And that's a crop lens. So it would be one of the ways of saving $2000 dollars by running in DX crop mode. It sucks at 18mm on FF (Been there, done that with the Tokina on an F100, it's not anything approaching a solution for FF use).
Truly good ultra-wide zooms for F mount come down to the 14-24 f2.8 (the king of ultra-wide zoom performance on any mount right now, beats every prime in its range except the 21 Distagon) at $2k CDN and the 17-35 f2.8 AF-S which gets worse as it gets wider but is extremely good at 35mm. That's around $1500CDN new if you can actually find one. -Adam On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:24 AM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hum, last I herd the Pentax 12-24 was pretty decent, and that doesn't cost > anywhere near to $2000. The Tokina version might or might not be SMC but it > has a pretty good reputation. I always considered 18mm pretty much ultra > wide on 35mm. > > Adam Maas wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:15 AM, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> From: "David Savage" >>> >> >> >>>> >>>> Nikon's DX lenses work on the D3/D700. Admittedly at a "cropped" >>>> resolution, >>>> but they do work. >>>> >>> >>> What's the point of shelling out the bucks for a full frame DSLR, if >>> you're >>> only going to be able to shoot "cropped" because the lenses won't cover >>> the >>> full frame? >>> >> >> So you don't have to shell out an extra $2000 right away to get a good >> ultra-wide zoom. >> >> >> > > > -- > You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. > --Al Capone. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
