02-28-2017, 08:40 PM
You judge far too soon and far too wrong :lol:
I always hesitate to answer a person with such quick conclusions and bad reading skills.
"I liked it, but it's tricky to focus on Nikon DSLR..." "tricky" ≠"impossible" Who said it's not accurate? Only you, toni-a. There's an article about that lens focusing with a Canon whatever on DPReview. Thanks to your answer I'm now too lazy to look for it. Long story short, on Canon it was pretty good to focus, but not on each Canon. On Nikon, there are 51 focus fields, these rectangles are big compared to some subjects I wanted to focus on. If it's small objects - and at 18 mm a lot of things suddenly become smaller than the AF rectangles - I was better off to switch to LiveView and focus manually. Which is not practical in each moment.
But your too quick conclusion is also what I think about you and this lens - it's not for you, stick with your highly reliable 17-55 forever and don'ts start experimenting with lenses trickier to handle than that.
And no matter how sharp the lens is: meant for dark situations and at the same time in front of an APS-C body with all the noise issues appearing when heading towards ISO 3200: The noise eats a lot of sharpness. It is a special lens, for reportage it's great - for you shooting landscapes with tripod @ f/16 pointless.
I always hesitate to answer a person with such quick conclusions and bad reading skills.
"I liked it, but it's tricky to focus on Nikon DSLR..." "tricky" ≠"impossible" Who said it's not accurate? Only you, toni-a. There's an article about that lens focusing with a Canon whatever on DPReview. Thanks to your answer I'm now too lazy to look for it. Long story short, on Canon it was pretty good to focus, but not on each Canon. On Nikon, there are 51 focus fields, these rectangles are big compared to some subjects I wanted to focus on. If it's small objects - and at 18 mm a lot of things suddenly become smaller than the AF rectangles - I was better off to switch to LiveView and focus manually. Which is not practical in each moment.
But your too quick conclusion is also what I think about you and this lens - it's not for you, stick with your highly reliable 17-55 forever and don'ts start experimenting with lenses trickier to handle than that.
And no matter how sharp the lens is: meant for dark situations and at the same time in front of an APS-C body with all the noise issues appearing when heading towards ISO 3200: The noise eats a lot of sharpness. It is a special lens, for reportage it's great - for you shooting landscapes with tripod @ f/16 pointless.