Tokina mc 2,8 28mm

[DAVEG]

Have bought one of these lenses from a closing down store still boxed and unused .But I am not familiar with this brand Sometimes you make a snap purchase and then think after .Obviously it was cheap but does anyone know anything about this lens and its qualities if any? I just assume somtimes its not always the big brand names that give good results but down to the user as well. Thanks for any help guys.

[harry tibi]

Tokina is a well known Japanese manufacturer of medium/high quality lenses. Some of them are quite famous (3.5/17!), some of them are quite mediocre (I vaguely remember a seventies 80-200 zoom), others are above average. Your 28 should at least get that rating: it's pretty good.

[barryreid]

They are a decent brand and any 28/2.8 from a decent brand should be absolutely fine. I had the Tokina 24/2.8 in the late 80s and it was a better lens than I was a photographer!

[iangreenhalgh1]

There's two versions of the Tokina 2.8/28. The EL version is decent, the RMC version is very good.

[ForenSeil]

I had the 28mm RMC and it was okay for me. Not very crispy, no stunning colors or special character, some distortion etc. but it does deliver nice images for the money.
I used it for reversed for macros this style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqRn3at0H60

[DAVEG]

Thank you all, seems ok for the money paid and new MF lenses do not come up that often .But having said that got a OLYMPUS M .ZUIKO 50mm f1.8 still in the factory sealed bag at a decent uninflated price it sits in my kit bag pride of place .Might combine it with my 2x teleconverter and have a stab aty some macro shots . Bought a 24mm miranda that was a good price too seems like eveyone inflates the prices to some really extortionate levels was Miranda a DIXONS sort of own brand special ?

[Lloydy]

Miranda were sold by Dixons, but I don't think that Dixons was the only seller of Miranda. I don't think Miranda were a manufacturer either, they were a re-seller of other lenses and cameras - part of the Allied Impex empire I think, which included Soligor. And like most of these re-sellers they had a wide variety of quality in their product line up, depending on which supplier they bought from. And that question is one that we spend many hours trying to figure out! Sometimes we arrive at an answer as well.

[DAVEG]

Hanimex and paragon, makinon, itorex ,cosina and sirius all unknown to me so sometimes picking up one of these is a bit of a lottery if you know nothing of a particular brand .Prakticar I used a couple of there lenses but one in particular will not give sharp results at all ,blurred at every aperture sat on a tripod yet shot against my now default oly 50mm at same Iso and aperture settings , the Prakticar is extremely dark both are 50mm f1.8 but the prakticar only stops down to f16 while the oly f22. strange how one lens can perform so badly .I m not sure if it has been dropped and the optics are slighly misaligned ,has anyone had a really bad lens such as this also it fine in the daytime in places Explanations are very welcome please.

[shapencolour]

RMC II Tokina 28/2.8 is a small,solid lens with average to good IQ (sharp and contrasty across the frame at f5.6,somehow muted colours,barrel distortion quite well controlled).I got only 2 mundane pics handy (NEX5N)

[DAVEG]

very acceptable images though.

[barryreid]

About Miranda & Dixons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Camera_Company

[philslizzy]

[shapencolour]

No.This is restaurant in Wroclaw ,Lower Silesia,South-Western Poland.