Samyang posted this teaser image for a new Sony FE lens. Strange enough Samyang Korea made a mistake and already published the full product page. Here are the images with the official press text:

This lens is small and lightweight to carry anywhere, anytime and has a clear resolution that can capture the beauty of everyday life and people. The angle of view and shooting distance are natural, making it ideal for recording everyday life. Thanks to the large aperture, F1.8 and excellent optical system, the bokeh is beautiful, round, and the background is calm, making the subject stand out more. Experience a quiet and accurate AF system for video shooting and a new Custom Switch for custom modes.

Optimized for portraits and everyday photography, the AF 75mm F1.8 FE is compact, lightweight, yet has great performance and versatility. It’s only 230g, so it’s perfect for taking photos on a variety of topics anytime, anywhere. The optical system is sophisticatedly designed with Samyang’s original optical technology, providing excellent resolution from corner to corner of the image to the surroundings. In particular, the large diameter of F1.8 presents a large and beautiful bokeh, the bokeh is more clean and the background blur is more calm by correcting various aberrations and designing the optimal optical path.
Thanks to the new Stepping Motor (STM), AF performance is quiet and accurate, allowing you to take more natural portraits. Also, here comes the new Custom Switch! You can switch to Aperture Control Mode according to Modes 1 and 2, and you will be able to select more various shooting modes with the upcoming firware updates. Experience Samyang’s next-generation lens in new angle of view.

The AF 75mm F1.8 FE is only 230g in weight and 69mm in height, so it’s easy to carry and fits perfectly with a compact mirrorless camera. Enjoy the clear image quality with the compact telephoto lens that can be used anytime, anywhere.

After switching from range finder to SLR and to mirrorless system, the forgotten 75mm angle of view is now reborn as a full-frame AF lens! Take your everyday life with the legendary angle of view 75mm that captures both the story and the character.

The subject and background are effectively separated, creating an impressive sense of depth when the large round bokeh, calm background blurring, and high contrast achieve the optimal balance. Samyang’s original optical design delivers unique depth of field even in a similar angle of view and aperture. Capture your beautiful everyday life more impressively.

Only by carefully designing and simulating the path of light can you complete a large and beautiful bokeh that cannot be captured by a mobile phone. We hope you will experience the best bokeh that is beautifully designed after many years of research in shape, color, border, and minimized chromatic aberration.

Samyang’s original technology put everything in concise 10 lenses in 7 groups. In order to effectively control chromatic aberration, three extra low-dispersion lenses (ED) with achromat are used, and high-refractive lenses (HR) with excellent refractive index are used to achieve a small size of Ø65 x 69mm. In addition, the UMC coating is applied to minimize unnecessary internal reflections, resulting in high contrast and sharp images.

Now Autofocus needs to consider not only how more accurately and quickly it captures images, but also how quiet and smooth it is. Thanks to the newly researched and developed STM (Stepping Motor), a larger and heavier focus lens group can be controlled more quietly and precisely, providing excellent image quality in photos and videos.

Equipped with the Custom Wwitch, shooting and operation is more intuitive and simple. You can easily select various functions such as Aperture Control Mode from the Switch, and enjoy the shooting mode that suits your personal preference. More functions will be added through firmware update in the future.

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No info on pricing yet.

Links to all current Samyang/Rokinon FF E-mount AF lenses:
14mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
18mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
24mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
35mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
35mm f/1.4 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
45mm f/1.8 at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
50mm f/1.4 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
85mm f/1.4 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.

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Thanks Silas and Sans miroir!

Sony postponed their next product announcement from April 20 to April 30th at 10:00 AM EDT. Like I told you before this is what we will get:

• Three new Cine E-mount lenses
• New E-mount camcorder (FX6?)
• Definitely no new A7IV camera but maybe at leats some kind of teaser info about the new A7sII successor?

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via Nofilmschool

A Japanese magazine leaked this new Voigtlander  35mm f/1.2 SE E-mount lens. Note that this lens has an “SE” mark. Don’t know what this is about. Moreover the magazine says there will be “SE” version of the current 40mm and 50mm Voigtlander lenses too!

These lenses will be announced tomorrow (April 17).  The retail price of 40 mm is 97,800 yen including tax, 35 mm and 50 mm are 118,000 yen including tax.

All current Voigtlander FE lenses:
Voigtlander 10mm f/5.6 FE at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
Voigtlander 12mm f/5.6 FE at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
Voigtlander 15mm Skopar at BHphoto.
Voigtlander 21mm f/1.4 FE at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
Voigtlander 35mm f/1.4 FE at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
Voigtlander Color Skopar 21mm f/3.5 E-mount lens at Amazon and BHphoto.
Voigtlander 40mm f/1.2 FE at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
Voigtlander 50mm f/1.2 FE at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
Voigtlander 65mm f/2.0 FE at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.
Voigtlander 110mm f/2.5 FE at BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.

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via Nokishita

As you know next week on April 20 at 9:00am PST / 12:00 EST there will be a new Sony product announcement. I do not expect any A7 camera news. There should be some info about the new Cine E-mount lenses launched last year (see image on top) and maybe a new FX6 E-mount camcorder. Latest I got from a new source says this:

“PXW-FX6 to be announced next week with a new H265 codec.
No A7sIII or A7iv”

No idea yet it this info is correct. Drop me a message if yo can confirm it. Thanks!

Now this is funny: A reliable source told me that the new Tamron lenses coming this year will be “exciting for the Sony Alpha Rumors community“. I asked him what exactly this means and he said that Tamron is aware that SAR readers weren’t that much happy with the f/2.8 primes. The new lenses will be more appealing for our readers and he also told me some of these lenses would be actually have the specs readers requested.

For obvious reason the source couldn’t share the specs of the three lenses….yet. But My guess is that this means some of these lenses might be FAST primes and 1-2 of them may be long tele zoom. My guess is based on the comments you left in the past months…

All current Tamron FE lenses

Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 FE:
In the USA at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama and FocusCamera.
In Eu at FotoKoch DE, Calumet DE, WexUK and ParkCameras.

Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 FE:
In the USA at BHphoto, Amazon, FocusCamera, BuyDig and Adorama.
In Europe it’s available at Amazon DE, Calumet DE, WexUK, Park UK, Amazon IT, Amazon FR, Amazon ES, CameraTools NL.

Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 FE:
Tamron 28-75mm lens at at Amazon, Bhphoto, FocusCamera and Adorama. in Europe at Amazon DE, Amazon UK and Amazon FR.

All links to the new Tamron FE primes:
Tamron 20mm  f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
Tamron 24mm  f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.
Tamron 35mm  f/2.8 at Adorama, FocusCamera and BHphoto.

From reliable sources we know that Zeiss wants to further focus on the Full Frame mirrorelss system. I got no reliable details to share yet. All we heard from a new source is that Zeiss is considering to launch a sort of high quality Otus series for mirrorless cameras.

Sources are welcome to confirm this info by dropping a message using our contact form or sonyalpharumors@gmail.com mail.

There will be a new Sony product announcement on April 20 at 9:00am PST / 12:00 EST. And I do expect those news:

• 99% chance: New Cine E-mount lenses
• 60% chance: New camcorders (maybe E-mount FX6?)
• 10% chance: Sony might share some “general” development news about the A7sII successor

Back in January Sony also registered a new fixed lens camera using the NP-BX1 battery. But with the Covid19 outbreak I don’t know if this camera will be announced on April 20…