- Hey, everybody, thanks for watching us,
here's another Gear Review
while under quarantine.
This is just gonna be more
of a quick little comparison
between two wide-angle lenses.
I've got the Tokina Cinema ATX,
the Tokina Cinema 11 to 20 millimeter,
their wide-angle zoom, which
is now like a cine-modded
version that became available last fall.
It's a T2.9, and I've also got
the Rokinon SP 10 millimeter,
which is the widest
aspherical lens you can buy.
Most lenses, at that point,
start becoming a fish eye.
It's a f3.5, so it's a little darker,
little slower, little,
you know what I mean.
Both interesting lenses
in their own right.
So obviously the Rokinon SP's
gonna be a little bit wider,
at 10 millimeter, the Tokina 11 to 20,
on my HELIUM at 8K HD, you know,
about as wide as you're
gonna go on the sensor.
It vignettes at 11, basically 11 to 14,
you're gonna get some vignetting,
so it's really only usable
on the full sensor from 14 to 20,
and then it has some
markings, I think at 16,
of when it becomes safe
for a full-frame sensor.
So in general, I don't like
to have lenses that don't
the zoom range doesn't
cover the entire sensor
at full frame on any of my cameras.
I just don't like to have
to remember that I can't
zoom all the way out, or
whatever, because of where I am,
or to have to crop in, on
resolution or something.
I just like it be quick
and snappy and all right,
this zooms from here to
here and I can use it.
So that's one thing I
have to always remember
with that lens when I'm using it.
I do tend to use it more on
my gimbal, for wide shots,
it's the perfect kind of gimbal lens.
Having that little bit
of zoom range does help
when you've got the camera set on a gimbal
or you're in a sticky environment
and you just need a little
bit closer or something.
It gets you that little bit of extra.
Obviously, it's got the
cinema build qualities,
got the gear rings and everything,
which is a big differentiator
between the Rokinon
and the Rokinon electronic aperture,
it just has the focus ring
but it's really cool, I
mean, I've never had a lens
that wide, that's sort of still usable.
I most recently, notably used
it for some astro-photography
in Big Bend, I don't think
I've actually used it yet
for a film project, but
I'll shoot some tests here
and let you just kinda see the difference.
Again, it's not apple,
apples, to comparison,
they're two different wide-angle lenses,
and you can just make your own judgment
on how they look, and deal.
The 10 millimeter's
really gonna come in handy
for architectural stuff, or
if I'm in a really tight room
and I need a wide shot.
We do some house flipping videos,
it'll be really handy
there, where the 11 to 20,
I can't really quite go down
to 11, 12, 13, 14 millimeter,
so it's really a 15 to 20 for me,
and the 10 millimeter'll help
get me that extra little bump.
Here's some comparison
shots between the two.
It's just because I have
'em both, I figured I'd
put 'em up against each other,
let you decide what you like.
Obviously, in most cases,
the 10 millimeter's
not gonna be a lens you use very often,
the 11 to 20 a little more
usable in more scenarios.
I do, like with all the Tokinas,
I mean Tokina image
quality is really good.
I still use the older generation
of the Cinema HEX lenses
when I'm cutting around
between all my footage,
even working on SPs, I can always tell
when it's the Tokina
shots, 'cause there's just,
it's just a little sharper,
a little more contrasty,
they just feel a little more professional.
And they just have a
different feel to 'em.
The SP lenses, generally
speaking, feel a little fuzzier
to me, they're sharp, but there's like a,
it's hard to describe
quality to it where they are
a little greener like all
the Rokinans seem to be,
but they don't feel as, like
they're resolving the image
as cleanly, I guess.
They have a little more
personality to 'em.
Again, not necessarily
a good or a bad thing,
just some differences, I've
noticed over the years.
So with the Tokina wide-angle zoom I know
I'm always getting a
really nice image quality,
so that's kind of my
gimbal, my go-to gimbal lens
and 10 millimeter's more
for kind of extreme angles,
architecture, small
rooms, stuff like that.
That's what they're gonna use a lot,
just for tight spaces and weird angles.
You'll definitely get some distortion,
but it's remarkably low distortion,
considering it's a 10 millimeter lens.
I'm showing you both of
these on the RED HELIUM,
so that's a crop, since
there's not full frame.
The SP 10 millimeter is a full-frame lens,
so it'll work on a full-frame sensor,
that's the difference.
Both of these, the
comparison's are technically
cropped in, on my sensor, so
it'll be a little different.
The 11 to 20'll be even less
usable on a full-frame camera
than it is on the HELIUM.
Anyway, hope this is
helpful, thanks for watching.
Subscribe, leave me comments,
I'll try to respond,
and see you next time.
