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by **glamy** on Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:25 pm

Funny nobody mentioned it is now available.
Cheers
Gerard

by **gstark** on Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:35 pm

glamy wrote:Funny nobody mentioned it is now available.
Cheers
Gerard

Actually, somebody did, earlier this week.

There is a thread where they managed to grab one to play with in Michael's in Melbourne, despite the fact that the lens wasn't supposed to be released until today.

by **birddog114** on Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:40 pm

glamy wrote:Funny nobody mentioned it is now available.
Cheers
Gerard

Where did you find it? locally in Sydney? Today perhaps!

by **glamy** on Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:10 pm

I'll see one tomorrow morning at 2am, you know where!
Cheers,
Gerard

by **birddog114** on Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:16 pm

glamy wrote:I'll see one tomorrow morning at 2am, you know where!
Cheers,
Gerard

That why I asked! hehehehe

by **owen** on Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:34 pm

Wherever you guys manage to find one of these lenses

, would you be so kind as to post some example shots?

I'd love to see what it is capable of.

Cheers,
Owen.

by **Antsl** on Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:59 pm

Hi All,
I have some sample images from the 10-20 (made with one of the lenses that made to Melbourne this week) however I have to say that I have not figured out how to post images on this forum yet!!

Someone give me an email address that I can send a couple of images to and I forward them through to you and you can then post them!

Cheers,
Antsl

by **gstark** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:16 am

Anstl,

Antsl wrote:Hi All,
I have some sample images from the 10-20 (made with one of the lenses that made to Melbourne this week) however I have to say that I have not figured out how to post images on this forum yet!!

All you need to know about posting images is right here.

by **Antsl** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:27 am

Will try and make it happen later today! Antsl

by **owen** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:58 am

Here's Ants pics:

Full:

Crop 1:

Crop2:

by **Nnnnsic** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:07 pm

Hmm... not too sharp.

Thst's worrying.

What's the EXIF data like?

by **MCWB** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:16 pm

Nnnnsic wrote:What's the EXIF data like?

350D 10 mm 1/640 f/4 ISO400. Quite frankly I'm not surprised it's not sharp wide open; the real test is at f/8-f/11.

by **Antsl** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:42 pm

Hi Guys,

Just to let you know what was happening in the testing process. This is a simple straight shoot of a street scene... while maintaining the same composition I made the image at f4 through to f22 at both the 10mm and the 20mm settings. How the lens performs wide open is a concern for me as a doco shooter as I tend to shoot wide open a lot anyway.

Having just tested a bunch of lenses I have to say that I was rather impressed with two in particular .. the Canon 10-22 and the Tokina 12-24mm. The Tokina lacks the ultrasonic motor functions of other lenses in this class however it is sharper wide open than the Nikon 12-24 while being half the price. These lenses become similar to each other once you get to the smaller apertures. If you are looking for an affordable option to the Nikon 12-24 then this lens gets my vote. The only lens the at I am waiting on to test at the moment is the Tamron 11-28mm.

If you guys are interested I will post an image from the Sigma 10-20 at the f11 setting and you can take it from there.

by **Nnnnsic** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:53 pm

Yup, please do.

Also, I'd like to see your comparison between sharpness of the Tokina and the Nikon, especially if you're saying the Tokina is sharper.

I know that tere are a few people on here who'd automatically disagree with that.

by **leek** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:08 pm

Nnnnsic wrote:Also, I'd like to see your comparison between sharpness of the Tokina and the Nikon, especially if you're saying the Tokina is sharper.
I know that tere are a few people on here who'd automatically disagree with that.

Who could you be talking about Leigh??? :lol:

by **Nnnnsic** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:15 pm

leek wrote:
Nnnnsic wrote:Also, I'd like to see your comparison between sharpness of the Tokina and the Nikon, especially if you're saying the Tokina is sharper.
I know that tere are a few people on here who'd automatically disagree with that.

Who could you be talking about Leigh???

I don't think I can answer that without my lawyer present. :lol: