Tokina 12-24mm f/4 AT-X Pro DX AF Wide Angle Lens for Nikon Digital Cameras
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Digital product summary information
Manufacturer: TokinaProduct features:
- This lens gives the digital photographer an ultra wide-angle zoom lens that has the equivalent of an 18-36mm zoom range
Digital camera reviews of Tokina 12-24mm f/4 AT-X Pro DX AF Wide Angle Lens for Nikon Digital Cameras
Digital camera Review: Absolutely fantastic lens.
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had this lens for one year. Incredibly enough, it's more expensive NOW then it was a year ago. My Nikon lenses have plummeted in price in the past year.
It's a very comfortable lens and fairly lightweight. Nice big rubber zoom and focus rings although I would have preferred the zoom ring not to be next to the camera body.
Nice smooth zoom ring action; no loose play, grinding or resistance. Much, much better than the $1100 Nikon 18-55mm lens that I hated and returned.
Here's a wonderfully weird characteristic of this lens that I simply cannot figure out: It will focus and take a picture in a room with barely any light at all! My Nikon 50mm f1.4 lens can't even come close; the Nikon lens cannot focus even though it's several f-stops faster. You have to see it to believe it.
The only thing that the lens can't do (which is no big deal for such a wide angle lens) is the ability to manually focus after an auto-focus.
Want even better performance photographing outdoors? Turn the auto-focus off, set the aperture to about f11 and the distance between 7ft and infinity. Everything will be in focus.
Even though it's an inexpensive lens, don't cheap out and get a lousy filter. Pay the $50+ for a good multi-coated 77mm UV filter.
For landscapes or working in tight areas or crowds, you simply can't beat this lens.
If Nikon put their logo on it and charged $1200, people would rave that it's such a great lens.
Summary of Tokina 12-24mm f/4 AT-X Pro DX AF Wide Angle Lens for Nikon Digital Cameras
AT-X comes from our original concept of Advanced Technology-Extra. This vision encompasses a special group of lenses that are manufactured without compromise, using the most advanced design and fabrication technologies available. The use of unique and unprecedented optical systems independently pioneered by Tokina has made advanced features, high performance, lightweight, and compact designs a reality. Of course, we have also given full consideration to ergonomics and handling. To any user, AT-X means excellent performance through superior technology. Tokinas proprietary AT-X technology has evolved toward optical perfection for more than 20 years. Since their mission began in 1981, they have made continuous advances. Each new model is a further refinement in a continuing legacy of excellence in design and materials. The 12-24mm f/4 AT-X 124AF Pro DX lens is exclusively designed for use with Digital SLR cameras, and provides a super wide-angle zoom range, ideal for the tightest of interiors, as well as for dramatic landscape photography. This lens features the exclusive "Focus Clutch Mechanism", a signature of the Tokina PRO series lenses which provides a faster, smoother autofocus operation with a smooth manual focus action not normally found in autofocus lensesLenses
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