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Rokinon has announced a pair of new lenses for mirrorless cameras. The new Rokinon 50mm f/1.2 and 21mm f/1.4 lenses will be available for Canon EF-M, Fujifilm X, Micro Four Thirds, and Sony E mounts.
Both lenses maintain the manual focus limitations of other Rokinon lenses; however, they deliver some solid specs for not much money.
The Rokinon 21mm f/1.4 lens retails for $499. Check it out here at B&H Photo.
The Rokinon 50mm f/1.2 lens retails for $549. Check it out here at B&H Photo.
ebay (via Red Tag Camera) has the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lens for $1399.95 (reg. $1999.95) in limited quantity and expiring later today. Check it out while it lasts here on ebay.
Note: This is likely a gray market item with no USA warranty. ebay seller Red Tag Camera has a 99.9% positive feedback rating at the time of this post.
Canon EF 11-24mm fl4L USM Lens Cutaway
I loving seeing these displays of lenses and other photo product cutaways at trade shows and expos. At the Canon Expo in New York last week, Canon had its EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM and EF 11-24mm f/4L USM lenses on display with them cut perfectly in half.
Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM Lens Cutaway
This gave us a view of the incredible engineering that goes into these modern professional lenses.
Zeiss has announced a collection of 6 lenses in its new Milvus line for Canon (ZE) and Nikon (ZF.2) mount cameras.
The new lenses consist of the following:
The lenses are manual focus only; however, the communicate electronically with the camera body to provide compatibility with program, aperture priority, shutter priority and manual modes. Additionally, they will communicate lens EXIF data to the camera.
The focus ring is a longer throw for precise focusing and enhanced use with video. Zeiss says the lens quality meets the latest standards for 6K video capture. The ZF.2 lenses offer the ability to declick the aperture for video use.
The new Zeiss Milvus lenses range in price from $1177 to $1843 and will be available in October 2015.
B&H has a pair massive lenses on display in its used department right now and are a couple of real deals. You can grab the pair of lenses for $197,000 total. [Read more…]
As if the Canon EOS 5Ds wasn’t enough already at 50MP, Canon has announced that it is developing a 120MP DSLR.
Canon says that “[t]he camera under development is being designed to facilitate a level of resolution more than sufficient for large-format printing and extensive cropping capability while maintaining fantastic image quality.”
Canon notes that the camera is built for the current EF system lenses; however, it will apparently not be compatible with all of the lenses in the Canon EF line. According to a footnote in Canon’s press release, “Out of the 96 lenses that make up the EF lens lineup, 60 models will be compatible with the [new 120MP DSLR].” [Read more…]
Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS II USM Lens Patent Diagram
In a recently published patent application, Canon details a new 35mm f/2 lens. You can see the optical formula in the above diagram.
The lens construction is 104.5mm long, so it is quite a bit longer than the current model at 62.6mm. The patent also covers a revised image stabilizing system to the current EF 35mm f/2 IS USM.
It was filed on March 31, 2015. You can read it for yourself below. As always, let me know if anything else jumps out. [Read more…]
Canon EF-S 15-55mm f/2.8-4 STM Lens Patent Diagram
A recently published Canon patent application reveals a couple new lenses for the APS-C format cameras. [Read more…]
Tamron has announce a pair of new prime lenses – the SP 35mm f/1.8 Di VC USD and the SP 45mm F/1.8 Di VC USD.
The new lenses are compatible with both full frame and APS-C format cameras. They are available in Canon and Nikon mounts beginning September 29, 2015 and will be available for Sony mount at a later date. Each lens retails for $599.
Alongside the GH4R and the V-Log firmware for the GH4, Panasonic also unveiled four new lenses, including the completely new Panasonic Lumix G 25mm f/1.7 ASPH. lens.
Other lens updates include: