Tokina officially announced the new Firin 20mm f/2.0 Full Frame E-mount lens!
Tokina officially unveiled their first FF E-mount lens, the 20mm f/2.0 FE. This is also the first lens of a new FE lens line named “Firin”. This is the official press text:
Kenko Tokina Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce the new FíRIN 20mm F2 FE MF.
FíRIN 20mm F2 FE MF is the first in Tokina product line compact form-factor super wide ultra fast F2 aperture manual prime lens compatible with Full-Frame E-Mount
mirrorless cameras.
Name Origin
FíRIN 20mm F2 FE MF belongs to a newly launched “FíRIN” series of Tokina lenses for mirrorless cameras (or ILCs – Interchangeable Lens Compacts) marking a new epoch in Tokina history. FíRIN is a variation of Fírinne – the old Irish word for “truth”. It means “that what is real” and signifies “being true to someone or something”. It represents a promise from Tokina to photographers to help them capture the truth in their images with this revolutionary new lens.
Main Features
Perfect match to SONY A7 series body in terms of design, high-precision Japanese made parts and form factor.
Being compact and light-weight, FíRIN 20mm F2 FE MF performs excellent optical abilities due to perfectly placed two all-glass precision molded aspherical elements with 3 Super-Low Dispersion (SD) glass lens elements that are greatly reducing aberrations and yielding higher resolution and contrast. All lens elements are carefully multi-coated that helps to reduce reflections and flares to an absolute minimum.
The FíRIN 20mm F2 FE MF has an ability to encode and transmit aperture, distance and optical data to the camera body making this lens fully suitable in terms of using MF assist function, 5 axis image stabilization and view finder electronic distance scale. Lens CPU with optical correction data noticeably contributing to final image processing inside the camera.
Design devoted to manual shooting and cinema enthusiasts includes a wide manual focus ring, aperture ring and depth of field index bar.
De-Click Aperture function makes this lens suitable for cinema/video shooting.
Specifications:
Focus distance : 20mm
Brightness : F2
Compatible format : Full format
Minimum aperture : F22
Lens configuration : 13 elements in 11 group
Angle of view : 92.651°
Filter size : 62mm
Shortest object distance : 0.28m / 11 in.
Macro maximum magnification : 1 : 10.33
Focus method : Internal focus
Number of aperture blades : 9
Maximum diameter : 69mm
Full length : 81.5mm
Weight : 490g
Hood : Square, bayonet type
Mount type : Sony-E
Estimated Time of Arrival : First Quarter, 2017
Zeiss teases a new FE lens launch!
Last week I told you Zeiss would launch a new FE lens by end of this week. And here it is the official Zeiss teaser! On Twitter and Facebook they write:
Hey friends of the
@Sony α7! At#photokina you’ll have the chance to test a new lens. Any guesses?#ZEISSphk16
Guesses? Well this should be a new Loxia tele lens ;)
New firmware v4.0 for Techart PRO M-mount autofocus adapter
Techart released the new firmware 4.0 for their M-mount to E-mount autofocus adapter. You can read all details at Stkb.co.jp (Google Translation here). To install the firmware use the iOS or Android APP. The new firmware has a drastic improvement in focusing speed and accuracy!
You can buy the adapter at Techart (Click here), Adorama (Click here) or on [shoplink 51403 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Reminder: Win a Camslinger Streetomatic Bag and Free Tickets for Photokina
Hi, this is Thomas from COSYSPEED. We just launched a new version of the CAMSLINGER Streetomatic camera bag for mirrorless cameras. A whole black model and the CAMSLINGER Streetomatic Streethunters Edition. From The Streethunters Edition 10,-€ of each sold bag are flowing into a project of Terre des Hommes to support unaccompanied refugee Children.
We’d like to offer your readers two PHOTOKINA tickets packed in the fastest camera bag of the world, a shiny new CAMSLINGER Streetomatic Black :-)
B&H has a promo in September on the CAMSLINGER Streetomatic of 49,95 $US.
More info on www.cosyspeed.com and www.mirrorlesshero.com.The CAMSLINGER Streetomatic Streethunters Edition is only available in the COSYSPEED Online Shop: USA: www.cosyspeedshop.com / Rest of the world: www.cosyspeedshop.de
You can now preorder the new 18-110mm PZ E-mount lens in USA and Germany
The new 18-110mm PZ E-mount lens can be preordered starting from today:
in USA at Adorama and BHphoto.
in Germany at Calumet.
And the new Sony 50mm f/2.8 FE macro lens will ship in two weeks:
in USA at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon and FocusCamera.
in Europe at Calumet, Cyberport and Wexphotographic.
DxOmark tested the FE zooms on the Sony A7rII and the leader is….
DxOmark tested almost all FE zooms on the Sony A7rII. And the best lens is the [shoplink 47257]70-200mm f/4.0 G[/shoplink]. I suspect the real leader will be the [shoplink 48791]new 70-200mm f/2.8 GM lens[/shoplink] once it gets tested. By the way Sony…when are you shipping the lens again?
The top ranked zooms are:
70-200mm G at [shopcountry 47257]
24-70mm GM at [shopcountry 47915]
16-35mm Zeiss at [shopcountry 49023]
24-70mm Zeiss at [shopcountry 49022]
28-70mm Sony at [shopcountry 24940]
70-300mm Sony at [shopcountry 47527]
24-240mm Sony at [shopcountry 34245]
70-200mm GM at [shopcountry 48791] (not tested yet and probably the real top ranker)
DxOmark also posted the full 70-300mm FE results and the good news is that the lens beats the competition:
Against rival models from other makers, the Sony is a very competitive performer optically. Indeed, it is a slightly better performer than the $1,600, L-series Canon equivalent, introduced in 2010, and is several leagues ahead of the Nikon.
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