Hmm,
I don't like the sound of that! It could be that you are right. Maybe
they are seeing a drop in film based lens sales and concentrating on the
digital only lenses? Who knows.
Jim
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>But almost exactly the same thing happened with the other AT-X Pro
>lenses that have disappeared, the 28-80/2.8 and the 80-200/2.8. The one
>difference is that the Canon versions disappeared first from B&H while
>the Nikon versions were still available... for awhile. B&H simply had a
>note posted thre that the Canon version was on backorder. Little did
>they know or say that Tokina was never going to fill the order.
>Eventually the Nikon version went on backorder too and after awhile
>Tokina quitly moved those lenses from the current lens selections to the
>"history" section. Take a look a the history section on Tokina lenses
>on the THK website. You'll find that many AT-X Pro lenses (top of the
>line) are now "history".
>
>Chuck Norcutt
>
>Jim Couch wrote:
>
>
>
>>Chuck,
>>
>>Hard to tell, it may just be a supply/demand issue. There seem to be
>>plenty of them available in C*non mount. It is just the N*kon mount
>>lenses that appear to be hard to come by and it is still listed on the
>>THK website as a current lens.
>>
>>
>>
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