saschamagus
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then don't compromise on the lens, just buy the 2470CZ and have peace 
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Decision time on A99
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gooseta
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The tokinas and tamrons are not compromises. He needs a pretty wide lens, which the razor sharp 20-35 provides. He needs a standard relatively fast zoom, 28-75 or 28-70 f2.8, two extremely sharp zooms, and the 80-200 tokina f2.8, which is very sharp too
All are sharp wide open in the corners, read the reviews on sites and dyxum.
All are sharp wide open in the corners, read the reviews on sites and dyxum.
gooseta
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Oh, and FYI, he says he has a GRAND to spend. The CZ2470 is close to TWO GRAND, and gives him no uwa or telephoto lens.
saschamagus
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Given proper motive, he might want to spend a bit more... and he already has a sigma 70-200, so starting with a nice midrange zoom to expand later on an UWA (perhaps even a tokina ) is possible...
) is possible...
gooseta
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I don't see what's so bad about Tokina. Actually on Full frame the Tamron 70-200 f2.8 is sharper and cheaper. He could sell the sigma, pick up the tamron 70-200, tokina 20-35, and tamron 28-75 or the sony 28-75 and be done for a grand, rather than spending two grand for very slight performance gain
Edward Sargent
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Well why buy a top of the line flagship and put cheap glass in front of it? That's like people buying expensive Leica cameras and putting a cheap Jupiter lens on it. So in my opinion get something nice or get something else.
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gooseta
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All Leica glass is expensive, because it is hand carved and is amazing and all of them are super sharp wide open and most of them are f1.4 and they are hand made and crafted to perfection bla bla bla
DSLR glass can be had at extremely low prices and gives you great image quality. The Tamron 28-75 is also extremely popular over in the Pentax camp where it is well respected on film and digital. You can get a Mino 50mm f1.4 for less than $250 which is a very low price for a lens which is rated so highly by the community.
For the ultrawide, most of the glass under 20mm is reviewed pretty poorly on dyxum except the mino 17-35 f3.5 which is around $1300. The tokina 20-35 f3.5-4.5 is the highest rated zoom which starts below 21mm for full-frame, so I dont see any good option other than that.
DSLR glass can be had at extremely low prices and gives you great image quality. The Tamron 28-75 is also extremely popular over in the Pentax camp where it is well respected on film and digital. You can get a Mino 50mm f1.4 for less than $250 which is a very low price for a lens which is rated so highly by the community.
For the ultrawide, most of the glass under 20mm is reviewed pretty poorly on dyxum except the mino 17-35 f3.5 which is around $1300. The tokina 20-35 f3.5-4.5 is the highest rated zoom which starts below 21mm for full-frame, so I dont see any good option other than that.
Edward Sargent
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For my medium zoom I'm choosing the Sony - AF 28-75 F2.8 SAM, primarily for the AF-D
I've narrowed my list of UWA lenses for the A99 down to these.
I've narrowed my list of UWA lenses for the A99 down to these.
- Tokina - AT-X 17 AF 17mm F3.5 (Dyxum rating 4.58) $400
- Samyang - 14mm F2.8 IF ED UMC Aspherical (Dyxum rating 4.34) $390
- Sigma - 15-30 F3.5-4.5 EX Aspherical DG DF (Dyxum rating 4.26) $499
- Tamron - SP AF 17-35 F2.8-4 Di LD Aspherical IF (Dyxum rating 4.18) $449
stan_pustylnik
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@ more lenses to consieder:
Minolta Maxxum 16mm f/2.8 AF is one fun lens to use too. I didn't hear complains from users.
Sigma 15mm f/2.8 AF Diagonal is awesome lens.
Minolta Maxxum 16mm f/2.8 AF is one fun lens to use too. I didn't hear complains from users.
Sigma 15mm f/2.8 AF Diagonal is awesome lens.
Edward Sargent
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gooseta
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The tokina or the samyang, though the samyang is manual focus it is sharp on aps-c but I'm not sure about ff
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