NIKON 17-35 vs 17-55 vs 12-24

I'm using the 12-24 with +3 diopter in a Hugy housing with no problems so far...

Greetings

Matetes

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Hello Jaume!

The one having those problems and wanting to sell the lens is Nandu...

I have been using the 12-24 with a subal ND2 and a 50mm extension ring and large dome port (can't remember the part number) and am very happy with it, the corners are sharp throughout the zoom. I tried a combination of extension rings and different strength diopters but they all made the corners blur, but just the 50mm extension was great, also I can close focus almost touching the port. When I first got it I thought what a mistake, now, great I love it.

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Thank you very much Kriptap! I´ll tell my friend to try that configuration...

I have a couple of friends that want to sell the 12-24 because they are having the same problem. They tried with a D70 and +1 and +2 diopters behind a subal dome and didn´t like it...That´s one of the reasons I didn´t choose the 12-24...

 

What size dome port are you using it behind? I have never got acceptably sharp pictures with any lens with a dioptre behind a small port (on film or digital). I now use the a 12-24 with plus 2 dioptre behind a large Subal dome and it seems sharp enough (when the dome doesn't fall off!) - but I like to use f./5.6 or smaller and that must help.

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Thank you John!

He is using the big subal dome DP FE2

My biggest problem is looking for optical quality water!

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I´ll send a couple of botles of Evian!!!

When I used the 17-35 on film, wide open at 17 mm, I saw about a 1 stop fall off to the corners

 

Closing down to f4 or smaller, as for the shot below, eliminated that. This was f4, 1/25th of a second on E100 VS, 17mm. There's a subtle fall off visible in the upper left corner, but this would be easy to fix (as James says)

 

The shadow to the right is a real shadow

 

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Thank you Craig!

I guess that with the smaller than FF sensor that problem wouldn´t happen, would it? Using the center part of the glass should yield better results....I GUESS!!!