Not really thinking of giving the 12-24 away...
...but repairing it is out of the question, they asked me an arm and a leg, and I can still use it, it's just a bit uncomfortable: prefocus, it doesn't, and reach for the front to pull it back a tad. Here is a pic I took today with the 12-24, seems the fall did not produce any more damage than that.
With the money to repair it I can easily buy the cheaper lenses I mentioned (or add a couple hundreds for the 8-16) and have both. The point is, are they good enough to replace it when I want to travel lighter, for instance? Of course I want to go significantly wider, otherwise there's no point. On the other hand, it would be one more lens to carry around on long trips, when I normally take with me almost all lenses and choose day by day which ones I might need, is it worth it?
If the 8-16 is good enough, then I could couple it to the 17-70 on the other body and I would be covered. Or, if not, and the samyang, being prime, were very good, it would be probably it on one body (most of the pictures I take with the 12-24 are at the wide end anyway) and the 17-70 on the other.
About the 8mm fisheye, I have it, I used it today too, but defishing it I think would somewhat worsen definition and reduce the angle, or am I wrong? Also, how does one defish it, I read it has a different projection from all other fisheyes,, doesn't it mean the tools that work with normal fisheyes wouldn't work?
Last edited by subfly; 11-25-2014 at 04:39 PM.
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