The Tokina 11-16 2.8 Caught Me by Surprise
I have never understood the people that pay huge lumps of cash for wide-angle lenses until I tried out the Tokina 11-16 2.8 for myself. The first thing that caught my eye was the price tag, which was actually quite reasonable for a lens of this type. I thought that the build quality would be much worse than that of a Nikkor or Canon but once again, I was surprised to find that this is not the case. The Tokina is as sturdy as they come and at a distance, I would easily mistake this lens for a first party product. The image quality was the biggest shock and my mouth literally hung open when I saw the shots that it can produce. I always thought wide-angle lenses like this were just for gimmicky shots so it was definitely an eye opener seeing for myself what it is really capable of.