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<blockquote data-quote="Geoffc" data-source="post: 53647" data-attributes="member: 8705">I bought the Tokina a couple of months ago and I'm really pleased with it. It's very, very sharp and I love the 2.8 when I use it indoors such as museums and churches.These lenses are very wide compared to 18mm so you need to choose your shots so to speak as stuff gets small quick. Ideally try one before you buy.The build quality is very solid which is nice. One thing I notice is vignetting from the polarizer or cokin filter holder at 11mm. Not really a fault of the lens, it's just very wide.Oh did I mention it's sharp!!&nbsp; I looked at reviews on sigma, tokina and Nikon for a month before buying this, and I didn't let price influence my decision. To support that point, when nikon comes out top such as my 70-200 2.8 vrii I will spend the extra cash, but in this case I don't think the iq could be better.Slightly off topic, my wife got the 10.5 fisheye at the same time and this actually works far better than I thought. Combined with dxo software to straighten the images it's actually very useful and has a 180 deg field of view. That said it is not as good as the tokina for most things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geoffc, post: 53647, member: 8705"] I bought the Tokina a couple of months ago and I'm really pleased with it. It's very, very sharp and I love the 2.8 when I use it indoors such as museums and churches. These lenses are very wide compared to 18mm so you need to choose your shots so to speak as stuff gets small quick. Ideally try one before you buy. The build quality is very solid which is nice. One thing I notice is vignetting from the polarizer or cokin filter holder at 11mm. Not really a fault of the lens, it's just very wide. Oh did I mention it's sharp!! I looked at reviews on sigma, tokina and Nikon for a month before buying this, and I didn't let price influence my decision. To support that point, when nikon comes out top such as my 70-200 2.8 vrii I will spend the extra cash, but in this case I don't think the iq could be better. Slightly off topic, my wife got the 10.5 fisheye at the same time and this actually works far better than I thought. Combined with dxo software to straighten the images it's actually very useful and has a 180 deg field of view. That said it is not as good as the tokina for most things. [/QUOTE]

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