No one reported about this lens at Photokina! We have a new 12mm f/7.4 fisheye lens for the NEX system. The makers of the lens contacted me to guarantee that this is a high quality lens built in Japan. It will go on sale in 2013 for 189€ or 149 pounds. This is not the first fisheye lens for the NEX system We also have the [shoplink 14941 ebay]Rokinon (Click here)[/shoplink] or also called [shoplink 14940 ebay]Samyang (Click here)[/shoplink] fisheye.
Here are the specs:
- Focal distance: 12mm
- Coating: 7 layers multi coating to reduce aberrations to a minimum
- Lens construction: 4 elements in 4 groups
- Focusing distance: 0.5m to infinitive
- Aperture: f/7.4
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 65.00 x 58.5mm
Here are some image samples (Click on it to see a larger sized pic):
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I’m wondering why they did it.
It’s always nice to see a new lens.. but.. with Rokinon and with 16mm+ultrawide adapter we have f 2.8 lenses… who’s gonna buy a 7.4 one?
…depends on the image quality, since the price is cheaper than most SEL-16F28 offers alone even without VCL-ECU1 konverter, which I do use quite often and do like for it’s compactness.
But I think there are offers lacking on the other end of fast telephoto lenses, something like 90mm, 135mm up to 200mm as 135-, 200- and 300-mm-equivalents, while longer focal lengthes don’t make much sense specially constructed for APS-C mirrorless systems, I guess.
too slowwwwwwwwww,
Not really if in use for landscape. f7.4 is plenty of light.
useless ish elsewhere though
Another beautiful lens for the best mirrorless system…;p
More Competition… More Lenses… its all good news.
Shame about the speed, but glad to see more companies getting involved.
Who would buy such useless crap when Samyang produces real fisheye in the same price?
The sample images look flat and lack the punch… I’d rather go with the Samyang.
Angle of view ? About 100 degrees ? Are they trying to make it fisheye or rectilinear – it says fisheye on the lens so I assume it is not rectilinear? Is it variable aperture and if so, how many blades, etc ? It seems this maker is pretty poor if they don’t provide basic info like this.
not sharp at all, got more original pictures?
How about Samyang fisheye? It seems that there are lots of positive feedbacks of this lens?
we just want a real macro lens .. like 100mm
thats all i want sony ! demt
At least it comes with that hood that will prevent so much flare
If you’re wondering “why” it’s because this: It’s not a fisheye lens. It’s not even close. All this is is an incredibly poorly corrected ultrawide lens. In fact, it’s probably based on something like voigtlander’s 12mm f/5.6 with one of the optical groups removed or something.
It’s also probably extremely cheap to make.
If you want a fisheye for NEX, the best, by a large margin, is the Rokinon 8mm f/2.8. Period. There is no better “non-circular” fisheye for NEX and it rivals all offerings across all systems.
Why these ridiculous f-stop penalties? Is it that hard to make a 12/f4?