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Tokina ATX M 11-18mm F2.8 X Review | A Good Third Party Alternative?
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Feb 17, 2025
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hi I'm Dustin Abbott and I'm here today to give you my review of the tokina ATX M 11 to 18 mm f2.8 and this is for Fuji
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x-mount it's been a long time since I've used a tokina lens I owned a few of their wide angle Zooms for Canon back in
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the day both an apsc and then a full-frame version at this point however they have released
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relatively few lenses into the Fuji space there is a lineup of a few prime
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lenses that came years ago but in terms of zooms we really haven't seen much but
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that has changed at this point there are still relatively few wide-angle zooms on Fuji primary competitors would be the
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sigma 10 to 18 mm f2.8 DN which I reviewed last year along with the Tamron
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11 to 20 mimer f2.8 both of those lenses are very capable
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ones but certainly a third option will be very welcome the MSRP as it comes to
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Market will be right under $700 which at the moment with Market forces having driven down the prices of
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the sigma the Tamron that makes it very slightly more expensive than these though I will also note that the emount
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version of this lens that has been around for a bit has been discounted to where it actually sits hundreds of
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dollars below the price of either the sigma or the Tamron in emount so
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longterm this may be the value option the bigger question at the moment is whether or not this tokina lens is able
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to handle the extreme Challenge of Fu Fuji's 40 megapixel sensors in cameras
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like my xh2 and today we're going to explore whether it handles this transition to
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Fuji when it comes to that resolution but also when it comes to autofocus and just the general use of this particular
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lens so let's dive in and let's take a look at the details so first of all let's talk about the build and handling
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this particular focal length is a very useful one it is a slightly smaller Zoom range than what the competing lenses
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from either Sigma or Tamron the sigma being a 10 to 18 millimeter so just a
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little bit wider on the wide end and of course the Tamron starts at the same 11 mm but adds uh two more millimeters to
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where it gets to 20 mm the primary options from Fuji include the very large
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and very expensive 8 to6 16 mm f2.8 a more extreme example in every way but
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then also there is the smaller but still quite expensive 10 to 24 mm F4 variation
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so what Fuji doesn't natively have is a more standard lens like this with a
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maximum apture of f/2.8 so this particular focal length it goes from a fullframe equivalent of 16 and A2 mm
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which looks like this up to a fullframe equivalent of 27 mm which looks like like this probably the closest analog I
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can think of in terms of the focal length is tamron's full frame 17 to 28 mm
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f2.8 this does have a constant f2.8 aperture and and so of course that does
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give it an advantage that at least the more affordable of the two and the more affordable being relative it's about
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$1,000 for the Fuji 10 to 24 mm F4i and so as far as having that
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constant maximum f2.8 aperture that kind of leaves you in this range more with either the Tamron Sigma as alternatives
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to this particular tokino I look back at some of those older token zooms and they really really
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look dated in terms of their design but that's certainly not true here this is actually a really great looking design
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it's very clean very modern looking uh very Sleek I actually really like the design language here and there is one
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key advantage that we have on the x-mount version that was not on the Sony E Mount and that is the inclusion of a
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nice thick weather sealing gasket here at the lens mount now I did confirm with tokina there are no other internal seals
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so that makes the weather sealing equivalent of the sigma 10 to 18 mm where it too just has the gasket at the
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lens mount the Tamron actually has some internal seals as well so it's a little bit more thoroughly weather sealed at
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the same time however as far as the actual build quality and the design language I feel like this lens is kind
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of equivalent to the sigma which has a very nice design and it feels nicer than
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what the Tamron does even though the Tamron has the best weather ceiling it's also the most plasticky of the trio this
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is a m mixture of some metals and some engineered Plastics but it all actually feels quite premium in terms of the
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build quality here I also really like the design language of the flush looking Rings a little bit of a taper here in
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the center of the lens barrel and then the focus ring up front now when it
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comes to that Zoom ring it is a little bit interesting here in that like all three of these none of them are actual
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internally zooming lenses and so there is a little bit of a barrel extension on all of them difference being however the
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design of the sigma and the Tamron is that is actually the front section of the lens that will extend further so
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that includes the place where the hood will bayonet onto so when you zoom those lenses everything extends a little bit
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further out in this case there is an inner barrel that will extend just a little bit it's just a few millimeters
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about 5 or 6 millimeters it will extend further out but what happen happens is that it happens inside and not in the
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section that the lens Hood bayonets onto so if you have the hood in place like this while there is some Zoom action
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backwards and forwards and by the way it is the furthest extended at 11 mm fully retracted at 18 mm but you really don't
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see any of that taking place cuz it's all hidden from behind the hood and so the overall length of the lens with the
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hood attached doesn't actually grow I I prefer that design myself because it allows the lens to actually feel more
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like an internally zooming lens and I will also say that the action of the zoom here is gorgeous it's just it feels
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like an internally zooming lens very very nicely damped very very smooth there's no sticking points you can have
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even resistance all throughout and it just happens really really beautifully I can't speak as positively for the manual
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focus ring it feels a lot like focus by wire rings can be and that just it
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doesn't feel like a whole lot of connectivity there to it it's kind of flat feeling and I also note that there
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is relatively short Focus throw and so if you're trying to focus at something say at a distance of let's say seven or
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eight meters out it's very difficult to do that because there's just not a lot of focus throw there fortunately
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autofocus is great as we'll get to in a moment so you don't probably often will need that manual focus but the zoom
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Ring's great the manual focus ring not so much a word on that hood itself it is
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an included Hood it is uh it is plastic but it feels relatively decent what they
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have elected to do here rather than for example Sigma sigma's hoods will have like a section of the ring that has
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ribbing on it to give you a grip surface what they've chosen to do here is that there's actually kind of a kind of a
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flocked rougher feeling texture on the outside it's kind of a different kind of lens hood and that it's smooth on the
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inside and a little rougher on the outside it's usually kind of the other way around but what that does is it does give you a grip surface because it does
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bayonet on there very like precise can hear that click in there and so it's not moving anywhere it's going to take very
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intentional pressure to make that leis I actually I really like that execution there but what this texture does is it
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allows you to really kind of grip that hood for either mounting or unmounting it and so it works out well there now of
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course there isn't an aperture ring here and so those of you that are very accustomed to using aperture rings on
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Fuji you may find that a disappointment it's a bigger deal to some than others some people don't really use an app ring
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at all even if it's there I will point out however that neither the sigma nor Tamron have the aperture ring either and
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so again it's if you want an apture ring you're probably going to have to go to one of the Fuji options at this point
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now in terms of the physical size it falls basically between the sigma and the Tamron Zoom Sigma being a really
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really compact lens where whereas the Tamron is a little bit larger than this
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so Dimensions here are actually they're the exact same for both length and diameter and so is
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74.4 MM whether you're talking about diameter or length and and so that's 2.9
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in it weighs in at 320 G or about 11 and a/4 O 6 7 mm front filter thread up
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front which is the same for all three of these zoom lenses that I'm talking about
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and so that makes it a little bit bigger and heavier than what the sigma is and a little bit shorter and a little bit
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lighter than what the Tamron Lens is as you can see here on my xh2 which is one of the larger Fuji bodies it's kind of a
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mediumsized lens uh for me I didn't find it to be burdensome at all you can see
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that as far as the size it does fit within the palm and it's not a huge lens
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it would be easy enough to bring along and 320 gam isn't like incredibly lightweight but for a wide angle Zoom
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with a maximum apture of f2.8 really not bad at all and of course about half the weight of what you're looking at if
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you're talking about the 18 8 to 16 mm f2.8 and so I find all of that to be
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reasonable like some lenses not either the sigma or the Tamron but some lenses
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like vro lenses do have a USBC Port uh in this case it's not a USBC it's a
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micro USB or usbb Port that is there it's not my favorite connection at this
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point because that seems to be on its way out kind of being phased out whereas USBC has become pretty ubiquitous
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nonetheless I'm glad to see that there because it means you can do quick firmware updates and and so that is very
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very welcome I will also note that toena claims and my tests seem to verify that
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there is full support for this lens here on Fuji so it will behave like a first-party Fuji lens and so that means
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everything is communicated properly for working with the optical image stabilization in the camera if you've
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got IIs in your camera then it will communicate properly with that uh you have the MF assist so for example if you
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start to use the manual focus ring and you're in that mode it will automatically magnify the affected area
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and it has full profile Corrections in camera so it'll correct for vignette Distortion uh there's three different
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categories of things that it corrects for there and so of course all of that is very very welcome minimum Focus
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distance here is going to vary you get your closer amount of uh Focus distance
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at 19 CM on the wide end and you also get your higher level of magnification 0.11 times so it's still not great
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certainly not as good this is an area where it falls behind the Tamron and the sigma options on the telephoto end at 18
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mm you can only focus as closely as 30 cm and the magnification drops to a very
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low 0.08 times you can see here how it looks
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if I'm taking a look at 11 mm this is a real world shot and then of course at 18
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mm you can see a little bit less magnification and it just seems a little bit further away overall
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however besides I would say the low magnification and if you actually need to use the manual focus ring handling
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here is actually really nice I enjoyed using this lens in the field it felt good to use um I was using it with
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gloves out there and I again no problems the zoom ring is great and so overall I
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really liked using it so I have no real complaints about the build there now and
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when it comes to autofocus we'll start first by looking at how it performs for Stills always concerned conc erned when
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I'm reviewing a third-party lens on Fuji because Fuji's autofocus is a bit less
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sophisticated than some of the other brands that I test and as a byproduct particularly with third party lenses it
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means that there's a little bit more of a hill to climb there great news is is that the STM or stepping Focus motor
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here actually works great for Stills on Fuji I have zero concerns I have zero
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hesitations it Focus quickly as you can see here uh indoors Focus just quickly
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moves back and forth very very little lag or delay there and Outdoors it seemed to focus about the same so that's
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great I love when I see equivalent performances indoors as I do outdoors because it means that the Focus motor is
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going to work well in a wider variety of lighting conditions I also found that it
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did fine as far as eye tracking if you're close obviously there's a caveat to that and that is that with wideangle
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lenses doesn't take very long before the eye uh OCC to occupies too small a part
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of the frame to actually put a tracking Square on there but all that means is that everything is going to be F in
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Focus anyway so it kind of doesn't matter at that point however when I was working within the Zone say for example
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in these variety of shots of Nala that it did fine of tracking her eye and delivered well focused results and so
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again no problems there I also found that it focused well when shooting at smaller apertures it would focus well
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when shooting into backlit scenes all of that is very important in a landscape Style lens obviously so great Focus
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results when it came to shooting Stills now on the video side of things which is
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again it's Fuji's weakest point for sure I found that you know with a few of the typical Fuji quirks overall this was
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again a good performance you can see here that the focus pools they look mostly good there's no really obvious
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visible steps in between point a and point B other than that little bit of
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typical micro adjustment at the end it's as if Fuji Focus algorithms always kind of second guess themselves at that final
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lock and that seems to be the case with almost all the lenses that I test on Fuji but outside of that there's no kind
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of egregious Behavior here you'll note that there is a minor amount of focus breathing but not too bad with my hand
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test I felt like it did a good job of making the transitions from my hand to my eye with a fair amount of
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reactiveness the only thing I don't like here is you can see it's a little bit abrupt uh it's not like a smooth damped
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pull from one to the other but overall really not too bad another really huge
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thing here with a wideangle zoom like this is that it's very stable during zooming not all thirdparty zooms can say
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that not all first party zooms can say that on Fuji sometimes you see some warping or some very obvious um loss of
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focus and then refocusing throughout that zooming process this seemed to really provide a stable performance
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there and so I was happy with that I also was happy with my static shots where Focus just needed to settle in and
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not move around that's EX exactly what it did and so I was able to get stable shots I did feel like I had a little bit
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more camera Shake than usual but though to be fair I did a lot of this test in like minus 20 conditions and so maybe I
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was just a little more shaky than usual it is possible so Optical performance well I'm
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going to give you an overview here and then I'll give you a deep dive breakdown at the end for those of you that want that this is an optical design of 13
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elements in 11 groups with two SD elements and then two different types of aspherical elements as you can see here
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in the design you can see also looking at the MTF that the MTF shows at 11 mm a
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very sharp very very sharp Center Performance a very strong mid performance and then you'll see that the
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corners start to fade there towards the edge at 18 mm it's a little less sharp
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all across the frame with a kind of a steady linear drop off from the center to the edge I'll say that my general
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impression of real world images is actually very positive and we'll talk more about that at the end but I felt
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like images just had nice color had a really nice punch to them they feel felt very clean and so I really appreciated
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that that is helped by having very little fringing of any kind there is a
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very little longitudinal style chromatic aberration before and after the plane of focus not uncommon in a wide angle lens
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you know again depth of field isn't particularly tiny so it's not often that we see that what we're far more likely to see in a wide angle Zoom however is
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the lateral style chromatic aberration near the edge of the frame and frankly I hate those on a wide angle just just
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feels like the color Fidelity isn't quite as good because again colors are not being focused as consistently it
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also means that your Corners tend to look a little bit worse than what even the resolution would suggest and so
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great that we had a little very little lateral style chromatic aberration what I found when I looked at
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vignette and Distortion is that on the wide end 11 mm the there is a bit of barrel Distortion but not bad a plus n
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that's about the same as the Tamron but to give you some perspective a plus n to correct here on the Sigma at 10 mm i'
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had to use around a plus 24 to correct and so a massive amount of barrel Distortion and that's part of where
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Sigma is compromised by going a little bit wider than what this lens goes now vignette was not so impressive I used a
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plus 85 to correct that's a little bit worse than the Tamron and a little bit better than the sigma Sigma I had to max
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out the slider it's the worst in those regards at 18 mm on the telephoto end
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there's a very mild amount of pincushion Distortion Just A minus to correct that and then a plus 54 to correct for the
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vignette so significantly lower vignette on the telephoto in in terms of the
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actual resolution in contrast this is on a 40 megapixel sensor and the crops are shown at 200% magnification so super
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super demanding that's the equivalent of over 90 megapixels on full frame so this is a really demanding platform and so I
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was happy to see that really results looked quite good even under that very Critical examination very good Center
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results very strong very good mid-frame you can see that the corners don't look too bad they're not amazing but they're
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not bad I did find that I saw a contrast Improvement across most of the frame at F4 at f5.6 I started to see Improvement
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in the corners I would say that my Peak landscape aperture at F or excuse me at
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11 millimet would be f8 where that's where I felt like I saw the most consistent sharpness across the frame
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and then you're going to run into defra on a high resolution body like this it starts to show up a little bit at f11
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but at F-16 and F22 it's going to look much worse so I would avoid those apertures uh where is all possible to
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give you a little bit of perspective the sigma I rated very highly for sharpness and you can see here that on the wide
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end it's about the same performance as what we saw on the sigma moving on in
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the zoom range to 14 mm I found that the results were more consistent everywhere I would say you're going to get your
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Peak Performance and the middle of the zoom range and just all across the frame everything is just a little bit sharper
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than 11 mm right down into the corners and then as you stop that down you're going to get really great results in the
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middle of the zoom range at 18 mm it is softer as the MTF suggest but what I did
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find that MTF shows the wide open performance what I found is that stopping down I saw a more dramatic
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Improvement at 18 mimers than what I did at other places in the zoom range and so what that means is that by the time say
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for example example I compared it to the sigma both of them at 18 mm the sigma looked a little bit better at f2.8
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definitely sharper in the center and all the way into the corners when I stopped both lenses down to about f5.6 the
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results were basically identical and so if you're shooting uh like landscape type images just stop The Lens down
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you're going to get good strong performance once again and frankly in this shot of Nala at 18 MIM f2.8 you
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know in real world it looks pretty decent you know no real problem there when it comes to bokeh the quality of
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the bokeh is okay but remember you're not going to get a whole lot out of it there's not a lot of situations where
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you're going to be able to just strongly blur out the background it's not a long focal length it's not a huge maximum
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apture and of course it has a rather poor minimum Focus distance so all the typical ways that you could get a
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strongly defocused background they just don't exist here and so bokeh is okay but again it's not going to be a really
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all that relevant a a metric there more important is how it does with Flare resistance on the wide end flare
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resistance is quite good 18 mm it's not as good wide open um I found in real
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world shots however where I wasn't trying to find like the worst place in the frame for a flare that it was pretty
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easy to compose to where I got very little flare artifacts and I felt like contrast held up really well you can see
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from these images that it's into very very bright Sun that is reflecting off snow and the images still have really
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nice pop to them I also was able to shoot Astro with it and star points look
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good in the center there's a little bit of stretching in the corner but no wings that are being formed and so overall it
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looks good the thing that actually really loved about the lens um this tokina lens they work with kko that's
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the where the optical Glass is coming from I felt like the optical glass is is great here I really liked the overall
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colors and the look of images uh sometimes shooting in in winter images
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can just be a little bit flat and Bland I really felt like this did a good job with the scenes that I was shooting and
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I would actually be really interested to see it in more colorful Seasons than what I was shooting in but I just felt
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like for winter shooting at least this image this lens delivered really nice pop to the images the colors look great
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the kind of color and contrast combination was really strong I liked images bottom line so my conclusion is
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this I actually really really like this lens at the same time however I quite like both the sigma and the Tamron
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options as well and so I'm really glad we've got three great third party options here I would say at least you
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know with just my general Impressions I might actually prefer the colors coming off the tokina I don't think that it's
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necessarily a sharper lens than those other two it does have less Distortion than the sigma but it also has a smaller
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Zoom range and so it really kind of depends on what the priority is for you
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I just will say I like the images I was able to produce and I'm glad that we have options at the full MSRP it would
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be hard for me to say the token is absolutely a better Choice than either the sigma or the Tamron lenses however I
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will say that if we see a similar discounting of price in the future as what has happened on e-mount the toen
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becomes a really easy pick because it's a really strong lens it's certainly I think perfectly competitive with those
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other two and if the price is cheaper I think it makes for a really compelling option I'm so glad that they added the
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at least the weather sealing gasket here cuz that does help at least a little bit and overall I would say that this is a
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wide angle Zoom that I enjoyed using it kind of hits a sweet spot for me and so I'm able to recommend it without any
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kind of hesitation if you want more information you can check out my full text review that's Linked In the
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description down below and there's also buying links there if you'd like to check one out for yourself and of course
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if you want to go into a deeper dive into the Optics stay tuned with me right now let's jump in let's take a look okay
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we'll start by taking a look at vignet and Distortion here at 11 mm you can see there is a bit of pin cushion Distortion
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not bad though a kind of a mile bulge there in the middle it corrects as you can see not like 100% perfectly but
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pretty close to perfect no real mustache pattern left over so no major problem there that's a plus n dialing in there
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so again way way less than what we see with the sigma now correcting the vignette is there's a significant amount
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of vignette that's there and so it does correct but it took a plus 85 to clean that up and so you know that that part's
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not fantastic now now on the 18 mm end you can see there is a very mild amount of pin cushion Distortion plus five
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corrects that and it is a very linear style of of Correction and if we take a
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look at correcting for the vignette here you can see that I've got a plus 53
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dialed in to correct for the vignette so no problems there now as noted really good results when it comes to the
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fringing here testing for the longitudinal style chromat chromatic aberration you can see just a little
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tiny bit of fringing after the plane of focus but it's it's barely noticeable and of course the situations where
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you're going to have even this degree of defocus are going to be rare uh when it comes to the more prominent style which
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comes near the corner of the frame it's not to say that it's Flawless there is a tiny bit of fringing but it's it's close
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enough to Flawless to not affect real world images so here we would have a prime opportunity for that uh those
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aberration this is all uncorrected we just don't see it there we pop over to this side you know it's it's not really
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showing up and so this would be kind of the one of the most extreme examples I can think of and the fact that it's not
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there is a really good sign so that leads us to an examination of sharpness and contrast again this is the 40
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megapixel xh2 sensor and we're going to look at this at 200% magnification you
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can see it has no problem handling that 200% magnification in the center of the frame this is very sharp very Crisp
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that's about as good as you're going to see on any such lens mid-frame is looking good you know here it looks
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fantastic by here you can see it's a little bit softer and as we pan down we
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can see looking here better here than here going towards the corner definitely better here than it is here so we're
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dropping off as we get towards the corner likewise up here you can see a pretty consistent centering performance
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looking pretty decent here and you can see softening up towards that corner there now if we compare it to the sigma
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which is now on the right um and obviously there's been a little bit of changes on my my test chart here but if
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we look in the center of the frame we can see that the toen is better even than what the sigma is they're both
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really really good the token in the center of the frame is actually a hair better if we look in this Zone here we
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can see if you look at this portion of the bill that it the tokina is better than what the sigma if we get towards
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the bottom right I however I would say that the sigma is better and then if we pan on towards the corner I would
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definitely say the sigma is just staying better further out you can definitely see a big difference here as compared to
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here now going back to just the token itself you can see that there is a pretty decent Improvement at F4 and so
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the resolution is reaching towards the corners it's not 100% there if we look up towards the mid-frame you can
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definitely see a significant Improvement like a pretty Market Improvement I would say from F4 to f5.6 the Improvement here
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it is the contrast and all of that is deeper so there is some improvement but it's I think it's a little bit more
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noticeable down into the corner where you can see now that resolution is finally starting to reach right to the
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corner itself if we pop back to in comparison with the sigma now at f5.6 we can see in the middle of the frame they
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both look great but I would say that the toen is very slightly better if we look here in this mid-frame area both looking
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really crisp and I would say probably the sigma is the better of the two looking down into the corner they're now
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pretty comparable in the corner and you can see there's been more correction to the sigma image here to make it look a
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little bit brighter but as far as the resolution and contrast they're pretty close at that point if we pop over to
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this side we can see that the same is true they're more similar than different if you stop on down to f8 I would say
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that it's looking just it's basically kind of a lateral move no real great Improvement there by f11 defraction is
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going to start to softly begin to soften the image but in by F-16 and
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particularly in F22 you can see it's just a radical difference in the softening due to defraction now I found
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the results moving on to 14 mm just to be consistently better across the frame I mean this Center result is now really
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really just razor sharp very very impressive mid-frame it's not as dramatic but you can definitely see it
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is better at uh in this Zone at 14 mm than it was at 11 mm and definitely into
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the corners it's it's a pretty obvious difference that 14 m mm is just more consistent all across the frame stop
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this down to f5.6 here on the right and you can see that now even right into the corners it's nice and crisp there really
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strong results in the middle of the zoom range if we look over to the mid-frame however we can see that probably it's
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every bit as good here at 18 mm as what it was at 14 mm moving down into the
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corners however 14 mm is definitely stronger than what 18 mm is it's a
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little less pronounced on this side if we look up into this corner um it's close they're more similar than
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different there in a real world result here this is 18 mm f2.8 in the area of
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focus I mean that looks great I don't have any real complaints about that and so I think that you know it's all
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relative it's still quite sharp where it matters so if you compare the tokina on the left to the sigma on the right both
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of them 18 mm f2.8 sigma's looking a little bit better in the center of the frame though by not any kind of
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meaningful way the mid-frame however though I would say it definitely is looking considerably better and down
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into this corner there's no question that it looks better what's interesting however is that when you stop these
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lenses down both at f5.6 in the center of the frame token is every bit as good
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if not better here in the mid-frame zone I'm still going to give a bit of an edge to the sigma there down into the corners
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you can see that now they look pretty much evenly matched we look over on this side you know looking about the same and
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over onto the left side again I would say the sigma has a tiny Edge but
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nothing of significance it's kind of some give and take depending on where you look um in fact here I would say the
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toena looks a little bit better so I mean bottom line is when it comes to shooting Landscapes even at 18 mm you're
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going to be fine if you stop down a bit case in point here's a 18 mm landscape
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f5.6 you can see it looks good in the center of the frame moving off towards the side I mean not pen sharp but
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looking just fine over on this side you know looking nice and crisp no real issue there and so again this is a
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pretty strong lens when it comes to resolution now if we compare at that minimum Focus distance we can see that
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again the higher magnification ear on the left side compared to 18 mm on the
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right side and we can also see that in terms of just the kind of the raw resolution and contrast results are a
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little bit sharper at 11 mm than what they are at 18 mm truth of the matter is
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you're going to have relatively few opportunities to really blur out a background you know here result looks
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fine detail and contrast looks good in the area of focus and if we look towards
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the background blur you know it's it's somewhat out of focus but not strongly
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out of focus flare resistance as we've already seen you know it really holds up pretty well in most real world images
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you tiny bit of ghosting there it's a little bit worse at 18 mm than what it was at wide down 11 mm but frankly here
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this is at 18 mm getting a real world shot very very intense sun when I took
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the shot and I didn't really see a problem now when it comes to Coma performance you can see that star points
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in the center of the frame look nice and crisp again there's low fringing here so that doesn't ruin that if we pop off
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into the corners you can see that you know the star points are elongated a little bit they're kind of stretched
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somewhat but what we're not seeing is any the kind of wings that will often form on lenses that really perform badly
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in this regard so overall I'm you know relatively happy with those end results
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so as you can see overall this is a lens that produces nice images relatively few
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flaws there and so overall it's a good Strong Optical performance and that's even on this most demanding of platforms
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making it a lens that I enjoyed using and maybe you will as well as always thanks for watching have a great day and
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