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Okay, so I’ve capitulated on whether wide-angles are any good or not, and thrown caution to the wind – this month’s mortgage payment is going on a wide-angle zoom!
A few of you may have read that I’m not the world’s biggest fan of the Sigma 10-20mm in terms of it’s image quality around the edge but it really does have price on its side and let’s face it, price is a massive part of the buying process (or at least it is for me). However, I also have the other options of the Tamron 11-18mm, Nikon 12-24mm and the Tokina 11-16mm, the latter of which is the one that’s caught me eye the most, although I'm struggling to find a UK stockist.
The Nikon is a wildcard, as I don’t think I can afford the near-£600 price tag, even if it a Nikon lens and that it apparently produces great images. The prices of the others are much more up my street though.
Maximum aperture is a big thing for me, as I tend to shoot a lot of low light stuff in my job working on a fishing mag. The Sigma is f/4 wide open, and the Tamron is f/4.5 – not brilliant but adequate. The Tokina on the other hand is a constant f/2.8 all the way through the (much) shorter zoom range. Anyone care to supply a test image showing edge sharpness on the Tokina when wide open at 11mm? I know wide-angle’s are always gong to be a bit fuzzy around the edge when wide open, but a constant f/2.8 gives me room to breath that the others lens won’t give me with their slower max apertures. Plus, with my images regularly going front cover and A4 inside the mag, I need a lens that’ll not compromise on image quality – am I on the right track with the Tokina?
Of course, I also haven’t mentioned the Tokina 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 fisheye. I take it this isn’t a corrected lens in the same way the others are and will display a fisheye perspective rather than corrected verticals etc? I was also keen on the Nikon 10.5mm fisheye but with it being limited in terms of how much I can use it in magazine work (it’ll look repetitive when used too often), I think this may be a buy for later in the year.
I’m sure I’ll have forgotten to mention something so feel free to pick my comments apart!!
A few of you may have read that I’m not the world’s biggest fan of the Sigma 10-20mm in terms of it’s image quality around the edge but it really does have price on its side and let’s face it, price is a massive part of the buying process (or at least it is for me). However, I also have the other options of the Tamron 11-18mm, Nikon 12-24mm and the Tokina 11-16mm, the latter of which is the one that’s caught me eye the most, although I'm struggling to find a UK stockist.
The Nikon is a wildcard, as I don’t think I can afford the near-£600 price tag, even if it a Nikon lens and that it apparently produces great images. The prices of the others are much more up my street though.
Maximum aperture is a big thing for me, as I tend to shoot a lot of low light stuff in my job working on a fishing mag. The Sigma is f/4 wide open, and the Tamron is f/4.5 – not brilliant but adequate. The Tokina on the other hand is a constant f/2.8 all the way through the (much) shorter zoom range. Anyone care to supply a test image showing edge sharpness on the Tokina when wide open at 11mm? I know wide-angle’s are always gong to be a bit fuzzy around the edge when wide open, but a constant f/2.8 gives me room to breath that the others lens won’t give me with their slower max apertures. Plus, with my images regularly going front cover and A4 inside the mag, I need a lens that’ll not compromise on image quality – am I on the right track with the Tokina?
Of course, I also haven’t mentioned the Tokina 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 fisheye. I take it this isn’t a corrected lens in the same way the others are and will display a fisheye perspective rather than corrected verticals etc? I was also keen on the Nikon 10.5mm fisheye but with it being limited in terms of how much I can use it in magazine work (it’ll look repetitive when used too often), I think this may be a buy for later in the year.
I’m sure I’ll have forgotten to mention something so feel free to pick my comments apart!!