Tamron 10-24mm LD aspherical lens review

Just picked up this bit of glass yesterday, I was looking for a decent wide angle lens that wouldn't break the bank, so far I am very happy with the purchase.

I know that as far as third party lenses go, Tamron doesn't have the best standing, but after a few test shots I didn't see any reason to hate on this bit of glass. Sure the sharpness isn't profound and yes it loses detail around the edges but depending on what you are trying to do, your creativity and the right setting you can achieve some pretty solid results with this lens.

At 10mm the optimum aperture is f8, the field of view is about 103degrees and the focal point sharpness is more then fine.

At 24mm you want to take your aperture to around f11 and distortion is very minimal.

The auto focus is a tad noisy, and the focal distances are simply written on the barrel rather then behind a window like most other lenses offer, but IMO these are only points to nitpick over.

One of the main things I like about the Tamron 10-24mm is exactly that; the zoom range. It is quite a versatile lens, and for the price tag it is a freakin' steal in my book.

If you are on a budget and want to get wide, take a look at the Tamron 10-24mm LD aspherical.

Below are a couple of shots I took last night with this lens fitted with a 2 stop ND filter and mounted on a Nikon D5000 body.

Blazzeo wireless slave & trigger review

Blazzeo slave receivers: pure junk!

I am writing this review of Blazzeo's radio triggers not only because I am bitter over the purchase, but more importantly to warn others about these shotty little pieces of junk!

I picked up a set of 4 receivers and a trigger as they were on sale from linkdelight.com, and I needed to kit up for an upcoming shoot...let me just say they helped me make that shoot happen, then realizing they had fulfilled their purpose, went ahead and fell apart.

The problem as far as I can see is in the cheap production quality, the hot shoes are bent and warped and so poorly attached to the body of the receiver unit that the weight of even an SB-700 flash is too much to bare. Also the vertical design of the unit adds much more stress on the hot shoe then a horizontal design would.

The weight of one of Nikon's smaller flashes ripped 2 screws out of their plastic threads

The old adage, "You get what you pay for" is very true here, these slaves are incredibly cheap, but still I would expect to have more then one glitchy use out of a device before it flat out failed on me.

I recommend you spend a little cash for piece of mind alone, last thing you want is to be on a shoot, everything in place and be ruined by a $15 piece of garbage.