6/22/2011

The Quick and Dirty Tokina Lens Review Guide

By Luke Darma


In this article, I will be doing a quick Tokina lens review. Basically, I will tell you what this lens is all about, what kind of lens do they make and for which camera mount. By reading this article, you will have greater understanding about Tokina lenses. You will then be able to use this knowledge to select the best lens for your photography needs.

The first thing that you need to understand is that Tokina is a third party lens manufacturers. All it means is that they do not manufacture lenses for their own brand, but they make their lenses for other camera brands. Canon, Sony and Nikon are all the brand that Tokina make lenses for. A lot of photographers have used Tokina lenses for their photographic needs.

The first type of lens that Tokina make is zoom lenses. Many lens manufacturers make zoom lenses and Tokina will need to compete with many lens manufacturers, including Nikon, Canon and Sony in this arena. Tokina has been known to make great zoom lenses and price it competitively at the same time. This is why they are an ideal third party lens manufacturers.

The kind of zoom lenses that Tokina is very well known about is wide angle lenses. They currently make wide angle lenses for both full frame and cropped sensor DSLR camera. You can use the full frame lens on the cropped sensor DSLR camera, but not the other way around as this will give you vignetting on the lens border.

Macro lens is another kind of lens that Tokina make. It is simply a lens for close up photography works. All their lenses have the perfect one to one magnification ration that allows you to capture real size subject on the sensor. This feature is considered a must by all close up shooters.

Tokina only make two macro lenses currently. One is for APS-C sensor. Another one is for full frame DSLR. Both kinds of lenses have gotten very positive feedback from many shooters out there. Build quality of all their macro lenses are solid and without compromise.

Another interesting thing to see about Tokina is that they also make a lens for creative photography called the fisheye lens. This lens is a lens with an extreme degree of barrel distortion that will allow photographers to expand their creativity. You can use this kind of lens for indoor fun photography, underwater or even aerial photography. For a fun tips, you can use this lens to photograph children for some good laugh.

In summary, I would say that Tokina is a great Third party lens maker that deserves respect. If you are new, take a look at their wide angle offerings. All are sharp and solid. Build quality is also very well made. Many photographers will find Tokina lens to be very handy because of the excellent price for performance factor.




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