Customer Reviews

Tokina ATX107PRODXC 10-17/3.5-4.5 AT-X 107 Pro DX AF Fisheye Wideangle Canon Digital SLR Zoom Lens USA - Canon EOS Lens

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I will keep it quick and simple. This lens is amazing! I use it as my UWA lens for my 40d/7d and it does a VERY nice job. At its widest angle is when it has the most "fisheye" effect so when you use it at 17 mm, it is less noticeable. I use it in conjunction with the Canon 17-55, and it really helps me get in shots of rooms or landscapes. Also, the fisheye effect is a really fun, albeit limited, bonus. Additionally, the minimum focusing distance of this lens is superb. You have to be careful, however, because you can get to close to a subject and ding the front element as it is hard to tell distance from viewfinder due to fisheye effect. Wouldn't recommend this lens if you have no need for UWA because I don't think the fisheye effect alone justifies the purchase.

Pros:
- This lens is very well built. It feels solid.
- For the price, it goes to F3.5, which is as good or better than similarly priced lenses.
- I wanted a dramatic fisheye effect and this lens certainly delivers.

Cons:
- When used with a camera like the EOS 20D, it does not support flashes like the 550EX. The flash simply becomes disabled.

Overall:
If you usually buy L series lenses, you will find the limitations of this lens as a disappointment. However, if you usually stick to the more budget priced lenses, then you will likely enjoy this lens. It is a fine fisheye for the price.

I bought this lens on a whim after wanting an extreme wide angle lens. It was either this lens or the Sigma 10-20mm. In the end, I bought the Tokina 10-17 due to my enjoyment with fisheye photos and the fact that it looked much easier to convert fisheye photos into good looking rectilinear images than vice versa.

Though, I'll start with the bad. Chromatic aberration is rather bad. You can see it frequently, especially if you shoot photos outdoors. I'm also not a fan of the friction based lens cap.

With that out of the way, on to the good. The lens is solid. It feels as though it can survive a drop (which I always enjoy in a lens).

Because it's a wide angle lens, the focusing elements don't travel very far, making focus fairly quick (albeit noisy).

The lens is WIDE. At 10mm, I can easily take a picture of a room and have all 4 walls in the photo. At 17mm, you have a good wide angle with minimal barrel distortion. Various defishing programs can convert the wide angle shots, even at 10mm, into good looking rectilinear images.

At the end of the day, I have very few regrets about this lens. I can stand across the street and get the entirety of the Sears Tower, plus street and sky into a single frame! I can stand in a small room with a group of people and get everyone in the same frame.

I highly recommend this lens. If you have any post production software or ability, this lens is about as good as it gets for shooting wide.

Works great with my Nikon D200, even with the SB-800 flash.
(mentioned a flash, due to the review stating the Canon mount version didn't work with the flash. It meters greats with the Nikon mount).
There's not too many fisheyes on the market that have a variable focal length of 10-17mm with AF. It's a great fisheye effect even with the 1.5X crop factor on some DSLRs like the D200, and even cooler when you can zoom to 17mm with the same lens, and take a photo with only a little barrel distortion. I have also used the Tokina 12-24mm af AT-X pro, and the color representation and sharpness in the photos were great, just like this one.

I had this for a couple of weeks now. The lens seems very well built (Made in Japan). I use it with Canon T2i. The quality of the images is superb. I actually got rid of my Tamron 10-24 which I liked a lot because the quality and the crisp images this lens produces are just so much better and sharper.

The best part is when this Tokina is zoomed in at 17mm, it almost doesn't look like a fisheye so as my girlfriend calls it a "2 in 1" lens.

I shoot with Canon cropped sensor cameras and could not buy the Canon 15mm fisheye because on my camera it would produce not that distorted images as I wanted. Then I decided for this tokina 10-17mm fisheye for the little zoom it offers. The zoom is perfect for cropped sensor cameras because you shoot at 10mm with all the distortion you can get and it is also good for full frame cameras since one can shoot at 17mm and get pretty much distortion as well. The lens has excelent construction and the autofocus is fast and accurate. The lens is very sharp and produce high quality and contrasty images. The only thing that I could possibly complain about it is the high level of fringe it creates in the photos. One must retouch that at Photoshop and it is always part of the workflow for photos taken with this lens (it sucks unfortunately). I recommend this lens. It is well built and very sharp. It is also cheaper than the Canon and Nikon similar lenses... I have a few non-Canon lenses and I am very much careful when I buy a non-Canon lens. I researched this one very carefully and for what it has to offer for the price they charge I would say it is a joy for my photos and pocket. I also posted some photos I took with this lens and my Canon 40D and 60D. The photos are the ones of Boston and New York.

I purchased this lens exclusively for underwater photography use. It is recommended by many UW photography sites and UW photographers as a must have lens for wide angle photography. Although I also have a Canon 10-22 mm lens, I thought I'd give this a try and see what all the excitement was about. Well, they weren't kidding. This is a phenomenal tool for UW photography. I shot this through an 8" Ikelite dome using a Canon 7D. Sharpness was very good, even into the corners. You can get very close to your subject and minimize the water column (and particles) to a greater degree than even the Canon 10-22 mm. The distortion you see with this lens above water is not evident below. I was always a bit nervous about using a fisheye, because of the curvature they yield. I was pleasantly surprised how much this is a non-issue underwater. Depth of field is fantastic, allowing wide angle close ups of a small foreground subject, with an expansive scene behind. Wreck photography under some pretty dirty water conditions was also excellent. I've had a great time exploring new techniques with this lens, such wide angle close-ups at a small aperture and slow shutter speed to give a visible or blue water background. The 10 to 17 mm zoom makes it very flexible for changing subject matter. The only negative I've found is a tendency toward purple fringing. This isn't evident unless you pixel peep, and it doesn't seem to have a practical effect on picture quality, but it is evident if you zoom into some images. You really have to watch strobe position with a lens this wide. Push them too far forward and fire them toward full power and you run the risk of hot spots bleeding into the photo. As you might expect, this is especially true when the water is heavy with particulates. With a little care and practice, this problem is readily avoided. This lens also seems to be a good choice for shooting UW video. The high depth of field this lens offers eliminates focusing concerns on cameras like the 7D. In most cases it is focus once and forget. Overall, this was a great purchase. Particularly when you consider the reasonable price, every serious UW photographer should own one of these.

I bought this lens for my Cannon 60D not knowing anything about lenses but I did hear this was the only real fisheye on the market so I decided to gice it a try. Now I use it all the time with SPL Water Housing for Surf Photography and I also use it for skate, off-road, etc.
Very satisfied if you want a real fisheye I would reccomend this lens.

I am definitely an ameatur, however, I can tell quality in hardware and in photo images. I purchased this lens based off of the reviews and I just couldn't be happier with it. I am having so much fun using it, and after doing a lot of comparison with other lenses that are comparable, I am happy that I chose this one. It is built really well, is cheaper than others in it's class, and the zoom option makes it an extreme fisheye or just a wide angle. I love it. It's a no brainer. The only thing I could see as a downside is that the lens is hyper-sensitive to light. I actually like that feature because of the artistic things that can be done with lighting, but being a novice, I need to make adjustments to the lighting with this lens, that my others don't require. The lens cap is ugly, but works well. Overall, Well built with beautiful results.

It is the best fisheye for the price the quality is 100% color and every thing
I had fun using it fast focus I recommend it for every one ((ammeter or pro))
Although I had one problem with it. It is too hard to fit it to the camera I bought 2 lenses
For 2 cameras {canon 400d and canon 40d} and I faced the same problem on both cameras
You will have to use force to fit them. Also I faced the same problem on the lens cap it too hard to remove and put on
Other then that the lens is 100% perfect I uploaded some pics I took with the lens and you can visit my web page
For more pics on www.flickr.com/photos/tj_wotaid