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Merry Christmas to me! Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens!

December 03, 2011, 01:54:55 PM

My husband just plopped this onto my lap! Since we're not going to be together for Christmas he wanted me to have it before I left. (We're moving to Ridgecrest, CA and I'll be heading there first, in a week). I've been wanting a wide angle lens for my Nikon D90. I know nothing about this one he bought. It says Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX 11-16mm F2.8 Aspherical.

Squeeeeeeeeeeeee................ Now, how am I supposed to pack when he gives me a toy like this!?

Ooooooooooooooooooooo, it has a clutch on the lens that allows you to switch from manual to auto focus quickly. Love!

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Reply #1 - December 04, 2011, 12:30:21 PM

Here's the only landscape shot I had time to take yesterday (taken from the tinted window of our hotel room):

I was about an inch from the front of the lens hood:

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Reply #2 - December 04, 2011, 05:18:33 PM

very cool!!!!

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Reply #3 - December 05, 2011, 05:58:22 AM

I have a 10-22 that is one of my favorite lenses. Love the focal length. I like getting those big vistas in the back with some object in the foreground; low to the ground with a good amount of DOF. But that's just me.

I used to have a Tokina 16-50 that was a good, solid , performing lens. I was pleasantly surprised considering that you don't hear much on them. I sold it to fund the 10-22.

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Reply #4 - December 05, 2011, 06:41:37 PM

I've got a Sigma 12-24mm that I love to use, but have trouble finding the chance. It's weird. Only once before getting this lens did I have a "wish I had something wider" moment and that was in an elevator on the way down to a wedding and the 16mm I had with me just missed being wide enough. Since getting the 12-24 I even find the 12mm not always wide enough.

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Reply #5 - December 06, 2011, 04:57:58 AM

If you're shooting a cropped body Canon, I'd say don't bother with the third party stuff and go straight to the 10-22. There's not a vast price difference between them like there is with 'L' glass, and the performance is on par with the top of the line offerings.

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Reply #6 - December 06, 2011, 06:38:41 PM

At the time I bought it I wasn't totally sold on the 1.6x format and was planning on a 5D. That never happened. But I'm still really happy with the Sigma. There have been a few cases where the extra 2mm on the wide end would have been nice though.

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