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Question: Has anyone used this lens for shooting the Northern Lights, lunar eclipses or star trails?
Document: Been shooting with this lens for 2 years now, and it's given me nothing but great shots. Build quality is great, and the zoom and focus dials are super smooth. Great for crop sensor cameras, but on full frame, you almost get a fish eye effect, which is okay but not the real deal.Would highly recommend.
Hey, I can get the entire Dumbo ride from here in one shot! Click. Hey, now my son is doing something cute! Swap lenses. Click. So unless you're shooting architecture exclusively or something like that, you will rarely be able to just take this lens for your entire day. Yes, the same could probably be said about the 70-200. But then again I look at the competition for this lens.
When shooting ultra wide for up close objects a few steps is the same as a zoom, and if you are shooting landscapes or skies, all lenses with longer zoom ranges have a large compromise in optical quality or speed. This lens is comparable in sharpness to my L series glass, is built just as well, and costs much less. Its nice when lens engineers decide NOT to compromise by trying to make a lens do everything.
I love every single thing about this lens. It is superb, versatile, sturdy, compact. I never imagined a lens I bought for landscape photography to become my go-to lens over the 18-200 - but it absolutely has.It can take incredibly fast photos in low light - great for landscape with moving pieces (water, astrophotography. )The images are tack sharp. The auto focus is fast.If you're shooting with a crop-sensor camera - this is the lens for you.
Tokina to me used to mean low quality and I was dubious when ordering this lens. But I have been very pleased with the sharp, high quality images I have gotten from this lens. I have used it in several different situations and the results have been excellent. I would highly recommend this lens.
I own a Canon T2i and this lens really added a new viewpoint to my photographs. The build quality is VERY good. It feels like it is built like a tank; it's just as good as my other L lenses. The pull-push switcher ring for autofocus takes a little while to get used to, but after you do it is really useful (feeling for the pesky little switch can become annoying).Overall, this is a quality lens.
I have only had it for a week or so but wow. It shoots great wide. Now I knew I needed it but until now did not know what I was missing.Now I used only the free Canon DPP and buyers beware. DPP does not adjust for the distortion of the lens nor even allow you to the lens adjustments. If you want to adjust for the lens in post processing you will need Adobe Light Room or Photoshop. This will make for some additional expenses and learning curve.
I am loving how this lens works for video. It has the feel of a quality lens and is really sharp. Fun to use up close. Too bad it can't be a little lighter. Gets heavy after a while. If you want some quality glass and can't afford good Canon lenses, give it a try. You may be impressed. Price is suddenly $30 less than when I ordered. Bummer. Could have used that $30 towards a filter.
The f2.8 gives you more light gathering ability when doing exposures of stars and clusters (like Milky Way). More light for the given time, means more image. It was a simple choice when I compared the stop ranges. Everything else is either twice the price, or has an aperture of 3.5 or higher. Just not wide enough for my taste when shooting the night sky.
I used this lens with no tripod and again, I am so glad I bought this lens. It's very Sharp even in very low light situations. To see how this lens performs taking the milky way and sunrises pls visit my website Chasingthelight.snack.ws and click on photographs then click on the milky way at Santa Ynez. If you decide to purchase this lens its truly a very good and smart buy. On my Canon 60D it feels comfortable even with its size and weight.
Answer: I used this lens to take some full moon snow covered landscape photos and found the 16mm limit a little short to get a good image of the moon included (at 16mm moon is less than .2mm on sensor). But I did get some very good landscape images under only moonlight. It is a really good lens, great glass in the one I have and a good value. However it really is a full time wide angle lens. I do want to do star trails with it, expect good results based on what I have used it for in the past. It's -7F tonight so that wont be happening soon...