I just got back from a road trip from LA to Oregon!! My friend has a
Minolta 9xi, great camera, and has a Tokina 28-70mm lens, and it's razor
sharp. He got a lot of shots "blind", using it as a point n' shoot, and so
he got a lot of shots I couldn't get.. So now I'm considering an Autofocus
camera also, so I can have it take care of the f-stops, metering, and
shutter speed as well as focusing for me... (Don't worry, I would NEVER
throw out my OM!!)
But the road trip has taught me something, and that is, that carrying 3
prime lenses and having to change them back and forth, gets old, and takes a
long time, and add that with manual focus, and my friend's zoom+AF combo
really beat me to a lot of shots, and a lot of shots I never got because of
the swapping of prime lenses..
I am thinking about picking up something for the road.. and while the
35-70mm micro zoom lens from Olympus seems to be a great travel lens, I
would like to get something a bit wider, like a 28mm (although I'd love for
it to be pushed to 24mm) and something a little bit tighter, 90mm or up, so
I can get a tight portrait shot as well..
Tokina makes a 28-105mm, and this seems to fit the bill. I was wondering if
anybody has it, and how it performs?
Great waterfall shots in Oregon... Can't wait to develop them... On Provia
100 slide film also, so the colors should be incredible..
Albert
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