On 03/04/2011 10:04 AM, Tim Bray wrote:
Back in 2009 I developed the same itch and eventually bought a Tokina
SL-400 F5.6 on eBay. It's a total pain in the butt to work with but
there are a few things you can't photograph any other way.. A few
samples at http://www.google.com/search?as_q=tokina&as_sitesearch=tbray.org,
none of them really excellent, so either it wasn't a good choice or I
just haven't tried hard enough. -Tim
I think I had one of those at one time. It was incredible on film, but
for some reason this didn't translate to good on digital, so I bought a
Pentax A400/5.6 and sold the Tokina.
As an aside, the guy who commented that Hoya owns Tokina is most likely
wrong about it. The best I've ever been able to come up with regarding
the Hoya/Tokina relationship is that they share a few board members, and
that they were distributed by the same company at one time.
--
William Robb
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