Voigtlander officially announced the new 50mm f/1.2 FE and the new 21mm f/1.4 FE lenses

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Cosina Japan just announced two new FE lenses:

The 50mm f/1.2 (details here). Shipment start in April for 150,000 YEN.
And the development of a new 21mm f/1.4 FE (on PDF file here).

UPDATE: Here is the world’s first image of the new 21mm lens:

Specs:

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UPDATE: Epic confusion on those Tamron 35mm f/1.4 and 35-150mm prototypes :(

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UPDATED: At the Cp+ show today Tamron is showing the new 17-28mm FE along with the 35mm and 35-150mm DSLR lenses marked with an “E”. At first I thought this might be new E-mount prototypes but I now learned they are regular Canon EF versions.

There seems to have been a confusion with the reports I got from the CP+ show because the lenses had an “E” marking and were displayed together with the two other FE zooms making it look like these would be E-mount versiosn of the recently announced new DSLR lenses.

But thanks to my readers I learned that these unfinished prototypes are “weight” samples which means they are only there so that you can grab them and feel the weight.

Sorry folks, but I got mislead too by the reports I got from the CP+ show.  My apologies!

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Sony 135mm GM vs the Sigma 135mm vs the 135mm Batis

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Camerasize added the new Sony 135mm GM in their database. Here is the size comaprison with the Sigma 135mm f/1.8 and Zeiss 135mm f/2.8.

Preorders for the “SEL135F18GM” lens (open on Feb 28):
Sony 135mm GM at BHphoto and Adorama.
Sony RMT-P1BT remote commander at BHphoto and Adorama.

And here is how Sony pitched the new lens when comparing it with the Sigma and Zeiss (Screengrabs from Manny Ortiz video):

And another comparison with the Batis by Jason Vong:

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