Hi > This is a good but not outstanding lens. It is soft in the corner > wide open and at F:22. It has exceptionally good flare supression > for such a wide lens.
I think I've read your comments on Stan Halpins site but appreciate you responding here. Flare supression is a positive attribute for me as my Tokina 17mm seems to suffer a little in that department and also with some darkness in the corners of the frame until f/5.6. A little softness at extreme apertures isn't really too big a problem but it would be nice if it were sharp wide open, I'll generally be using the lens at f/8-f/11, the Tokina also suffers a little wide open at f/3.5 but improves significantly by f/5.6. Apparently distortion is also very low for such a wide lens from what I've read. > It has a very warm color rendition partly or > fully due to the fact that there are two warming filters (Skylight > and Cloudy) and one of them must be used (you could use yellow or > orange filter as well but they are definitely on the warm side!). I think I can live with that, I'd mainly use the Skylight although the cloudy filter will come in handy as I live in the UK 8) I tend to use skylight filters quite often in landscape work prefering UV filters (if any) on telephoto lenses. Many thanks for your comments. John
