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Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8G ED AF DX Fisheye Nikkor Lens |  | Brand: Nikon
Category: Photography
List Price: $830.00
Buy New: $694.95
as of 7/30/2010 16:50 CDT details
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  49 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
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Batteries Included: No
Maximum Focal Length: 5
Minimum Focal Length: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 9 x 9
aspheric
all-glass-optical
MPN: B000144I30
Model: B000144I30
UPC: 018208021482
EAN: 0182080214826
ASIN: B000144I30
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | DX-Nikkor reduces the diameter of the lens' image circle, allowing a range of lenses with practical size and excellent performance | | • | DX-Nikkor lenses offer compact and lightweight design, fast aperture and fast autofocus via NIKON's Silent Wave Motor design | | • | 180 degree diagonal angle-of-view | | • | Close range focusing up to a near 5.5 inches | | • | Innnovative Close Range Correction ( CRC ) technology ensures consistently crisp, sharp images |
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Product Description
A fisheye lens is a wide-angle lens that takes in an extremely wide angle of view. The Nikon 2148 AF DX Fisheye-NIKKOR 10.5mm f/2.8G ED lens was designed exclusively for NIKON digital SLR cameras that feature NIKON's DX Format Sensor. The AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED lens significantly expands NIKON's DX-Nikkor category of interchangeable lenses. Go beyond wide angle with this DX series lens for your Nikon DSLR. The actual focal length of 10.5mm is equivalent to that of about 16mm on a 35mm-film camera. 16mm is considered the borderline from ultrawide angle to fisheye. Unlike older fisheye lenses that cut-off the corners, this fisheye lens fills the entire frame with a useful image. Nikon DSLR owners now can enjoy wider angle shots of landscapes, skylines, and astronomical views of the night sky with the Nikon AF DX Fisheye-NIKKOR 10.5mm f/2.8G ED lens. This is the wide-angle lens you've been missing. Now is your opportunity to pick one up. Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glass element minimizes chromatic aberration. Design enables a combination of wider angle of view with optical characteristics that are optimized for Nikon digital SLR camera sensors. Nikon D-type design provides precise distance information for flash and ambient light exposure processes. Rounded diaphragm makes out-of-focus elements appear more natural. G-type DX NIKKOR is designed exclusively for use with Nikon digital SLR models. Built-in flower-type lens hood Includes CL-0715 soft case, lens cover, rear cap For Nikon DSLR camera with a DX mount / Also compatible with FX series in DX crop mode
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 Nikon 10.5mm fisheye review April 9, 2010
P. Meyer (Honolulu, Hawaii)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Nikon fisheye is a great addition to your lens especially if you do real estate photography like myself and want to offer taking large expanded pictures. The fisheye is fun just to shoot especially at partys and events.
The lens offers a crystal clear picture. I use it on my Nikon D90. It has some depth of field up close if shooting video/photos.
I picked up mine for around $500 I think. I already forgot. A bit pricey, but its a one of its kinda and you get a super large wide image for your money. This is great for those scenic trips especially.
To see examples of the D90 55-110mm and the 10.5mm fisheye goto [...] and click on photography.
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Fast, Compact, and Crystal Clear! March 22, 2010
Douglas Johnson (North Carolina)
I rented this lens twice and finally decided to buy it. You do have to be a fan of the fisheye look to appreciate this lens. It will certainly not replace a good wide angle lens. Unlike some other fisheyes on the market this lens produces a full frame picture (however it is a crop sensor lens), not just a circle. I have found it to be especially useful in small spaces like the interior of a car.
Here is a tip: It captures almost a full 180° so if the sun is at your back it is difficult not to get your shadow in the picture.
Great product, highly recommended!
One of my favourite lens March 14, 2010
Dari Manado (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
For those who think this is an Ultra Wide Angle lens. YES! IT COULD BE.... Just use Image Trend's FishEye-Hemi, and take the picture carefully PARALEL on axis, and there you go. Dont use rectilinear software adjustment (like PTLens, Bibble, Nikon Capture), it wont do the trick. Although those mentioned software can be alright for architecture or landscape, it absolutely can not be use for PEOPLE.
I DO use this lens for wedding photos with brilliant result. In a situation where the Cathedral is so huge with beautiful painting all the way to the roof, NO OTHER LENS can beat this one. Just use it carefully (alway take Paralel on horizontal axis), do correction with Image Trend, and crop to 70%. You still get an amazing pricture which is SHARP and usable...
I also like to use this lens on Downtown LA to capture the old buildings... Without this lens, its imposible to capture those building, since there is no space to backoff.... Again, Image Trend is handy.
If you know how to use this lens, it is a superb tool.
Hints: Be carefull, it is very easy for your finger to be included in the picture. It can capture 180 degree diagonal!
For reference: I also use Nikon AF-S 17-35F 2.8, Nikon AF-S 105 F2.8VR, Nikon AF-D 80-200 F2.8 among others....
Great for panoramas March 12, 2010
J. Price (Ontario, CA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I use this lens with the Nodal Ninja R1 VR head to produce 360 degree panoramas with very little effort.
Nodal Ninja provides the non-parallax point for this lens so there is no messing around to find that.
I use Autopano stitching software to assemble the shots and like all stitching software, it does not like chromatic aberration. The vast majority of all fish-eyes have this problem to varying degrees. This lens is no exception.
So, you need to clean this up before assembling the panorama and Nikon's Capture NX2 knows all about this lens and does a great job of making that correction.
Bottom line: A great lens that plays well with others and takes sharp, very enjoyable shots.
Solid fisheye for the modern digital platform February 17, 2010
Jim Gerdy (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a longtime fisheye fan I found this a necessity when I moved from film to digital. First it's a full-frame fisheye. In the Nikon "G" lineup there is still no proper fisheye. The difference is that a full fisheye has 180-degree view all-around (or even >180 in some cases) in a circle that fits within the frame (leaving a substantial full black vignette around the image circle). These full fisheyes are mostly used in meteorology and surveillance.
The full frame fisheye is an adaptation with a longer focal length and a 180-degree view which circumscribes the image frame. Hence the 180 view is only along the frame diagonals. This also allows for some lens protection with a minimal sun shade blocking off the view that falls outside the image rectangle. These full frame fisheyes have a few other advantages. The longer focal lengths (e.g. 16mm vs 6 or 8 on the 35mm frame) requires no mirror lock up. And the full image is more detailed and flexible for artistic effects. Finally the center can be cropped out to give a fairly undistorted picture.
This Nikon G full-frame fisheye delivers a clear image with a solid build quality. Also the 10.5mm focal length gives the perspective I'm used to from 16-18mm lenses on the old film format. It does what a fisheye is best at.
1. Tight spaces pictures. In a small room or something like the Lunar Command Modue, this wide view is a must, despite the distortion.
2. Landscapes. It can give decent panorama shots with some cropping. Also in the great outdoors the lack of straight lines often hides the fact that the picture is a fisheye at all.
3. Fisheye effect. It has a sensual way of warping lines to give its own beauty. You can "look around corners" and get a "top of the world" perspective among other things.
4. Low-light. The short focal length allows the lens to be hand-held at 1/4 sec or even longer. At f/2.8 this is an exposure value equivalent to holding an f/1 lens for 1/30 sec (about the limit of standard photography). So this is the ultimate low-light lens.
Besides these standard fisheye features the Nikon G frustrates me with one drawback. It's really a feature of digital autofocus more than Nikon's shortcoming. Unlike standard and longer focal lengths the ultrawide and fisheye really don't need autofocus, at least not precise focus. Even wide open at f/2.8 the depth of field is huge. A lens like this is best focused "hyperfocally", meaning infinity is put at a limit of the depth of focus. Then at f/4 you have a focus around 6 feet to infinity and can shoot freely. Unfortunately this is impossible with the G-type lens because the depth of field markings we're used to on older lenses are just not there. Perhaps some system of pre-focusing could make up for this lack, but it would not be easy.
I suspect many long-time Nikon users make up for this by having a mixed collection of old and new lenses. So they can get precise focus with older lenses and quick responding focus with the new ones. Since I switched from another manufacturer I'm at a loss for hyperfocal use. With the fisheye, far more than any other lens, hyperfocal is valuable. So I wish Nikon had accommodated this. Otherwise the lens is a pleasure to use. And the standard focal depth of focus is adequate for most things.
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