Customer Reviews

Tokina AT-X AF 10-17mm f3.5-4.5 DX Fisheye Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

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Lightweight lens with super sharp optics, and can be used to focus as close as eight inches. Great for close up nature photography, and you are able to get the flower in focus along with the entire garden in the background. The visual distortion makes some interesting photos at the 10 mm zoom level. Combine this lens with the nikkor 18-200 mm VR lens and that is all you need to carry on any trip. I did not see any flare except when shooting into the sun. Lens is 15 ounces, matte finish without a professional look as good as any nikon or canon lens.

Excellent fisheye lens, the most beautiful thing is that it has zoom capability.
With my CANON 20D Body i have to use it at 10mm to get the maximum fisheye effect but still little bit less than 180 degree of the view on this body due to the 1.6 crop factor.
But on the full frame bodies (starting from 14mm) and 1.4 crop factor (at 10mm) bodies it's perfect.
Any way I think it's the best choice for those who have body with crop factor.
Image quality is great,with sharp shots,and the coating is perfect ,no flares, BUT there is few chromatic aberrations at the edges and at the highlight spots, it's acceptable, and can be corrected by Photoshop easily, and still your photos are published even if didn't correct it.
The Auto focus is accurate and work perfect, the Manual focus is very soft which i didn't like, but you don't need Manual focus most of the time for this lens.
Finally i recommend this lens for any body who like the fisheye effects and who search for super wide angle shots, with any Canon EOS Body.

I've had a full-frame fisheye lens since the 1970s, starting with the Pentax Takumar 17mm in screw mount, followed by the Pentax in K-mount, and then finally, the Nikkor 16mm manual focus. So, when Tokina came out with this lens (which is actually the same as the Pentax, I've read in the same focal length), I had to have one for my new Nikon D40. The zoom feature is nice since you can vary the degree of the fisheye effect by backing it off a little from the widest focal length of 10mm. And, though it won't auto-focus on the D40, there's little need for precise focus with this lens due to the extreme depth of field at these focal lengths. Suprisingly, when I mounted the lens on my F100 film body, you naturally get vignetting, capturing the lens hood in the photo, but zoom it out a little and the vignetting disappears. So, with cropping, you could use this lens on a 35mm film body and create some interesting effects. Sharpness seems OK so far. I'm not a lab tech and I don't buy lenses to photograph graph paper or anything else that absoluetly has to be razor sharp from corner to corner. If you just want a fun, creative, lens that guarantees that your photos will always have a different interpretation than your friends who take the same shot, this is the lens for you!

I was between this and the Nikon's 10mm 2.8. I ended up getting the tokina because a friend had it and after seeing his pictures with it and after using it a bit on his camera (canon), i decided that 3.5-4.5 was fine for what i needed on a fisheye (actually one of my friends photos was on location, at night, with just one street light, and it looked awesome). The zoom is also nice to have.

This is one of the lenses that you must have in your bag at all times if you shoot with APS-C sensor size cameras. It produces pin sharp images with great saturation. The construction of this lens is superb and the zoom from 10mm to 17mm very useful. It is important to say that this lens produce 180 degrees of field of view what is the maximum that a fisheye could give to you. It is far better to buy this lens than the Canon 15mm Fisheye or the Sigma as well because mounted on a APS-C sensor size camera, they do not deliver 180 degrees of view. I researched a lot before buying this lens and do not regret buying it at all. I recommend this lens.

This is a great lens for the money, if your going to spend the money on the Sigma or Nikon 10mm you might as well get this lens. It goes from wide 10mm fish eye to a nicely artistic 17mm wide angle. The images are extremely sharp...I dont have room for error as I make a living through photography and this lens did not let me down. The focus is extremely fast and accurate. I dont see the logic in spending about $100 more on the Nikon/Sigma 10mm when you can get the only fish-eye lens with a zoom while saving yourself a couple of dollars.