Tokina 12-24 - How bad is Chromatic Aberration

[ajax]

Hi,

I am looking forward to buy this lens. As there are a few Tokina 12-24 owners, I would like to know about how the owners would rate the CA (or color fringing ! is it same ?) issue. I did google search and found few things, however I value information from this forum.

thanks in advance,

cheers,
ajax

[owen]

I can't say that it's been noticable on any shots I've taken with it. It may be there but I haven't looked closely for it.

[Antsl]

Hi Ajax,

I tested two different Tokina 12-24 lenses against two different Nikon 12-24s and IMO the Tokinas were better by a long shot, particularly wide open which is where I tend to do a lot of shooting. No problems with CA.

The only factor that I like about the Nikon is the AF-S focusing... aside from that the Tokina gets the vote.

Hope this is a help

[timbo]

Hi Ajax,

I'm looking forward to getting mine this week and will throw in my 20 cents worth when I do. Some reviews say there's a fair bit of CA in contrasty situations, but by all accounts it shines in 'the golden hour'...

Tim

[leek]

There is some CA, but it's relatively easy to reduce by using something like ptlens software (which also corrects the distortion for the Tokina)...

I've only noticed on high contrast areas (e.g. tree branches agains sky)

[Mj]

Hi ajax... this lens definitely suffers from CA when stressed that way but this may not really be such a critical issue depending on your style and use. Plenty of folk here now have this lens and don't experience any unrecoverable problems (and in most situations no problems at all).
This class of lens has no real perfect choice... all have compromises so I'd suggest that the Tokina is as good a bet as any... and certainly for the price.

[ajax]

Owen, Antsl, Tim, John and MJ

thanks for your input. It helps my decision making.

cheers,
ajax

[birddog114]

Ajax,
More input from me:
It's great but it's also bad coz your CC is now suffered.

[huynhie]

To be honest, I would not worry about the chromatic aberration.

The Tokina is a good lens at a good price compared to the Nikkor.

[birddog114]

I'm sure Tokina users (12-24) on this forum is taking over the ranking of the Sigma 12-24 users, perhaps will be Nikon next.

[ajax]

Birddog,

with your prices cc is constantly stressed