Tokina SZ 500mm F8 Reflex MF Canon EF

Tokina SZ 500mm F8 Reflex MF Canon EF

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predestined field of application for the new Tokina SZ SUPER TELE 500mm F8 Reflex MF is especially travel photography, as the lens is almost tiny, compact and lightweight compared to conventional super-telephoto lenses. It captures distant objects, which cannot be reached with standard Zoomlenses, in full format.

In addition to travel photography, the Super Tele is suitable for a wide variety of photographic genres, including landscape, people, street, macro, wildlife, and even sports

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Optical Design

Thanks to the catadioptric optical design, also known as reflex and mirror lens, a very long focal length of 500 millimeters is realized while being extremely compact and lightweight.

Mirror lenses are telephoto lenses that contain a combination of 3 lenses that are silvered on the outside of the glass to reflect light back and forth between the ends of the lens

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This structure "folds" the light and halves the physical length of the lens body required to do so. The design thus gets by with one-third the size of a conventional telephoto lens and allows for a particularly lightweight body, since the mirrors are many times lighter than optical glass.

Compact and lightweight

As a lens with a focal length of 500 millimeters and a weight of only 310 grams (without mounting adapter), the Tokina SZ SUPER TELE 500 mm F8 Reflex MF can be easily carried in a small bag.

This is especially interesting for travel photographers who want to use super telephoto lenses on their tours and still be able to travel light

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Optics

The lens elements inside the lens are coated with a multi-anti-reflective coating to effectively capture light, extending shutter speed in low-light conditions.

The mirrored surfaces of the lens elements have a silver-plated coating with high reflectivity and a protective antioxidant coating on the back for long product life

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Hardly any chromatic aberrations

With reflective mirror lenses such as the Tokina SZ, hardly any chromatic aberrations occur in the image. This saves time in post-processing.

Macros

The minimum focusing distance of the Tokina SZ is 1.7 meters. It allows a 1:2.86 magnification to capture a 6 x 9 centimeter object with a full-frame camera. Shadows in close-ups are largely avoided due to the design.

Specific Bokeh

The optical design of the lens produces a very special donut-shaped and super-smooth bokeh, which is very popular among many artistic photographers.

Easy and Precise Focusing

The Tokina SZ SUPER TELE 500 mm F8 Reflex MF is equipped with a wide and easy-to-grip focus ring that offers the user a great deal of sensitivity with a 270-degree rotation range, allowing for very precise focusing. Thanks to high-quality finished metal parts, the focus ring can be used smoothly even in low temperature environments and dust has no chance to be "sucked" into the lens.

Super compression

The long focal length of the Tokina enables images with super compression effect. The background appears very close and magnified compared to the focused main object.

Reflex or mirror lenses are anything but unfashionable. If you want to discover all the advantages of reflex lenses, you should try them on a mirrorless camera.

easy to focus

Functions such as focus peaking help to find the sharpest focus area easily and quickly.

Less camera shake

The built-in image stabilizers of mirrorless cameras make it possible to shoot sharp handheld shots even with such super-telephoto focal lengths.

Faster shutter speeds

The latest mirrorless cameras boast outstanding high-ISO characteristics. Photographers can thus choose a faster shutter speed to further reduce camera shake. The increase in image noise remains extremely low.

The Tokina uses a standard T-mount (distance 0.75 mm, thread 42 mm), which allows this lens to be mounted on various camera systems (Nikon F, Nikon Z, Canon EF, Fuji X, Micro 4/3 and Sony E) via mount adap

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By changing the adapter, the lens can be used on different cameras.

The Tokina SZ SUPER TELE 500 mm F8 Reflex MF is available in two different packages, as a lens without adapter and as a kit with one of each of the mount adapters

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