----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 3:54 AM
> Cotty wrote: > > >On 15/1/05, Marc Davison (home), discombobulated, unleashed: > > > >>I'm off to the states tomorrow and whilst I was there I thought I might > >>try and pickup and Ultrawide/Fisheye for my 10d. From surfing around I > >>think I've narrowed it down to the Canon 15mm Fish Eye or the Sigma 14mm > >>2.8 HSM. Aside from landscape type stuff I also want to use it for > >>shooting Mountain Biking, therefore the speed is quite important.What > >>are people experiences of either of these two lenses, are there > >>alternatives I've over looked? Does anyone else out there shoot mountain > >>biking (or similar), what lenses do you use? > >> > >> > > > >I have the Sigma - it's flares like a hippy if the sun is out so needs > >flagging unless you don't mind more time hunched over the computer.... > > > >Otherwise, it's not bad for the money. I've adapted a Pentax SMC K 15mm > >3.5 to EOS and it doesn't flare anything like the Sigma but that's Pentax > >for you - excellent coating. The Canon 14 would be nice. > > > > > > > The sigma 15-30 also flares very badly, it can really make things hard > work. Which points me towards the Canon then I guess. If I can get one > whilst I'm here in Chicago. > > Looks like there is plenty of photo potential here judging by what I can > see from my hotel window, have got my Eos5 and 15-30 with me so lots of > real wide angle potential :-) > Marc, IMO, on the 10D. the Canon 15, easily "de-fished" using Thomas Niemann's free/donationware -PTLens, produces better results than the Canon 14. http://epaperpress.com/ Less prone to flare, fractionally less sharp in the centre but way better at the edges and corners and slightly wider AoV. It took me a bit of time to get used to previsualising the corrected image, allowing for the crop. Also, aligning verticals and horizontals, when important, is not easy. I would have thought for your purposes a fisheye and software would be ideal, two lenses in one and a true FF fisheye on your EOS5. HTH CraigZ Chicago, at this time of year, are you nuts? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.13 - Release Date: 16/01/2005 * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
