Today Samyang released the 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 lens designed specifically for the Sony NEX-VG10 digital camcorder. Price and availability will be announced at a later date.
Press release:
Kraków, February 28 2011 – Delta company, the sole distributor of Samyang Optics for Poland and Europe, wishes to inform about the release of the manual Samyang 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 lens. The new lens comes with the bayonet mount and has been designed especially for Sony NEX-VG10 digital camcorder.
Due to its unique construction, the bayonet mount has been adjusted to ensure possibly wide field of vision without producing the vignetting effect. Just like in other lenses manufactured for filming purposes, aperture can be easily and smoothly adjusted.
New Samyang 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 lens will be officially introduced during the forthcoming Focus on Imaging fairs held in Birmingham. Exact date of the release as well as the product’s retail price will be given later.
We are also about to introduce Samyang lens with Sony E mount for NEX system cameras.
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3 Comments
The lens on the picture looks exactly like Samyang’s 8mm lens for DSLR cameras, but this one has kind of an “integrated” E-mount adapter. So the lens wasn’t designed specifically for Sony NEX, it was designed for a much longer flange back distance. One can get this fish-eye lens in Nikon mount and attach via adapter — the effect will be pretty the same.
I’ve done that with my samyang 8mm for nikon, an adapter and a sony nex 3. Works great.
except for the fluent change in aperture, mine ‘clicks’ between 3.5-5.6-8-etc. . I think this one goes smooth between f/3.5 and f/22.