Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 for Sony E-Mount

The Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 lens is a versatile wide-angle zoom lens designed specifically for Sony E-Mount APS-C cameras. The lens has a wide aperture range of f/2.8 to f/22, allowing for great control over depth of field and low-light shooting. It covers a focal length range of 11-18mm, which is equivalent to 16.5-27mm in 35mm format. This provides a very wide-angle to ultra-wide-angle field of view, making it suitable for landscape, architectural, and interior photography. The lens features two super-low dispersion elements that help reduce chromatic aberrations and improve overall image quality. This ensures sharpness and clarity in your photos.

The lens has an STM (Stepping Motor) autofocus motor, enabling fast, accurate, and quiet autofocus performance. This makes it suitable for both photo and video shooting. The lens has a minimum focusing distance of 0.19m, allowing you to get up close to your subject and capture detailed shots. It features a 9-blade diaphragm, which creates smooth and circular bokeh when shooting at wider apertures. This helps to isolate your subject and create a pleasing background blur. The lens is designed to be compact and lightweight, making it convenient for travel and everyday use.

The Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 lens for Sony E-Mount is a fast and versatile wide-angle zoom lens, ideal for capturing expansive landscapes, architecture, and other wide-angle shots with excellent image quality.

Product Features in Detail

About atx-m Series
The atx-m series is targeting high speed growing mirrorless cameras market with high quality and yet superior cost performance optical lenses.
Preserving the Tokina's advanced technology (atx) new series is marked with "m" letter, that stands for "motif" and "mirrorless" - motivation that Tokina provides to photographer for creating unique and breathtaking photos with mirrorless cameras.

Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 E
The Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 E is the first super wide angle zoom lens in Tokina's product line-up designed exclusively for mirrorless cameras. It features a fast f/2.8 aperture throughout the zoom range, and a 11-18mm (17-27mm in 35mm equivalent) zoom stored in a compact and lightweight body for active hybrid users who shoot stills and video.
With its compact design, versatile focal length and optical quality, the Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 E is the perfect gear for shooting landscape, group photos, environmental portraits, architecture, astrophotography, automobile photography, street snaps, documentary videos and vlogging.

Compact & Lightweight
The Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 E features a lightweight (335g) and compact (overall length 74.1 mm) design to match Sony E mount mirrorless cameras. Despite the fact that this is a super wide angle lens, it is so small that it does not give a bulky feel, even when shooting with one hand.
The compactness of the Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 allows for superb integration with gimbal systems for filmmaking or vlogging.

Optical Design
The Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 incorporates a complex optical design with a well-balanced arrangement of 2 aspherical and 2 super low-dispersion (SD) glass elements to suppress chromatic aberrations and provide rich color reproduction, low distortion and low light fall-off.
Optical elements including the front glass are fully multi-coated with Tokina's original blend formula to minimize ghosts and flares to an unprecedented level.
Being a super wide angle lens, the Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 performs impressive low distortion - a great feature for shooting interiors or architecture.

Fast f/2.8 aperture
The Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 E features a fast f/2.8 aperture throughout the zoom range for shallower depth-of-field, and 9 blades giving a rounded diaphragm for smooth-edged bokeh in background highlights.
Short minimum focusing distance (MFD) is just 19cm at the widest end, providing advantages in creating unique wide-angle macro images with perspective effects. At an open aperture the image appears more dynamic and 3D looking with front and back bokeh.

Complete Communication with Camera Body
The Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 provides full compatibility with Sony E mount cameras' advanced features, including fast hybrid AF, Image Stabilization, Direct Manual Focus, MF Assist mode, Eye AF and different optical corrections such as shading, chromatic aberration and distortion.

Silent ST-M for the best AF actions
The Tokina atx-m 11-18mm F2.8 incorporates a silent ST-M motor unit coupled with the lens position sensor for fast and precise auto focusing operations in still and video modes.

Micro USB Port for Firmware Updates
The lens' firmware can be updated by customers using a USB (Type B) cable.