Tokina SZ 33mm f/1.2 Review and Additional Listing

• 2 years ago

Tokina SZ 33mm f/1.2: B&H Photo / Adorama

The Tokina SZ 33mm f/1.2 was announced a while ago, but it only recently became available at B&H Photo, but Amazon still doesn’t have a listing. Christopher Frost also posted his review, and below are his findings:

• Solid lens that feels like you could hammer roofing tiles in with it
• 605g
• No weather sealing
• Aperture ring is metal and turns smoothly but heavily
• The focus ring turns smoothly and heavily with lots of precision
• Some focus breathing
• Metal screw on lens hood
• 62mm threat on the front
• One of the most solid lenses he has ever held
• Very good sharpness even at f/1.2 with average contrast and a little color fringing, but soft in the corners due to the corners being out of focus so if you focus on the corners, it is very good
• This lens has excellent sharpness, but the filed curvature requires you to stop down to f/8 to get it across the entire field
• Some people find extreme field curvature beneficial, but Christopher Frost  does not agree outside of subject photography and portraiture
• Very low barrel distortion
• Very little vignetting
• Stop down to f/2, and all vignetting is gone
• Focus down to 50cm
• Image quality close-up takes a huge hit, but is excellent by f/2.8
• Lots of flaring and glaring
• Chroma smearing in the dark is an issue in the dark until you stop down to f/2
• Sun stars at f/11 but not great
• Bokeh is on the smooth side of average
• LoCA goes away by f/2.8
• Lens has lots of potential and you will have to think about field portraiture, unless doing subject or portrait photography

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