wtay0001
Registered: December 2006
Location: Simpant Ampat, Penang, Malaysia
Posts: 144
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Review Date: Thu, 17 May 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 7
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Nice fisheye effect. Zoom capability. Metal body. Able to focus at ultra close range.
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Cons:
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CA at corners especially high contrast areas.
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Good for creative or artistic composition. If you can't accept fisheye effect at wide angle, this might not be your lens.
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William Tay
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Review Date: Sun, 27 May 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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nice build, compact, very close focus ability
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Cons:
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purple fringing is very noticable wide open
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I use this lens for shooting bands, skateboarding, and BMX. I like the zoom ability. At 10mm, the fisheye effect is very pronounced. Whereas at 17mm, its not as pronounced, but still noticable.
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petrochemist
Registered: March 2011
Location: UK
Posts: 4
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Review Date: Thu, 7 April 2011
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 9
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Great fun, well built, flexible fisheye/UWA. Stopped down has incredible DOF
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Cons:
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can show bad CA, some don't like distortion
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I mainly use this for a bit of fun, both for close ups, with highly exaggerated perspective, and when the fish-eye distortion can give an interesting image. At ~17mm it works as a creditable UWA getting in objects that would otherwise require multiple images to be stitched together.
Not everyone's cup of tea (I prefer coffee or better still wine), but the used market is good so if you don't like it you can pass it on.
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