21mm Tokina Wide Auto, Any good?

SeanM · Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 3 Location: Sweden

Hello Everyone.

My first post.
Thinking of moving in with digital along side film and wondered if this lens would fit a 5d or MkII and a Contax RX, with the obvious adapters, if it exists.
I think it might go quite cheap at a local auction, is it any good, it looks like a big lump of glass, but looks can be deceiving.
It is already fitted to a Canon F1

Great sight by the way.

Cheers

bobcominitaly · Joined: 22 May 2009 Posts: 71 Location: Terontola (I)

Anything fits on anything with the right adapter, but you either need to forget infinity focusing or look for an adapter with correction optics. Register distance of Canon F is 42 mm, which is shorter than the register of the Eos and Contax SLRs. On this site you can what might fit what - most lenses from bodies with greater register distances can be made to fit bodies with smaller register distances.