Excellent sharpness and speed of focusing

None

Terrific lens..use their whole line from 300 F2.8 ATX to the 17mm ATX in my daily work. The color of the lenses is very satisfying, not too 'hot' or tweaked and not too flat in contrast. Love them.

Customer Service

Tokina has great service..ask for John in repairs out in California...a real pro.

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The lens is a heavy well constructed professional lens that has survived two gruelling years in a journalists kit bag being subjected to all possible conditions and situations. Flare and distortion, though evident, is kept to a minimum. Lens continues to function after a rebuild brought on by a four foot arcing fall that bent the lens barrels and totalled the front element. (no, it did not "break in half".)I would recomend the lens to the patient and poor amongst us that work and need specific types of gear.

Abhorent customer service at Tokina. The process is long, painfull and costs a mint in shipping. Lens is impossible to focus manually with any accuity under duress. The image doesn't snap into focus as in other examples of this type of lens. Canon's 17-35 is simply a better lens.

Buy it if you need a constant f-stop wide angle zoom and can't afford a lens made by the same maker as your camera. Forget about ever sending it back to Tokina for work. Chuck it and buy another

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Canon 20-35

rich in colour, sharp, solid built,77mm filter, fast focus

distortion

i was delighted when i first recieved the pictures which are aboutnight sence.the images are extremely sharp and contrasty. when a play with the lens with my f80 that night , i noticed the distortion in the sides are quite obvious, even in the long end (20-35) when compare with the 28-105. which made me disappionted because intially i want to use it in group potraits. oops.

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Extreme Sharpness
Color Resolution
Wide Open Performance
Build Quality
Little to No Vignetting
Price (Value) Versus Standard Lens

Focus Speed
Zoom Range
Minimal Flare

The bottom line is that this is an excellent lens, comparable in performance to any of the standard Nikon lenses. I wanted to purchase the Nikon 17-35, f/2.8, however, I couldn't justify paying over 2 times the price for the slight improvement in performance between the two lenses. I literally used the difference to purchase another pro-caliber lens, the Tokina 28-70, f/2.6-2.8 ATX Pro II. While I have only been using the lens for a couple of months, I have been extremely pleased with the image quality it produces. In fact, I am extremely satisfied with both purchases. I own the Nikon 35-70, f/2.8D and am a strong believer in Nikon quality. However, I shoot almost exclusively with either my F100 or F5, and have not experienced a detectable drop off in picture quality when using the Tokina Pro-line lenses. A word of advice to everyone deciding on standard versus third-party zoom lens manufacturers -- the Tokina Pro-line provides the optimal blend of value, perfomance and durability. If cost is not an issue and you make your living as a photographer, you might want to go with the standard manufacturer. In most cases the difference is not going to be meaningful, nor will it be measurable to any degree.

Customer Service

N/A

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Tokina 28-70, f/2.6-2.8 ATX-Pro II
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well buit, sharpness and contrast are ok for what you pay.
after 3 years I am still using it often.

plastic aperture ring.
AF/MF is not fast and user friendly

The optical quality is good, but the lens ergonomics could be better.

Customer Service

never used

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Built like a tank.Great glass.Very sharp.

None.

This lens should last a generation. Be sure to use the hood[supplied with it] when shooting in sunlight.

Customer Service

Never used

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Sigma EX series.

Heavy duty.

Too Early to tell

Just purchased the lens and from what I have seen it has great sharpness and no noticable flaring. Large, 77mm filter size, good for me, but can be expensive in the long run.
Great finish, smooth operation, fast autofocusing. So far, the slides I have taken look great. Have not had time to put them to the Loupe test, but will soon.
Tokina makes some great lenses that are less expensive than the OEMs.
I'll give it a five star rating for now.

Customer Service

N/A

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