Fisheye for Nikon?

you are going to be shooting during the day = fast stop
you are shooting with a fisheye = infinite focus or around it
autofocus for quick action sports = pointless

Well, I have ZERO experience with fisheyes on DSLR's only on video cameras, and everyone on skateperception says its so hard to manual focus on action sports.

you need to be informed about fisheyes...they are always on infinite focus except for the rare instance you are doing a macro photo or somehting nd still theres hardly any noticable change in dof. so dont worry about the fisheye. its going to be manual focus no matter what. i have the pro-optics 8mm. its the same lens as the falcon 8mm and like tamron 8mm or something. they all took the same lens and labeled it differently. i got it for 300 i think off adorama.com. o and btw what above post said about autofocus is pointless for fast moving sports. hes talking about how when you are shooting...u should already have the photo framed and ready to go for when the skated comes through the frame. so that means it would already be focused by then with a normal lens and not one as wide as the fisheye..

thats the fisheye. some draw backs are they its not sharp at all. the opteka is a little better but more money like 400 or 500. and also if you do take the photo overexposed or even not that bad in the photo above..colors bleed. look at the dark haired kid on left..his arm.

okay thanks man, yeah I was reading about fisheyes and I was so confused so thanks for listening with my moronic self and everything. I'll look into that, on skateperception lots of times there are tamrons for like $250.

Auto focus for a fisheye does not exist, there is no need for it
dont cheap out get the Nikkor 10.5 f2.8
its around $650 but its tough and sharp as hell

sigma makes some nice fisheyes. they have some on

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?ci=274&N=4293344976+4291220258+4294951192


not bad price for a really quality lens and a trusted brand.

Yep!

sweet lens, so much fun to shoot with

thank you. :D

I can't speak for fisheyes on Nikon's but I really like my Tokina 10-17mm fisheye for my Canon. It's a sharp lens but a variable aperture but it doesn't matter too much because you never really need shoot F2.8 for fisheye. The plus about this fisheye is that if you upgrade your camera body you don't have to buy a a new lens. I was previously using a Canon 1.6x crop body and upgraded to a 1.3x body and all I have to do is set the zoom to 12mm to get the full fisheye. So you you plan on upgrading to a full frame Nikon in the future I'd suggest looking at the Tokina plus you can get them for under $500.

That's because almost everyone on Skateperception is a naïve 15 year old who doesn't know their ass from their elbow when it comes to filming. Anybody who finds something as simple as manual focusing a still image too difficult should just give up.

Whatever lens you get, just make sure it's fast, infinite, and metal.