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Sigma 10-20mm or Tokina 12-24mm?
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I have the Sigma 10-20mm and I absolutely love it especially at 12mm just don’t step it down below f/16 and you really need to understand hyperfocal distancing to get it sharp
I’m not sure I follow you Darragh. One comment I’ve made about the 10-20 is that it’s very difficult to get anything but sharp images. Focusing and DOF seems quite easy and the DOF is huge. I’ve never had a problem with sharpness so I’m not quite sure where you’re coming from.
I’ve an idea what hyperfocal distance is and use it effectively but never something on my mind with the Sigma 10-20.Alan.
It might be worth adding that I shoot at 10mm in F22 for an awful lot of my shots… all those beach landscapes were done at 10mm F22 and barr the odd jarred horizon everything is smoked salmon.
Agree with the lads never had any DOF & sharpness problems with the Sigma 10-20 :?
Steve
Maybe you guys are just doing something right, because I’ve read a LOT of complaints about the lack of sharpness of this lens myself..and I know of at least two members here who returned it for the same reason.
So maybe it isn’t a lens fault..and maybe it is more to do with how the lens is used.
While researching I came across a Malaysian forum where one guy maintained that a lot of the quality complaints against this lens were down to user set up and the way in which they used the lens, and that the actual number of dodgy samples was really very low.
I’ve seen my own Nikkor 18-135mm kit lens described variously as a great walk around lens which produces great sharp images for the price range and also a piece of junk that deserves to be ground down to a pulp and buried at sea… :wink:
Should say of course that I’ve also read plenty of reviews that said that the Sigma 10-20 is the bees knees and cannot be beaten in it’s class for sharpness.
Ya never can tell.
Expresbro wrote:
So maybe it isn’t a lens fault..and maybe it is more to do with how the lens is used.
I was taking shots with the camera on a tripod, mirror lock up enabled, using both manual focus and autofocus, f8-f12 …. and at 10mm I couldn’t get a sharp shot of a static subject using this lens. It is definitely a lens fault in a lot of cases :D
Well that’s the bit that worries me about it Steve. I spoke to the other Steve, and he said the same.
If that is the case..then I guess it’s a lottery whether or not I’ll get a good one.
But there’s no way I’m paying 50% more to buy it locally (if it can be even got locally)..so I guess I’ll just take my chances… :wink:
Brickee wrote:
Mabye you got a hold of a bad copy Steve. I love mine.
Jim
Yes, I have already mentioned that. I am not knocking the lens at all, I know that the majority coming off the production line are brilliant. It gets great reviews for a reason, so I was just unlucky.
I’ve seen a lot of shots from the Sigma 10-20 which have severe softness issues on one side of the image (a couple on here too), I tried 3 of them in Kuala Lumpur and all had the same issue where 3/4 of the frame was superb and 1/4 was mush. Got the Nikon 12-24 instead and have been very happy with it, for shooting into the light it performs much better than any of the third party lenses I tried which was a major factor for me.
I’d try a few siggies before parting with the cash, in Conns you can hire the lens and you get the cost taken off if you buy it. I actually hired one out for the extra few mm once and that sample was stellar. Try taking a shot straight down at a double page of newspaper in the shop and any problems should be easier to spot.
I have the Tokina (must be the only one on here!) and find it well built, sharp and quick and accurate at focussing on my D300. Barrel distortion at the shorter lengths, but I expected that, and lens flare is a problem shooting into the sun, but you pays yer money…
Ken rockwell has done a lot of testing on these, the article is huge, the index is here.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/digital-wide-zooms/comparison-index.htm
Take the info you require, discount him completely, your call, but I like his recommendation!
Andy
Just to close this thread off…I bought the Sigma 10-20 in the end…
Haven’t used it seriously yet…just played around with a few fun shots..Like you do when you get a wide angle for the first time.
But so far I like it…even if just for the extra dimension it gives you with composition.
Thanks for all the input anyway guys.
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The Sigma 10-20, along with all short focus lenses has fairly noticeable barrel distortion at the wide end. However the raw converter DXo fixes this so what you get with the combination of hardware and software is an optically perfect lens!!
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