GFM 2007: My Gallery
P. J. Alling
webster26 at mindspring.com
Fri Jun 8 18:23:45 EDT 2007
Notice there's no Da mount mentioned. It's a joint Pentax-Tokina
development project with Pentax selling it in Pentax K mount and Tokina
selling it in everything else.
Rick Womer wrote:
> Tokina has released virtually the same lens with a
> variety of mounts, actually:
>
> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/468737-REG/Tokina_ATX107PRODXC_10_17mm_f_3_5_4_5_AT_X_107.html
>
> Rick
>
> --- Mark Roberts <msroberts01 at ysu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>> Cotty wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 7/6/07, Mark Roberts, discombobulated,
>>>
>> unleashed:
>>
>>>> Nope. It's the new 10-17 fisheye zoom. Really fun
>>>>
>> and much more useful
>>
>>>> than I expected. In places like those mountains
>>>>
>> you can hide the
>>
>>>> fisheye distortion pretty well.
>>>>
>>> Wow - nice lens. Remember I sold Albano Garcia's
>>>
>> 17/4 for him, musty be
>>
>>> 6 or 7 years ago? He sent it to me and I eBayed it,
>>>
>> sending him cahs to
>>
>>> Argentina hidden in a mutli-layered envelope full
>>>
>> of prints to get past
>>
>>> corrupt postal workers.
>>>
>>> I played with it before eBay and it was the one
>>>
>> lens I could get excited
>>
>>> about. It rocked.
>>>
>>> I might look into getting one for Frankenization.
>>>
>> I bet it would work a treat on your 1D-II. I'm
>> pretty sure it was also
>> made in an M42 screw mount version, which should be
>> cheaper and work
>> just as well for your purposes.
>>
>>
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> http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW
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