Lens advice: Tokina 80-200 f2.8

i have a full series of Tokina zooms that I used in the DSLR era (haven't touched them in a while).

They tend to come up softer than the modern Canons and Nikons, especially at 2.8. Color-wise they are on the cool side, which makes them a good match for the Zeiss ZE/ZF's. They are very solid and heavy. They do breathe but I never compared them to other lenses on that regard. I use the EF mount version and for me it was solid choice vs the drive-by-wire of the Canons or using a Nikon with adaptor.

Good for the money, but definitely softer is the short answer I can give.
 
CharlesPapert said:
i have a full series of Tokina zooms that I used in the DSLR era (haven't touched them in a while).

They tend to come up softer than the modern Canons and Nikons, especially at 2.8. Color-wise they are on the cool side, which makes them a good match for the Zeiss ZE/ZF's. They are very solid and heavy. They do breathe but I never compared them to other lenses on that regard. I use the EF mount version and for me it was solid choice vs the drive-by-wire of the Canons or using a Nikon with adaptor.

Good for the money, but definitely softer is the short answer I can give.
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thanks for your response charles, how long is the focus throw on your lenses, like the vintage ones or ef style?
 
It's a good question Stefan...they are the same era as the one you posted a link to so I would say "vintage". However my modality with using them cine-style was to always use a Preston FIZ on them, so the effective focus throw was as much as a true cine lens (full rotation of the knob). While it seems a bit mismatched to have a $20K lens controller on a $500 lens, the point was that I already owned the Preston so it made perfect sense! And it was the main reason that I needed lenses with hard stops and not drive-by-wire. Sadly the Tokinas had a variable witness mark depending on what focal length you were at, so there was no marking of the hand unit to specific distances, we continued to pull focus by eye from a monitor. The ZE's by comparison allowed me to map marks into the Preston, so I had accurate focus to inches displayed on the hand unit, which effectively turned those lenses into CP2's. Bit off-subject, sorry.
 
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