Photo Samples

Hi all,

I was hoping for a bit of help with my next potential erm... purchase?
Not so much a purchase as a swap. Basically i'm getting rid of my 70-200 f2.8 (Tamron) in exchange for an sigma 8mm f3.5 ex dg.
I was wondering if anyone had any samples of this on a 1.3x crop as all i can find online is on FF and on 1.6x crop from what i understand it won't be fully circular (as on ff) and won't be full of picture (like on the crop) but it will have almost like a small vignette in the corners. Is this right?

I want to use the lens for skate / free-running / parkour / MTB / Inside track cars. so should be a great angle to work with.

I was looking at a 10mm but i want something OTT and Extreme wide angle to really accentuate things.

It will look something like this (probably the least exciting picture available but gives you the idea).

tdavies wrote in post #17673306
It will look something like this (probably the least exciting picture available but gives you the idea).

That's a Canon 8-15mm @ 8mm on a 1DII.

IMO it looks terrible as is, but gives you more freedom with respect to aspect ratios when cropping than you would get on a full coverage fisheye (at the expense of some resolution).

Took me a while to realize that wasn't a white onion with a slice taken out of it on a black background.

Hi, I really appreciate the reply. Is it possible you could take a quick shot of erm... something identifyable like a room or out a window or something? just trying to work out what kind of fov it would provide. That looks like a fair bit of black... is it a realistically usable lens or am i going for something stupid?

Amazing, thanks for that! I really wish i could get that range without the black round bit.
any chance i could download that pic and play at cropping out the black?

urbanfreestyle wrote in post #17674886
any chance i could download that pic and play at cropping out the black?

No problem - as long as it doesn't show up somewhere with your name on it I'll send you a link to the full res.

urbanfreestyle wrote in post #17674886
I really wish i could get that range without the black round bit.

The Canon 8-15mm will do it. Is full coverage on APS-H at about 12mm.

12mm seems to be the magic number, I was also talking to people in another thread and they have recommended the following lenses:

Sigma 8-16
Sigma 12-24
Rokinon/Bowers/Vivitar​/Samyang 14 F2.8

so think i'll pass on this person's 8mm fixed and opt for something a little longer, I guess even 12mm will give a massive FOV compared with a 24-70