Unlike other common fisheye lenses the tokina at x 107 dx incorporates optical zoom of 10 17mm that makes this lens more unique in its category.
Tokina 10 17 fisheye full frame.
The front element of the at x 107 dx has a wr or water repellent optical coating on the glass.
Full frame shooters usually use a prime fisheye lens like a sigma 15mm or a fisheye with a teleconverter but some full frame shooters do use the tokina 10 17mm with a 1 4x teleconverter to gain the flexibility they had when using a cropped sensor camera.
This tokina costs the same as the real canon or nikon fisheye 500 600 either of which which i strongly suggest instead of this lens.
Canon makes no fisheyes for their 1 3x and 1 6x digital cameras like the 1d and rebel and d20 d30 but canon does make a spectacular 15mm fisheye for the film and full.
Tokina 10 17mm on a full frame dslr.
In a test carried out by amateur photographer in july 2008 this lens was awarded 87.
It provides a circular style image at 10mm with dramatic fish eye effect on full frame dslr cameras.
Tokina usa is part of kenko tokina usa inc.
Vignetting is remarkably low just as is sensitivity to backlighting.
You can adjust the framing and composition or play with different levels of perspective and bokeh by rotating the zoom ring.
The distortion of the tokina fisheye is high but that is also the purpose of this type of lens.
The tokina 10 17 mm is a unique fisheye zoom lens made for aps c cameras but which can also be used well on full frame.
The tokina 10 17 mm fish eye zoom gives the photographer a 180 degree field of view with dramatic curvature of field.
Adjusting the frame by zoom function.