Hey. Im thinking about adding a 15mm FE to my canon rebel, but as i just spent a lot of money adding a second ds 160 strobe, im wondering if i can still get good results using the standard 6" dome on my ikelite housing. I got a trip to indo coming up in a couple of weeks and i want to have a somewhat complete lens bag before i go, but the thought of having to drop another 400 for the 8" dome on top of the price of a new lens is a bit much. I mean, as much as i like dropping a grand at a time..... you get the point.
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15 mm fisheye with 6" port from ikelite
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15 mm fisheye with 6" port from ikelite
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Hey. Im thinking about adding a 15mm FE to my canon rebel, but as i just spent a lot of money adding a second ds 160 strobe, im wondering if i can still get good results using the standard 6" dome on my ikelite housing. I got a trip to indo coming up in a couple of weeks and i want to have a somewhat complete lens bag before i go, but the thought of having to drop another 400 for the 8" dome on top of the price of a new lens is a bit much. I mean, as much as i like dropping a grand at a time..... you get the point.
The 6" dome port is fine with the 15mm FE on crop sensors. You really need the 8" dome for full frame.
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Ditto what Grant says.
I've used both the Sigma 15mm Fisheye and Tokina 10-17mm Fisheye which I zoom slightly to 12mm at a minimum and leave the shade on. The Tokina at 12mm (and zoomed to 17mm) shows no vignetting at least on Canon cropped bodies (1.6X crop factor.) Nikon shooters (1.5X crop factor) are fine too.
If you want to shoot over / under shots the 8" is required though.
But optically the Sigma fixed 15mm Fisheye and Tokina 10-17mm are pretty damn good behind Ike's 6" port.
dhaas
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Ditto what Grant says.
I've used both the Sigma 15mm Fisheye and Tokina 10-17mm Fisheye which I zoom slightly to 12mm at a minimum and leave the shade on. The Tokina at 12mm (and zoomed to 17mm) shows no vignetting at least on Canon cropped bodies (1.6X crop factor.) Nikon shooters (1.5X crop factor) are fine too.
If you want to shoot over / under shots the 8" is required though.
But optically the Sigma fixed 15mm Fisheye and Tokina 10-17mm are pretty damn good behind Ike's 6" port.
dhaas
thanks so much.
