06-05-2020, 01:24 PM
learnt the hard way, from the outside their lenses are built like tanks, no doubt about it.
From inside they tend to be meh flex cables issues are very frequent and the slightest drop can heavily damage the lens.
Their optics went a long way, I own Tokina 24-200 and Tokina 16-28f2.8
Tokina 16-28 is an excellent lens very sharp with great rendering, the native vignetting figures are well controlled a rarity for ultrawides, only con I found that is easily avoidable are flare spots in certain conditions, but those are very easu to avoid since you see them in the viewfinder (Markus in his review had similar findings)
Tokina 24-200 in comparison suffers from extreme flare, it renders close to Russian era lenses, contrast is close to that of my Helios 58mmf2.0... from the sharpness point of view its is quite soft even stepped down not a good performer
From inside they tend to be meh flex cables issues are very frequent and the slightest drop can heavily damage the lens.
Their optics went a long way, I own Tokina 24-200 and Tokina 16-28f2.8
Tokina 16-28 is an excellent lens very sharp with great rendering, the native vignetting figures are well controlled a rarity for ultrawides, only con I found that is easily avoidable are flare spots in certain conditions, but those are very easu to avoid since you see them in the viewfinder (Markus in his review had similar findings)
Tokina 24-200 in comparison suffers from extreme flare, it renders close to Russian era lenses, contrast is close to that of my Helios 58mmf2.0... from the sharpness point of view its is quite soft even stepped down not a good performer