Latest Tokina lens rebates

[pRICE cUBE]

I have been pretty happy with the results from the Tokina lenses I have used. Plenty of reviews and the lenses typically feel solid even compared to some of the Nikon and Canon equivalents.

http://www.adorama.com/results/TokinaReb...term=Other&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=Other&utm_source=rflaid63773

[clay]

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1552606

[ka jowct]

I have two Tokina lenses for film cameras, one for Pentax/Ricoh and one for a Yashica that belonged to my mother. I wish I could use the first one on my Pentax digitals, but because it is a hybrid that works on either Ricoh or Pentax, it has to be modified by someone far braver than I am to work with a digital.

[AllGold]

Why can't the 3rd party lens manufacturers NOT make the zoom backwards on Canon? :banghead:

I know it's cost; if they only make one zoom direction (that of Nikon) it costs them less. But surely it wouldn't cost that much to make a mirror-image zoom mechanism for Canon (and whoever else is backwards from Nikon) and change the paint on the barrel/zoom ring accordingly.

[pRICE cUBE]

AllGold wrote:
Why can't the 3rd party lens manufacturers NOT make the zoom backwards on Canon? :banghead:

I know it's cost; if they only make one zoom direction (that of Nikon) it costs them less. But surely it wouldn't cost that much to make a mirror-image zoom mechanism for Canon (and whoever else is backwards from Nikon) and change the paint on the barrel/zoom ring accordingly.

Actually there are some Tokina and Sigma lenses that zoom the Canon direction. Sigma in particular keeps changing their mind. I believe the current 70-200 2.8 OS Sigma zooms the Canon direction. The current 24-70mm 2.8 SIgma zooms Nikon but the previous version zoomed Canon. There is no rhyme or reason.

[DRR]

AllGold wrote:
But surely it wouldn't cost that much to make a mirror-image zoom mechanism for Canon (and whoever else is backwards from Nikon) and change the paint on the barrel/zoom ring accordingly.

But then all your pictures would be backwards.

:turbo:

[Racer X]

DRR wrote:
[quote=AllGold]
But surely it wouldn't cost that much to make a mirror-image zoom mechanism for Canon (and whoever else is backwards from Nikon) and change the paint on the barrel/zoom ring accordingly.

But then all your pictures would be backwards.

:turbo:
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