First images samples and tests of the new Tokina lens for Micro Four Thirds can be seen at Dslrcheck (Click here) and at Flickr (Click here). As you know this is a 300mm f/6.3 lens that costs around 300 Dollars/Euro. I haven’t found any preorders in Europe or US yet. It’s only available in Japan.
The spectacular Nokotn 17.5mm f/0.95 lens just got tested on the GH2 by Filmmakingetc (Click here): “The build quality is superb, the low light is awesome, and the mechanical focus ring is a joy is use (especially after using icky focus-by-wire rings so many modern lens have). Oh, and the image quality is stunning.”
You can find plenty of these lenses in Asia and Germany at [shoplink 30452 ebay]eBay (Click hee to see all acutions)[/shoplink]. Great and a bit expensive lens!
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Looking just so so, and it’s a MF. So….pass.
So-so is kind. It looks pretty soft and blurry to me. The close-up of the machinery is better. About the only thing this lens has going for it is size and price.
MF for a lens of this focal length is perfectly fine. I’ve been shooting birds with the 100-300mm and when they’re, oddly enough, sitting in trees, auto-focus is next to useless and trying to quickly use focus-by-wire is a pain. So, real, mechanical manual focus is a good thing.
Nice Voigtländer 17.5mm review.
That close up (the sharper one) is the only shot made with a tripod. Looks like E-M5’s stabilization is a poor competitor to the real thing at this focal length. I wonder if Panasonic’s OIS of the 100-300 does a better job.
http://dslr-check.info/2012/0524.jpg
The moire on the E-M5 is bad. Is it really that bad? I still don’t have mine to test.
Admin, did you read this?
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/29/uk-olympus-woodford-idUKBRE84S0PJ20120529
Yes. Posting that soon!
“Wins settlement” — British take on “settlement out-of-court” for “their own”? 🙂
i’ve been using it for a month now and haven’t had moire show up yet. it depends on settings and subject texture you are shooting
Yes, I understand, but it doesn’t mean it’s less prone to moire than other cameras.
The Tokina samples do not look too good to me. I will stick to my Minolta mirror lens 250/5.6. You can see a sample image here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jazzcrab/6972880326/in/photostream
Lightroom 4.1 has been launched… 770 Mbyte…
oops: 730Mb
Lightroom 4.1 is 393MB for the Mac version.
Also Adobe Camera RAW and DNG Converter 7.1 were just released.
Mirror Lens: Low contrast but very sharp. Nice lens – I’ll buy it for 260 Euro – for shure. Very small, fits in every pocket.
I own already several 8/500mm Lenses. The best is the Canon FD, followed by the tiny Tokina. Little worse is the very cheap Samyang.
I would wager in these photos that the low contrast has more to do with the distance between the lens and the subject than with the lens quality, but we’d need more samples to be sure. That doesn’t excuse how soft the images are, however.
We’ll see what the price is, but I think it’s unlikely that I end up with this bad boy, as tempting as the size and reach would otherwise make it…
Might try MF & F0.95 someday but not now .
Right now is M.ZuikoDigital ED 75mm top of my list . Can’t wait to have a hold on the awesome lens .
@ admin OT not sure if you already seen this:
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Journey-OLYMPUS/3432743
Shot #2 is a hoot, composing a shot “looking” into the mounted flash….
Shot #2 is a hoot. Composing a shot using the LM1 Flash!
yes! Forgot to post about it with all that rumor buzz we had 🙂
The Tokina 300mm really lacks contrast, looks like a “get what you pay for” lens…