Amri & Ima Engagement

The previous photo assignment for being a photographer for my housemate engagement. The engagement took place at the gurl's house (of course la kn?...hehe) here in Kemaman.

On that day, after preparing my gear, i straight away meet Amri at Sultan Abd Samad mosque. He guide me thru his fiance's house somewhere in Kemaman area (I didn't know what the place called.. hehe).

After Amri left me to pick-up his family, I left alone at his fiance's house. Hurmm... nothing to do in such an early...no people yet. haha.. but the meal already prepare.. yess.. that's what i like it... With my walled-face, slowly I ask his fiance can I have my meal 1st, so that later on.. I won't need to worry about my stomach when I started my duty there.. (during duty..it's not appropriate to have a meal at the same time..hehe). So I pick-up the plate and start the belasah lauk-pauk there..owh.. not to mention.. I'm the 1st person eating down there.. haha..

After that, I start wondering around the house seeking some spots to compose my picture. Then starting to take close-up to the hantaran prepared for the guys side. Around 2 o'c , Amri and his family arrived, and my full-duty began...and this are some shots that I like to share with you all. Thanks for the viewing. Enjoys

|Amri | Ima | Epul | Kemaman | Terengganu | Engagement | Portrait | Couple | Lovely |D50 | 50mm f1.8 | 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 | wide-converter kit | SB600 |

Pre-Weds Pudin & Tikah

P: pul... ko free tak petang lepas kija ni?

E: owh.. pudin.. sal beb? tade ape pon..ilek2 jerr..

P: cantek lar...leh mintak tulun skit, mintak tolong ko amik gmbr ktrg bleh?

E: owh.. ko nk wat mcm ala-ala pre-weds ker? haha.. tadahal beb.. ader port best?

P: ermm.. klu kt Teluk Kalong amacam?

E: ehh..mane tu? jauh tak? best gak tu.. aku pon blum penah p sane tu...

P: dekat jer.. k nnti petang aku amik ko

E: okehh.. berehhh

P: bereehhh

so.. dorg pon siap2... then petang tu g amik aku kt umh.. layan nek kete turbo pudin vrrrooommm2... smpi pntai teluk kalong... erkk.. dekat jer dgn ET nih.. patut arr.. aku je xto.. ish2.. so.. ktrg.. lepak2.. kejar sunset, kununnye nk carik mood sunset... tp xpat la pulak.. awan time tuh.. ader sedikit suramm...so.. ni je lar.. yg termampu.. heehe...then.. baliknye.. pekene dinner dekat Sri Kalong, mantap.. thanks korg.

k hope for the best for korg..slamat berbahgia hingga ke jinjang pelamin...

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|Pudin | Tikah | Epul | Pantai Teluk Kalong | Kemaman | Terengganu | Sunset | Portrait | Couple | Lovely |D50 | 50mm f1.8 | SB600 | 

Tokina 28-80mm f2.8 AT-X Pro

Focus Performance Test

Hi all,

Today entry it's about this tokina 28-80mm lens. It can be called obsolete lens as Tokina don't produce it anymore now. I bought this lens a second hand one from one of the famous photography forum in M'sia, PhotoMalaysia.com
There a lot of buy/sell photography stuff u can find there. with a very great bargain, u can get a 2nd hand lens/body/accessories with an affordable price.

I got some inspiration to wrote some performance test bout this lens from some of "homework" i've done before i purchase this lens. But i only concentrate on the focus performance of this lens. Some comparison been made of this lens with Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 DG from this website tawbaware.com. It can be seen clearly that Tokina overwhelmed the Sigma for the image sharpness. As been said from the website

In general, the Tokina produces sharp images at F5.6 and smaller apertures. The Sigma needs to be stopped down another stop or two to produce its best results. Even so, it never quite catches up to the Tokina in sharpness.

And with this lens in my hand, I have choose to test it and experience myself the image/sharpness of the lens itself. but before that, here some of picts of the lens.

So .. here the test, camera mounted on a tripod and timer been used to avoid any unnecessary shacking that will probably cause the image to blur.


Result

So.. the first one, the widest 28mm and the narrowest 80mm to be tested, f2.8-5.6

For 2nd test, for same aperture f2.8-5.6 with 35mm & 58mm

Conclusion

So to conclude this lens performance, this lens remarkably produce acceptable sharp image on f3.5 and above. Thus, to increase the image quality of this zoom lens, try not to fully zoom-in (80mm) nor zoom-out (28mm) to take a shot, give some tolerance to the maximum end-zoom by 10-20mm i.e 35mm-60mm only. It will noticeably the different of the image sharpness + Chromatic Abbreviation (CA) between this zooming range.