Seiko announced a new 12mm f/7.4 Fisheye for Sony E-mount. Photographyblog reports:
Toda Seiko has announced a diagonal fisheye lens for Fujifilm X-mount and Sony E-mount cameras. The Toda Seiko 12mm f/7.4 is a manual-focus lens with a fixed aperture, seven-layer muticoating and 4 lens elements in 4 groups. Weighing in at 220g, the lens has a total length of 58.5mm and maximum diameter of 65mm. In Japan, the Toda Seiko 12mm f/7.4 Diagonal Fisheye lens will be available for 24,800 yen.
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Full Frame E-mount?
APS-C, it’s also coming for X-mount
If not a full frame it is nothing. Since we have the excellent Rokinon/Samyang 8mm f2.8
One of my sharpest lenses at f4.
That roki lens is bangin…I own it and its the hot shiit.
I saw someone taking shots with rokinon/samyang fisheye on the A7R. The fisheye effect looked interesting on it. It was an event we were told not to use our memory cards but he had one in the camera so maybe there is shots out there of this combination.
I have the Rokinon 8mm f2.8 on my A7. It’s currently gone for getting the lens shade “shaved off”, so that I can use its full image circle on the A7. The lens quality is excellent, already good at f2.8 but getting very at f4.
Very interested to know who you went through to get this “shaving” done!
Is that a typo or is it really f7.4?
Sure, why not? Do you want to use it for sports events, or enjoy the bokeh?
Obviously nobody would expect bokeh from such a focal length but there are instances where it it certainly is beneficial to have the extra light.
Fisheye lenses are often used indoors, and f7.4 isn’t that much there.
This is the same lens from last year, new name
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/gloxy-12mm-fisheye-for-nex-in-stock/
I don’t know about this rumor…seems fishy to me.
@Tom: it isn’t a rumor. It’s posted as news, so it’s an actual lens.
Your sarcasm detector was torned off when you replied, right?
My bad. It’s been a while from the last time I checked SAR since december is low on rumors.
Yeah, that was a horrible attempt at humor. My bad….
I’m sad… if only they had made it f/12…
It would be awesome to be fisheye at 35mm with f30
Quite Interesting!
OSS please!
Even when this lens is 12mm, I prefer the Sony fish-eye converter lens (15mm).
Why not make it an F22? lol
If it’s super sharp at f7.8 and extremely low cost – why not?
Well… let’s see. How about because the Samyang is super sharp at F2.8 and extremely low cost?