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Fisheye for crop sensor

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freestyle180
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HI guys,
i'm looking for a new fisheye for my cropsensor camera (40d). I heard about the sigma 10mm and the tokina 10-17. does some poeple have experience, comments, images or whatever of one of those ?

thanks in advance for help!|
Jul 24 2010 3:21PM
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NickSki.
Posts: 2009 - Karma: 61
tokina 10-17 or nikon 10.5 with a adapter
Jul 24 2010 4:51PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
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I highly recomend it, it is sharp, has a durable body and is the only fisheye I know of that can focus on things 3 cm away
its awesome
Jul 24 2010 4:54PM
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eheath
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sigma 10-20 is a solid lens
Jul 24 2010 5:01PM
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.jr
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Id disagree, once you get past the blinded by how fucking wide this lens is stage, you come to realize this lens isnt that great. Sure it handles chromatic abberation well, and its build is fine for how cheap the lens is. But it has horrible distortion (for a UWA), its a slow lens, considerably less sharp than all my other lenses. I almost regret getting it, and am considering getting a tokina 12-24 f/4.
Jul 24 2010 8:17PM
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.jr
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Oh and its not a fisheye.
Jul 24 2010 8:18PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
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tokina 11-16 f2.8 > tokina 12-24 f4
Jul 24 2010 9:01PM
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nick@
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just bought a sigma 10-20 i love it great for landscapes, although it does distort a little bit and focus can be a little soft but nothing thats not tolerable. great cheaper wide angle lens in my eyes
Jul 24 2010 10:13PM
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freestyle180
Posts: 87 - Karma: 51
i know that the 11-16 is a really good lense an i'll probably buy it at the same time but im asking for fisheye
thanks for all the comments.... can someone give more info about the nikoor 10.5 whit adapter ?!
Jul 24 2010 10:26PM
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Ben.
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ok i know this lense is absurdly wide


but does anyone know if the bower/samyang/vivitar (all the same lense) 8mm has any vig on a crop sensor?


ive seen people say both that it does, and doesnt.
Jul 24 2010 11:18PM
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.jr
Posts: 5313 - Karma: 356
1mm + 1 stop ≠ $350 difference.

You wont notice the 1mm whatsoever, and UWAs always have almost unlimited DOF no matter the aperature. So once again, would not notice 2.8 in 95% of circumstances.
Jul 25 2010 2:37AM
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eheath
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Hey, fuck you.
Jul 25 2010 3:34AM
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chacharlie
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LOL wut. hes asking about a fisheye, i dont think distortion issues are going to exclude a lens....
Jul 25 2010 5:00AM
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.jr
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Im fairly sure I wasnt the one who suggested it, Im also fairly sure I said in that post that the lens was a UWA not a fisheye. So you can go LOL wut something else for all I care..

eheath - uhm yeah ok cool dude.
Jul 25 2010 11:12AM
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