pinkmaggit wrote:

cauld wrote:Downsides
- Getting a good copy can be a bit hit and miss

A camera lens can be recalibrated though, right? or is there more to this?

Theres more - if the body has adjustment the lens may still be off at different focus distances, so you can get it right close up bot off far away etc.

pinkmaggit wrote:

cauld wrote:Downsides
- Getting a good copy can be a bit hit and miss

A camera lens can be recalibrated though, right? or is there more to this?

you just have to send to who you bought it from and if under warrenty they will do a recal for free but if out side of the warrenty
may cost a bit. some bodys are comin out with mirco adjust which is ok for a fixed point of focus and zoom. and to add to the sigma list my 120-300 2.8 front focusess by 4-6" but have worked away around it

Friendly (or hungry?) birds at the Mount.

I am using Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0

Ho do I add captions like on the lolcats photos?

Went for a waffle cone at the mount and saw these guys, looked like a lot of fun, must give it a go some time.

Figured it out. Paint FTW!

Outside home a few minutes ago...nothing special but it could have been if I was up a hill somewhere.

Nice photos all, it's always a pleasure to see what people have been up to, espically after reading pages of vorb talk about...well not sure really, ego's and roadracing.

Has anyone used Tokina Lenses? I had been planning on buying the Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 as that seems to generally be rated pretty highly but lately I have read some good reviews of the Tokina Ultra-wide angle zooms, specifically the 11-16mm f2.8. It is only another 200 dollars over the sigma (on www.photo.co.nz), faster and from what I understand, sharper. So as aynone here had experience with them? So far it seems the only downside is that it isn't quite as wide as the sigma but I can probably live with that.

Living up the hill in Karori can have its tedious moments, but views like this make up for it...

JohnnyC wrote:Has anyone used Tokina Lenses? I had been planning on buying the Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 as that seems to generally be rated pretty highly but lately I have read some good reviews of the Tokina Ultra-wide angle zooms, specifically the 11-16mm f2.8. It is only another 200 dollars over the sigma (on http://www.photo.co.nz), faster and from what I understand, sharper. So as aynone here had experience with them? So far it seems the only downside is that it isn't quite as wide as the sigma but I can probably live with that.

I have the 10-20, the 11-16 wasnt around when I bought it. Not used thr 11-16 either but from what I gather its the sharpest (corner to corner) UWA for crop. f2.8 is nice but I rarely use my UWA wide open.

The sigma is realy 10.9mm or so , not too much wider than 11 if Tokina have been honest about it, checkout the manufacturers angle of view comparisons may be more telling there.

Yeah I doubt I will be using it wide open very often either, but since it seems like the Tokina has the better pictue quality I think I'll go for that one when I scrape the money together.

Here's a few pics from Maketu friday night, along with some other recent ones

Couple of shots from my 2009 Japan D1 season.

that AE85 pic looks good, got any more nice old school drift car pics (S13's especially )

Yeah have loads of the driver 'Kawabata'.
Here is one from the weekend when I covered the Tokyo Auto Salon for NZ Performance Car.

Photo hasn't been cropped like I should have done this is straight off the camera.