[Nicole]

Originally Posted by mattdm

I'd be a little skeptical of anything Ken Rockwell says — sometimes he's got good advice, but generally he tends to just spout off whatever comes to his head. (There's somewhere on his site where he claims the whole thing is totally a joke.)

That said, he's not necessarily wrong — Tokina does make some really good lenses especially for their price.

You mean like on his About page?

I started this site as a joke in 1999 after I took a community college class in webmaking as a place I could share each weekend's photos with my friends. Back then digital meant visiting a rich friend and scanning your slides on their Nikon LS-1000 scanner. There were no amateur DSLRs.
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While occasionally inspired by actual products or experiences, if you aren't a personal friend or lack a sense of humor or lack a decent BS detector, you're best off treating this site as a work of fiction. If you can't take a joke, please consider this entire site a joke, and any resemblance to any actual people, places, products or anything as purely coincidental.

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Read this site at your own risk. I make a lot of mistakes.
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While this site is mostly accurate, it is neither legally binding nor guaranteed and the only thing I do guarantee is that there is plenty of stuff I simply make up out of thin air, as does The Onion.