[toni-a]

Very interesting read, thanks! I found that they had made some lenses I was never aware of, and here I thought that I know about most AF lenses in existence... (Mostly from reading Photozone, of course).

That 10-17 fisheye though... I like it and so does my wife. Perfectly usable on APS-H zoomed out a little and loads of fun. But beware of inaccurate AF, and when I combined it with a 5D Mark II that I had to use for a spell, the combo was downright disastrous. Of course the two were never meant to be paired anyway, so I only got myself to blame for this...

I also had the 12-24 (first gen) for a little while in 2008, but made a memorable trip with it, and loads of published shots that summer/autumn before selling the lens in anticipation of going to 1D (which didn't happen until a year later; the time was pretty chaotic for me). Fringing was really strong with that one, though - seen on a printed photo on a newspaper page, ugh.

As well, I owned the enigmatic 17/3.5 for a while - I was fascinated with it after reading a review on a review site (Photozone also did review it, but I'm chiefly referring to another resource, http://prime-junta.net/, which hasn't been active in almost a decade). Ordered it from the US and even got PayPal just to be able to pay for it - ah, strong feelings. Unfortunately the lens wasn't in use for very long as I was/am well covered in the ultrawide segment so when it fell into disuse I decided to sell it so that it might find a happy owner instead of collecting dust in my office.

I know in perspn Petteri Sulonen the guy behind http://prime-junta.net/ , I did invite him to the old photozone forum in 2005, he did register but wasn't active at all while being active in Dpreview forums.... to his own words he prefers chaos...
He had the lens at the time during his christmas trip to Lebanon, and was selling however I bought from his Sigma 14mmf2.8 (the sample reviewed in his blog) and Canon 50mm f1.4 in mint condition, unfortunately one week later on new year's even the Sigma lens fell t the ground, got severe elements misalignment and needed to be shipped to Japan for very expensive repairs... I didn't know the repairs shop I am dealing with at the time