Tokina 16-50 Fast Zoom Lens Review
Tokina 16-50 is a stand out piece of specimen.
It is by far one of the sharpest and possibly the best SLR lens in its class.
The lens is known for its focusing precision and is an instant sellout among nature photographers, outdoor photographers, portrait photographers or in short, it is very well accepted and loved by professional photographers and photo fanatics alike.
The Tokina 16-50 is a lens that comes with a considerably large aperture and is designed exclusively to be used of high precision digital SLR cameras.
TheAT-X 165's bright F/2.
8 constant aperture makes the Tokina 16-50 a versatile lens that caters to a huge range of photographers, be it hardcore photo enthusiast with an obsession for precision or a photojournalist with less time and heavy utility for his camera, the lens serves them all.
The width and the big size of the aperture provides us with faster shutter motion and in turn allows reliable low light shooting.
Another benefit of the wide aperture is that it makes deliberate efforts to concentrate more on the object and has less detailing in focus of the background.
The Super-low Dispersion or the SD glass lens elements used on the lens makes sure to cut chromatic and thermal aberrations, resulting in an increased value for precision and quality of picture capture.
Speaking more about the material, the glass used of the Tokina 16-50 has a certain water repelling optical coat on it.
This makes cleaning of imprints or spots on the lens much quicker and easier.
The SD glass elements used in making the lens reduces the number of glass elements and makes the lenses in to be more compact and result in a reduced weight of the lens setup on the whole.
Moving on to the details of focusing mechanism, the Tokina 16-50 is known for its auto focus mechanism.
However, manual focusing is very much present.
Tokina provide a unique One-touch Focus Clutch Mechanism that lets you shift from auto focus to manual focus.
Focusing is constant and fast through the entire zoom range of Tokina 16-50 with no complaints on distortion is sharpness and contrasting.
Another plus of the much versatile aperture that can be observed while focusing is the scalability and adaptability.
The Tokina 16-50 is the one lens that can be relied upon to provide focusing on any lighting condition, weather and thermal condition, chromatic conditions or any other variable condition.
So it is safe to say that when the world of photography is ridden with variables and uncertainties, Tokina 16-50 is the one constant solution.
It is by far one of the sharpest and possibly the best SLR lens in its class.
The lens is known for its focusing precision and is an instant sellout among nature photographers, outdoor photographers, portrait photographers or in short, it is very well accepted and loved by professional photographers and photo fanatics alike.
The Tokina 16-50 is a lens that comes with a considerably large aperture and is designed exclusively to be used of high precision digital SLR cameras.
TheAT-X 165's bright F/2.
8 constant aperture makes the Tokina 16-50 a versatile lens that caters to a huge range of photographers, be it hardcore photo enthusiast with an obsession for precision or a photojournalist with less time and heavy utility for his camera, the lens serves them all.
The width and the big size of the aperture provides us with faster shutter motion and in turn allows reliable low light shooting.
Another benefit of the wide aperture is that it makes deliberate efforts to concentrate more on the object and has less detailing in focus of the background.
The Super-low Dispersion or the SD glass lens elements used on the lens makes sure to cut chromatic and thermal aberrations, resulting in an increased value for precision and quality of picture capture.
Speaking more about the material, the glass used of the Tokina 16-50 has a certain water repelling optical coat on it.
This makes cleaning of imprints or spots on the lens much quicker and easier.
The SD glass elements used in making the lens reduces the number of glass elements and makes the lenses in to be more compact and result in a reduced weight of the lens setup on the whole.
Moving on to the details of focusing mechanism, the Tokina 16-50 is known for its auto focus mechanism.
However, manual focusing is very much present.
Tokina provide a unique One-touch Focus Clutch Mechanism that lets you shift from auto focus to manual focus.
Focusing is constant and fast through the entire zoom range of Tokina 16-50 with no complaints on distortion is sharpness and contrasting.
Another plus of the much versatile aperture that can be observed while focusing is the scalability and adaptability.
The Tokina 16-50 is the one lens that can be relied upon to provide focusing on any lighting condition, weather and thermal condition, chromatic conditions or any other variable condition.
So it is safe to say that when the world of photography is ridden with variables and uncertainties, Tokina 16-50 is the one constant solution.