Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> The story I've heard -- and I wouldn't stake my life on its validity -- is > that Tokina designed the 28-70 f/2.8 and either licensed or sold the design > to Angenieux. When Angenieux discontinued the lens, Tokina took or bought > back that design and replaced their then-existing 28-70 f/2.8 (a different > Tokina design) with the design they had developed for Angenieux because > they felt the Angenieux optical design was better. H'm. I was actually pretty impressed with the 28-70 f/2.8 ATX from Tokina (optically; mechanically, at least in the EOS mount which nobody but Canon seems to be able to do well, it was kind of unpleasing). Dunno if the new one (nominally f/2.6, yes?) is even as good. -Jeff Moore <jbm@instinet.com>