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Fisheye or Wide angle?

  • 12-10-2008 10:16pm
    #1
    jen_23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭


    Hey all,

    Just wondering if anyone can reccomend a fisheye or wideangle lens for a pentax with a budget of about 500 euro?

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    FX Meister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭FX Meister


    The Sigma 15mm fisheye is pretty good


  • #3
    pete4130
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,944 ✭✭✭pete4130


    Are you shooting film or digital? I've got a Pentax 17mm-28mm fisheye zoom (fisheye at 17mm) that I've not used in years since switching to Nikon. They aren't in production anymore but its boxed with soft pouch and works perfectly. I know Pentax do 11-18mm fisheye zooms (I think??) for DSLR's.

    I've got the Sigma 15mm fisheye for my Nikon stuff the past 5.5 years and its brilliant. It's a wide 22mm on cropped nikon sensors.


  • #4
    ThOnda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    Pete, I thought that you've sold that fisheye on e-bay! :o


  • #5
    City-Exile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭City-Exile


    Fisheye can get very boring, if you use it on too many shots.
    They all start to look the same.
    I think you'd be better off with a wide angle zoom.


  • #6
    FX Meister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭FX Meister


    FX Meister wrote: »
    The Sigma 15mm fisheye is pretty good

    Should have added that it's on a ff camera. I had it on a 1.6 crop camera and it was dreadful.


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  • #7
    pete4130
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,944 ✭✭✭pete4130


    Still sitting in the box Thonda. No interest on eBay. I think I had the auction ending at a stupid time, 4am or something so nobody was up to have a bidding war on it?


  • #8
    ThOnda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    Hmmm, tempting....

    I could use it this weekend ;) wink, wink...


  • #9
    pete4130
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,944 ✭✭✭pete4130


    If you want to take it for a test run this weekend it shouldn't be a problem....anybody here vouch for Thonda's trustworthyness...or at least an address where I can find him??? :D


  • #10
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    He's a good guy...

    As long as you don't mind the accent :p


  • #11
    pete4130
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,944 ✭✭✭pete4130


    An accent....just as long as he's not from Cork I can live with it! Just kidding.

    PM me Thonda and we'll work something out with the lens.


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  • #12
    ThOnda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    Eeeeehaaaa!

    Fajitas - you'll meet my friend - pain (=hangover).


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