LENS-DB.COM

Abbreviations

Specification

Source of data

• Manufacturer's technical data.

Manufacturer description

From Tokina's ad (1980):

70-210mm f3.5-22. Close Focus. One Touch: The Lightweight Vacation Zoom

Your vacations no longer have to seem like a crippling extension of Cecil B. DeMille Productions. Long lenses, closeup lenses, zooms - all hanging and banging around your neck, the right one never on your camera. With the 70-210mm, one lens and one touch lets you pull in medium to long range telephoto pictures with professional ease. With sharpness you've never seen in a zoom before. And in a neck to neck comparison with other 70-210s, Tokina's size and weight will make you a true believer.

35-70mm f3.5-16. Close Focus: The New "Normal" Lens

Why buy just a 55mm when you can have a lens that does so much more? With the 35-70mm you get a popular range of focal lengths as well as a wide angle/telephoto zoom that focuses as close as 7 1/4". This is Tokina's smallest and lightest zoom, less than 3" long and under 14 ounces.

Both lenses are multi-coated and are available to fit the following mounts: Pentax Universal, Minolta SRT/SR/MD, Canon AE/FL/FD, Nikon AI/Nikkormat, Olympus OM, Konica EE Auto, Pentax K, Fujica and Yashica Contax/FR.

From the Camera magazine (1980)

Particularly notable among recent additions to the Tokina lens range are two extreme fixed focal lengths and three zoom lenses with a close focusing range.

The 70-210 mm SZ 210 f:3.5 is a single-touch zoom with continuous close focusing at all focal length settings. The near focusing limit of 1.4 metres yields a 1:5.4 image scale at the longest focal length. The lens has 14 elements in 10 groups and takes 62-mm filters.

Notes

• Since about 1979, the names of some RMC Tokina lenses featured script capital letters TL in red (some people, however, think that these symbols are more similar to the Roman numeral II). One way or another, in Tokina’s literature there was no mention of either the TL series or the second generation of RMC lenses. In reality, these symbols were just an emblem that did not have any meaning and were not actually part of the lens name.

Lenses with similar focal length range