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Samyang revival

Nevyn72

Nevyn72

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The longer zoom lenses look huge... and still no high quality, small 28mm FFL with AF for L-Mount available, no matter from which brand. Z04 Motzer

Same with a small & light 70-200/3.5-4.5.
 
But 100% sure are just the first two, right? I mean the UWA and the 24-60mm f/2.8...

The other two are "likely to be available too" :(

I don't know... Pizinni"s hit rate is now at 50% after the disappointment of the DJI mirrorles full frame camera.

What Samyang should do, imho, is a L - mount version of the AF pancake trio called "Remaster Slim", with the 21, 28 and 32mm in full frame for the Lumix S9 for 200€:

samyangus.com

Samyang Remaster Slim 3 Lens System •21mm •28mm •32mm (Sony FE)

Introducing Samyang's Remaster Slim—the ultimate lens for photographers who want versatility without the bulk. Inspired by classic point-and-shoot cameras, this compact lens offers the flexibility of three focal lengths—21mm F3.5, 28mm F3.5, and 32mm F2.8—all in one lightweight system. With its...
samyangus.com samyangus.com
 
Well if Samyang are finally releasing more lenses in L-mount then that's good news, even if none of them are designs that the system is crying out for. In my opinion they have missed the opportunity to establish themselves well in the alliance before Viltrox, Meike and TTArtisans take over the lower end. Still, none of those Chinese brands is offering zooms, which it looks like Samyang will.
 
According to L-rumours there are also a new 60-180/2.8 and 28-135/2.8 which are likely to come to the L-mount later (I don't know what the logic of this likelihood is as logically Samyang would have brought a whole slew of lenses to the L-mount by now, but that hasn't happened). Both of these lenses are very large, as you can imagine, and I'm sure they'll be very heavy too.
 
I presume that Samyang still thought that the L-mount market was still to small.

The new camera's (S1rii, S1ii, S1e) might be changing this. And ofcourse more and more BMD camera's are L-mount. Also a DJI camera is still rumored to be coming - that would change the whole ball game.

Leica is to small in volumes for them, and Sigma doesn't have recent new camera's with huge sales - but we never know what is coming ofcourse.

But perhaps they only bring their zooms - and let the primes for Viltrox and the unofficial L-mount chinese brands - that would make sense in a way
 
Jonathan-Mac said:
Both of these lenses are very large, as you can imagine, and I'm sure they'll be very heavy too
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Exactly. I think L-Mount has enough lens offerings from Leica, Panasonic and Sigma for big and heavy lenses. The most recent ones are the 200/2.0 and 135/1.4, the latter 300g heavier than its predecessor, despite the fact that it is a totally new design for MLU only and not for DSLRs.

I hope that the L-Mount alliance does not make the same mistake like MFT and Fuji and Nikon (APS-C). People do not want to have big lenses, if it is not mandatory required.

The whole point of MFT & APS-C sensor based systems is to have smaller lenses and smaller bodies. If you ignore this, people will pick in the long run the next bigger sensor format, because they get the same size and weight with a better image quality. No downside, only upside to switch to bigger formats.

Same goes on for fullframe. Medium Format becomes cheaper and lighter every year. With 100MP sensors and their cropping capabilities you can easily replace many lenses above 50mm (in FF terms).

I see this already with my Leica Q3 43 and its 60MP sensor. I just do not need a FFL between 50mm and 90mm anymore. It is more convenient to crop than to change lenses.

Therefore if the LMount alliance does not pay attention to this and does not offer more small lenses, they will loose old customers and new potential customers in the long run.
 
If Samyang stick to providing zooms, which the Chinese brands have not yet done, then that would be a good thing and fill a gap in the lens range IF those lenses are not too big and heavy. Everything seems to need to be f/2.8 or f/4 constant these days - why? It's perfectly possible to make a variable-aperture zoom that's good quality, sharp wide open and smaller and lighter than it would be if it had a constant maximum aperture through the zoom range. I saw 28-135mm and thought "Great!", then I saw it was constant f/2.8 and gigantic.
 
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