Sawing off the sun-shield Nikkor 10,5

Anybody tried this? with D700?:

http://michel.thoby.free.fr/Adaptateur_EOS...sun-shield.html

Though he sawed off the front and seems to have mounted it on a 5D I don't see any images.

Mounting it on a Nikon film camera would also provide test images fairly easily.

Paul C

Hmmmm....interesting. Sold my 10.5., I wonder if it will work with my 10-17?

It sounded great to me at first, but...

It does not make it a full frame fisheye.

Here is his sample from full frame canon:

It does not look that exciting to me.

Wouldn't FX nikons switch to DX mode automatically anyway?

It does not look that exciting to me.

Would not have me rushing to find my hacksaw to be honest.

Wouldn't FX nikons switch to DX mode automatically anyway?

Modern digital ones would but the film cameras would obviously not know any better.

Hmmmm....interesting. Sold my 10.5., I wonder if it will work with my 10-17?

Think the RSPCA would have you for messing with a 10-17 like that - if you want though I have a 10.5 that I could sell you.....

Paul C

Wouldn't FX nikons switch to DX mode automatically anyway?

I'm 99.9% sure you can turn that off and set DX or FX manually.

Wouldn't FX nikons switch to DX mode automatically anyway?

Please, read this: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=615&pgno=2

Best whishes

As far as I know the main reason for doing this is so you can create 180 by 360 degree panoramas, stitching together a number of images. For this purpose I sawed the shade off a Tokina 10-17 for use on a 5D. It worked well and I still use it a lot- I get a field of view similar to that shown above. You have to take a lot of care with the sawing- the shade is aluminium. We ended up mounting the lens on a lathe and rotating it manually while cutting with a small dremmel-style circular blade. All quite nerve-wracking.

You can of course use a circular fisheye (like the Sigma 8mm) to achieve a similar effect, but you effectively lose resolution for the final panorama, as there are big black areas top and bottom (in portrait orientation).

I think that Fixation (Nikon Pro repairers) in Londo offer this service - see:

http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showt...amp;hl=fixation

I think that Fixation (Nikon Pro repairers) in Londo offer this service - see:

 

http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showt...amp;hl=fixation

Thanks for that; I think I will see if they will do this for my 10-17. I think the 10-17 with a 1.4 TC could be a useful lens on the D700 / D3