Since starting with a circular fisheye with my OM-D E-M10, I have been itching to also get my hands on a fisheye for my Nikon DSLRs. I ended up with a used rectangular fisheye (Is that an oxymoron?) in excellent condition from Japan: Tokina AT-X 107 AF DX Fisheye (AF 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5). I chose to take the plunge because:
- the zoom function allowing for some control in framing
- the AF worked on my D-7200 because it has an in-body focus drive
- (especially) It is Tokina glass, which has a superb reputation, and I have (in film days) used different Tokina wide angles and been very happy with the results
Today I was out in a narrow street and trying to find a way to capture this Orthodox church building in an interesting way. Here is one such capture.
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My first presentation is using a mask similar to what I have used for circular fish-eye - it is unapologetic about the distortion:
A square-crop presentation is not very helpful because the height of the building is too great for a symmetry in the distortion; or, equivalently, I did not have a high enough place to stand from which to more helpfully capture the building. (I did also make some landscape orientation captures - unfortunately these are much more affected by distractions like the power-lines you can see upper-left here).
Using lens correction for generic fish eye to achieve a Rectilinear look, then perspective correction on the verticals yields something akin to a “normal” lens, but defeats the purpose of a fisheye. Or does it? I am hoping also to use this as a super-wide lens, potentially also for astrophotography.
Over to y’all if you’d like to have a play - I’d love to see some different takes.
