26January2010
A Quick Review Nikon’s Fisheye Lens and Ultra Wide Lens
A fisheye lens is a wide-angle lens that takes in an acutely wide angle of view. The Nikon 2148 AF DX Fisheye-NIKKOR 10.5mm f/2.8G ED lens was engineered exclusively for NIKON digital SLR cameras that feature NIKON’s DX Format Sensor. The AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED lens remarkably diversify NIKON’s DX-Nikkor class of interchangeable lenses. Apart from wide angle with this DX series lens for your Nikon DSLR. The actual focal length of Nikon 10.5mm lens is identical to that of about 16mm on a 35mm-film camera. 16mm is held to be the cutoff point from ultrawide angle to fisheye. As opposed to older fisheye lenses that cut-off the corners, this fisheye lens fills the entire frame with a useful image.
Nikon DSLR shoppers now can appreciate wider angle shots of landscapes, skylines, and astronomical views of the night sky with the Nikon AF DX Fisheye-NIKKOR 10.5mm f/2.8G ED lens. This is the wide-angle lens you’ve been missing. At the moment is your opportunity to select one. Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glass element minimizes chromatic aberration. Design allows a fusion of wider angle of view with optical characteristics that are optimized for Nikon digital SLR camera sensors. Nikon D-type design provides precise distance information for flash and ambient light exposure processes. Rounded diaphragm makes out-of-focus components appear more natural. G-type DX NIKKOR is built solely for use with Nikon digital SLR models. Built-in flower-type lens hood includes CL-0715 soft case, lens cover, rear cap For Nikon DSLR camera with a DX mount / Also compatible with FX series in DX crop mode
The Nikon 14mm f/2.8 AF-D is an ultra-ultrawide lens built for film and FX digital cameras. It was launched in 1999 at the same time as the historic D1. This fixed 14mm f/2.8 has great optics, is very solidly built
The Nikon 14mm f/2.8 lens is a large enhancement over the manual focus 15mm f/3.5 AI-s and other older ultra-ultrawide lenses.
This fixed 14mm is smaller and weighs exactly 2/3 what the enormous latest 14-24mm f/2.8 zoom (introduced in 2007) does. This means this fixed 14mm weighs 12 oz. (333g) less than the huge zoom!
For those of us who’ve been following Nikon’s ultra-ultrawide lenses as each was introduced since the 1970s, this is Nikon’s preeminent and most current fixed ultra-ultrawide.
As opposed to the old-fashioned spherical 13mm and 15mm, this much newer aspherical 14mm has none of the crippling ghosting problems of the earlier lenses, and it’s much, much sharper at every aperture.
This 14mm lens includes the full FX format and 35mm film for an ultra-ultra wide view. It makes a 20mm lens seem long by comparison.
Nikon introduced this along with the first DSLR, and it was mostly sought-after with news photographers who had no other way to acquire a really wide angle on a DX digital SLR with DX’ 1.5x crop factor. On a DX digital camera this is similar to a 21mm lens.