Tokina ATX-M (and not ATX-I) Coming for Fujifilm… and are they Just Rebranded Viltrox Lenses?

Recently Tokina announced the launch of three Fujifilm X mount lenses:

  • Tokina atx-m 23mm f/1.4
  • Tokina atx-m 33mm f/1.4
  • Tokina atx-m 56mm f/1.4

There was some confusion also today, because Tokina just launched the Tokina 11-20mm f/2.8 ATX-I, but the site, reporting about it, says that the ATX-I is for Canon and Nikon only, and the ATX-M (the three above) are for Fujifilm.

So, no Tokina 11-20 for Fujifilm for now.

Now, let’s talk about the ATX-M lenses.

As many of you noticed, they looked like rebranded Viltrox lenses. The optical constructions seems identical, but the body seems build slightly different.

Ben Sullivan investigated this topic, comparing the Tokina 85mm f1.8 & Viltrox STM 85mm f1.8. Here is what says:

  • Upon comparing the optical design, Ben saw that the two lenses share a nearly identical composition.
  • The MTF results looks pretty similar too. Tokina says that they’ve used a “proprietary coating” on the 85mm ATX-M, which could account for the moderate resolution difference, along with normal deviation between each individual lens tested.
  • pretty noticeable physical similarities as well
  • Feature wise, there are also quite a few similarities between the two lenses. In fact, the only non-identical spec I found was Tokina’s 0.125x magnification versus the 0.12x magnification listed for the Viltrox. […] It may be that they are indeed identical and that one company simply rounded down from x0.125 and the other rounded up.
  • both Tokina and the Viltrox 85mm lenses currently display as the Zeiss Batis 85mm f/1.8 in CaptureOne Pro
  • Ben reached out to Tokina Japan for an official response
  • Tokina answered “Tokina lenses does not have a relationship with Viltrox
  • Tokina and Viltrox apparently have no business relationship whatsoever.
  • Ben’s best guess would be that Tokina and Viltrox are both working with a well established 3rd party Chinese lens manufacturer that creates prototypes and allows other companies to customize and sell their lenses under their own brand names.
  • This makes oodles of sense if you think about how fantastically well Viltrox did with releasing their first ever lenses for Sony and Fujifilm last year.

You can read the full article at ayrn.io.

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FUNLEADER 18mm f/8 Cap Lens for Fujifilm X

As long time FR-readers will know, Fujifilm offers the Fujifilm XM-FL 24mm f/8 body cap lens with built-in photo filters. We reported here.

Now another options is about to join, with the FUNLEADER 18mm f/8 Cap Lens for Fujifilm X, which was launched as a kickstarter project for other mounts last year here by the company Artboard in Honk Kong, and they promised an X mount version for January.

You can order the FUNLEADER 18mm f/8 Cap Lens at the artboard website here.

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Tokina 11-20mm f/2.8 ATX-I CF NOT COMING for Fujifilm X

Tokina will launch the Tokina 11-20mm f/2.8 ATX-I CF, but according to the German website fotomagazin, this atx-i lens is for Canon and Nikon, and Fujifilm will get the already teased atx-m lenses you can see below. Not a single mention, that also the Tokina 11-20 will come to Fujifilm.

  • Tokina atx-m 23mm f/1.4
  • Tokina atx-m 33mm f/1.4
  • Tokina atx-m 56mm f/1.4

The atx-i series is one of the new series from Tokina such as Opera, atx-m (soon also with Fujifilm X bayonet ) and Firin . The “i” stands for “interactive”. So far, however these include models that it already existed in this light intensities / focal length combination as something kürzerbrennweitige atx-i 2.8 / 11-16 mm CF . The atx-i 2.8 / 11-20 mm CF seems to be similar: Most of the technical data are identical to the predecessor from 2015, be it the lenses in their optical structure and their nature or near limit, filter diameter and aperture blades.

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Don’t forget:

New DJI Ronin SC/S Firmware adds Fujifilm X-T4 Support

DJI has released firmware updates for their Ronin SC and Ronin S gimbals, which, among the others, add support for Fujifilm X-T4 cameras.

You can find all the details below.

Firmware Update Details

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Fujifilm X-T4 Third Party Dual Battery Charger Available and More Batteries

 

Just yesterday we reported, how the first third party NP-W235 battery can be found in Europe.

Now a FR-reader (thanks) passed me the link to a Chinese third party battery as well as a third party dual batter charger for Fujifilm X-T4.

In USA, you find them available branded as DIGIeye NP-W235 at AmazonUS here. For the same price of a Fujifilm original battery, you’ll also get the dual charger on top of it.

We will soon be flooded with third party options, but not all of them are really good.

Independent testings showed, that some Fujifilm third party batteries can be considered almost a fraud, whereas others are close in performance and reliability to the original Fujifilm batteries (such as Wasabi Fujifilm batteries).

For your convenience, down below is a selection of battery related articles we shared in the past here on FujiRumors.

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→ Top X-T Community: Fujifilm X-T facebook group
→ Top X-T Page: Fujifilm X-T Page