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I was just talking to Gerry about the Tokina Fisheye and I realised that I had not posted this image.

Tokina 10-17 at close to minimum focus distance, f/3.6 (WTF!!!), 1/160 sec, 100 ISO

f/3.6

close enough is good enough ehh?

I can vouch for the minimum focus of this lens, its incredible how close you can get to the subject, I always found myself doing a double take to make sure I was not going to touch the lens!

Its a very popular lens for the underwater photographer. Close focus wide angle photography is awesome!

biggerry wrote:

f/3.6

close enough is good enough ehh?

I can vouch for the minimum focus of this lens, its incredible how close you can get to the subject, I always found myself doing a double take to make sure I was not going to touch the lens!

I am a bit puzzled by the F/3.6....oh well, but that minimum focal distance of 14cm is simply amazing...according to the manual this means it is a 1:2.59 (or something like that) macro reproduction yet Tokina does not put a silly macro label on it.

Willy wombat wrote:Its a very popular lens for the underwater photographer. Close focus wide angle photography is awesome!

I agree!!! and can see why it would be popular for underwater work

Cameron,

Wouldn't this lens be difficult to use as a macro? I would have thought, it would be harder to control the background and remove distracting elements. Generally one would expect a macro to show the subject nice and close without TOO much background....

any thoughts?

surenj wrote:Wouldn't this lens be difficult to use as a macro? I would have thought, it would be harder to control the background and remove distracting elements. Generally one would expect a macro to show the subject nice and close without TOO much background....
any thoughts?

But when you do want to include the background, to show the item's location within the environment, it would work very well.
I don't have a good example, but here's one I tried to do with a Sigma 10-20:


Daniel

Very interesting! I find the first picture a bit soft, but I like the effect. However the second image is very nice indeed and I am guessing the aperture would have to be very high.

zafra52 wrote:Very interesting! I find the first picture a bit soft, but I like the effect. However the second image is very nice indeed and I am guessing the aperture would have to be very high.

My image is probably a bit soft, thanks for you kind words. Aperture plays a huge part, but with the Tokina i was very suprised how much DOF isolation I could get with it

You certainly did well, because you got a very interesting effect, specially the with the background.

Daneil, point taken.

Cameron, Would love to see what you get up to with this lens. Certainly a unique point of view indeed. [I wonder how non photographers react to the point of view not knowing much about fisheye lenses and the like] Maybe bring it for the sunrise shoot [and try to control the flare ]

surenj wrote:Daneil, point taken.

Cameron, Would love to see what you get up to with this lens. Certainly a unique point of view indeed. [I wonder how non photographers react to the point of view not knowing much about fisheye lenses and the like] Maybe bring it for the sunrise shoot [and try to control the flare ]

If I make it, it will have to be in the bag, but I suspect that it will prove to be less useful for landscape work. I want to go for a walk to take some street art with it

I'm with a couple of the others aim54x - seems a little soft. The bricks in the background are a bit of a distraction too. Nice flower though

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