I got word that B&H was selling the Tokina 11-16 late last week. I checked up on it and I bought it. It appears that it is shipping and since then it has sold out at B&H.
I've checked other websites and called some local shops and no one has received any lenses yet. Anyone else in the same boat as I am? I'm excited but yet a bit puzzled wondering if I'm really going to get the lens that I think I'm getting.
I bought it last Friday (from B&H) and got the shipping confirmation this Monday. So apparently, it was real.
The Nikon mount was out of stock within couple hours but the Canon mount is still showing in stock for days even as of now
Yeah, I'll try and post images if I get it. Its suppose to be delivered this Friday. I just read a review on the lens at nikonians and it just got trashed. Hopefully he got a defective one and i won't!
sleepyhead wrote:
Yeah, I'll try and post images if I get it. Its suppose to be delivered this Friday. I just read a review on the lens at nikonians and it just got trashed. Hopefully he got a defective one and i won't!
Could you post a link to the Nikonians review you metioned?
It's been well received on and turned in amazing results on Photozone.de and couple of other places. The full size samples I've seen are very nice.
Photozone has a Canon mount test on it, of course the sensor is a little smaller, but it seemed to be an excellent test. CAs were high but they seem to be with most Tokina lenses, and correction is a simple RAW adjustemnt, more of a problem with jpegs. Center was off the chart at f5.6.
If I can find a Nikon mount may go for it.
Thanks for the Nikonians link.
It really look like a bad lens in the Nikonians report, the tester said as much, I have had cases where I have bought 3 different copies of lenses before I received a good one. Hopefully this is the case, ghosting almost always means elements out of alignment.
Tom
sleepyhead, i ordered mine that same day and it arrived today. however, i'm going out of town today so i can't test it out until the weekend. did throw it on the D300 and the JPEGs on the LCD looked fine at max magnification but too early to tell how good it is. I think the guy on nikonians must have got a bad one. I've seen more positive reviews than negative.
tomm101 wrote:
CAs were high but they seem to be with most Tokina lenses, and correction is a simple RAW adjustemnt, more of a problem with jpegs.
Tom
So far all the lenses I've bought are high-quality glass that don't suffer from CA so the world of CA-repair is unexplored by me. But I'm about to buy my first <18mm lens since I need a W.A. to take with me to Yosemite this July and even the best of those seem to have some CA (although admittedly, the Tokina's seem to take CA to a unique level.).
So how hard is it to fix CA in PP, and is it a real fix or just guesswork by the PP sw? What I mean by this is, does the sw actually have some knowledge of the lens characteristics and adjust the offsets of the R,G, and B channels accordingly, or does it just get rid of colored fringes it detects in the edges? I certainly don't want the latter because it could end up mistaking a colored fringe that's actually present in the subject and "fixing" something that's not a defect.
Also, I heard somewhere that JPEGs are fixed in the camera and the raw files needed to be fixed in PP, which seems like the opposite of what you said. Could you clarify this? (thanks!)
Hopefully he got a defective one and i won't!