Tokina Fisheye Full Frame

Full frame shooters usually use a prime fisheye lens like a sigma 15mm or a fisheye with a teleconverter but some full frame shooters do use the tokina 10 17mm with a 1 4x teleconverter to gain the flexibility they had when using a cropped sensor camera.

Tokina fisheye full frame.

The full frame aps c fisheye has a field of view ranging from 180 degrees diagonal. Here we have a strange old lens originally designed as a fisheye zoom lens for aps c cameras it s also useful as a fisheye lens on full frame. The tokina 10 17 mm is a unique fisheye zoom lens made for aps c cameras but which can also be used well on full frame. What full frame users can t have is a standard fisheye zoom like the tokina 10 17mm which is an argument for underwater photographers sticking with cropped sensors and not going full frame.

Check out the entire catalog of tokina photo lenses for sony canon and nikon cameras. Traditionally fisheye lenses are only available as fix focals but the tokina breaks this rule. The tokina af 10 17mm f 3 5 4 5 at x dx fisheye is an interesting representative of its species. Tokina 10 17mm on a full frame dslr.

The lens is compactly built and offers fast auto focus. 180 degree angle of view same as the sigma 15mm and no vignetting. Compare at x v. Built for full frame and crop sensors tokina produces some of the sharpest lenses.

Tokina usa is part of kenko tokina usa inc. But that s a discussion for another time tokina 10 17mm at 10mm on a full frame camera in dx crop mode f 13 1 125s iso 250. Tokina 10 17mm fisheye lens at 15mm on a full frame nikon d800 camera. The distortion of the tokina fisheye is high but that is also the purpose of this type of lens.

It provides a circular style image at 10mm with dramatic fish eye effect on full frame dslr cameras. At x 107 dx nh fisheye. Vignetting is remarkably low just as is sensitivity to backlighting.