I love my wide angle lens and now I have another favorite. Been thinking about a fisheye lens for awhile. Looking at @taffy photos recently it pushed me over the edge. Ordered an inexpensive one that arrived on Thursday during the snowstorm, kudos Mr. Mailman you never fail to deliver. Got up early and went to try it out downtown before lunch with the guys. It's all about the curve .......... added to my photo bucket list, Times Square fisheye style at night and cherry blossoms....
I'm just going to have to get one now you have started putting up these wonderful shots. @taffy has been tempting me this last week since she got her fish eye. How long can I hold out? Wonderful shot.
Oh no I really have to get a fish eye lens now!! This is fabulous and seeing Taffy's @taffy shots has really made me want one. Huge Fav for your wonderful image!!
You rocked it!!! I love how this turned out and you've nailed the importance of having lines that deviate from what our eye would expect to see. Fav instantly and so happy that you like the lens. When I have to return mine, I'll look into the one you've ordered. You were happy with it's function, despite the manual focus? How easy is that to use (I have awful vision!).
@taffy honestly I really couldn't tell if it was focused looking through the view finder. I set the distance I thought I needed on the lens ring and the aperture and it seemed pretty sharp on the pictures I took. This has a crop, I got rid of the black around the corners from the lens hood. It does use all the sensor on the FX that it can. Without the lens hood you get circle pictures. Does your lens do that? I would think all fisheyes do. Not really into the circle look so I cropped them too.
@lesip On my camera, I can toggle it to become a DX and it gives me a red line that shows the 'real estate' of the actual photo. It doesn't do a circle -- it's a 10.5 mm on the DX format, so maybe that is why. I tried a Sigma 8mm today at a camera store which did the circular thing which I didn't like -- apparently those are used for panoramas and you can use software to get the panorama to un-distort. But I am using it for the distortion, so I preferred the Sigma 15mm. But I'm not that interested in spending much on this, because I think this is more of a toy, like a lens-baby, than a lens I would want to invest much in. So the dilemma is, when to buy one for the full frame, compared to borrowing the one I have as long as I can.
@taffy I have the sigma wide angle 10-20mm DX lens from my D5100 camera that I can use on my D750 but like you said it doesn't use the whole sensor. I am glad it does show what it's capturing (no cropping required). Yes the fisheye is a fun lens that I also wasn't going to spend a lot of money on.
