Rokinon Announces New Wide-Angle Lenses
Rokinon announces affordable wide-angle lenses for DSLRs and mirrorless cameras.
Rokinon has announced their latest line of lenses today and we’re impressed….
Rokinon has cornered the market at creating high quality lenses at a low price point. Their latest announcement serves to address a problem that plagues indie-filmmakers everywhere, crop factor.
Crop factor happens when a lens is not capable of taking on the entire field of view of a given lens. This makes lenses look as though they are a higher focal length then what they really are.
For example, the popular Blackmagic Cinema Camera has a crop factor of 2.4x, which would take your normally wide 24mm lens and turn it into a 57mm lens. Crop factor makes getting wide shots more difficult but the new manual Rokinon lenses aim to help.
Rokinon’s new lense announcement includes a number of wide-angle lenses. Let’s take a look….
8mm Fish-Eye II Lens
The second generation of the popular 8mm lens.
Price: $349
Mounts: Canon EF-M, Fijifilm X, Samsung NX, Sony E
10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS CS Lens
Designed for APS-C Sensors. The lens was created with a nano coating system.
Price: $539
Mounts: Canon EF, Pentax K, Sony A, Canon EF-M, Fujifilm X, Samsung NX, Sony E, Micro Four Thirds
12mm f/2.0 NCS CS Lens
Accepts front filters using a 67mm diameter thread.
Price: $399
Mounts: Canon EF-M, Fujifilm X, Samsung NX, Sony E, Micro Four Thirds
8mm T3.1 Cine UMC Fish-Eye II Lens
A wide angle lens specially designed to be used on film productions. The lens has threads that can be easily fitted into most follow focus’s.
Price: $399
Mounts: Canon EF-M, Fufifilm X, Samsung NX, Sony E
When Will the New Rokinon Lenses Ship?
The lenses are expected to be available by Tuesday, March 25. You can pre-order all the lenses from most popular lens distributors.
What do you think of the new Rokinon lenses?
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