QUOTE(zadan @ Feb 17 2008, 07:29 PM)
nice one man love the your colours as always!
Thanks man

Ill be stopping my series for a while and bring to you this little review of the Tokina 12-24mm F4. The reason I bought this lens is because of 1 little simple fact - it is usable on a full framed camera like the EOS 5D or the 1Ds series. By setting your zoom to 16mm(without filter) to 18mm you can eliminate those dreadful vignetting! And furthermore its a really really superbly built lens, feels rock solid in my hands with not wobbling or what so ever.
Setting your focusing method on this lens is easy, and different. Because it uses the focus clutch system so setting the lens from MF to AF or AF to MF is really easy by moving the focusing ring back and forth. And the lens does extend during zooming.
The filter thread is 77mm. So filters are going to be expensive if you are going to invest in good filters like B+W. On a Canon with a 1.6x crop factor the field-of-view resembles a 18-36mm to 20-40mm lens in 35mm equiv. It somewhat weights around 500+g despite its solid built.
Focusing of this lens is fast and quiet. So there's no complaints on that. Distortions are pretty low, lower than the sigma 10-20mm. So for those who dislikes distortion, this lens is worth it despite it has the 2mm.
Here are 1 of the photos. Exposure: 2 sec at f16, 12mm.

Here's the 100% crop.

Sharpness is ok at this point. Am very satisfied with it.
Example 2: Exposure: 1/50 sec at f4, 12mm.

As you can see the image is rather soft. And there's visible vignetting at the corners but this can be fixed with softwares like Photoshop CS3.
100% Crop.

Like i said, rather soft... But maybe that's my fault.

My verdict? Its a good lens to have, the colors and contrast straight out from the camera are very good. Images are soft at f4 but fixed once you pass f5.6. As reported by some websites that reviewed this lens chromatic aberrations is the main weakness of this lens. It has the highest degree of CAs to date. But to me that's not much of a problem because it can be treated with intelligent softwares. Distortions are low, built quality is superb and the price is cheaper than the Sigma 10-20mm. You can get 1 for 1.7k and if you're lucky you can get 2nd hand for 1.1k with warranty still available too.
Go figure

Added on February 19, 2008, 2:34 pmGallery closed!
From now on I'm going to upload new photos in new threads.
Thanks for the support for all this time.
This post has been edited by R a D ! c 4 L: Feb 19 2008, 02:34 PM