One may ask - why bother with usual ultrazoom, especially not widely known?

Other question is - why AT-X (reserved for top Tokina lenses) mark on ultrazoom? Are they nuts?

I'll provide you some answers :-)

First. It is best ultrazoom, considering build quality. Solid aluminium barrel. A bit large, but feels perfect on camera.
Second. This is parfocal ultrazoom, only one that I know of. It means that it maintains focus during zooming.
Do you want to focus pricisely in 24mm? Zoom all the way in, focus and zoom back :-)
This is main reason why it holds AT-X mark.

One of the downsides is very short focus throw and small focus ring.
One of pluses - normal and handy aperture ring.






Get at quite cheap price (for this lens) in Nikon mount:
http://cgi.ebay.com/EXCELLENT-Tokina-24-200-3-5-5-6-AF-AT-X-len-Nikon-/320694495378?pt=Camera_Lenses&hash=item4aaae1a892