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Rokinon Updates 8mm f2.8 Fisheye, Releases 10mm f2.8 and 12mm f2.0

Chris Gampat
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04/03/2014
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Last Updated on 04/03/2014 by Chris Gampat

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Very recently, Rokinon announced a couple of updates to their lens lineup. Their very good 8mm f2.8 fisheye was updated to version two, and the company also introduced their new 10mm f2.8 for APS-C DSLRs and 12mm f2 for mirrorless cameras. As with all things Rokinon, the lenses are manual focusing and also have full manual apertures. Many of the company’s lenses do not have coupling, so there will be no communication between the camera and the lens (with the exception of their offerings for Nikon DSLRs.) This also means that you’ll need to turn your cameras off of the automatic modes.

We’ve used lots of Rokinon’s lenses and often find lots of them to be super sharp–though problems do occur with quality control specifically with the focusing scale. But to fair, that’s only happened to us once.

We’re going to be calling in review units soon, but in the meantime you can check out the tech specs after the jump.

8mm f/2.8 UMC Fish-Eye II

Performance
Focal Length 10mm
Comparable 35mm Focal Length: 16 mm
Aperture Maximum: f/2.8
Minimum: f/22.0
Camera Mount Type Canon EF
Format Compatibility Canon (APS-C)
Angle of View 105.9°
Minimum Focus Distance 9.45″ (24 cm)
Elements/Groups 14/9
Features
Autofocus No
Physical
Filter Thread None
Dimensions (DxL) Approx. 3.39 x 3.12″ (86 x 79.2 mm)
Weight 1.30 lb (590 g)

10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS CS

m_10M-(3)-rot

Performance
Focal Length 10mm
Comparable 35mm Focal Length: 15 mm
Aperture Maximum: f/2.8
Minimum: f/22.0
Camera Mount Type Nikon F
Format Compatibility Nikon DX
Angle of View 109.5°
Minimum Focus Distance 9.45″ (24 cm)
Elements/Groups 14/9
Features
Autofocus No
Physical
Filter Thread None
Dimensions (DxL) Approx. 3.39 x 3.02″ (86 x 76.7 mm)
Weight 1.28 lb (580 g)

12mm f/2.0 NCS CS

m_RK12M-(3)-rot

Performance
Focal Length 12mm
Comparable 35mm Focal Length: 19.2 mm
Aperture Maximum: f/2.0
Minimum: f/22.0
Camera Mount Type Canon EF-M
Format Compatibility Canon (APS-C)
Angle of View 98.9°
Minimum Focus Distance 7.87″ (20 cm)
Elements/Groups 12/10
Physical
Filter Thread 67 mm
Dimensions (DxL) Approx. 2.85 x 2.32″ (72.5 x 59 mm)
Weight 8.64 oz (245 g)

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.