Back in the UK

Well after an amazing holiday in Egypt and visit to Jordan, I am now back in the UK. My last post ended up being slightly inaccurate. I could not find a copy of the Tokina 11-16mm anywhere at all. In fact after scouring all the shops in the UK I could only find a single copy of the Sigma 10-20mm. With only hours to go before I left for Egypt I decided to purchase it and see how it did.

These were my first images after getting the lens. They were taken as test pictures while still in the UK:

Well I was very happy with the colour and the sharpness of the image, but having been aware that there would be some warp in the corners, I was pretty disappointed to see how badly this affected the sun in this image.

This was much better but it has got me thinking already about how this might affect images where straight lines are evident in the corners. Over the next couple of weeks I was able to take a large number of shots using the widest setting and in the main I think the images were pretty good. The Sigma 10-20mm certainly does not suffer any issues with low light. In fact quite the opposite, in the Mosque of Mohammed Ali there was almost too much light.

More pictures to be shown in the Egypt section.