From f5. I brought my 50D body to show the differences which were very apparent even on the 3" screen of the camera. Tokina just replaced the lens with another copyand it was a little better yet but still VERY soft at f2. I finally sold it thinking why pay the steep premium for a lens that is not usable until f4 so I purchased the Sigma mm F It is sharp at f4 just like the tokina but it has FAST auto focus and a bigger range.
Now I do know that Tokina lenses are compatable with my camera body just read my glowing review of the mm fisheye but this one could not get it right and I was not willing to waste my time with a 4th copy of the same.
But it is worth it. For me, the immediate advantage of being able to stop down does help tremendously. The Sigma is great for landscapes, but the Tokina's ability to go down to f2. I also find that the color rendition and contrast created by the Tokina to be superior. I guess I got a good one first time out.
If you shoot indoors and need a true wide angle for your DX, this is the lens to get. A specialty lens, but it has Tokina's consistent Pro solid build and takes fantastic pictures. It's a fast lens with impressive IQ both in center and edges. BQ is very good. Zoom range is between unlike Sigma's or Nikon's in this category but I personally never complained about that. I gave 8 for IQ because this lens has high lateral CA levels and a bit soft in the edges at wide open.
Tokina mm is the best super-wide angle lens up to date. The build quality of the lens is very good. The image quality is excellent in any aperture and focal length. Auto focus is fast and quiet. Unlike Canon EF-S which have a smaller aperture of f3. It is also slightly cheaper. The limitation of this lens will be the zoom length. Tokina is available for Nikon cameras as well. There is also no manual focus override, you need to push-pull the focus bar to change focusing mode.
Overall this lens is great in super wide angle category. If you are in love with the ultra-wide coverage for landscape, architecture outdoor and indoor , and some of photojournalistic work close crowd shots , then this lens is a must have. I got a lemon. Fortunately I could return. Terrible CA at any aperture, three branches outside my house would just be purple blobs. Back focus where 3ft becomes 7ft. Never buy this lens on eBay.
Make sure you can return it if your copy is a lemon. It quickly became apparent that some of the glass was not ground properly on this one.
In some parts of the image, the CA exhibited was truly atrocious it was cyan color , far worse anything I've ever seen. CA was far beyond anything the D could correct.
I don't even know if you can call it CA -- the lens behaved like a prism, splitting out cyan color. They gave me hell, saying there was nothing wrong with the lens.
They finally caved in and let me exchange for one last time, making a note so there'd be no more exchanges. This time I tested the lens right in front of the sales people. Difference was truly night and day. This third copy was spectacularly sharp even wide open. I finally got a good copy that substantiates the good reviews all over the net. It's unfortunate that 2 out of 3 lens were unacceptable.
I've never had any experience like this. They just worked right straight out of their boxes. It would be unfair to rate the Tokina poorly based on what were definitely two defective lens. I am extremely happy with the third one. It is supremely sharp even wide open. That said, dramatic sunset photographs, or dynamic seascape scenes are the bread and butter for this lens. Sometimes you can make it work for a subject as simple as a dragonfly watching the sunset.
So it really is limited only by your creativity. Tell us your own thoughts on the lens and share some of your favorite shots taken with it in the comments below. The has a 77mm filter size vs. I don't think the image quality is different at all. As for the Tamron mentioned by lokatz, I haven't seen or shot with it, but it sounds interesting! As I recall, it's f2. Your memory is correct!
If I was to buy a new lens, I would prefer that it would be even faster than the Tokina, not slower. The "newest" version has not been released yet, which is what tahoe22 is referring to as the "newer version". What you bought will shortly be the "older" version. Whether it is better is not clear. The "newer version" is:. I didnt know they had another one coming.. Yep the one you just bought is the same as the one I have had for a number of years and enjoyed using. Guess I should have waited just kidding.
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Some barrel distortion is present at 11mm. The barrel distortion transitions to nearly no distortion at mm. At 11mm, the Tokina II has about 2.
Vignetting diminishes as the focal lengths get longer with about 1. Stopping down can always be expected to result in less vignetting and this is the case with the II, but expect about. This lens performs best or near best in class in regards to vignetting.
A normal thickness circular polarizer filter will increase vignetting slightly at 11mm. This difference can be seen in the Vignetting Tool using the mouseover feature. You will want to use a slim-type circular polarizer filter on this lens.
With focal lengths this wide, you can expect bright light sources to often be included in the frame. If you are shooting outside, the sun is likely going to be that bright light source. The Tokina arguably trails this lens class by showing the most flare in this specific situation.
The new coatings on the version II lens appear to have "slightly" improved the flare response, but Unless you like the effect my daughter thinks it's cool , you are going to have a challenge in removing the Tokina 's flare from your images during post processing. The best option with this lens is to avoid the flare in the first place.
Tokina images show noticeable CA Chromatic Aberration in the mid and peripheral image circle corners at all focal lengths. The appearance of the CA remains similar throughout the focal length range with uncorrected CA resulting in a less-sharp-appearing image. The Tokina has a 9-blade rounded aperture.
While the can indeed create some background blur, this is probably not the big reason you want to buy this lens or any ultra wide angle lens. The quality of the background blur that you can create is not remarkable. While not terribly slow, the second focus adjustment definitely increases the overall focus acquisition time. Ultra wide angle lenses can get away with slow AF much easier than longer focal length lens can.
If focus distance adjustments are short, this lens focuses quietly. A tsss-tsss sound typically is heard — one tsss for each focus adjustment. If the focus distance is long, a louder turbo-mode-like sound is heard prior to the fine-tuning adjustment sound. Having a wider max aperture than most lenses at these focal lengths shallower DOF gives the Tokina need to focus more precisely than the rest of its class, but the AF system is still not challenged too strongly by DOF with most uses this lens will see.
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