----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell"
Subject: RE: Arghhh.... My Tokina AT-X ProII 28-70mm sucks big time (Lens test results) !!
Zooms do not inherently have to have noticeable distortion,
sure a lot of cheap ones do, but that does not make it
acceptable or minor problem IMHO. Distortion to me is
a VERY BAD problem and gives a lot a photos a very unprofessional,
amateur look and not just on architecture either. Even
landscapes can easily show distortion problems on horizons or trees.....
Pretty much any wide angle zoom (retrofocal design) is going to be distortion prone.
It doesn't matter what price point it is at. It's the nature of them.
Note, in my original post, I did not say that distortion is inherent to zooms.
If distortion is such a bad problem to you, why are you so insistent on distorting what people write way out of proportion to what they actually say?
With regards to flare prone lenses, more often than
not it CANT be cured with just a lens hood because in my
experience lenses that exhibit flare easily with
non-image incident light on the lens surface, also tend to
exhibit more flare with image light and using a hood
doesn't fix that. The only really effective way to solve the problem of
a flare prone lens is to get rid of it immediately!
If you go back and read the original post in it's entirety, you will find he did not say the lens was flare prone, just flarier than an SMC lens.
This isn't the same as what you are distorting, ermm sorry, asserting.
OTOH, I don't have a lot of use for zooms, I have found them all to be too compromised in one way or another to be usable.
William Robb
