SOLD: Tokina 12-24mm

dionysis · August 3, 2009

I have a Tokina 12-24mm F4 in excellent condition. It comes with both caps and hood. I am selling because I am moving to full frame and don't have a need for this lens anymore.

SOLD

Pictures are available upon request.

lightyear · August 3, 2009

Selling price?
Selling price??

dionysis · August 3, 2009

hehe, sorry I apparently forgot the price! I would like to get $350 for the lens shipped & paypal'd, however, I am open to reasonable offers.

jhelms · August 5, 2009

dionysis wrote:

I have a Tokina 12-24mm F4 in excellent condition. It comes with both caps and hood. I am selling because I am moving to full frame and don't have a need for this lens anymore.

SOLD

Pictures are available upon request.

Good to hear that you sold it, I'm in the same boat (moving from D200 to D700 and have this lens).

What did you end up getting for a full frame ultra-wide angle?

dionysis · August 5, 2009

Thanks

I haven't gotten anything yet but I have been looking at either the "Plastic Fantastic" 19-35mm Tokina 3.5-5.6 ($75), Tokina 17mm 3.5 AF ($200) Manual ($75) or a Nikon 18-35mm ($300).

I think I am going to go cheaper (and lighter) on the super-wide. My reasoning is because I have the 28-70mm 2.8 Nikon. This lens is on my camera 80% of the time. Once I got it I really didn't use the Tokina 12-24 much on my D300.

jhelms wrote:

Good to hear that you sold it, I'm in the same boat (moving from D200 to D700 and have this lens).

What did you end up getting for a full frame ultra-wide angle?

jhelms · August 5, 2009

dionysis wrote:

Thanks

I haven't gotten anything yet but I have been looking at either the "Plastic Fantastic" 19-35mm Tokina 3.5-5.6 ($75), Tokina 17mm 3.5 AF ($200) Manual ($75) or a Nikon 18-35mm ($300).

I think I am going to go cheaper (and lighter) on the super-wide. My reasoning is because I have the 28-70mm 2.8 Nikon. This lens is on my camera 80% of the time. Once I got it I really didn't use the Tokina 12-24 much on my D300.

Cool, I'm needing something wider than 17-18mm range, hopefully around 12mm / 14mm / 15mm.

dionysis · August 5, 2009

I hear that the Sigma 15-30 is neat. It has the same field of view as the Sigma 10-20.

jhelms wrote:

Cool, I'm needing something wider than 17-18mm range, hopefully around 12mm / 14mm / 15mm.

Ed Michaels · August 21, 2009

dionysis wrote:

I hear that the Sigma 15-30 is neat. It has the same field of view as the Sigma 10-20.

The 15-30 becomes a 22.5 to 45mm equal on DX format whereas the 10-20 DX only is 15-30mm on a DX fornat camera. By interbational Treaty all photographic lenses are marked in actual focal lenghts not conversion by sensor size effect on the lens. Some point and shoots have the conversion in addition to the actuall focal length.

I use my Tokina 12-24/4.0 as an 18.5 to 24mm on my D700 and of course as an 18-36 equal on my remaining D200 bodies as I had previously on my D70 bodies.

Brand new the Tokina is $400.00 for the 2005 model and 500 for the new sharper, lower flare and moisture resistant version. The DX ONLY 11-16/2.8 IS $600.00 but oncegain is DX ONLY and to maintain size and gain 1 f stop has a very minimal zoom range.

I should tell you 5hat thye Nikon 12-24 has the same dual format capability for twice the price.

The real sleeper is the discontinued 12-24 EX HSM Sigma, it is the only through the lens viewing focal lenght shorter than 14mm for FX or 35mm versus the other 12-24 and shorter are through the lens viewing zooms in DX only. This Sigma is even sharper as an 18-36 on the DX bodies.

jhelms · August 21, 2009

Ed Michaels wrote:

The 15-30 becomes a 22.5 to 45mm equal on DX format whereas the 10-20 DX only is 15-30mm on a DX fornat camera. By interbational Treaty all photographic lenses are marked in actual focal lenghts not conversion by sensor size effect on the lens. Some point and shoots have the conversion in addition to the actuall focal length.

I should tell you 5hat thye Nikon 12-24 has the same dual format capability for twice the price.

The real sleeper is the discontinued 12-24 EX HSM Sigma, it is the only through the lens viewing focal lenght shorter than 14mm for FX or 35mm versus the other 12-24 and shorter are through the lens viewing zooms in DX only. This Sigma is even sharper as an 18-36 on the DX bodies.

I think what dionysis was saying was that the FX 15-30 would have the same field of view (mounted on FX) as the 10-20 DX does when mounted on DX.

Also, although you mention dual compatibility; the 2144 Nikon 12-24 is a DX lens. I don't usually care to use a DX lens on an FX camera. Not only do you lose resolution, but you lose focal width and if you are going for a wide lens (like we are talking about here), then it doesn't make much sense to do that.

Lastly, I bought the Sigma 12-24 (which does not show as discontinued at adorama) and a copy of the Sigma 15-30 (which is discontinued), and did some back to back shots on my D700, posted here:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=141010

SOLD: Tokina 12-24mm

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