Buying Tokina 100mm F 2.8 Nikon

Tokino 100mm F 2.8 Nikon.

Let me start by saying that I am not a professional photographer. I’m just a guy that enjoys taking pictures. With that said, I recently became interested in macro photography and this lens is amazing. I’ve looked at the Nikon 105mm and the 60mm macros lens. The 60mm focal length was to short but the 105 was perfect. At double the price of the Tokina the 105mm just isn’t practical. The build quality of this lens is rock solid. I also own a Tokina 11 ~16mm WA lens. So I wasn’t surprise as to the construction and lens IQ of this lens. The sharpness of this lens also makes it good for portraits. So if you are looking for a reasonably price alternative to the Nikon choice, try this lens. You won’t be disappointed.

This Tokina 100mm f/2.8 Macro is a fantastic lens.

It’s optical performance is as good or better than the best from Nikon and Canon, and this Tokina’s ergonomics, due to its unique focus clutch, is also better than any of Nikon’s or Canon’s 100mm or 105mm macro lenses.

“This lens is very sharp and fast, and it’s the most affordable 100mm range macro lens in the market. For this price i paid, it’s doing a superb job”

This is an FX lens, and works especially well with on FX, 35mm and DX Nikons like the D7000, D700, D3X, D300s and F6. It works fantastically on manual-focus cameras like the F2AS, F3, FE and FA, since it has real manual-focus and aperture rings that work exactly as they should.

The Nikon version 100mm f/2.8 AF works great with almost every film and digital Nikon camera made since 1977. You’ll need to figure out a way to add a meter coupling prong for use with Nikons made from 1959-1976, if you want meter coupling.

The only incompatibility is that it will not autofocus with the cheapest D40, D40x, D60, D3000, D3100 or D5000, but if you focus manually, everything else works great. These cameras have in-finder focus confirmation dots to help you.

See Nikon Lens Compatibility for details on your camera. Read down the “AF, AF-D (screw)” column for this lens.

Warning: as a non-Nikon lens, there is never any guarantee that this Tokina lens will always work perfectly with every possible camera. I’ve only used it on the D3 and D7000. There is always the potential for it not to work on some models of camera, today or newer models in the future. This is the one chance you take with non-Nikon lenses.