Thursday November 26
 
10:41
 
Dog-eye lens?

The Tokina 10-17mm f3.5-4.5 for Nikon – or “Tokina 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 AT-X DX AF Fisheye Super Wide-Angle Lens for Nikon Digital SLR” as Amazon calls it! - is a really fun lens. I posted my Shibuya image here before, as well as a field of view comparison with the Panasonic Lumix 7-14mm F4 wide angle lens on the G1, but the other day in the park I found myself a doggy model:

I love that photo so much. The distortion is fantastic! Here are some more samples:

There wasn’t much light available so it was quite hard to get shots. You can see just how slow the shutter speed was here:

I didn’t expect to use the fisheye much, but it’s really enjoyable – and the great thing about the Tokina 10-17mm is that not only does it have a zoom making it more flexible to me than the Nikon 10.5mm (although the Nikon is f2.8), but it can apparently be used on full frame sensors also, which means I can continue to use the lens if/when I upgrade from the D90.

Ok, so on a full frame sensor only the end of the zoom range covers the whole sensor, but think about it: 10mm on a DX Nikon is 15mm. The lens of the zoom range 15-17mm works on a full frame sensor, which means I’ll get exactly the same wide angle of view. Cool.

Sorry, I’m not linking to full size samples of these images – I don’t want them to be reused elsewhere. Remember, these images are copyright.