Samyang announces 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC lens

Who needs AF ? I have taking pictures for 15 years whit Hasselblad.On a tripod whit mirror lock up and shutter release they are the best pictures i have ever took.

I hope they gonna build a 50mm f 1.0 and a 135mm F 1.4.They can do it for a normal price ,or a 200mm f 1.8. If they do that ,i am gonna buy them the same day all 3 off them.

You would imagine the press releases would have at least a bit more effort done to fix the horrible Korean to English translations :)

I can't wait to slap this on my D7000 for "calmer journalist and landscape photography".

Joking aside, should be awesome - I want a fast ~35mm for my D7k and I think this will fit the bill. Looks a bit heavy and big though.

Woud've been interested a few months ago, but with Leica announcing its 25mm f/1.4 for the M4/3 (MFT) mount, I'm going with that. They (Leica) even priced it relatively affordably at $1200.

K

guys, can you please at least read the pressrelease before posting questions? 

samyang makes manual focus primes, thats it! 

no, they will never make autofocus full metal superspeed primes not at this pricerange and not at all^^

for me personally this lens is physically do big for a 24 prime, but of course this comes with the speed of the lens, i own the nikon 20 2.8 and 24 2.8, so i guess i will not give it a try unless its super low distortion, which for me counts more than sharpness.

i had the 85 1.4 from samyang and it was extremely nice!

what i would want from samyang are tilt/shift lenses 20 50 105 all in f/2 and all macro hehe

This will make a perfect video lens on a crop sensor. Really looking forward to its release (hopefully at a reasonable price).

When they will start making AF ones??? Not that I can't focus manually, but it is too slow for my kind of work...

Good to see other brands of lenses. Canon need to pull their finger out.

Looking at the picture of the lens, I see an analog depth of field scale normally used on the old film camera manual focus lenses. Is this lens auto-focus or manual?

Is this crop-camera only?
That means it'll have worse vignetting and corner sharpness than their 35/1.4 (which has zero issues across the crop frame). But it looks smaller, which could be good.

not clear if Nikons model will be chipped for focus confirmation

Me sa like!))

Why not have auto focus?

is it as sharp as canon L series lens, nice option here thou. 1.4 is very nice will the price be as nice?

50/1.2 or faster would be pretty fun. As long as its as good or better than the 1.2's from ~30 years ago.

I have been eying the canon 24 1.4II. of this lens is priced around 450, and has the performance of the 35 1.4, and 14 2.8, I would certainly purchase it.

This is exactly the lens I've been waiting for.
Great for video in a crop format camera like my Canon 60D.

To have had 85mm / 1.4 and 35mm / 1.4, Samyang is a manufacturer just interesting at the level of the prices, to see also on the finish which is excellent but beyond that at the level performances, nothing that 85mm, the Sigma crushes him literally this even if it is 4x more expensively: the dive is 3x superior, AF HSM and not of MF... Furthermore if really we want to taste the bright quality without hurting too much its money, 85mm there is 85mm / 1.8 so much to Canon that at Nikon who are cheap and who are excellent.... At the level of 24mm, gives her is different because Nikon and Canon are extremely expensive, but it also depends on what we look, what is safe it is that Samyang will be far from the quality of the Canon and Nikon and it's worth buying one 24mm / 1.4 if it is to have to close in 2.8 minimum to have a correct neatness while all the manufacturers propose 24mm / 2.8 by dear without forgetting 24mm / 1.8 of Sigma which is rather very good... Samyang = Boofff

Hurray!!! the last i need ^^

Wake up Sony, Pentax, Canon, Nikon, etc. Samyang is pleasing cam users with succes

This lens has no focus confirmation in the camera ...correct? i.e. there is no electronic coupling of any kind...that is my understand. Can anyone help me out here. If this lens is sharp....AND it sells for $500...that is really a reasonable price. No doubt. (IF it is sharp)

Still waiting on the big two to jump in the bandwagon.

I'm thinking of getting a 4/3rd myself...

So, we should get a review from DPR right....

Putting a 4/3 mount on this lens seems a bit silly. Why a big, heavy, complex and expensive "normal" lens on a 4/3 camera? An f 1.4 24 mm lens for 4/3 can be simpler, lighter, less expensive and perform just as well.

HJ

Any guesses on price?

i get canon 24-105mm f4, 70-200mm f2.8, 90-300mm, 28-70mm. think i enout for me.

People used fast lenses long before AF became available. Should be just fine!

What good is a real fast lens (f/1.4) with a manual focus lens? It's not easy to get manual focus right wide open with such a wide aperture. I would not buy this kind of lens.