Home

Tokina

PMA 2010- AlphaMountWorld Show Coverage and Updates

Posted February 20th, 2010 by cgarrard

PMA 2010- AlphaMountWorld Show Coverage

February 2010, Carl Garrard (Last Updated 2-23 7:56 am PST)

 PMA 2010 (click me, I grow) Well, it's arrived everyone. PMA 2010 officially starts Sunday February 21, at 10am Pacific Time Zone. Press (that means AMW included as well) will get a sneak peak on Saturday, but most of the news should come starting early Sunday. We will be attending PMA and covering the Sony Alpha booth and other related booths as well. We will update our coverage here as soon as we can compile it all and get it uploaded. Most likely the 'big press' will give you all the hot stuff sooner than we can, but I intend on getting a bit different coverage (as well as any big news) up here. Hopefully we can offer some additional and unique coverage more specific to our cause here at AlphaMountWorld.

Tokina 19-35mm f/3.5 to f/4.5 Review

Posted April 30th, 2009 by cgarrard

Tokina AF193 19-35mm f/3.5 to f/4.5 Lens Review

April 2009, Carl Garrard

Tokina 19-35mm f/3.5-f/4.5 Lens Back in a time not too long ago when Tokina made lenses for Minolta, a lightweight, affordable ultrawide lens design became very popular, the Tokina 19-35mm f/3.5-f/4.5 wide angle lens. It was designed to cover a 35mm full frame area originally for film cameras, yet the range itself makes it compelling for APS-C use even now. The Tokina 19-35mm continues to be popular/available enough today to be a lens worth considering for the Alpha Mount, and as you can see, a subsequent review here. Brand new copies of this lens can still be found with retailers at remarkably low prices. The lens boasts metal and plastic construction, but is very rugged and precise and features internal focusing and zooming for less than $200.00 USD retail. Tokina can arguably be the best built consumer grade lenses on the market for the dollar, which makes it a pity they do not make new models available for the Alpha Mount. That aside, we still do have a few out there available to us, and the Tokina 19-35mm is one of them. Take a tour of this lens with us as I share my thoughts and test findings with you.