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davem
Posted 22/04/2011 - 22:59 Link
Two questions:

1. Is fish eye a gimick that you soon get bored with?

2. There seems to be a range of Pentax fit fish eye lenses at the moment. Which do PU members have and how do you rate them?

Dave
Don
Posted 22/04/2011 - 23:10 Link
1 no.
2 I have the 10-17.... highly recommend it.
Fired many shots. Didn't kill anything.
davem
Posted 22/04/2011 - 23:15 Link
Is the 10-17 fish eye throughout the focal range?
Don
Posted 22/04/2011 - 23:17 Link
yes.

there is a thread here with awesome example shots as well...
Fired many shots. Didn't kill anything.
Don
Posted 22/04/2011 - 23:22 Link
link
some fine shots here
Fired many shots. Didn't kill anything.
Smeggypants
Posted 22/04/2011 - 23:34 Link
davem wrote:
Two questions:

1. Is fish eye a gimick that you soon get bored with?

Nope

Quote:

2. There seems to be a range of Pentax fit fish eye lenses at the moment. Which do PU members have and how do you rate them?

Dave

I have the DA 10-17mm. Excellent lens. very sharp

It has a bit of Blue-Yellow CA at the edges but that can easily be tweaked out in Lightroom. I also have a Lightroom Lens profile for it and sometimes I like to use that to De-Fish
[i]Bodies: 1x K-5IIs, 2x K-5, Sony TX-5, Nokia 808
Lenses: Pentax DA 10-17mm ED(IF) Fish Eye, Pentax DA 14mm f/2.8, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8, Pentax-A 28mm f/2.8, Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.2, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-FA 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7, Pentax DA* 50-135mm f/2.8, Sigma 135-400mm APO DG, and more ..
Flash: AF-540FGZ, Vivitar 283
chaude
Posted 23/04/2011 - 00:09 Link
I have the 10-17mm too, highly recommend it.
I'm nowhere near as good as the other chaps here but I've just been out with it a few days ago and had some interesting things.
A few pics here (Excuse my post-editing, I was playing with presets.)
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Apart from the last one the other two haven't been cropped, none of them have been defished either. If you get the lines right, sometimes the fisheye effect is not seen and it works like a ultra wide zoom! (well, it is in a sense)
Oh, and it's impossible to get bored of it!
Mike-P
Posted 23/04/2011 - 06:20 Link
1. Yes

2. 10-17mm. How do I rate it? ... difficult to say as I found it a bit of a gimmick and soon got bored with it.
johnwhit
Posted 23/04/2011 - 08:34 Link
1. Yes, but it's an occasional lens, I had a 16mm Sigma fisheye that I used for film and enjoyed it.

2. Samyang 8mm CS Fisheye, lovely build, great optics, manual focus. Some sample test images here:

https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/samyang-8mm-fe-torture-test-21179

Full test here (on C***n):

http://www.photozone.de/canon-eos/526-samyang8f35eos

John
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In LBA hiatus.
royd63uk
Posted 23/04/2011 - 08:59 Link
i love it
regards
Roy

Pentax K3 gripped,and some lenses
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Dangermouse
Posted 23/04/2011 - 13:57 Link
The Samyang 8mm seems well thought of, but if I was after something wider than 18mm I'd probably go for their 14mm instead. It's full frame compatible so would double as a fisheye on film as well as an ultra wide angle on digital. Most of my subjects involve some straight lines, and I just find the distortion painful with a fisheye.

Edit, as I realise the above makes little sense! I mean that I could use it on film to satisfy my curiosity about fisheye lenses then keep it on digital as an ultrawide.
Matt

Shooting the Welsh Wilderness with K-m, KX, MX, ME Super and assorted lenses.
Edited by Dangermouse: 23/04/2011 - 14:05
Don
Posted 23/04/2011 - 14:02 Link
mine gets used at every wedding..... two types of shot....
groups at tables, and flower toss/garter toss...
you learn to do those shots well, and the lens is indispensable.

it is a hard lens to use well.... but worth learning.
Fired many shots. Didn't kill anything.
johnwhit
Posted 23/04/2011 - 14:11 Link
Dangermouse wrote:
The Samyang 8mm seems well thought of, but if I was after something wider than 18mm I'd probably go for their 14mm instead. It's full frame compatible so would double as a fisheye on film

Not really as it's rectilinear, you would end up with an ultra wide angle lens.

John
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In LBA hiatus.
Dangermouse
Posted 23/04/2011 - 15:07 Link
johnwhit wrote:
Dangermouse wrote:
The Samyang 8mm seems well thought of, but if I was after something wider than 18mm I'd probably go for their 14mm instead. It's full frame compatible so would double as a fisheye on film

Not really as it's rectilinear, you would end up with an ultra wide angle lens.

John

Even better then!

I'd previously thought that a fisheye was simply a very wide angle lens, with the distortion an inevitable side effect of trying to squeeze that field of view onto a relatively small frame/sensor? Obviously this isn't strictly true!
Matt

Shooting the Welsh Wilderness with K-m, KX, MX, ME Super and assorted lenses.
royd63uk
Posted 23/04/2011 - 15:51 Link
Pentax 10-17 at 10mm

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regards
Roy

Pentax K3 gripped,and some lenses
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pentaxroy/

my pbase gallery

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