Tokina 3x AF high definition digital telephoto lens

mo · Expire: 2016-07-30

Anyone used one of these it has a 52mm thread that screws onto the front of the lens.I picked this up in a batch buy but have not really looked at it until now.

Hand held on to the macro takumar 4/50

cooltouch · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 9096 Location: Houston, Texas

I have one made by Olympus sitting here, but mine's only a 1.7x. It has 55mm threads. I've tried it out and it works okay I guess. Corners are soft, but the center is good.

Mine was included with some Nikon stuff I bought. I plan on putting it on eBay and I'm hoping I can get $10 or $15 for it. Cool

calvin83 · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 7577 Location: Hong Kong

RioRico · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:30 am Post subject:

I have not used that particular strap-on, but I have used others, and they generally suck. They can be adequate for cine/video, but not for still pictures, not unless you WANT your pictures to suck. Distortion, aberrations and softness can be rather bad. Wide-angle strap-ons are usually worse than teles. Even the worst behind-the-lens teleconverter is usually better than the best front-of-the-lens adapter. Experiment with it; then find another sucker to buy it from you. Or use it for video, where nobody will notice.