New Tokina 16-28mm PL mount Cima Lens

[Bob Gundu]

http://cinescopophilia.com/tokina-16-28-f2-8-pl-mount-cinema-lens/

I didn't see this coming...

 

[Phil Holland]

Fascinating. Another company is stepping up to the cine-lens market. Tokina make some primes!

 

[James McLellan]

Super interesting. Any idea of the price point?

 

[Shervin Mandgaryan]

Looks like Tokina learned something from Mr. Duclos :yikes:

Glad to see them jumping into the Cine lens market. Hope Tamron and Sigma follow suit.

 

[Patrick Grossien]

Great! Competition time, fellas! Now what about focus rotation and breathing? The housing looks quite massive so there is hope this is a "true" cine lens and not just another rehoused still.

 

[Bob Gundu]

Tokina has the same focal length as a still lens but I sure hope they made more improvements with the pl version.

 

[Nils J. Nesse]

The housing looks very similar to the Sony 11-16mm PL lens... Which specs also coincide with a certain Tokina stills lens.

 

[Alan Peterson]

Tokina has the same focal length as a still lens but I sure hope they made more improvements with the pl version.

The article says they increased the use of ultra-low dispersion glass and aspherical elements. I'm guessing it probably has the updated coatings that they gave the updated 11-16 photo glass as well, if not unique and improved coatings. I'm looking forward to seeing footage from this lens.

 

[Scott Miller]

Wow!!! Very interesting and great find. Thx for sharing!

 

[Jarek Zabczynski]

Very interested in these...

 

[Valentin Paris]

COOL.

 

[Brian M Lynch]

Looks pretty cool! Any word on the pricing?

 

[Jarek Zabczynski]

Under $2k a lens would be the magic number to beat for primes.

 

[Manuel Bauer]

looks awesome!

 

[Sam T]

Looks great.

 

[Danai Chutinaton]

I hope they do other lenses such as a 24-70 and 70-200.

 

[Marco Iacomelli]

I saw this at the fair Interbee in Tokyo. Very impressed. The exhibitor told me that this will be the first of a series of cinema lenses.

 

[Patrick Grossien]

Marco, can you say anything about breathing, built quality etc? Thx!

 

[Tommaso Alvisi]

yeah I'm very interested too!!!
In their still photo lenses, Tokina build quality rocks!!!
But I'm really interested in breathing (lack of) performances!

 

[Bérenger Brillante]

I like this choice of small zooms, short range. 11-16 16-28. Maybe 28-40. 40-60

Variable primes, very usefull to reframe on set.