ashtonsmith Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 <P>Well, I just bought a new Tokina 12-24mm based partially on the review on the main page.</P> <P>I must have gotten a dud. I really thought it would have performed a little better than this.</P> <url>http://homepage.mac.com/escaport/PhotoAlbum19.html</url> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashtonsmith Posted April 28, 2005 Author Share Posted April 28, 2005 Not that I would have expected a close match-up, just better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 Doesn't look at THAT different to me. The Tokina is $500, the Canon is $1100. I'll bet the Tokina is a LOT better than the Canon between 12 and 23.99mm too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexdi Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 Most zoom lenses perform best at the widest available focal. It appears you're comparing the Canon at its best to the Tamron at its worst. Perhaps the latter would do better at F/11. DI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anna yu Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 The Canon 24-70L is reputed to perform better at 70 than at 24. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cnhoff Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 When will you ever shoot 12mm @ 2.8? I know, you test lenses wide open to judge quality, but with a wide angle lens, the range above 5.6 is most important to me. Stopped down it should give better performance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_myers4 Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 I'm not sure I follow the logic in this comparison. Did you buy the Tokina because you thought it would be better at 24 than the Canon, or did you buy it because it's a wider lens? Compare the Tokina at 12mm to the Canon 24-70 at 12mm, and I'm sure it will perform much better. ;) That being said, I think the difference is pretty minimal given the fact that you have the Tokina all the way out and the Canon all the way in, as David points out. ~John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew robertson Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Dude, you are full of it. You are testing one of the best 'normal' zoom lenses possibly in the history of lenses with a super specialized ultra wide angle zoom lens - a very new breed for full frame 35mm. You might as well test a 14mm prime lens vs. a 50mm prime lens, and may be as astonished when the normal lens blows the ultra wide out of the water. Apples and oranges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashtonsmith Posted April 30, 2005 Author Share Posted April 30, 2005 Hey guys, calm down. I had two zooms that both zoomed to 24mm so I shot the same object with it. Does that sound like the craziest thing I could do? I never in my wildest imagination thought that the Tokina would equal or beat the Canon. I should post the full screen shots, as the crop really doesn't show it, but the Tokina looks like it is out of focus by comparison. There is some concrete that has some texture that is just plain not there in the Tokina shot. I didn't think I would get the same level of detail as the Canon, I just thought I would get some detail. I will post the full size here in a few minutes on the same page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew robertson Posted April 30, 2005 Share Posted April 30, 2005 Didn't mean to come down so hard, but making ultra wide zooms is much tougher than making wide - normal zooms, just like making ultra wide primes is tougher than making normal primes. Even the best Canon ultra wide prime (14mm f/2.8 L at $1700) can't compete, image quality wise, with a $69 Canon 50mm f/1.8 II. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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