Site Supporter Registered: May, 2015 Location: Hampshire Posts: 892 | | Review Date: August 4, 2019 | Recommended | Price: $5.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Cheap, preset, Tmount, comes with tripod mount. | | Cons: | CA, 8ft MFD | | Sharpness: 8
Aberrations: 4
Bokeh: 9
Handling: 8
Value: 10
Camera Used: K-5
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Mine is a Tokina made, Soligor branded preset lens with a T mount, integral hood (too short) and a 58mm filter thread.
Bought at a boot sale this morning, covered in dust with no caps.
A quick clean up, found a couple of generic caps and stuck it on my K-5.
The T mount is wide enough to prevent light leakage into the body, it is a long narrow lens and weighty but the lens does not extend with changes to the focal length, just the focussing. The tripod mount is a bonus but I have not as yet used it.
It is not an unknown lens, searching the www finds a gentleman suggesting that this can make a reasonable macro lens.
There are other owners of this lens (under many brands) and even a question on the forum asking why nobody has reviewed it yet.
Hopefully this will kick start some reviews from them too.
The only problem that is obvious is the colour fringing in high contrast areas, I checked the sharpness with some tiny written text and it is sharper than I expected.
Taken at F:8 s.o.o.c jpeg, no processing.
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