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Tokina SZ 8mm f/2.8 Fish-Eye - Review / Test report |
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Lens Reviews -
Fujifilm X
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Review by Klaus Schroiff, published February 2022
Introduction
First of all, I've to admit something - I'm one of the oddballs who love fish-eye lenses. Not always but often.
Maybe it relates to the sea of conventional lenses that find their way into our lab and everything unusual is a welcome distraction.
So in any case I have got a favorable bias. Thus the offer for reviewing the new Tokina SZ 8mm f/2.8 Fish-Eye was very welcomed.
It's a fully manual, APS-C mount lens for X- and E-mount. The lens is very compact and lightweight - as it should be.
Fish-eye lenses are exotics and shouldn't be a burden to carry around with your other gear.
Available for less than $300/330EUR, it's very reasonably priced, too.
The build quality of the Tokina SZ 8mm f/2.8 Fish-Eye is very nice indeed. It's an all-metal construction with a smooth focus ring
and a clickless aperture ring. There's no wobbling whatsoever.
The lens hood can be detached to use with full-frame mirrorless cameras for achieving circular fisheye effect - that's in E-mount only,
of course, but we weren't able to verify this with the X-mount version used for testing. However, it's likely that it'll produce some
mechanical vignetting at the top & bottom as do other APS-C format 8mm-ish fisheye lenses when used on full-format cameras.
Due to the manual nature of the lens, there's no EXIF data, no AF and no camera-controlled aperture. Given the immense depth-of-field
this is hardly an issue though. If you set the focus to ~1.5m and your average scene will be in focus even at f/2.8.
That being said - the lens allows you to focus down to 0.1m which allows an object magnification of 1:10.
That's not too shabby for such a lens.
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| Equivalent focal length (full-format) | "12mm" (Fish-eye) |
| Equivalent aperture (depth-of-field, full-format) | "f/4.2" |
| Optical construction | 11 elements in 9 groups |
| Number of aperture blades | 7 |
| min. focus distance | 0.1m (max. magnification 1:10) |
| Dimensions | 52.3x59.8mm |
| Weight | 280g |
| Filter size | - |
| Hood | petal-shaped (bayonet mount, detachable, supplied) |
| Other features | - |
| Mounts | Fujifilm X, Sony E |
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