Samyang goes Full Monty on E-mount: New 35mm f/1.4 announced!

Samyang announced one more new autofocus lens for the Sony FE system: It’s the new 35mm f/1.4 FE. It will go on sale in November for a price around 600 Euro and Dollars. The only official price we got so far is £599.00 (via ePhotozine)

And Samyang is also offering a new Lens Station for their FE lens line (info here).

Samyang is pushing hard to launch one FE lens after another. Current Sony and Zeiss lenses are very expensive and the Koreans probably see a good chance to fill the gap with some nice good quality but still low price autofocus FE lens.

Samyang is also rumored to launch a 135mm FE lens in November/December. While Sigma will announce their first FE lenses in February next year.

New CIPA camera shipment reports: Sales still lame :(

CIPA released the latest August camera shipment report. And while shipments where higher than 2016 they are still much lower than 2015. Remember that in 2016 we had the huge Kumamoto earthquake that did put on hold the Sony sensor production facility. If you consider this it’s disappointing to see that camera shipments are only slightly better this year and still so far a way from a “normal” year like 2015.

I see nearly zero chance for the camera industry to ever reach 2015 level again. The mass simply doesn’t need cameras anymore.

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thanks TheCanonGrapevine