Samyang/Rokinon Cine lenses coming [ready for pre-order]

If you’ve been shopping affordable manual prime lenses for your HDSLR then you’ve probably stumbled upon or even own the famous Samyang / Rokinon lenses like the $500 35mm f/1.4 or the $400 14mm ultra-wide.

[UPDATE]: cinema5D member Gumzster informed me that the 8mm fisheye already exists as a cine version.

[UPDATE 2]: The Samyang 35mm T1.5 Cine lenses is now available for pre-order $549:

“Rokinon 35mm T1.5 cine lens will be available in U.S in few weeks and Rokinon 24mm T1.5 & 14mm T3.1 cine lens will be available in U.S in September.”

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Canon T4i / 650D – more test footage

Here’s some more test footage from the new Canon 650D by Johnnie Behiri. Unfortunately no other word on the clean hdmi out he revealed this week.

From the vimeo page:
The camera is very easy and pleasant to use.
Picture quality is identical to the more expensive (but older) 7D.
The real news with this camera (beside the AF which I was not able to test) is the clean HDMI output, a first ever in any Canon VDSLR.
It is yet to be seen if in the final camera firmware it will be 100% usable and functional.

You can DOWNLOAD the source file here.

-No color correction
-Editing software, Premiere CS2 with Cineform engine

On a sidenote:

The new 40mm f2.8 STM (video autofocus) pancake lens is now available: LINK