Is Tokina 12-28mm lens good for Nikon d7100?

Is Tokina 12-28mm lens good for Nikon d7100?

Yes.

In fact it is good for everyone else too as long as the mount is right. Tokina is one of the best third-party lens makers around. They have excellent optical quality. Just make sure you get the lens with a Nikon mount.

You do understand what 12-28mm mean, right?

http://keerok-photography.blogspot.com/2011/05/lenses-so-many-of-them-there-is-no-best.html

Tokina are the best of the 3rd party manufacturers. There lenses are up their with the OEMs

It is good for any crop-frame DSLR, as long as you buy it with the correct lens mount, thus you must specify Nikon. But if it is truly 12mm to 28mm it is pushing the concept of lens design a very long way, and might not give as good results as a wide zoom with lesser range. If you want to start at 12mm then possibly look at 24mm max, or preferably 20mm tops.

It will work, but you may also want to consider the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 or the Sigma 8-16mm f/4~5/6.

I have a D7100 and have both of these lenses (the Tokina 11-16 and Sigma 8-16)… Both work well with the D7100.

The Tokina, even though it is only one mm more, has an advantage of being more sensitive to low light. And the Sigma - you can't get a wider lens for a DX camera. You might not think there's much difference between 8mm and 12mm, but it is about a 40% difference… That is, the Sigma will be about 40% wider than the Tokina 12-28mm.

Don't worry if you have some gap between 16mm and your next lens; even if it is something like a 24-70mm. You won't miss the gap between 16 and 24mm.

I use the Tokina 11-16mm when I want to take available light photos inside of museums so I can take advantage of the fast f/2.8 lens, and I use the Sigma for all outside wide photography. In fact, I recently took a cruise, and I had so much fun with it, I used the Sigma 8-16mm exclusively on my D7100. I had a P330 for the longer lens needs.

I bought the Tokina 11-16mm first, and in all honesty, probably should sell it as it no longer gets much use since I bought the Sigma 8-16mm.

You can look at the width angle specifications (angle of view) from the lens manufacturers - but realize that many -of them distort the truth. Often, manufacturers use an angular (lower left corner to upper right corner) width measurement like TV manufacturers do, while others use a horizontal angle measurement - which is the only true measurement.

At any rate, the only real method of comparing the angle of view of two lenses - especially from two manufacturers, is to know if they use an angular or horizontal measurement.