I've taken my last shot, but not edited it yet. As my computer is currently solving FEA, and will be for some time, editing will have to wait. Instead I can put down my wrap up. So a month with fish eye zoom went smoothly. Auto features are must in zoom lens. The one month with manual zoom has made me postpone my other manual zoom lenses. Not looking to shoot them in SIC. With AF zoom the there a lot less hassle which make user experince acceptable and one might even enjoy the flexibility the lens offers. Shot daily. Posted daily. Missed some themes thought selfie provided. Occasional delay in commenting, but I think I went thru most of the shots. Not a perfect month on my side, but well within the rules.
Main complain of F17-28 FE is MFD. It is now 45cm. If it were around 20-25, it would give a lot more composition possibilities. Minor complain is sharpness. It is sharp enough, but I wouldn't mind it were sharper. I've been shooting so sharp lenses lately, that these just look a touch mushy while editing. Other than that it works as fisheye should work. If you put it in angle, you get nice curvy distortions. Carefully shot you can mostly hide the fishyness and corners look better than streched corners of rectangular lens. Sandy mentioned lack of PF at somepoint. I didn't need to desaturate purple at anypoint during the month. Actually I never even thought about PF during the month while editing shots, so what little there is, is meaningless.
Handling and build is what you can expect from F series. Better use that AF as manual focusing ain't fun. The feel on zoom ring is fine thought.
This lens is almost always in my camera bag. It's light, small and offers that UWA when you feel like you absolutely need that or just want go fishy. It's no bother to keep it along just in case. After this month I believe it will return to its place in the bag. Well atleast after I have figured out the chances in layout I need to make to fit DFA*85 in it. Damn that hood is big
Few shots from the month: