Tokina is looking into image stabilization and the first lens to receive it will be the Tokina 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 ATX840 D zoom lens. This was in a direct email from Tokina support to a PhotoRumors reader in response to introducing image stabilization in Tokina lenses.
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Tokina lenses are very good, Image Stabilization would make them even better.
This is a very good lens at its price point. Let’s hope adding stabilization is not going to spoil that by making it too expensive.
This will be a nice addition to a line of Superb lenses which match or surpass equivalent Canikon L and Nikkor glass.
Sounds wonderful! Tokina surely has made some nice lenses before, and it would be interesting to see how this turns out.
Hope that it is not too heavy…
great news!
go Tokina! go! hehe
Thats some good news. I’d love them to get USM motor and I’d love to see their 17-35mm and 24-70mm full frame lenses.
Yeah, that would be wonderful! There two UW DX lenses are just the best out there, pricee and performance wise, in my opinion.
Time for them to start making some new FX glass, in known build quality.
Is it just a coincidence that Nikon’s first image stabilized lens was the 80-400 lens, as well? (Or was that the first with VR II?)