Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/05

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Subject: [Leica] Super-Wide suggestions
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:25:06 -0600
References: <BLU0-SMTP70665F4316D42D476F9ED28C930@phx.gbl>, <4B192D92.2030707@gmx.de>, <D89B4F0A-AA86-4E48-83AB-A2BACE30884F@btinternet.com>


Quoth the Frank Dernie :

> I thought this was for cropped sensors only, am I wrong?
> FD
> 
> On 4 Dec, 2009, at 15:41, Douglas Sharp wrote:
> 
> > Try out a Tokina 12-24 - I use one on my Canon 20D - it is
> absolutely fantastic.


1.6 or 1.5 only.  It vignettes on my 1.3 crop 1DIIn.  It's 
effectively about 16-24 without the hood, 17-24 with. OTOH with the 
hood it blocks a rough-edged rectangle around the frame, which is a 
nice sort of faux-vintage effect which I've used a few times...

To be honest mine's not really sharp until f8, and the color fringing 
is very much there.  It's okay for newspaper and web shooting, which 
is most of what I do with digi, but I wouldn't even consider it for 
anything more demanding.  It's a $400 lens, and not a penny more.




In reply to: Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] M3 RF patch problems: getting better, but...)
Message from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] Super-Wide suggestions)
Message from Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie) ([Leica] Super-Wide suggestions)