On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Tom Scales wrote:
|Well, I may have answered my own question. According to the cult lens page,
|the Tokina pro models seem to be decent lenses. The 400 f/5.6 is the ATX
|pro model with the APO glass. Supposedly, for the 400, and I quote:
|
|"Tokina adds an SD for super-low dispersion (meaning APO glass). If they
|really want to impress us, they use HLD which stands for high-refractive,
|low dispersion glasses. Can you tell that these guys are a bunch of
|engineers and not marketing types?"
|
|In a different package, I picked up a Tokina 35-70 f/2.8 and a Tokina 70-210
|f/3.5 The 70-210 looks to be the consumer line, but the 35-70 is the pro
|line. I haven't seen any of these yet, but maybe the 35-70 will 'slake my
|thirst' for the 35-80 for a little while.
|
|Since I didn't know much about them, I didn't pay much. I don't think the
|sellers really did either, which I guess worked to my advantage. I feel a
|little, but not a lot, guilty.
|
|I would be interested in comments from anyone that has actually seen/used
|any of the three.
I don't know about those particular lenses, but the original Vivitar
Series 1 70-210/3.5 (62mm filter size) was made by Tokina for Vivitar.
It's a professional sharp zoom with 14 elements in 10 groups which
focuses down to 47 inches 119.38 cm---about 1:4 magnification). It
uses internal focusing (not unusual for zooms) and weighs 24 ounces
(680.4 g). The 62mm filter size is very convenient for adding Nikon's
excellent 5T & 6T acromats for macro work.
I own one of these babies and if I ever lay my hands on a 35-80/2.8,
the VS1 70-210/3.5 will be the only non-zuiko OM lens I own. For now
I am "getting by" with the great VS1 35-85/2.8 varifocal zoom, which
sports a 72mm filter size (its only negative with respect for 5T/6T
usage). ;-)
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