Photography / Camera chat thread.

[mr.anderson]

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

Ken's review of the Tokina was written before the Nikon 10-24 came out, so he was basing his opinion on that one, and taking into account the 12-24 is almost twice the price of the Tokina, which is both wider and faster.

With the 10-24, the wider advantage goes away, but it's still an f/2.8 vs. a variable aperture zoom that is still more expensive than the Tokina. That's why it's such a no-brainer, especially when it's such an optically brilliant lens!

Guess I'll have to keep saving for mine...

Ah yes, that is true.


You're welcome to borrow mine if you;re ever in the South West of London.

Originally Posted by mr.anderson

Ah yes, that is true.


You're welcome to borrow mine if you;re ever in the South West of London.

Thx, that's really nice of you

Well technically I am SW of London, just not in the SW of London... oh well maybe next time!

I have had 2 copies of the Tokina 11-16 and sent both back. At infinity the first lens was never sharp and had very bad corner softness in bottom right even shooting at 5.6. The second one gave inconsistent exposures. I tried these on a D90 but was unlucky to get 2 bad lenses but when you do manage to get one thats good that are remarkable for the money. I never did get to try another or any other extreme wide angle lens on the D90 again. I used to have a 10-17mm fish eye for my Pentax dslr which was fun but limited in how you could use it.
The only other lens i have ever had to send back was a Tamron 17-50 2.8 that had real bad front focus. Other than that i have been pretty lucky with lense purchases.

[mr.anderson]

Originally Posted by TC3

I have had 2 copies of the Tokina 11-16 and sent both back. At infinity the first lens was never sharp and had very bad corner softness in bottom right even shooting at 5.6. The second one gave inconsistent exposures. I tried these on a D90 but was unlucky to get 2 bad lenses. I never did get to try another or any other extreme wide angle lens on the D90 again. I used to have a 10-17mm fish eye for my Pentax dslr which was fun but limited in how you could use it.

I've had a Nikon 10.5mm Fish-eye on my D90 which was great fun, but as you say, fish-eyes are a bit limited. Lets hope my 11-16 doesn't have the same problems yours did.

Originally Posted by mr.anderson

I've had a Nikon 10.5mm Fish-eye on my D90 which was great fun, but as you say, fish-eyes are a bit limited. Lets hope my 11-16 doesn't have the same problems yours did.

Yeah hope yours is a good one.

Well I've got a bit of cash coming through at the end of feb so if you fancy getting shut of the f100 let me know, i'd rather my dosh went to a fellow orger than some random ebayer

I now have one of these,




















just gotta figure out how to work it, don't worry sorted the strap

Nice one Andy

You won't regret the D90, it's a great camera.

cheers mate, there may be lots of questions now, lol. First impressions are good, some decent wheather would help for tomorrow, not going to happen though is it

Originally Posted by bluefishman

cheers mate, there may be lots of questions now, lol. First impressions are good, some decent wheather would help for tomorrow, not going to happen though is it

Ill let Filipe answer them cos unlike me he knows what he's on about