| Review of: Tokina AT-X 28-70mm F2.8 by sydbarret on Wed August 12, 2015 | Rating: 9 | View more reviews | |
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Good old lens which has much better built quality than the modern lenses. No dust problem at all unlike tamrons. Multicoated optics still works great. AF speed is impressive, even faster than other brands.
Good portrait lens. Bokeh is smooth and creamy with subject remaining crisp.
Range as general purpose lens or kit replacement make this great for use as a walkabout lens.
This non-pro version deliver tack sharp images even at F2.8, when stop down to F4 this version performs razor sharp images.
There is no notable distortion with the lens being usable right through the range. Acceptable clarity wide open, and getting dangerously sharp from F4.
This is a very handy lens at a very nice price, hardly recommended.
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| Review of: Sigma APO DG Macro 70-300mm F4-5.6 by sydbarret on Wed December 3, 2014 | Rating: 10 | View more reviews | |
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I've been using this lens over two years and never needed another zoom. As a zoom lens it is always giving me what I need especially outdoors and daylight conditions. Sigma apo dg is sharp enough between f/6.3 to f/13. Apo coating and low dispersion glass gives this lens a great bonus. It comes with lens hood and a bag which is good for keeping. Sigma quality never disappointed me and left me halfway. It is certainly not a pro lens but I am not a pro photographer, it gives me what I need from a zoom lens. You can always go for another zoom lens if you are ready to pay five to ten times more. Whatever, I like this lens and advice it for limited budgets, it gives over it's wealth. Bye
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| Review of: Sigma DG Macro 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 by sydbarret on Fri March 21, 2014 | Rating: 6 | View more reviews | |
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wide range is good, but hunting in low light, not sharp after 200mm, not bad but not too good also, recommende for low budgets only...
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| Review of: Tamron XR Di AF (# A06) 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 by sydbarret on Fri March 21, 2014 | Rating: 9 | View more reviews | |
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This lens is absolutely what I am looking for. A very handy, lightweight all purpose lens. You can shoot from 28mm to 300mm. Great for travels, outdoors, special occasions. Results are very satisfactory to me. I like it's quality, I like Tamron lenses. It became a very good couple with my tamron 17-50, for my Pentax K5 body. Highly recommended if you don't like to bother changing lenses a lot, like me :cool:
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| Review of: Tokina RMC 70-210mm F3.5 by sydbarret on Tue December 31, 2013 | Rating: 9 | View more reviews | |
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This lens is the same version of the famous vivitar series1 70-210 f/3,5 which is produced by tokina. It's a solid piece tough as a cowboy and sharp as a blade. It's a multi coated lens which makes colors vivid and better looking. Constant f3.5 is pushing the lens one step forward, compared to the 4.5-5.6 versions. This is a manual lens certainly, but if it was a modern lens with the same aspects it wouldn't be less then a few hundred bucks...
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| Review of: Tokina SD 70-210mm F4.0-5.6 by sydbarret on Tue December 31, 2013 | Rating: 6 | View more reviews | |
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Flare is a problem but because it's small and light can be easily shaded with the hand; my copy came without a lens hood, with a hood it's much better and flare isn't a big problem.
A reasonably compact medium-zoom that would be sharper. Best at 70mm, still good at 135mm and only falling off a little at the edges at 210mm. Keeps f4.0 up to 99mm, f4.5 up to 149mm, f5.0 up to 179mm and f5.6 above that. Claims to be macro, but closest focusing is about 1.5m (not very 'macro').
For the 210mm you pull the ring to the camera, for 70mm you push it away and every of these Tokinas I handled had a very stiffy zooming mechanism.
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| Review of: Promaster AF LD TELE MACRO(1:2) 70-300mm F4-5.6 by sydbarret on Wed December 25, 2013 | Rating: 9 | View more reviews | |
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It's given very sharp results over my expectations, and it's a joy to use this lens outdoors to walk around. The price of the lens is a good advantage, especially for limited budgets. It's nice to handle this lens, giving you a solid feel, not light and plastic like some other kit zoom lenses.
Hardly recommended, brother of the Tamron lens which comes from the same manufacturer. A budget lens with decent results, good bokeh, sharp images, ideal for mid level users but not pros certainly...
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| Review of: Schneider-Kreuznach (Samsung) 50-200mm F4-5.6 D-Xenon by sydbarret on Tue December 3, 2013 | Rating: 10 | View more reviews | |
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The size of this lens is great. It's compact but gives me enough zoom.
This is a very nice lens, it has quality both in optics an in mechanics.
Only thing is it takes alittle time to focus on subject.
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| Review of: Tokina AF (193) 19-35mm F3.5-4.5 by sydbarret on Tue December 3, 2013 | Rating: 10 | View more reviews | |
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Good choice for the person that needs the versatillity of a wide angle zoom lens.
Take it to sports events, family outings or on vacation for those wide vistas.
A little bit old fashion but af is still very fast with k bodies
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