craig_gillette Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 <p>I have the 12-24/4 Tokina and carried it over to my D7200. I like it. Got some nice images with it on a recent trip but also got some really bad flare problems when I got the sun in frame at one point. When I got it for my D200, the choices were more limited and it was the one in stock at the time. Don't mind the f4 nor the clutch mechanism nor have I noticed a need for focus tweaking the way I use it. There are some, I guess by reading, reasonable options in other brands starting at 10mm, too. I guess it might come down to deciding if the long end, so to speak, is more important than the wide. The 12-28 would come even closer to being a walk-around for some uses.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted December 27, 2015 Author Share Posted December 27, 2015 <p>Pete, That ripoff Amazon price in UK £ is almost what B&H are asking in US dollars. And I don't feel like paying a 50% premium over our American cousins.</p> <p>In view of your experiemce of having to pay VAT on top of B&H prices, I think I'll go with HDEW cameras, whom I 've dealt with before. Quick, polite and honest service - when they have the lens back in stock that is.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rconey Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 <p>Funny story with the Tokina 12-28 f4. I got it to pair with the D5500 as I mentioned above. Weight wise, that gives me a great lens/camera combo for hiking/climbing. As I tested the lens it seemed at times not to autofocus well. I set up a tape measure in my kitchen and compared it to the nikkor 17-35 f2.8 and the 24-85 3.5-4.5 VR in ranges that they overlapped. The f4 on the 17-35 was best, but I kept getting variable results. Particularly I got back focus issues with the wider apetures- some of the time. I tested 2 or 3 times and was starting to think the camera autofocus was back focusing. Send it back or not?<br> Then I read a review of the D5500 of the Nikon forum at DP review. The author noted that under incandescent bulbs, the camera back focused. Oh, I was varying the type of light I was using, which explained my variable test results. I had never heard of this issue before. I went outside in daylight just now and things seem pretty good. so... yes I like the 12-28 f4 Tokina.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lew_carver Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 <p>B&H has the 11-20mm "on sale" for $424. I had been conflicted between the AF-S DX NIKKOR 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED and the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X116 Pro DX. But this thread and a number of reviews and posts and the extra top end convinced me. Mine, the 11-20mm is on order. <br /> <br /> Thanks to all and especially Rodeo Joe.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonioluis Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 <p>Sigma 10-20 here, nikon 7100, happy.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_k3 Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 <p>Hi guys, just bought a D500, first DX camera after D70 and start to wonder what wider coverage can I have. I have googled and indeed I am also thinking of Sigma 10-20f3.5. I am after its USM drive....still not used to these older D lenses without AFS on my cameras.<br> Has anyone got experience</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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