Nikon 12-24mm

Alex

I see that on the end you have purchase a Nikon 12-24mm.

Why have you change your mind ?

Easy! I didn't have to pay for it!

I swapped it with a friend for a 16mm (I had two - having been given an extra one). Its not a permanent exchange - its just until one of us wants the other lens back, which will probably be never!

I can't afford to buy any glass at the moment, but if I had any money at the moment I would buy a Sigma 150mm macro!

Alex

Nice swap

Me meather have the money att the moment for second lens. Maybe its better so becauce I will learn to use my 10.5mm. Extrem wide angle is a heavy thing and I have Zero experience with DSLR under water. It will be hard work to master the 10.5 lens

btw you can write a article about shooting with the 10.5. :-)

Sigma 150mm Macro!! Are you going to shoot the structure off a fishs pupil :-)

My next lens is I think the 16mm or 105mm. I hope tha Nikon will come with some new digital lenses like the 10,5

Lambis

Alex - did you consider the Nikkor 14mm? - or is that not wide enough given the crop factor?

It's a great bit of glass and works well underwater, providing the dome is right -although it does suffer defocussed edges when wider than F8 on film (but the crop should take care of that)

Steve

Never thought of that lens, Steve - although it has been on my radar recently because it takes the same size Magic Filter as the 10.5mm! Its a good suggestion, although I think it is quite pricey? Which tends to put off a cheap-skate like me!

Personally I think that the 16mm is hard to beat as a wide angle for big animals on a DX sensor Nikon. I used it almost exclusively when I was in (your fave spot) S. Ari a couple of months ago.

I still have mixed feelings about the 12-24mm. I guess I'll know a bit more once I have done a few shoots with it in my lens bag. But not snapping until I head to Bali in September. I do think that the 12-24mm is going to be excellent for coral spawning in the Caribbean later in that month.

Alex