Product Highlights

The Tokina 16-28mm f/2.8 AT-X Pro FX Lens is an affordable, ultra-wide-angle lens with an also-ultra wide f/2.8 aperture available over the entire focal length range. Usually, the focal length range of a lens should be the starting criteria for your selection process. A sub 2x focal length range is not going to garner too much excitement, but for most people, unless they specialize in a certain genre of photography, a 16-28mm focal length range is not going to be the only lens in their kit. But the ultra-wide-angle 16-28mm range will far more typically complement a general-purpose zoom lens in most people’s kits. The f/2.8 aperture is a very strong feature of this lens. Use this lens to capture the big picture at your low light events including weddings, anniversaries and parties. At 16mm, the Tokina 16-28mm f/2.8 AT-X Pro FX Lens turns in very good image sharpness. There is some field curvature going on with this lens favoring sharper backgrounds at the edges of the frame. Full frame DSLR camera users are going to notice the nearly 3 stops of peripheral shading at 16mm f/2.8. Wide-open aperture shading amounts reduce to about 1.7 stops at 20mm, 1.5 stops at 24mm and 1.2 stops at 28mm. If it is an ultra-wide-angle zoom lens, it probably has barrel distortion at the wide end of the focal length range.