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I've been a professional advertising photographer for thirty years. In the studio, I only work with the best equipment. I bought this lens after weeks of online research and handling this lens in person. While this was purchased for my personal, not professional work, I feel it would satisfy most, if not all professional reproduction demands. Solidly built, it zooms and focuses with a firm smoothness and lack of slop. It feels like one of my Hasselblads. The autofocus is quick, responsive and accurate. Even without being several hundred dollars less than a comparable Canon lens, it would rate consideration just based on construction and real world performance. I've seen the scientific analysis comparisons and grant that on paper, Canon lens are superior in chromatic aberration and edge sharpness. But I create images, not science term papers. I'm tweaking these images in PhotoShop and printing them, full frame, no larger than 8x12 on 11x14 paper. If you like that wide angle look, which I do, the zoom range, 12-24mm, is really great fun. OK, now for what I would like to see changed. It's a hefty piece of glass and pretty large. On relatively light weight digital SLRs, it makes for a seriously unbalanced combo. It will build up your wrist muscles. You need to pay attention to where you swing this bad boy. The thing I miss most is a depth of field preview scale on the focus distance indicator. I've always liked pre-focusing and pre-setting exposure values and being able to lift and fire, knowing that everything from, say, 5 feet to 50 feet will be sharp. With autofocus "on" you may not hold the foreground without changing the autofocus aim point. But I'm old fashioned that way. Did I mention I would have liked it to be just a tad faster, 3.5 maybe? It's a good lens, a very good lens. For techno-gadget-status freaks, it may not be perfect enough. For the rest of us who just want a good chunk of glass that lets us capture the image we want, it'll do just fine.Read full review
i bought these leneses because i heard that they were very good and o love them, they take very great pictures and i recommened them to my friends. i went upstate and took beatutful pictures of the leaves and they came out great and my friends loved it. The product is made of very good quality and the photographs that come from these lenses are so beautiful. Unforuntely they are a little on the expensive side but all in all it is definitely worth the price. As they say, you get what you pay for. I plan on bringing my camera to a wedding in November in Las Vegas for my brother-in-law's wedding I think i am going to be the photographer. Thank you Nickie
I am a member of NSD Camera Club (at work).I am looking for a good wide angle lens with a reasonable price. The president of the club highly recommended me to buy this Tokina lens.I reads about the lens and decided to buy one. The lens is excellent for wide angle, group picture, landscape. Pictures look beautiful. I rate it "Excellent" for the quality & the price.
Great lens. Very well built. Auto Focus is the quietest of any lens I have ever used. Produces extremely sharp images. At 12mm this super wide angle gets everything in the picture without distortion. Great for landscapes and subject close-ups with interesting backgrounds that I want to be included in the shot. Awesome depth of field. Highly recommend.
...great lens, just what I needed to take interior photos. Taking real estate photos of interior rooms and exterior fronts. Love the lens, not too much flare, but there is some, but very little distorsion..nice lens
