No personal experience with the lens, but Igor has pretty much nailed it, except he left out the part about the Angenieux f/2.6 being the predecessor. This page has all the various iterations. Not finding a lot of people going ga-ga over it on digital, as they did on film (where the Angenieux was considered a Cult Classic). http://www.johncaz.net/blog/tokina-at-x-pro-af-28-70mm-26-28
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > There were 3-4 different versions of that lens. > > Mine is the older (oldest?), ("the original"?) Tokina AT-X Pro 28-70 > f/2.6-2.8. And that's the only version I used. > I loved it with the film camera, even though I am > somewhat disappointed with its performance with all 3 digital bodies I've > tried it on. > > Then there was the same lens with the designation "II" > The others were: Tokina AT-X 28-70/2.8 (not "PRO") and > Tokina AT-X Pro 28-80/2.8, and also > Tokina AT-X Pro 28-70/2.8 SV. > The non-PRO version had rotating front element, and IIRC, 72mm filter. > The rest had 77mm filter. > > SV was lighter and reportedly not as good as the preceeding versions. > See, e.g. comments here: > http://www.photozone.de/Reviews/276-tokina-af-28-70mm-f28-26-at-x-pro-ii-lab-test-report--review?start=1 > > HTH, > > Igor > > > > J C OConnell Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:27:10 -0800 wrote: > >> I was thinking about picking up one of these lenses, they sell for >> around $200 used, I already have an excellent >> manual focus 35-70 F2.8 AT-X, but 35mm just isnt wide enough especially >> on aps format. >> I was wondering if anyone here had tried the 28-70 F2.8 AT-X AF and what >> the >> pros and cons to it were. Thanks in advance. P.S. This is a FF lens. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
