My application:
1. At parties in the interior or in the garden area, with difficult lighting conditions.
2. townscapes
3. Close with beautiful perspective effects (object distance 20 cm)
With a flash, I do not want to work because of the downright wegflasht the mood of an image and I just scared faces on it.
My Conclusion:
Toll:
The integrated luminosity of 2.8 and the autofocus enable taking pictures in difficult lighting conditions. The autofocus sits still! He is faster than the standard Focus from other manufacturers, but does not come close to the USM / HSM technolgy. In addition, the Focus is also fairly quiet.
The lens is quite heavy and the metal body cool. The hammer finish also makes it handy.
The viewfinder image is bright enough to see by candlelight something.
At f 2.8 lens is fast, and you can hammer out good snapshots. But from higher aperture it shows off a great sharpness that still impresses even at full magnification.
Not so great:
Due to the low focal length range, the 11-16 mm behaves almost like a short fixed focal length. Multiple ways to zoom one has not, the viewing angle is not substantially changed, it is still around! But I am aware of the 11-16 / f2.8 and not another with more zoom (16 mm out) and less light intensity chosen because they lack Zoom yes can compensate a little by cutting the image. The usability in low light was more important to me.
Unfortunately, I'm usually only lenses with stabilization technology used, ie the Tokina 11-16 heissts "firmly beautiful and keep quiet". A more accurate autofocus is only half the battle. A stabilizer would be a really fine Additional equipment !!
Overall, I am impressed by the lens! It achieved even in low light high sharpness (as long as you keep quiet, or can hold his motives;)! CA's are always to be seen at high-contrast edges, do not bother me personally but. Vignette I can not recognize so.
The large viewing angle saves a walk backwards several meters, or to hang out the window and take pictures inside. You can almost always be left in place and pull the trigger. Clear recommendation to all those who are looking for a wide-angle zoom, and where a fixed focal length is too rigid and the desire for creative picture composition have.
In my view, the Tokina competes less with the competition-WW-zooms, but rather with the 14mm prime lenses !!!!
