Tokina 11-16/2.8 on Canon 1Dxx

boulderNardo

I've searched, I've researched, I'm still clueless.
There doesn't seem to be any empirical data.

Tokina 11-16/2.8 on my Canon 1DMkII.

Will it vignette? At 11mm? At 12mm? ...
I've read everything from "It will work just fine even at 11mm" to "It will only work in the 14mm-16mm range" to "I'm even getting vignetting at 16mm".

Any first hand experiences?
Since I've gotten my 1DII, I've sold my Tamron 11-18 and been saving up for a linear Canon 14L, not realizing that at least "some" people are using the Tokina 11-16 on the 1.3x crop. I'll jump on it when I hear it works fine on the 1DII, even if only in the 14-16mm range.

_Bernardo

ziggy53

I cannot speak to the Tokina but my experience with the Sigma 10-20mm is that the vignetting is becoming moderate by 16mm and mostly correctable as far as darkening but there is still the problem of soft edges. An 8" x 10" crop mostly alleviates the soft edges and the image is very usable from 16-20mm in the 8x10 crop on the Canon 1D MKII especially at f8.

The EF 17-40mm, f4L USM is far superior however and what I would recommend instead.

MT Stringer

I have been using the Tokina 12-24 f/4 on a 1D MKIII. It works just fine as long as I don't zoom any wider than 15mm. Then the vignetting shows up. Works just fine from 15mm to 24mm.

Hope this helps.

The attached pic was shot at 16mm with just a little cropping.
Mike

ziggy53 wrote:

I cannot speak to the Tokina but my experience with the Sigma 10-20mm is that the vignetting is becoming moderate by 16mm and mostly correctable as far as darkening but there is still the problem of soft edges. An 8" x 10" crop mostly alleviates the soft edges and the image is very usable from 16-20mm in the 8x10 crop on the Canon 1D MKII especially at f8.

The EF 17-40mm, f4L USM is far superior however and what I would recommend instead.