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From: Pierre Bellavance
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: EOS Tokina 19-35 or Canon 20-35 - Help me choose.
According to the B&H website, the Tokina AF193C 19-35 is $200 while the
Canon 20-35 is $420... not exactly "almost the same price"... unless your
Tokina lens was another model?
I agree that if they were almost the same price I would get the Canon, but
here the difference in price is huge...
But which lens is the best?
Pierre
Well, I was thinking the Tokina would be more, after looking at the
prices on their website, most lenses seemed to be priced pretty well in the
Canon league. I priced a Sigma at about the same price as the Canon a few
months ago. Even then, while the Tokina might be a good deal, a couple
hundred bucks over the years of use will mean very little to me. I consider
the Canon to likely have less problems in the future, but if it does it
won't be hard to get serviced. The reason is because so many of them are
sold, and the product doesn't change every other year. I've noted alot of
3rd party lenses seem to change their type and designation quite a bit,
confusing to say the least.
Although I agree USM isn't as important on a wide angle lens, and, hey,
I love to manually touch up my focus, autofocus without USM just isn't the
same. The USM focuses so fast and quiet on this EF 20-35, you don't even
notice it. Does the Tokina have the sliding focus ring you pull back to
manually focus? The other thing that might bug me, and I'm not sure the
Tokina has it, is some 3rd party lenses have the zoom ring that turns
opposite to the normal zoom, that might be a bit strange.
I'm not familiar with the Tokina lenses, is it possible this $200 lens
is not the latest model? In any case, you could order it, check it out, and
return it if you don't like it. Maybe you should go to a camera store and
put both lenses on your camera and check them out for feel, focusing, etc.
The main reason I bought the Canon 20-35 was the high recommendations I
found on this list and the newsgroups. I believe the reason Canon has
discontinued the 20-35 L lens is that is wasn't much better, and wasn't
selling for that reason. Of course they do still have the 17-35 L lens for a
very hefty price as well.
By the way, I noticed your mesage was not plain text. Please check that
all messages to this list are plain text only, thank you.
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