Yongnuo has announced the new YN50mm F1.8S DA DSM for E-mount which will be available soon on Amazon and BHphoto. It’s listed on their website with a price tag of 699 Yuan.

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YONGNUO YN50mm F1.8S DA DSM

YN50mm F1.8S DA DSM is an automatic focus lens designed for the E mount APS-C frame digital camera of S, which has excellent performance in blurs background to highlight the main body, imaging sharpness, volume and weight.

Carry the digital stepping motor
Compared with the traditional DC motor, digital stepping motor (DSM) has fast start and stop response, high focusing accuracy and quieter focusing action, which is suitable for photo shooting and short film recording.

Electronic focus rings
Adopts electronic focus rings, supplemented by appropriate damping, which can provide smooth manual focus experience of high precision.

USB Firmware Upgrade
Equipped with USB interface, you can download the latest firmware from Yongnuo official website to upgrade the lens.

F1.8 Bright and large Aperture
Flexible use of F1.8 large aperture, easy to obtain a soft and beautiful blur effect. In low light environment you can also use a low sensitivity and high shutter for shooting.

Low dispersion glass lens
Adopts one low dispersion glass lens,which not only better suppress the dispersion problem, but also further improve the secondary spectrum.

Internal focus design, small and lightweight
Focusing lens set adopts internal focusing design,the weight is only about 146 grams, small and light, easy to carry.

7 groups of 8 pieces of optical structure design, nanometer multi-layer coating
Adopts 7 groups of 8 pieces of optical structure design, nanometer multi-layer coating process of lens can effectively improve the light transmittance and inhibit the ghost image and glare of backlight.

Gold-plated contact, metal bayonet
Adopts gold-plated contact and high-precision metal bayonet, it can effectively improve the signal conductivity and corrosion resistance.

Fast autofocus (AF) and manual focus (MF) are supported
Auto focus and manual focus are supported,you can choose the focus mode according to your shooting requirements.

Seven circular aperture blades
With 7 circular aperture blades, circular dispersion spots can be shot, and 14 star awn effects can be achieved by properly reducing the aperture.

Specifications:

Lens length is the distance from the mounting surface to the front of the lens.
In addition to the special specification, size and weight is only applicable to the lens.
The aperture can be set by the camera.

Xitek reports (google translate)

• 15mm T2.1 for Sony Full Frame (Price: 7980 yuan)
• 9mm T2.9 APS-C E-mount lens (Price: 3980 yuan)

Venus Optics writes (google translated text):

These wo lenses all have ultra-wide viewing angles, which can be more shocking in the creation. The large aperture design can bring greater light flux, which can ensure the purity of the picture in the shooting of specific scenes. In addition, these lenses have excellent close-up ability, which is conducive to the dramatic exaggeration of the picture. And these three lenses all adopt the design of low distortion or even “zero” distortion, which can reduce the correction work in the later period.

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Now this is very bad news: According to the latest BCNranking report the mirrorless market sales decreased by 50% in March. Consider that Japan didn’t even shut down the full economy like EU and US are doing right now!

The graph above shows that Sony is leading in terms of market share but take that with a grain of salt because sales were extremely low anyway. And I am sorry to say I am not an optimist: I think the virus will come back in waves multiple times til we get a vaccine sometimes in 2021 :(

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More than a year ago Sony did explain the E-mount size allows for very fats lens design. Still the myth about “large mount equals better lens performance” still persists. SLRlounge analyzed the myth saying that larger mounts are better. The simple answer is that NO this isn’t the case:

It all comes down to this: regardless of whichever lenses are optically possible, or even probable, that’s not even the final piece of the puzzle. The final piece is, of course, …which lenses do you see yourself actually buying and using?

Whatever slight difference there might be in the theoretical limits, or whatever exotic optics actually come to fruition, most photographers are going to be more than happy with any system. Indeed, they’re much better off choosing a system based on criteria that includes literally anything else…

There are many photographers who already know they love f/1.2 primes, of course. I just said that if I were exclusively a portrait photographer, Canon’s RF mount would be the most tempting choice, even though I could surely get any job done with any of the very impressive portrait lenses for Nikon or Sony. And, although I don’t think I’ll ever own the Nikon 58mm Noct, I’ll still look forward to seeing if Nikon makes their own 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm f/1.2 AF optics.

Sony FE could also get some of those exotic lenses, whether from Sony or Sigma or someone else. They might not be able to achieve the same level of extreme corner sharpness, as a vague prediction, but they’ve proven everyone wrong with fast glass corner sharpness multiple times already.

At the end of the day, that’s all we can say with any certainty- Almost anything is theoretically possible on Sony’s E-mount. But, maybe, just maybe, it is slightly less probable that we’ll actually see as large of a collection of “inconceivable” optical accomplishments. If true, though, it wouldn’t even be primarily a limitation of the mount, ironically, it would be simply due to Canon and Nikon’s desire to stand out.