Many valuable information have been delivered already in previous reviews. Therefore, I would support my report primarily on the experiences of the Tokina AF 11-16mm / 2.8.
* Question first: rich 17mm wide angle to a Canon SLR using a DX type sensor (eg, EOS 40D or EOS 450D)? So far I have answered this question with a hesitant "yes". Today I know that I have brought me to the recent purchase of a non-super-WW to many wonderful shooting perspectives.
It is true that the Tokina AF 11-16mm / 2.8 has such a small focal length range, it almost looks like a super wide-angle fixed focal length. But no matter, because this area has it all. Why? It's simple: Our eyes are normally used only photos with prospects of up to 17mm wide angle. Images in the 11mm range therefore impress with an unusual representation of landscape and architecture.
Be prepared for but not be dominated fisheye effects. The Tokina AF 11-16mm / 2.8 is corrected targeted as a normal wide-angle lens and has therefore hardly unnatural distortions. Thus, it is ideal for a realistic representation of landscape and architecture. In particular interiors, so far you have to scan multiple 17mm wide-angle photos, suddenly fit on one screen. Standing in the door to a 30m² room they get eg almost the whole room in the photograph!
Buildings, interiors or homes alleys leave with the Tokina AF 11-16mm / 2.8 represent "spatial". A photo can suddenly give the realistic illusion of depth and width, like standing himself bodily at the Cathedral. 17mm wide-angle deliver in such situations only a bottleneck view, the fascination of space and object is mostly lost for the viewer of the photo.
* But no advantages without disadvantages:
- Only Canon APS-C, not for full-frame (eg, EOS 5D) suitable.
- The Tokina AF 11-16mm / 2.8 is completely unsuitable for quite understandably many photographic situations. For example, for portraits and snapshots. The Tokina is virtually the opposite of an increasingly top-lens (eg Canon 17-85mm) and even for landscape photography should not be sufficient, the bounding upwards 16mm across many cases. That is -> changing lenses or second body.
- When using the built-in flash for example the Canon EOS 40D or EOS 450D, there is a visible lens shadows. The produced safely with all lenses, only at a focal length of 11mm it is suddenly visible in the photo. Luckily, the light intensity of 2.8 sufficient space to cope with many situations without flash. Here is an image stabilizer would be a useful addition. But it also works without.
- Dealing with the new extreme focal length at the beginning requires some courage and experimentation to discover the real charm of this super wide angle and find the most impressive prospects.
* My Opinion: landscape and architecture is no longer without a super wide-angle! If you also like this photographic areas, then you will 11-16mm / 2.8 will inevitably be from Tokina AF excited. But I write it again -> They are the lens within the framework of a shooting or change the Tokina have screws to a second body. Because there is understandably very many situations where this extreme focal length just does not fit.
Remains the question "Canon EF-S 10-22mm Tokina AF 11-16mm or?". The larger focal range speaks for the Canon lens. But when tested on photozone.de wins the Tokina 11-16 in the endnotes for all areas: optical and technical quality and price.
