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Wide angle lens for Nikon dSLR?
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I’m looking for a prime lens that will give me around a 24mm view (135mm equiv). I’ve had a look at the Nikon and Sigma solutions but they only have zooms which have a max aperture no where near th f1.8 I’d like.
Does anyone have knowledge in this area?
Dave
Not sure if you looked a this as an option, but Nikon have a 14mm 2.8 AF – http://nikonimaging.com/global/products/lens/af/wideangle/af_14mmf_28d/index.htm
after that I think the next one is a 16mm 2.8 fisheye…..
Dave,
Going from my 135 kit to digital, I’ve kept most of the lenses. I had the Sigma 15mm fisheye 2.8 for my F100 which works well on my D200 as a 22.5mm wide angle. It still keeps the characteristics of a fisheye by not keeping the verticals or horizontals straight. I can say that it is very sharp and considerably cheaper than the Nikon 14mm and somewhat cheaper than the Nikon 16mm fisheye (although the Nikon 16mm is smaller and possibly lighter!) I’ll see if I have any images shot with it that I can send you.
Pete.
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Not sure if you looked a this as an option, but Nikon have a 14mm 2.8 AF – http://nikonimaging.com/global/products/lens/af/wideangle/af_14mmf_28d/index.htm
after that I think the next one is a 16mm 2.8 fisheye…..
Aha! I was looking in the digital lens section. Does this suffer from the pin cushion effect of fisheye? Price seems to be about ?1500 and above though. Might get one cheaper second hand so I’ll have a look around. Thanks for that!
pete4130 wrote:
Going from my 135 kit to digital, I’ve kept most of the lenses. I had the Sigma 15mm fisheye 2.8 for my F100 which works well on my D200 as a 22.5mm wide angle. It still keeps the characteristics of a fisheye by not keeping the verticals or horizontals straight. I can say that it is very sharp and considerably cheaper than the Nikon 14mm and somewhat cheaper than the Nikon 16mm fisheye (although the Nikon 16mm is smaller and possibly lighter!) I’ll see if I have any images shot with it that I can send you.
Again Pete, I was looking at their Digital Lenses, so thanks for the heads up. I hear what you’re saying about the fisheye. DigitalRev have it for ?345 but they have a Sigma 14mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical HSM for ?670 which seems interesting. But what the heck is ‘Aspherical’?
But what the heck is ‘Aspherical’?
Aspherical means, as far as I can remember, that the lens shape is not what we would normally expect, like a uniform curve. With digital, a unifrom curved lens means that different light frequencies hit the sensor at different angles so you have a greater risk of chromatic aberrations. Aspherical elements counteract that by having a shape that is not a uniform curve but instead the curve varies near the edges to modify the angle of light at these extremeties, hopefully ridding your pics of aberrations. Some of the aspherical elements are also plastic laminated onto glass as far as I can recall.
A friend of mine, his Dad is a working professional photogrpaher and came from a film background. My friend inherited his old Nikon F4 (wonderful camera to use) a few years ago and a few lenses with it. I remember he had a Tokina 17mm 3.5 (I think it was 3.5?) lens which was really wide on film. It would work out to be a 25.5 on digital. I have a scan of one of his prints using the lens that I could email to you. It might be one worth investing in?
Pete.
Nikon have a 10.5mm f2.8, but the bad news is its around ?500. However Sigma do a wideangle zoom 10.5mm – 20 something at around ?400. Have a look on the Jessops website.
I’ve got the same 10.5 Nikon fisheye for my DSLR and its fantastically sharp. I know this is DSLR specific so I haven’t even tried it on my SLR……I just tried it on there now. WIDE is all I can say, so wide on 135 that you see the petal hood. You do get a REALLY warped sense of distance though and slightly under 180 degree field of view horizontally!
the nikor 10.5 is a 180 degree diag fisheye (ie not a circle image)
But it a stunning lense, mate of mine has one on his D200 and its great, and really cool with Nikon capture it knows the lense and pops the image back so nothing is distorted which works really nicely
it seems to be tack sharp. Although i have seen reviews which suggest contrast problems with high sunshine, bu thats the same with almost all fisheye lens
Thanks Guys, this is great info (though headwrecking none the less :) ) and thanks Pete for the email of the car shot.
I’m a little worried about the fisheye lenses as the type of photography this is planned for is ‘grab shots’ out on the street. The 24mm Zuiko on my old Olympus OM1 did this job beautifully. I was able get just that bit more in than the 28mm and in street photography this is just right in my opinion. I’d be afraid that much wider than this will result in me having to go right into peoples faces (and therefore getting their attention, which defeats the purpose of the exercise).
I suppose I should have posted the type of shots I want to take so here are some examples:
Theses types of shots would probably mean a 15mm or 16mm (as here: http://www.jessops.com/Store/s15892/0/Lenses/Nikon/16mm-f28-D-Lens/details.aspx?&IsSearch=y&pageindex=1&CatId=143&comp=y) is what I need. These will result in a 22.5mm or 24mm focal length once it gets onto my Nikon D70s.
When these lenses say ‘Fisheye’ is that what I’ll get when I multiply by Nikon’s 1.5 crop factor?
Dave
Good pictures there DB,
and printed exactly the way I used to print mine from the same lens-I’m thinking of a move to Canon so I can recycle all these old optics-
I’ve got too many good primes going to waste-The fisheye will always look like a fisheye,
either you like the look or you don’t.
I could never use one,
unless I was photographing the weather,
which is what they were designed for.Give me a good rectilinear any day-
I’ve just done a little comparison between the Zuiko 24 and a 12-24 on the D200,
and no surprises, the equivalent is 16mm.j
Thanks Guys, the choice is made. I’m going for the Sigma 14mm 2.8 EX. It’s a heavy piece of glass but a beauty :) Hardly any distortion.
I’ve seen 3 prices for it: ?1050 from a Dublin City Centre camera shop (who have to order it in), ?667 plus shipping from DigitalRev in Hong Kong (who can’t deliver to Ireland), ?795 on Cam Ireland or ?699 in Jessops at the bottom of Grafton St. (who let me try it out in the shop)
So the web isn’t always the cheapest! Guess which one I’m going to choose :)
Certainly pays to shop around okay Dave. That’s some discrepancy between the two Dublin Camera shops…reckon someone is making a mistake there.
Happy purchasing :D
Thats good to hear you got a lens sorted. I’ll amit I’m jealous. I’m a sucker for wide lenses….I might go to Jessops and try it out….just being nosey!
Pete.
Expresbro wrote:
…reckon someone is making a mistake there.
“Mistake” isn’t exactly the term I would use :wink:
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