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Sigma 15mm f2.8 Fisheye - First Impressions
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<blockquote data-quote="rocketman122" data-source="post: 233307" data-attributes="member: 14443"><p>samyang, rokinon, bower. they are all the same. its a great lens. here's some things you should know. focus is very nice (but a bit too damped for my taste-meaning, not fast enough. the sigma is very loose in manual mode by comparison)and build is very nice. its a very chunky lens. not tiny like the nikkor 10.5/16mm. its a bit like the sigma 15. quite heavy too. no aperture tab lock like the nikkors. mine is the chipped lens. the one with the pins on the mount so I dont need to play with the aperture itself. I can lock it to the smallest aperture and use the dials to make adjustments and it will close it down by itself. its sharp from 5.6. I shoot at 7.1 because its a cropped picture and since its small, if I can get it sharp it wont look bad. the dx 10.5 nikkor looks better IQ wise. I will get the sigma 15 in march and sell mine. now the biggest problem, when you focus, you can <em>hardly </em>see any change of what is and isnt. very weird. as if the focus is doing nothing. if the person is close then you can but if you were to shoot what BDH did with the building, the difference would be so minute (except when at the closest end) you cant see it. so I always put it to the furthest focus and just shoot that way. close subject, close focus on the lens, otherwise I always use it at the furthest and shoot stopped down. the cropping is a PITA for me. its an ok lens. also, I didnt notice lately but the af lock indicator doesnt seem to do much or isnt as accurate when I got it and played with it. today I prefocus and just stop down and shoot. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=a6BMdyuA%2FVzx60FSbcxT0Ih4l5k2TGxc" target="_blank">User Media - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=a6BMdyuA%2FVxSCTPVKloupIh4l5k2TGxc" target="_blank">User Media - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=a6BMdyuA%2FVypzfpl9yevy4h4l5k2TGxc" target="_blank">User Media - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=a6BMdyuA%2FVxQpmK0iDX%2Fn4h4l5k2TGxc" target="_blank">User Media - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting</a></p><p></p><p>some examples.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rocketman122, post: 233307, member: 14443"] samyang, rokinon, bower. they are all the same. its a great lens. here's some things you should know. focus is very nice (but a bit too damped for my taste-meaning, not fast enough. the sigma is very loose in manual mode by comparison)and build is very nice. its a very chunky lens. not tiny like the nikkor 10.5/16mm. its a bit like the sigma 15. quite heavy too. no aperture tab lock like the nikkors. mine is the chipped lens. the one with the pins on the mount so I dont need to play with the aperture itself. I can lock it to the smallest aperture and use the dials to make adjustments and it will close it down by itself. its sharp from 5.6. I shoot at 7.1 because its a cropped picture and since its small, if I can get it sharp it wont look bad. the dx 10.5 nikkor looks better IQ wise. I will get the sigma 15 in march and sell mine. now the biggest problem, when you focus, you can [I]hardly [/I]see any change of what is and isnt. very weird. as if the focus is doing nothing. if the person is close then you can but if you were to shoot what BDH did with the building, the difference would be so minute (except when at the closest end) you cant see it. so I always put it to the furthest focus and just shoot that way. close subject, close focus on the lens, otherwise I always use it at the furthest and shoot stopped down. the cropping is a PITA for me. its an ok lens. also, I didnt notice lately but the af lock indicator doesnt seem to do much or isnt as accurate when I got it and played with it. today I prefocus and just stop down and shoot. [URL="http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=a6BMdyuA%2FVzx60FSbcxT0Ih4l5k2TGxc"]User Media - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting[/URL] [URL="http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=a6BMdyuA%2FVxSCTPVKloupIh4l5k2TGxc"]User Media - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting[/URL] [URL="http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=a6BMdyuA%2FVypzfpl9yevy4h4l5k2TGxc"]User Media - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting[/URL] [URL="http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=a6BMdyuA%2FVxQpmK0iDX%2Fn4h4l5k2TGxc"]User Media - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting[/URL] some examples. [/QUOTE]
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