Originally posted by Kunzite The Tokina version of the D FA 100 macro, in Canon mount.
I was going to say something snarky here about the new macro being made by Tokina, but I know that's not been a popular thing, even in jest...
Especially when the Ricoh optical engineer stands up and says, "I did this..."
And yes, I know it's not going to be a preset lens; I was hoping the smiley made that clear
I'm expecting a lens very much like the current model, in a very similar shell, with the same focusing technology.
The thing I'm curious about is really what the optical changes are.
Obviously, there's a significant reduction in fringing, and the "new kind of glass" that is likely behind it, but what does it mean?
A single element of exotic glass which refracts differently would presumably need to be shaped slightly differently to fit into the same optical equation, right?
So then how does it fit? How much did they really change?
I'm guessing whatever the changes, they had to be small enough to allow nearly everything else to remain the same, else it would require various levels of physical change, with an accompanying price change larger than what they have hinted...
And that prototype didn't look any different from the current model, which I know is not a perfect indication, but still... interesting...
-Eric