I hear that if VR losak - 600 ringgit ... if AFS motor losak - 1500 ringgit . Maybe somebody can confirm this. Better go for the MK 3 if true.

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Added on August 31, 2009, 5:51 pmYes . So far so good.

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The push pull has a lot of zoom creep . If you can live with that, then by all means get it. The "Mk 3" also has its problems.

Plastic ring cracked
Manual focus clutch breaks

Better? Mua ha ha ha ... that's why they have to release a new version. A lot of reviews are saying that its only good for DX sensors.

Sucky sucky long lens

Wow ... no VR no internal motor. Build quality very solid. The AF/MF clutch oh so nice. Very little distortion, very sharp. Wah ... I think I like this one . Sum more got nice distance scale . Only thing is the filter size is 77mm. Die la if wan to get R72 .

Does the Tokina 11-16 work with older film cameras such as the Nikon F90, F100? Anybody knows? This is because it doesnt have the aperture ring. So I know it wont work on my FM2. Also is this Tokina easy to find? I'm also reading about bad batches and focus problems on online discussions. Have you encountered this?

HDR is like PP la. No point to do PP if the original image isn't nice. Best to work on the composition, shutter speed to get the right blur effect. Once everything is nice, then only you decide to HDR or further PP.

With regard to UWA specifically the Tokina 11-16 for weddings, I think the range is too limited and it is very very wide at the long end. I have no experience doing any paid photography, but I imagine with so much going on during a wedding, you don't want to be taking on and off lenses in order to capture the moment, unless of course you have two camera bodies with two different lenses attached. Even then, perhaps a normal wide will be more than enough.

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Added on September 2, 2009, 9:30 amWow!! Nice pic. I know its a DX, but if you put it at the long end, you don't have any vignetting at all. So basically you can still use this lens like a prime on FF. And 16mm on FF is very very wide. Good to have lens that can do double duty instead of being specific for DX only. Dats why I lub the D series lenses.

This post has been edited by HiroBoroi: Sep 2 2009, 09:30 AM

Arrrrggghhhhh!!! I curse alpha_company for posting about this Tokina. Now after seeing foogray's pic at wide open 2.8, kenot tahan oledi ... now have to find out cost of 77mm R72. Calculate again how much longer to prolong the grass diet/hunger strike.

What does all out mean? Does it mean 6K ringgit Nikon F2.8 nano nano lens?

Yup ... but I think it will be bloody expensive and probably hard to find as well.

Easy to find? You mean like Maybank ATM machines? Ohh ... not good ... not good.

Dum dee dum ... browsing ... browsing ... browsing ... surfing ... surfing ... surfing ...

then saw this



here!

Price USD 3K

and the pics ...



p/s - You can forget about 11 frame per second oledi. This is 30 frames per second.

Hey ... long time no see. Overall nice pics. The last bird pic really amazing.

Some more nice pics. The price on the web page is USD 3495. Put metal body, change dis and dat, add 10,000 ringgit to the price. Hollywood prices.





http://www.ducloslenses.com/

Above is post by Matthew Duclos taken from the redforum link I posted earlier. I think "RPPs" means Red Pro Primes (lensses). Check out the prices here.

Cheapest prime lens is USD 5950 = 21000 ringgit.
Cheapest zoom lens is ISD 8500 = 30000 ringgit.

I think I need to see eye doctor oledi. My eyes pop out so many times seeing the prices of all these stuff.

Best option is for you buy ONLY ONE SB-600, then poison your friend to buy the other SB-600 . Invite your friend over, so you can borrow his SB-600 AND you use him as your machai to hold the off camera flashes. ... and if your friend got pretty little sister ...

Saw this one a while back.

Why live your life through a view-finder?

Nope. The D3000 is using same sensor as the D60. It is a CCD sensor. The D5000 has the same sensor as the D90 which is CMOS. I think the newer CMOS sensor is the one that has very low noise at high ISOs. Yup, if you can afford it, get the D90. The D5000 is nice but you have this recall problem. You don't know whether all the new D5000 out there have are from the good batch. Nikon is not transparent about bad batch serial numbers.

If you're gonna buy a few lenses in the future, better go for D90 as well as it has the in body motor. Then get the D series lenses. Image quality is same or better than the AF-S/G lenses except you don't have the SWM motor.

de Havilland Chipmunk

To take pic #2, kindly transfer the following amount to your local Leica dealer.

Leica M9 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> 26790
Leica Telephoto 75mm f/2.0 APO Summicron M Aspherical Manual Focus Lens------------------------------------> 11755
Total (excluding camera straps, filters) ------------------------------------------------------------------> 38545 (Ringgit only)

We Are Not Amused

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Added on September 16, 2009, 9:50 pmTaken at RMAF Sungai Besi Museum. I dun know if its called KL base. I think its also called RMAF Simpang?

This post has been edited by HiroBoroi: Sep 16 2009, 09:50 PM