Richard (@richsibley) tries out the Tokina Firin 20mm f/2 FE mount lens. It is a wideangle manual focus lens for Sony A7 and A9 cameras.
http://www.tokinalens.com/tokina/products/frin/frin20mmf2femf/
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it looks like a mitakon, when did tokina start making 800 pound prime lenses, jaysus u could have a voigtlander 21mm fo that kind of cash
Where is Kai?
The only reason I heard of PGN was as he came on. So, again, why isn’t he presenting?
I would also like to see a 24-70mm.f.2.8 or a 24-105mm.f.4 lens from Tokina!
Surprised they even bother with auto-focus in wide-angle, it’s so unnecessary, looks like a nice lens!
Coooool!
Very interesting lens and excellent review. Liking what you’re doing Richard.
Richard Sibley Does your lens hood rattle when it’s mounted on the lens?
Other lenses? A tilt-shift.
I’m sorry but there is nothing “small” about that lens
I think it would have been very helpful to do some astrophotography, because (for me personally) this lens hits the perfect focal length & speed for it. Any chance you did some of that off-camera?
I don’t mind boring pics to test distortion etc but what would be great if a variety of pics could be taken that show off the capabilities and look of lenses. Too many reviews including print magazines come up with pretty dank test shots that don’t exercise nuthin and quite frankly let the cat out the bag that the reviewers background is far more academic than practical. I’m not having a major go here, just talking in general.
Great review, thanks!
Almost bought this a few weeks ago but went with the Voigtlander 15mm III instead. It was a tough decision!
I’d like to see an even wider 15 or 16mm prime or an ultrawide 12-24mm zoom. I’ll be renting the Tokina Firin 20mm soon to test myself. Thanks for the video.
Any questions? I’ll do my best to answer them!
Thank you for this review! One missed opportunity was seeing this lens’ performance at astrophotography – particularly to test for coma. Could be a very nice lens for stars!
What lenses do you think Tokina should produce next for the Sony E mount?
This lens looks great, but I’d rather save a bit more and go for the loxia. That is a very beautiful lens.
go out and try astrophoto….i fine this lens on youtube week ago …next day i run to bank to get money and it was brat investment , only think body is constructed well but also is quite soft so you can easy scratch the body itself :S but it was my bad
Sigma 19mm f2.8 Art Autofocus with removed baffle 150€ on Amazon for me then 😉
Would be cool to compare the Sigma to the Tokina and the Loxia 😀
But cool Video!
Just buy Sigma 19mm F2.8 Art.
It is sharp all across the aperture settings, it is small, has fast and accurate AF and is a couple of times cheaper, especially used.
Very nice review. Thanks.
Many people are afraid of manual lenses because focusing demands time, precision and it is usually boring. However focus with ultra wide lenses below 20mm even with large f/2 aperture is very easy. In the case you choose f/8 for best sharpness, vignetting and chromatic aberration then focusing is a piece of cake. The hyper-focal distance of a 20mm lens at f/8 is is 3.7 meters. That means that if you set the focus ring on the infinity position everything beyond 3.7 meters is in focus. Very convenient for landscape photography with daylight.
curious of where you got that eye cup on your camera… I can’t stand sony’s included ones