Rumor: Samyang Working On A 50mm f/1.2 Lens (To Be Released In 2014)
Samyang working on a 50mm f/1.2 Lens? The question above has been posted on Samyang Asia’s Facebook page.
And the answer was, yes, Samyang (aka Rokinon) is working on a new 50mm f/1.2 lens, Canon mount among other mount types. This fits with a rumor I reported in the past (click here), but then the talk was about a 50mm f/1.4. It will not be an imminent release: As Samyang Asia writes on Facebook, the lens will be here “perhaps 2014″.
Samyang/Rokinon is known to build lenses with high optical performance, and that have to be manually operated. Their latest product is the brand new 35mm f/1.4 Aspherical Lens ($479) pictured below.
Rokinon 35mm f/1.4 price check: Amazon, B&H, Adorama, Canon USA, J&R, Digitalrev, eBay, rent it at Borrow Lenses
Bob B.
4 months ago |A manual-focus 50mm f/1.2 would definitely sell…IF it offered “great” optics and was priced well below the Zeiss. Sound like a job for Rokinon!
Nick
4 months ago |Actually, the newest from Samyang/Rokinon, is the 24mm f1.4. They have announced but not released, a 24mm f3.5 TS