drisley
10th of November 2004 (Wed), 09:14
Sure, I bet yall are sick of hearing about the Tokina ATX 17mm Pro lens.
But, I hope some might find this information useful.
I took the camera out early this morning, and tried to take a picture almost directly into the rising sun to test for flare resistance.
Also, I had alot of tree braches against the blue sky, so this was a good test for chromatic abberation, blue/purple fringing (I'm never sure of the correct term for this).
Anyway, I think the lens did an AWESOME job with flare, especially considering this is an ultra wide lens. There is no loss of contrast, and only 3 small flare circles that are actually a little hard to find. Colour me impressed again!
As far as fringning goes, this lens also did a very good job for an ultra wide. Compared to the 18-55mm, or even the 85F1.8 prime, this lens blows them away in this department. And from what I've seen of pictures from the Canon ultra wide L zooms, it performs just as well in this department.
Anyway, enough blathering.
HERE is the link (http://www.mts.net/~lftbrain/20d/tokina_flare.jpg) to a 100% crop, shot Raw and converted with EVU (hence the missing EXIF).
I think the aperture was at F8. Again, this is a very extreme condition that the lens handled very well in my opinion (amazingly well as far as flare is concerned).
But, I hope some might find this information useful.
I took the camera out early this morning, and tried to take a picture almost directly into the rising sun to test for flare resistance.
Also, I had alot of tree braches against the blue sky, so this was a good test for chromatic abberation, blue/purple fringing (I'm never sure of the correct term for this).
Anyway, I think the lens did an AWESOME job with flare, especially considering this is an ultra wide lens. There is no loss of contrast, and only 3 small flare circles that are actually a little hard to find. Colour me impressed again!
As far as fringning goes, this lens also did a very good job for an ultra wide. Compared to the 18-55mm, or even the 85F1.8 prime, this lens blows them away in this department. And from what I've seen of pictures from the Canon ultra wide L zooms, it performs just as well in this department.
Anyway, enough blathering.
HERE is the link (http://www.mts.net/~lftbrain/20d/tokina_flare.jpg) to a 100% crop, shot Raw and converted with EVU (hence the missing EXIF).
I think the aperture was at F8. Again, this is a very extreme condition that the lens handled very well in my opinion (amazingly well as far as flare is concerned).