Very sharp
Build quality
Price
Contrast

Weight

Great lens! It is very sharp at every focal length and has great contrast. The build quality is wonderful, although people like me comment about its weight, the sane goes were there is weight there is strength!! This lens is an perfect do it all lens that produces outstanding result’s. Run out and get your own and you will not regret it!

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Similar Products Used:

Minolta 24-105mm
Tamron 24-135mm

*Great Telephoto Range
*Extremely Sharp and Clear at all zoom ranges
*Extremely well built
*Reasonably priced

Very Heavy

This is a truly excellent lense with a great zoom range for those who wish to carry only one lens but also want outstanding photos. It is an excellent buy at the price for the quality you get. You won't be disappointed with the professional results. It beats my Canon Ultrasonic lenses in every performance category. The only downside is size and weight, but look at what your getting. On a minor note I love the simple fact that it holds it's telephoto range even when you carry the lens in a down gravity position and you don't fine it slipping dependent upon how you move the camera.

Customer Service

None necessary to date

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*Many Zoom Canon Ultrasonic Lenses
*Tamron Zoom Lens

Incredibly wide zoom range, hearty, high quality construction, easy to reach controls, excellent image quality, especially at 24mm.

Somewhat heavy, minor vignetting. With a 72mm filter size, filters can be expensive.

This lens should be in the camera bag of every photographer. Good color saturation, surprisingly sharp image quality and minimal distortion for a lens of this type. Vignetting could be a problem if you shoot wide open or use multiple filters, but this won't be a problem for photojournalists or publications photographers who will tend to be thrilled with the crisp, contrasty images they'll get. If you absolutely CAN'T crop and cannot tolerate even minimal vignetting, stop down to f/8/11. The wide range, exceptional images and minimal distortion make this an excellent buy and the ideal lens to take on vacation or a walk in the woods.

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Canon EF 20-35mm
Sigma 21-35mm
Canon EF 50mm
Canon EF 28-135mm
Sigma 24-50mm
Sigma 35-135mm

Wide zoom range, good sharpness for the range, doesn't distort too much at 24mm.

Vignettes at both 24mm and 200 even without using a filter. Ugly bokeh. Fit and finish isn't great.

This lens has a wide range, but the vignetting at certain aperatures and focal lengths makes me afraid to use it. The lens does seem sharp but judging by 8x12's I don't think that it is sharper than the Nikon 24-120 and it seems to be a notch below the Olympus IS3.
Here are some samples of the vignetting. It is a repeatable effect but is not equallay pronounced at all focal lenghts and aperatures. If it is this isn't rightly vignetting, perphaps we can say that it is significant light fall-off. These are scans saved from a Fuji Frontier system, presented here unagjusted expcept for resizing:

at 24mm f/3.5 :
http://kerrydavison.freeservers.com/T24200/F1000035.jpg

at 24mm f/22 :
http://kerrydavison.freeservers.com/T24200/F1000034.jpg

at a middle focal length & middle aperature
http://kerrydavison.freeservers.com/T24200/F1000001.jpg

On the last example, the problem is more subtle at wide opne at 24mm, but notice the darkness of the water in the lower left corner and the upper right corner. For some reason the light fall off isn't apparent at the top of the frame.

From the first two photos a strenght of the lens is shown however. While the buidling in the picture is skewed due to looking up, if you lay a flat edge on the straight lines of the bulding, you'll find that there is very little distortion -- straight lines remain very straight.

Here's another example showing good control of distortion at 24mm:

http://kerrydavison.freeservers.com/T24200/F1000029.jpg

http://kerrydavison.freeservers.com

Customer Service

don't know

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Olympus IS3 35-180
Nikon 24-120

-Excellent build quality
-Zoom range starts at 24mm
-Nice fit and finish
-No "lens creep" when held downward
-Lens hood included
-Generally fast AF
-Quiet AF motor
-A very versatile and fun lens for more casual shooting

-Zoom ring turns 110 degrees to achieve full range
-MF ring is loose and imprecise and moves when in AF mode

After hearing good things about the Tokina 24-200 I decided to buy one recently and have been very impressed with the lens. Clearly there is a trade-off regarding optical quality with any zoom vs a prime lens but Tokina seems to have brought out a good one in the 24-200. And I think it may prove to be a better lens optically than the usual "28-200" genre. That it's wide setting starts at 24mms is impressive in itself.

Also, I should probably have postponed this until I had the opportunity to use the lens some but owner/user comments and magazine reviews indicated that the 24-200 was a very good lens optically and lab reports gave it high marks for all around quality, so my remarks are initital impressions of it's appearance, handling, and features.

Anyway, the lens, through a Canon 1v and EOS 5, gives a nice bright image in the viewfinder and the size and heft of the Tokina feels good and solid to hold. I was slightly annoyed by the amount of travel in the zoom ring which requires a 110 degree turn to fully extend the zoom. In comparison, usual zoom lenses of this general type will fully extend with only a 60-70 degree turn. The physical zoom function itself however is excellent with just enough friction to give a precise zooming feel, but not loose travel. And, that the lens will not "creep" to it's full extended length when held downward is a pleasant change from other zooms I've carried.

I was impressed at the difference I found between the Tokina's 24mm wide end and the 28mm wide setting of other zoom lenses I'm use to. It takes in just a lot more territory, although from 135mms of the EF 28-135 to the Tokina's 200mm reach was, as expected, not all that significant.

Tokina has the reputation for building a lens with solid construction and the 24-200 is no exception. I noted too that when fully extended, it's rigid and the inner barrels are solid and there is no wobble.

I wanted a lens that would be good for general "walking-around" and travel photography and one that would go somewhat wider than the EF 28-135 IS and also have a little more reach. I think I've found what I was looking for in the 24-200 as it's quality and features vs cost is really excellent.

Customer Service

I have had the occasion to contact THK Inc., Tokina's US distributor, in the past about re-chipping a Tokina 28-35 f/2.6-2.8 I use to own and found their customer service/relations to be very good.

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Tokina 19-35 f/3.5-4.5
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