. They also said that “We are also about to introduce Samyang lens with Sony E mount for NEX system cameras.” You can find a few images of the lens at optyczne.pl.
Press release:
“Kraków, February 28 2011 – Delta company, the sole distributor of Samyang Optics for Poland and Europe, wishes to inform about the release of the manual Samyang 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 lens. The new lens comes with the bayonet mount and has been designed especially for Sony NEX-VG10 digital camcorder.
Due to its unique construction, the bayonet mount has been adjusted to ensure possibly wide field of vision without producing the vignetting effect. Just like in other lenses manufactured for filming purposes, aperture can be easily and smoothly adjusted.
New Samyang 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 lens will be officially introduced during the forthcoming Focus on Imaging fairs held in Birmingham. Exact date of the release as well as the product’s retail price will be given later.
We are also about to introduce Samyang lens with Sony E mount for NEX system cameras.”
Links to
- The Sony NEX-VG10 at Amazon, Adorama, B&H, J&R, eBay
- The current Smayang 8mm lenses at Amazon, Adorama, B&H, J&R, eBay
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Comment from CommonSense: Interesting lens.
Samyang, bring more l...
Comment from Carl: Lenstip are rather proud of their Polish...
Comment from daniel: unless the still camera is really meant ...
Comment from Cyberacc: I'd be very wary of this translation. Th...
kevin
2 years ago |I’ll ask the obvious question: How can the lens be designed specifically for the NEX-VG10 rather than for all E-mount cameras in general?
mugen
2 years ago |Wondering same here Kevin
Wiggin
2 years ago |I think the difference will be “smoothly adjustable aperture”, normal version of that lens (i have the alpha mount version) has a normal aperture with notches. Also the manual focus could be differen. Samyang has a “video” version of this lens already, equipped with follow focus system, but this does not seem to have that:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1009/10092209samyangvdslr8mm.asp
Maley
2 years ago |Just like in other lenses manufactured for filming purposes, aperture can be easily and smoothly adjusted.
I guess thats what they mean, you wouldn’t need that for a still camera lens.
daniel
2 years ago |unless the still camera is really meant for video like the SLTs
GH
2 years ago |Of course, when you compare this to the 8mm they already made for Canon and Nikon, they basically just took that design and added more length to the lens, so I’m not sure what the advantage of this would be over just adapting the already available version.
Mattia
2 years ago |Boooooommmmm!!!! That’s what I was waiting for!! No doubt: my next lens for my Nex!!!
Cyberacc
2 years ago |I’d be very wary of this translation. Things that make me doubt the accuracy of this translation are “possibly wide field of vision”. What the hell do they mean “possibly”? Definitely poorly worded.
Another translation error is when they write about the distributor “for Poland and Europe”. Poland couldn’t be more central Europe, so shouldn’t this simply read “distributor for Europe”.
Therefore I’m convinced we need a better translation of this story.
Carl
2 years ago |Lenstip are rather proud of their Polishness. I’d say the redundancy is an intentional shout-out to their home market.
That said, they’re pretty notorious for dreadful English translations. So are Samyang Optics Co. for that matter.
CommonSense
2 years ago |Interesting lens.
Samyang, bring more lenses for E mount please.