Even when working with there is nothing wrong, and I feel both zoom and focus as unnecessarily stiff and not smooth. The switchover from AF to MF not thrilled me, but you can live with it.
Unfortunately, the key to good super wide angle image quality seems to be the huge curved front lens. This makes the lens heavy, large, impractical (the cover can not you just quickly in your pocket insert) and the use of filters almost impossible. This latter event is at wide angle already a problem.
At first I thought that I do not care whether 600g (Canon) or 1kg (Tokina), but then I realized that the by no means so. You think about it always twice if one takes the lens genuine.
The two star points deduct two things:
- The reverse compared to Canon lenses zoom direction. That's a No !!
- The quite slow and noisy focus motor. For videographers definitely the lens is useless. Tokina not ashamed, nor to make the AF also advertising. What a crock, a Canon USM plays in a completely different galaxy. Super wide angle or not - what is so difficult about building a USM in such an expensive lens a ??
I have my Tokina 16-28 used less than a year on the EOS 6D and then sold. There is currently no successor.
