Air & Space with Tokina
Posted under: On Tim’s last day here in DC, I took him to the Udvar-Hazy Center part of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. This is one of my favourite museums with so many famous pieces of international aerospace history including: Enterprise Shuttle, Enola Gay, Concord, Blackbird, F-14, Joint-Strike-Fighter, Global Flyer and so much more.
This was a brilliant opportunity to play with the Tokina in such a big museum. Over all, the Tokina performed quite well, 2.8 is really useful considering the D2x’s high iso is not brilliant. Very rarely the Tokina has trouble focusing at infinity, but this seems to be only a problem on the D2x, haven’t noticed it much on the D50. 11-16mm is a bit of a limited range and not really useful if you need to take a quick snapshot portrait (as distortion is a huge issue). I have to admit about 80% of my shots taken with this lens has been at 11mm.
Below are a few of the new photos with captions.
So Many Planes!!!
Blackbird SR71
Mars Rover
Concord
Space suits and someone just as ancient
Everything is stored in a massive hanger next to the Washington Dulles International Airport
So shinny!
As a bonus: Guess the Plane…
Well for now that’s pretty much most of my tourism photos…will get back to fashion shoots again in the upcoming weeks. Be sweet and leave a comment 
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The tiles suggest space shuttle, but I may be wrong.
I thought the American Air Museum at Duxford was big (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nialloswald/1498667180/in/set-72157602287412686/) but that’s something else.
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