Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:20 AM 01/04/96 -0800, you wrote: >Cool. Someone mentioned a french line of lenses. Do they mean Angineaux? >Great lenses! Too bad they dropped 35mm SLR lenses altogether. I was >just hoping to pick up their 28(35?)-70 2.3 zoom for the EOS. Dang, I >was too late. Someone said the Tokina of similar stats was essentially >the same lens. I have my doubts. > >-- >Eric Welch >Grants Pass, OR > Eric, I have the Tokina 28~75mm f/2.6~2.8 Pro in a Nikon mount and I can recommend it quite highly. To read a little bit about my experiences with it have a look at.... http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/photo/travel/moab.html One of the British magazines rated it among the top 3 medium zooms in a huge test series that they did last fall. I'm not a great one for test, but in real world shooting I find that this lens has some excellent optical characteristics (resistance to flair is not one of them, unfortunately), and is mechanically very robust and beautifully built. The review appeared to rank it right up there with best of breed, which is the Canon L of the same length and aperture. Nikon has nothing in its line to match it. My Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 and 35mm f.2.0 have now been declaired redundant. <g> Michael