Tokina 12-24mm f/4 AT-X Pro DX AF Wide Angle Lens for Nikon Digital Cameras The AT-X 124 AF PRO DX lens is Tokina’s first lens designed for use exclusively on Canon and Nikon Digital SLR cameras having an APS-C sized sensor.This lens gives the digital photographer an ultra wide-angle zoom lens that has the equivalent of an 18-36mm zoom range on a 35mm film camera while maintaining a bright constant aperture of f/4.
Customer Review: The only NON-nikkor lens I own
Side by side it is equally as good as the Nikkor 12-24. Unfortunately, the Nikkor lens is more than twice the price. Do yourself a favor, get the Tokina and save your money for another lens or photo products.
Customer Review: Absolutely fantastic lens.
I’ve had this lens for one year. Incredibly enough, it’s more expensive NOW then it was a year ago. My Nikon lenses have plummeted in price in the past year.

It’s a very comfortable lens and fairly lightweight. Nice big rubber zoom and focus rings although I would have preferred the zoom ring not to be next to the camera body.

Nice smooth zoom ring action; no loose play, grinding or resistance. Much, much better than the $1100 Nikon 18-55mm lens that I hated and returned.

Here’s a wonderfully weird characteristic of this lens that I simply cannot figure out: It will focus and take a picture in a room with barely any light at all! My Nikon 50mm f1.4 lens can’t even come close; the Nikon lens cannot focus even though it’s several f-stops faster. You have to see it to believe it.

The only thing that the lens can’t do (which is no big deal for such a wide angle lens) is the ability to manually focus after an auto-focus.

Want even better performance photographing outdoors? Turn the auto-focus off, set the aperture to about f11 and the distance between 7ft and infinity. Everything will be in focus.

Even though it’s an inexpensive lens, don’t cheap out and get a lousy filter. Pay the $50+ for a good multi-coated 77mm UV filter.

For landscapes or working in tight areas or crowds, you simply can’t beat this lens.

If Nikon put their logo on it and charged $1200, people would rave that it’s such a great lens.

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