On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:36:40 -0600, "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Walters" > Subject: Re: Airplane II, The Sequel > > > > > There are some good lenses in Tokina's AT-X series. I have a 24-40 f2.8 > > that I used to use quite a lot. Heavy bastard - unfortunately it's now > > in my 'to be repaired' drawer. It developed a sticky aperture :-( > > I had one of those lenses. Sharp, contrasty, heavy as a Clydsdale, and > lots of barrel > distortion. It was fine as a landscape lens, but at the time I was going > through an interiors of > buildings phase and ended up selling it because of the distortion. > > William Robb >
Yes, I needed to avoid shots with lots of unobstructed horizons - otherwise it was one of my most used lenses. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
