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Hi, I have not posted lately -I know my friendship with Asher is ok even if I don't post, he said so- because my life is going through a huge change with the move to Bolivia and all. Today I turned in my last assignment for a gallery and I am going for a week vacation to Nicaragua before coming back, pack and go to La Paz in July.
I got three Elinchrom flash compacts, two new 400BX and one new 750 MINI and there are some comments in general about Elnichrom as opposed to what I had before that is AB's and not all is good for the Swiss because believe it or not the Alien Bees sting really hard compared to the respectable Eurobrand. On the other side, the new lights seam to have better color, consistency, efficiency than the first. I only need a studio to run test, and that is the plan for La Paz.
I also got a D300 some weeks ago and I was looking for good DX optics but was not completely in love with what I saw from Nikon or Sigma ... until I discover something called TOKINA and I must say that it was love at first sight ... --almost, since I have yet to see the lenses--, but for the research so far it seams that this is the glass to colect.
There are two lenses that I, now, must have:
http://www.tokinalens.com/products/tokina/atx116prodx-a.html
and
http://www.tokinalens.com/products/tokina/atx535prodx-a.html
Tokina seams to be the tree of the fruits from the DX revolution. In the times of one million X zooms when cameras come with 18mm-200mm things, they have a different proposal: zoom less, but zoom better.
11 to 16 is nothing compared to 18 - 200, but, first of all it is a 2.8, second, it is a small lens, you are not pointing your subject with a subway train, but with a lens that is like a two sitter, sport, fast and that goes to wide 24mm (35mm equivalent) to 16.5mm (35mm eq.)
So, it is almost like a prime, almost like a zoom.
The reward comes also in quality for what I have seen in my research to the point of living some Nikon wide zooms (the ones that want to give you a bit more X zoom) in the dust in term of sharpness in the corners.
Then there is price: they are cheap
Then, they are built like old lenses,
The AT-X 535 PRO DX is the same thing, basically your old 80mm 210mm f2.8, built like a tank, internal focusing but miniaturized and at affordable price.
I went today to see this zoom at Adorama but they had shipped the only one they had in the store to a client.
I don't know what I will exactly be doing in Bolivia, but my idea is to do general commercial photography and maybe stock. The main system will be my Mamiya/Phase One, but I want to live that in the studio and use the D300 outside, so this two lenses would be the perfect thing to have, light compact fast, robust...
what do you think?
The also have a 35mm DX macro and other beauties...
I got three Elinchrom flash compacts, two new 400BX and one new 750 MINI and there are some comments in general about Elnichrom as opposed to what I had before that is AB's and not all is good for the Swiss because believe it or not the Alien Bees sting really hard compared to the respectable Eurobrand. On the other side, the new lights seam to have better color, consistency, efficiency than the first. I only need a studio to run test, and that is the plan for La Paz.
I also got a D300 some weeks ago and I was looking for good DX optics but was not completely in love with what I saw from Nikon or Sigma ... until I discover something called TOKINA and I must say that it was love at first sight ... --almost, since I have yet to see the lenses--, but for the research so far it seams that this is the glass to colect.
There are two lenses that I, now, must have:
http://www.tokinalens.com/products/tokina/atx116prodx-a.html
and
http://www.tokinalens.com/products/tokina/atx535prodx-a.html
Tokina seams to be the tree of the fruits from the DX revolution. In the times of one million X zooms when cameras come with 18mm-200mm things, they have a different proposal: zoom less, but zoom better.
11 to 16 is nothing compared to 18 - 200, but, first of all it is a 2.8, second, it is a small lens, you are not pointing your subject with a subway train, but with a lens that is like a two sitter, sport, fast and that goes to wide 24mm (35mm equivalent) to 16.5mm (35mm eq.)
So, it is almost like a prime, almost like a zoom.
The reward comes also in quality for what I have seen in my research to the point of living some Nikon wide zooms (the ones that want to give you a bit more X zoom) in the dust in term of sharpness in the corners.
Then there is price: they are cheap
Then, they are built like old lenses,
The AT-X 535 PRO DX is the same thing, basically your old 80mm 210mm f2.8, built like a tank, internal focusing but miniaturized and at affordable price.
I went today to see this zoom at Adorama but they had shipped the only one they had in the store to a client.
I don't know what I will exactly be doing in Bolivia, but my idea is to do general commercial photography and maybe stock. The main system will be my Mamiya/Phase One, but I want to live that in the studio and use the D300 outside, so this two lenses would be the perfect thing to have, light compact fast, robust...
what do you think?
The also have a 35mm DX macro and other beauties...