Camera Lenses
Wow, the lenses I mentioned the other day are excellent. The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II is really… interesting. It’s amazingly light, takes really nice images, and seems to be a lot nicer than I expected. The focusing ring only moves about 1/4 turn which is great to operate with a fingertip. It also seems almost weightless, which makes me think I’ll keep it on the camera a lot. It’s also dirt cheap.
The Tokina 100mm f/2.8 AT-X 100 PRO D Macro seems excellent as well. Despite the cheesy (and strangely Asian-looking) gold accents and lettering, it feels better made than any lens I’ve yet been able to use. It feels ridiculously solid, and it’s just a dream to use. It also focuses much faster than I expected. Also, a 100mm 1:1 lens just seems EXCELLENT. Focused at the closest, something just past the lens hood. Oh! And the lens hood can be stored on the lens hood reversed, which is just *great*. The Canons don’t do that.
I dig the reverse lense hood storage, the Simga’s do it as well.
The only thing which would make it better is if you could somehow focus with it there, but… That’s not really physically possible.
on mine, I can kinda focus with it on in reverse, but I usualy carry a big D-Ring on my belt to clip it onto.
I guess I could with AF… And that must be a mighty D-ring.
By the way, I think the manual for your lens and mine are one in the same.