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PL Mount 11-16mm f2.8 Prototype, Manual Iris

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Must.Buy.Now.
 
So here is an update... Tokina is not cooperating very much so we are calling all the retail shops around the country and snatching up all the Canon mount 11-16 Tokinas.
This is good and bad...
Bad because its harder to find the lenses in large quantities.
Good because I half expected no help from Tokina, and the price will still be under $3,000.

I will send out a newsletter soon with (pre)ordering details as well as performance and modification details.
 
Do we have an option to send our Tokina (Nikon mount)?
 
To keep the cost low, we will not be making parts for the Nikon mount version.
I know this sucks for a lot of people that already own the Nikon version (Nikon FTW).
But we could not justify making the parts for both versions.
On top of that, the aperture linkage in the Nikon version requires much more work and would increase the cost quite a bit.
 
Matthew Duclos said:
So here is an update... Tokina is not cooperating very much so we are calling all the retail shops around the country and snatching up all the Canon mount 11-16 Tokinas.
This is good and bad...
Bad because its harder to find the lenses in large quantities.
Good because I half expected no help from Tokina, and the price will still be under $3,000.

I will send out a newsletter soon with (pre)ordering details as well as performance and modification details.
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That sucks. B&H is far and away the cheapest it seems, surely they'd be happy to roll you an order for however many of those you could possibly want
 
Problem is they don't have any ;)


Shawn Nelson said:
That sucks. B&H is far and away the cheapest it seems, surely they'd be happy to roll you an order for however many of those you could possibly want
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Shawn Nelson said:
That sucks. B&H is far and away the cheapest it seems, surely they'd be happy to roll you an order for however many of those you could possibly want
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Shawn...
Problem is...
We already cleaned B&H out of their Tokinas.

Don't worry. I have other sources. ;)
 
We will start taking orders next week when I send out the newsletter with details.
I don't mean to sound like Jannard here...
But details will change (for the better) and expect delays. ;)
For example, we are changing the focus gear from delrin to aluminum.
Little details but nothing major.
As I mentioned in previous posts, our supply is slow but steady.
 
Matthew Duclos said:
We will start taking orders next week when I send out the newsletter with details.
I don't mean to sound like Jannard here...
But details will change (for the better) and expect delays. ;)
For example, we are changing the focus gear from delrin to aluminum.
Little details but nothing major.
As I mentioned in previous posts, our supply is slow but steady.
I got bored last night.
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Bravo!:thumbsup:

Andrea
 
Is the final version going to have iris marks in T stops?
 
For a suggestion, maybe you should make the focus ring wider, to cover the Tokina rubber ring... will probably look more professional?
 
Matthew Duclos said:
I actually considered giving it a cheezy name that would tie in with RED.
My favorite was... Crimson Wide.

Needless to say, the boss-man didn't dig it.
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How 'bout "Bloody Wide"?

Whatever it's named, I want one.

Matthew Verkler
 
Matthew Duclos said:
We will start taking orders next week when I send out the newsletter with details.
I don't mean to sound like Jannard here...
But details will change (for the better) and expect delays. ;)
For example, we are changing the focus gear from delrin to aluminum.
Little details but nothing major.
As I mentioned in previous posts, our supply is slow but steady.
I got bored last night.
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Great!

After that would be nice to have rehoused Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8 and Tamron 28-105mm f/2.8 and with those three light weight zooms (each zoom is less than 1 kilo) you could cover the range from 11mm to 105mm @ f/2.8 for R1.

Impressive.

I will show here my test example about that 3 zooms on my R1 soon.
 
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