(FT5) UPDATED-> Samyang will make two new FourThirds lenses! The 85mm f/1.4 and 8mm f/3.5 fisheye!

The Samyang 85mm f/1.4 Aspherical Manual Focus Lens

UPDATE: Samyang will also launche a new 35mm f/1.4 lens in Q2!

Source: lenstip
In an Interview with Lenstip Mr. Lee (Director of Sales & Marekting Samyang Optics) confirmed that they will produce the two lenses for FourThirds mount (no word about MicroFourThirds)
“LensTip.com: Do you plan to introduce lenses with the 4/3 mount?
Mr. Lee: We are currently adding this mount to 85mm and 8mm products. They will be released in 1st quarter of 2010. 4/3 mount will be available for all future products. ”

More informations about the lenses:
- Samyang 8mm
- Samyang 85mm f/1.4

Lenstip reviewed both lenses:
- Samyang 8mm review
- Samyang 85mm review

Thanks Jerry for sending the link!

You can find Samyang lenses (Canon/Nikon/Sony/Pentax mounts) in:
Amazon UK /

/ Adorama

Samyang 8 mm f/3.5 Aspherical IF MC Fish-eye lens

a little bit of everything…

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Ranger 9

4 years ago | Reply

Since the Samyang lenses are manual focus only, at least for once these wouldn’t be too burdensome to use on Micro Four Thirds via an adapter. I sometimes use an old Canon screwmount 85mm f/1.5 on my Micro Four Thirds camera (Pana G1) and can comfirm that this is a very useful focal length… although holding still is a challenge!

David

I don’t know why they didn’t say this in the first place!
Its a manual lens! All you need to do is take the Nikon version, add a <$1 Fmount to 4/3 adaptor and you have a 4/3rds lens!

All the old Zeiss Nikon lenses were also 4/3rds as all were also manual. Only just recently did Zeiss offer Aperture control on the F mount series.

Focusing on this lens should be easy on a E3, I curently use Nikon 50mm F1.2 with out trouble.

AltraOttica » Blog Archive » Goodmorning 08.12.09

[...] sono quasi sempre manuali. L’offerta Samyang si è ora allargata al mercato QuattroTerzi, con il fisheye 8mm f/3.5, il 35mm ed l’85mm entrambi f/1.4. Gli utenti di queste macchine ne saranno contenti, vista la penuria di ottiche per questo sistema. [...]