WDW Fish-eye Fun!!!

[Groucho]

so tokina 10-17 fisheye is a real fisheye at the 10 but would it be just "normal" at the 17 and canon 10-22 wouldn't be fish eye, just normal throughout?

The Tokina is full 180' fish at 10mm but at 17mm it will be cropped, so you'll see more minor distortion, not unlike using a 35mm-designed fisheye (like the Zenitar) on a DSLR.

For example, here's a Zenitar shot from my DSLR, this is probably pretty close to a Tokina 17mm shot.

Here's one (a repeat from the film shots earlier in the thread), first the DSLR version:

And the film version:

As for circular fisheyes, Sigma still makes an 8mm circular fisheye, but it is cropped on non-FF DSLRs, but I think you still get quite a bit of distortion even then.

 

[jann1033]

thanks, glad i asked before i bought. is the zenitar the russian manual one ( or whatever the name for there is now) that is fairly inexpensive?

 

[Geoff_M]

A couple more from today at AK:

 

[Arvandor_Ilfirin]

Geoff_M your shots are gorgeous! I've honestly never seen any WDW photos like that...They're just lovely, I feel like I could reach my hand out and be in WDW!

 

[Groucho]

thanks, glad i asked before i bought. is the zenitar the russian manual one ( or whatever the name for there is now) that is fairly inexpensive?

Yes, that's the one. There are several places selling Canon mount ones, though I still suspect that it may be actually be a modified M42 (screw-mount) mount, but it shouldn't really matter - but the Canon one is not available from the eBay seller "zenitar" and when it is for sale, it's usually slightly pricier than the M42/Nikon/Pentax mount - but still pretty cheap, maybe $170 or so.

You can also straighten the fisheye effect to make it effectively a non-fisheye very wide-angle lens.

I think it's a great value for the money - even if I pick up a 10-17mm, I'd probably still keep the Zenitar around.

 

[jann1033]

Yes, that's the one. There are several places selling Canon mount ones, though I still suspect that it may be actually be a modified M42 (screw-mount) mount, but it shouldn't really matter - but the Canon one is not available from the eBay seller "zenitar" and when it is for sale, it's usually slightly pricier than the M42/Nikon/Pentax mount - but still pretty cheap, maybe $170 or so.

You can also straighten the fisheye effect to make it effectively a non-fisheye very wide-angle lens.

I think it's a great value for the money - even if I pick up a 10-17mm, I'd probably still keep the Zenitar around.

thanks maybe i'll get this instead of an ultra wide angle since i have so much other stuff i want to buy.

 

[Groucho]

I think BobQuincy has one in a Canon mount, he can probably give some ideas of the nuts-and-bolts usage on a Canon.

I posted this in another thread, but this is a fairly recent non-Disney shot I took with the Zenitar that I really like. Note the second frog's head peeking around the edge of the ball...

I'm considering expanding my Russian lens collection with a Jupiter-9 85mm F2.0... perhaps, perhaps... I'm on an M42 (screw-mount, can work on almost any camera with the right adapter) kick lately.

 

[jann1033]

i'm figuring once i get my other camera, hubby and i can "share" lenses so i technically can get twice as many since I am only buying 1/2 of them and he can buy the other 1/2( course i don't work so it's really all his money anyway ) opens a whole new world of possibilities.... he asked me tonight if i'd let him ever use the 70-200( by far my favorite lens) and i gulped and said yes, if i can get another L to use when he does... something tells me he won't be using the kit lens for long