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vince
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Registered: Mar 18, 2002
Location: China
Posts: 306
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Review Date: Mar 18, 2004
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Decent build, excellent sharpness, color and contrast.
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Cons:
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Front element is very easy to damage or get your fingers on.
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I am surprised at others complaining about barrel distortion of this lens. The lens is DESIGNED to perform that way. It's a fisheye lens, in case you've all forgotten.
I was quite pleased with the results from this lens. The optics are outstanding, and the color saturation and contrast are excellent. I'd recommend this lens without a hesitation. Of course you have barrel distortion but remember this is a fisheye.
The front element is so big and unprotected it's very easy to get your fingers on it or scratch it, so I had to be very careful when using this lens.
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 Mar 18, 2004
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dbarthel
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Registered: Dec 13, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 788
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Review Date: Jul 21, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $560.00
| Rating: 6
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Pros:
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Only way to go wide on a 10D
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Barrel Distortion of course by design
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I use the 15mm with ImageAlign from Grasshopper Software in NZ to get really wide architectural shots. The 15mm on the 10D is about the same as the 14mm on a full frame camera, and much less expensive, even including $200 for Imagealign. The nice thing about ImageAlign is it is WYSIWYG. No regrets on this purchase
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Jul 21, 2003
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Jack Flesher
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Registered: Oct 23, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 3489
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Review Date: Apr 7, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $480.00
| Rating: 10
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Incredibly sharp, relatively compact, can filter it with gells from the rear
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Significant barrel distortion ;)
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This lens is surprsingly sharp, and shows essentially no optical flaws such as CA with my 1Ds. It is also a bunch of fun to play around with! While the fisheye effect can get over-played, interestingly if you compose with care you can often generate images that apear almost "normal" with no obvious barrel distortion.
As an aside, I also have played around with correcting the barrel distortion with the "Panotools" plug-in for PS. When done correctly, you end up with what is essentially a FOV equivalent to that from a 12.5mm rectilinear wide angle lens. Very cool!
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Apr 7, 2003
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Martin
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Registered: Jan 1, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 289
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Review Date: Mar 30, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Extreme wide angle view. Great since image multiplier still makes this lens very wide angle.
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Cons:
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Need to use software(Imagealign) to remove fisheye appearance.
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For those of us who don't have a full frame DSLR, this lens provides a good way to get those extreme wide angle shots. The Imagealign software does a great job of removing the curvature normally produced by this lens. When used with some cropping of the edges of the frame, a very wide angle image can be produced which does not resemble a fisheye image.
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Mar 30, 2003
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John MacLean
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Registered: Jan 11, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 390
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Review Date: Mar 29, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $720.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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sharp as a tack
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Cons:
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none that I can think of
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sharper than the 14mm with little to no CA. Not your everyday lens, but a nice departure when used sparingly!
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Mar 29, 2003
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