Samsung will announce a new 20-50mm f/3.5-5.6 (non-OIS) compact zoom lens for the NX series - this was already mentioned during PMA, but now we also have a picture:
Size: 51x59mm
Weight: 164gr
The exact date of announcement was given.
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Who needs this lens?
If it was almost as small as a pancake then yes – but as it is it doesn’t make any sense.
We want a fast f/2.8 zoom Samsung!! Or at least more fast prime pancakes. Take a hint from Pentax!
ROTFL, it is neither small nor light. Here is full frame Pentax lens with wider zoom range, built for FF (yes, full frame – 36×24 mm) DSLR (so it should be much bigger and heavier than lens for mirrorless camera with 2,2 x smaller sensor):
http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/lenses/zooms/short/FAJ28-80f3.5-5.6.html
No comments :-/ Samsung should learn a lot, right now I can almost no gains of using their mirrorles system :-/
This one doesn’t exactly tickle my fancy either
This could be a nice lens for a small and compact a NX camera.
The actual 18-55mm kit lens is:
-63mm x 65.1mm (W x L)
-198gr (W)
That lens look small and 30-75mm (APS-C) can be nice…
I really don’t understand zooms like this (or 35-70mm zooms back in the film days). People would be much better off just using the Samsung 30mm pancake and you know, move their feet when they need to zoom. Not only is the 30mm much smaller it also gives DOF control…something no f/3.5-5.6 standard zoom can give you.
This lens is 12mm smaller and 6mm thinner than 18-55 ois kit and almost 30gr lighter. For a APS-C camera look good for me and 30-75mm is useful no too much difference to 28mm.
It has all the appearances of being a sub-kit lens, rather than a compact/lightweight alternative. Now, if it collapsed into itself like the Olympus E-P1′s kit lens, that would be worthwhile. If it afforded a faster aperture than a standard kit lens, say 3.5-4.5, or something more ambitious, than it would have greater attraction still. As it is, the lens offers token decreases in size and weight, and no OIS.
Yet to be seen are its distortion characteristics, which I suspect will be greatly improved over the more “ambitious” kit offerings. Perhaps it will be enough to justify its existence.
Samsung 20-50mm (30-75mm)
51mm x 59mm (W x H)
164gr
Olympus 14-42 (28-84mm)
62mm x 43mm (W x H)
150gr
Panasonic 14-45 (28-90mm)
60mm x 60mm (W x H)
195gr
Almost the same Panasonic focal and a little bit smaller and lighter for a APS-C zoom lens.
I suspect this lens isn’t the 20-50mm which is supposed to come out later this year but the 18-55mm non-OIS variant, a kit lens for NX5.
f5.6 at 50mm? Wow, that’s some impressive feast of optical engineering.
20-50mm f/3.5-5.6 LOL ….. 3.5 to 5.6 in this short range ? It better not cost more than a couple hundred and even at that I would not be interested