[Klaus]

I wonder if there's a chance that the DSLR users might get the same kind of treatment eventually. Frankly I have very little hope for that, because the E-mount is the only open standard on this market, and unless Samyang does a Sigma and starts reverse-engineering the AF protocols, they won't be able to do anything workable for Canon and Nikon mount.

 

Still, this announcement shows that they CAN make an AF lens, and they got my respect for choosing to be inventive and not sticking with the stone age gears forever. Better late than never.

 

MFT is also (fairly) open.

 

I'm slightly wondering how this will work out for Samyang. Design-wise AF lenses tend to be a little different - the AF focus group is usually light-weight and comparatively "loose" in order to allow fast AF speeds. Other than the shift in paradigm, this is more difficult in production (coming back to the centering discussion here).