Tokina Releases Three New Very Compact Tremendous-Telephoto Lenses
In a considerably uncommon transfer for a widely known lens producer, Tokina has launched an IndieGoGo marketing campaign for a triple-set of super-telephoto APS-C prime lenses. These are a 300mm f/7.1, a 600mm f/8 and a 900m /f11.
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The lens trio was first introduced final month however just for sale on the Japanese market on the time. That is now not the case at this time for the reason that IndieGoGo marketing campaign made them deliverable to different elements of the world.
In line with Tokina, the three lenses, formally named the SZ 300mmPRO Reflex F7.1 MF CF, SZ 600mmPRO Reflex F8 MF CF, and SZ 900mmPRO Reflex F11 MF CF, are all absolutely handbook fashions. Additionally they have a reflex, or mirror lens construct that’s additionally referred to as a catadioptric optical design.
All three are geared for APS-C mirrorless cameras and are particularly appropriate with Canon EF-M mount cameras, Fujifilm X-mount fashions and Canon E-mount cameras.
One good thing about the catadioptric optical mirror design in these lens fashions is that it lets them be constructed very compactly and with little weight. That is all of the extra helpful as a result of neither trait is typical with lenses with super-telephoto capabilities.
As Tokina itself explains:
“Telephoto sort lenses are a extremely enticing and fascinating sort of lens for a lot of photographers as a result of they seize objects in minute particulars that the human eye can not see. Nonetheless, these lenses are historically massive, heavy, and costly. They don’t seem to be a lens that may be loved casually. Tokina’s compact and light-weight mirror lenses are the answer to this drawback,”
The corporate additional elaborates that mirror lenses have been extra frequent prior to now, at a time when movie and DSLR cameras supplied, a slender ISO vary, and low decision, and lacked each a zoomable rear display screen and picture stabilization.
Due to these digicam traits, handbook focus mirror lenses could possibly be very onerous to make use of and this made them develop into more and more unpopular, proper as much as the current previous.
Now, nonetheless, based on Tokina, digicam know-how has superior enormously throughout the entire above fronts and this lets extraordinarily compact catadioptric lenses with handbook focus and super-telephoto zoom work robustly in ways in which have been “beforehand inconceivable.”
Different mirror-style lenses by Tokina have apparently lived as much as the corporate’s claims of top quality too. As one reporter from PetaPixel, Ryan Mense, defined after testing some newer fashions, they carry out fairly nicely.
This efficiency with fashionable cameras is only one profit of those lens sorts. One other is their extremely compact measurement and yet one more profit of those optics is their typically low pricing. For instance, one current 400mm f/8 version from Tokina prices solely $250 regardless of its high-performance high quality.
Alternatively, there may be one photographically seen draw back to those mirror lenses. Nonetheless, it will depend on photographer opinion: They have an inclination to create a moderately uncommon wanting ring-shaped bokeh blur.
Their lack of autofocus potential can be one thing that some photographers may not like an excessive amount of.
In any case, Tokina has made its three newest mirror-designed super-telephoto lenses out there on its IndieGoGo web page till November 29th.
True to their low-price tendency, these three are all fairly inexpensive, being respectively priced at $322 for the 300mm f/7.1, $484 for the 600mm f/8 and $565 for the 900mm f/11 version. Tokina guarantees to ship the lenses to consumers by January of the approaching yr.
