| Latest Review Posted | Tokina SZ-X 270 SD MF 28-70mm F3.5-4.5
I do not mention the price I payed, because I bought this new in the early 80's for on my ME-super I used that days. Nowadays these lenses go for almost nothing. For fun I compared this today on my K1ii with the kit lens (DFA 28-105), not a fair trial...
Nevertheless this Tokina even on a 36 MP shows real sharpness stopped down a little, at F5.6-F8.0 it shows equal sharpness with the DFA, even in the far corners. The pictures only are less contrasty and suffer green/magenta CA's at the borders and purple fringing in harsh area's. The DFA has far less CA's (green/yellow) and shows no fringing.
There is no reason to put this on a modern camera if you already own a kit lens, but in its days it was a nice offer from Tokina, good image quality and well coated optics. In its film days this was an attractive performer, for me it can retire now… :).
Today (low contrast winter day) on 36 Mp at F8 :
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/members/61238-henrico/albums/10118-old-zoom-lenses/picture128091.jpg
Scanned old color negative with K1ii :
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/members/61238-henrico/albums/10118-old-zoom-lenses/picture128090.jpg
For scanning this way : https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/107-film-processing-scanning-darkroom/387682-my-best-methodology-film-scanning-raw-camera.html |
