Tokina SZ 500mm f/8 Reflex MF Lens for Nikon Z, Black

Tokina SZ 500mm f/8 Reflex MF

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Tokina SZ 500mm f/8 Reflex MF 

Capture stunning detail with the Tokina SZ 500mm f/8 Reflex Lens for Nikon Z. Manual focus, multi-coating. Shop now!

Enhance your photography experience with the high-quality and versatile SZ 500mm f/8 Reflex MF Lens for Nikon Z, a superior choice for both professional and hobbyist photographers. This innovative lens, designed by Tokina, is a super telephoto lens that employs a catadioptric optical design with a constant f/8 aperture, offering a compact and lightweight alternative to standard telephoto lenses.Ideal for active travel photographers seeking to capture outdoor landscapes, wild nature, or birdlife, this lens is designed to be compact and lightweight, making it perfect for on-the-go photography. It's a mirror lens, a type of lens that's gaining popularity in this new era of compact, high-tech mirrorless cameras.The SZ 500mm f/8 Reflex MF Lens is specifically designed for Nikon Z cameras, including the Nikon Z9, Nikon ZF, Nikon Z5, Nikon Z6, Nikon Z6 II, Nikon Z7, Nikon Z7 II, and Nikon Z8. It adopts a Nikon Z standard (pitch 0.75mm, thread 42mm), allowing the lens to be attached to any camera using mount adapters.This durable lens is perfect for travel photography due to its compact and lightweight design, enabling you to capture far objects that cannot be reached by standard zoom lenses. It's versatile, serving you well in various photographic genres, including landscape, people, street snap, macro, wild nature, and even sports!The long 500mm focal length of the SZ 500mm f/8 Reflex MF Lens is realized thanks to its catadioptric optical design. Mirror lenses are telephoto lenses that incorporate a combination of lenses and mirrors to reflect light back and forth between the ends of the lens, cutting the tube length in half. This construction makes the physical size of the lens around a third of the size of a conventional lens and allows for a lightweight body.The lens elements inside the SZ 500mm f/8 Reflex MF Lens are coated with a multi-layer anti-reflection coating for effective light intake, resulting in increased shutter speed in low light conditions. The mirrored surfaces of the lens elements incorporate a high-reflectivity silvered coating and a protective antioxidant layer on the backside for a longer product lifetime.The SZ 500mm f/8 Reflex MF Lens also offers a specific bokeh effect, creating a unique, donut-shaped, and super smooth bokeh that's loved by many artistic photographers. Thanks to its long focal length, this lens can create images with a super compression effect, showing the background close and enlarged compared to the main object, adding an enchanting atmosphere to your images.The SZ 500mm f/8 Reflex MF Lens comes with a hood and supports 72mm (front) and 30.5mm (rear) filters, allowing photographers to use any creative filters for artistic purposes. With its reliable and versatile mount system, this lens is a valuable addition to any photographer's gear collection.

This is a great 500mm telephoto for the price. I work's very well with my Nikon Z30.

Great inexpensive 500mm for outdoor work.

What I like most:

1. price affordability
2. size and weight make this lens portability for long hiking and nature photography
3. constraint forces me to be creative

Weaknesses

1. focus is acceptable not tack sharp
2. hard to focus in backlighting
3. manual focus is acceptable and Sony A7 manual assist works but Sony A7Rii's manual focus magnification does not work 

I recommend this lens when you want to explore abstract landscape and backyard bird photography when most are not flying.

limited capable superzoom can become creative lens

When I heard about Tokina SZ 500mm, I was reluctant but decided to give it a try since it meets my priorities: size, weight and price. For last 5 days, I have tried the Tokina SZ 500mm for seascape, people, and pets. The results  exceed my expectation despite some of the lens' weaknesses.

What I like most about the lens:

* size and weight make this lens haulable for long hiking

* price is affordable

* Versatile super lens in abstract landscape, for instance to shoot mountain top of glaciers or rice/wheat fields from a distance point of view; backyard songbird photography (not in-flight) and flower photography

What I do not like

* Hard to focus on remote object in strong lighting condition (backlighting). Focus ring is not accurate
* Mirror is susceptible to humid condensation
* Cleaning mirror can create streaks of dirty residues

Tokina SZ 500mm f/8 Reflex MF Lens for Nikon Z, Black

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