Help me pick a low light wide prime and a telephoto prime please

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firehawk

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I don't know if a low light e-mount zoom lens will ever come about (or is even possible) so I am asking for suggestions for a low light wide angle prime and a telephoto prime to use with my NEX EA50U for low light weddings. It has the ability to zoom 2X through pimes so that gives me a little flexibility.

I'd like the wide lens to be f/1.8-2.8 and about 18mm or wider. (25-28mm in 35mm equivalent).
I'd like the telephoto lens to be around 200mm or more, giving the camera around 10X reach.
I prefer e-mount so as to avoid adapters and also have OSS and autofocus will work. Autofocus isn't a big deal but OSS is more important.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated including ways to use other non-e-mount lenses that would better suit what I am trying to accomplish.
 
Price range? Why primes? You'll limit yourself a lot by requiring E-mount... Will you actually use AF? The problem with a lot of e-mount lenses is that you HAVE to use AF because the MF is focus by wire and near impossible to use no matter how good you are at pulling focus, especially at wide apertures.

My understanding is that there are maybe only a handful of E-mount primes, and most of them are consumer lenses, not pro lenses, and I'm not sure there are even any over 100mm.
 
Thank you.

Price range? Around $1000 per lens.
Why primes? Well, my first choice would be one low light wide lens with a long zoom but that seems not possible..
So the next best option would be a wide angle short zoom and a telephoto zoom but I haven't yet found those either.
So it seems that the next option is to get a wide prime and a telephoto prime.

The only time I really need autofocus with the EA50 is when I am doing steadi-cam type shots moving around the subjects because I have to concentrate on smooth movements and framing and don't have enough limbs to keep manual focus.
The Samyang looks nice and the price is certainly good too. Nice and wide and fast. It may be one I end up getting. It's manual focus but probably easy to MF. I'm concerned about lack of OSS.
 
There is an f2 samyang 12mm, but its manual focus and no stabilisation. Another option is a canon 24mm 2.8 IS with a metabones speed booster. This would be the same as putting on an f2 17mm lens. The speedbooster brings the field of view back to the original 24mm equivalent. The IS should also still work. As of now there is no e-mount zoom lens that has OSS (IS) and is brighter than f3.5. The widest E-mount prime with OSS is the 30mm f1.8 (which isn't very wide). There is also the 50mm 1.8 OSS.
 
I know you want prime lens but why not consider the sigma 18-35/1.8 with a commoite ef to e mount adapter? It's x2 zoom is very handy in many situations and fast and falls within your budget.
 
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