{"id":364,"date":"2012-02-03T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2012-02-03T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T15:38:34","slug":"new-tokina-300mm-someone-who-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/new-tokina-300mm-someone-who-gets-it\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tokina 300mm – Someone Who Gets It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tokina 300mm f\/6.3 on an Olympus E-P3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have always had a soft spot for Tokina lenses.\u00a0 When I first got into photography, one of my absolute favorite lenses was the Tokina 12-24mm f\/4 for my Canon DSLR.\u00a0 Amazingly built lens, great optics.\u00a0 Felt like a truly pro-grade lens for a reasonable price.\u00a0 Tokina recently entered the Micro 4\/3 fray and has already started showing a few lenses.\u00a0 Today they announced a new 300mm f\/6.3 mirror lens <\/a>for Micro 4\/3.\u00a0 Now, I’m not an enormous fan of mirror lenses in general…they are fixed aperture and generally have poor bokeh due to the way the light works, but I LOVE the fact that Tokina has released this lens.<\/p>\n

When Sigma announced a while back that they were going to release Micro 4\/3 lenses, I was very excited.\u00a0 And then they released two lenses for both Sony NEX and Micro 4\/3, and it was quite obvious that Sigma had no idea what they were doing.\u00a0 They released a slow 19mm and a slow 30mm.\u00a0 One is a very odd focal length for m4\/3, and the other is useless as it’s both larger and slower than the excellent Panasonic 20mm f\/1.7.\u00a0 It is obvious that they were designing for the NEX and porting it to Micro 4\/3.\u00a0 They also showed they really didn’t get the mirrorless industry, at least not yet.<\/p>\n

With this 300mm release, it shows that Tokina gets it.\u00a0 While I probably will not purchase the lens, as I don’t really have a need for a super-long mirror lens, this release fills a need for the system and does it smartly.\u00a0 It’s a long, slowish lens, and it’s manual focus, but it gives fantastic reach and it is SMALL.\u00a0 It’s 2.6 inches long and only weighs 300g for a 600mm equivalent lens.\u00a0 That’s a huge amount of reach in a package that really works for Micro 4\/3.\u00a0 Just slip this sucker into your bag and you don’t add much weight or bulk, but you’ve got a super-telephoto ready to go.\u00a0 They also managed to make this lens pretty attractive as well.<\/p>\n

Tokina has been making some pretty nice optics for the past few years, so it also will likely be a fairly decent performer.\u00a0 This release makes me excited for the future releases that Tokina has in store for the mirrorless market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have always had a soft spot for Tokina lenses.\u00a0 When I first got into photography, one of my absolute favorite lenses was the Tokina 12-24mm f\/4 for my Canon DSLR.\u00a0 Amazingly built lens, great optics.\u00a0 Felt like a truly pro-grade lens for a reasonable price.\u00a0 Tokina recently entered the Micro 4\/3 fray and has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,26,11,10,38],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csc","tag-lens","tag-m43","tag-micro-43","tag-tokina"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28RGq-5S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}