20mm F2.0 Tokina FIRIN FE lens

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Specifications:

13 elements in 11 group
Full format lens
Aperture - F2-F22
62mm filter
Min focusing - 0.28m / 11 in.
Internal focus
9 aperture blades
69mm diameter
81.5mm length
490g
Square, bayonet type hood
Sony-E mount
Available - first Quarter, 2017

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.

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.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Announced officially, first post updated.

DrDave

A bit bigger than the pancake 20mm, that's for sure.

IronFilm

A bit bigger than the pancake 20mm, that's for sure.

That is because it is for FE, not APS-C, and it is a stop faster.

DrDave

@IronFilm the Panasonic is faster, the 14 is slower. Maybe the T number is better, I did not see it....

_OZ

The panasonic is MFT. All MFT lenses are a lot smaller for the same focal length/speed than their larger sensor counterparts (APS-C and FF).

Plus, the panasonic pancakes are not optically solid on their own. They require quite a bit of in camera correction. An all manual lens like this must stand on its own optically.

joethepro

@IronFilm I think you've got it backwards. Both of these 20mm lenses are for E mount and the 20mm Sony pancake it is a stop slower.

DrDave

There's more than one Pancake! The Panny pancake, the one, the true, the real pancake, is smaller and faster and does not need much software correction not that it matters. It will be interesting to see if the new Kenko will deliver. I'm not a fan of big fat lenses but if the IQ is there, who knows. And now, back to testing the Olly 75mm. Yowza.