Twas interesting to me - thanks for the detailed analysis. It's a lens which has a growing interest for me.

All I can say is WoW! What a lens. Anything I point this bad-boy at and pull the trigger on looks flawless. I'm really shocked here, the colour reproduction, and IQ are just gorgeous!

I.e. I just walked outside, snapped a quick shot of my neighbours wall, and it looks stunning! No PP other than resizing and it looks like something I would have agonized to get in PP with some of my 'other' lenses.

May be time to think about clearing house a bit and getting another DA* lens.... Damnit

Here, have more pics of flowers then... Maybe will sooth your soul!

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But it does show a bit of fringing with the extreme colour changes - again that stupid DOF is awesome!

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And the real reason for this lens. Nightshots, handheld @ 1/30th of a second. Now that is why you want a f1.2!

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It's looong gone

You know about the focus trap?

Don't get me wrong, they are the best review site I've found. I love numbers and they do a great job at presenting what seems to be unbiased results.

I'm just a little peeved that almost the exact same lens somehow gets a very different review ranking - yes it's only half a star, but 3.5/5 versus 4/5 is actually a big difference - esp considering there is only 1 star separating the kit lens (18-55) from a DA*. Furthermore, almost every review site seems to slag the Pentax glass, but if they see the Tokina on another platform they go ape shit over it. Maybe this is just a bit of a rant. So [/rant]

Hah, whoops!

The isolation / DOF is just unreal! I'm finding that the bokeh can be a little loud / milky at times though depending on the background content. The moss picture shows a bit of a harsh bokeh, and shot of kittah exaggerates the milky effect due to her colour. Overall I'm quite happy with the new toy though.

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How kind of you Mongoose! So now I've got my 30mm f1.4 and my 55mm f1.2... so what's the next stupidly fast prime I need? They should make a 15mm f1.0, that'd be sweet!

My bad - I just realized I need M mode to do that, boo hiss.