Yes, he said the lens was more flare prone than a SMC lens. One would have to assume under same conditions. Either both using hoods or both not using hoods. If his comparison was with hoods, then adding one didn't help did it? If the comparison was without hoods my point is yes, adding hoods may help but lenses that are worse without hoods also almost always tend to me worse with hoods too as image light can and does cause flare too and hoods don't help that.
JCO -----Original Message----- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 3:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Arghhh.... My Tokina AT-X ProII 28-70mm sucks big time (Lens test results) !! ----- 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 >
