| Latest Review Posted | Sigma Filtermatic Fisheye 16mm F2.8
My first unfaithfulness against my beloved ME and SuperA I had used till that moment: when I saw in some 2nd-hand-ad someone selling an Olympus OM2 (remember the FIRST camera with TTL-flash-control from 1976?) with a bunch of lenses coming with it: original 2.8/24, original 1.8/50, original 4/75-150, Tokina 8/500, tokina SD 28-70, Tokina SD 35-200, Tokina 2.8/28, Sigma 2.8/16 filtermatic fisheye plus the outstanding Olympus flash "quick auto 310" + 60cm TTL auto-chord. The bunch for 620 Deutsche mark at the time, that translates to some 400 US-$ anno domini 1999.
So, I can only pricewise say that (years later) I re-selled the Sigma for some 100 € (Euros),which translated then to some 140 USD.
As it was my first fisheye EVER (and I'd craved for one of those for long, but Pentax' smc-F 17-28 or other were far too expensive for my student's bank account then), I was very enthusiastic about it....about its different perception of the WORLD.
But shooting only with 100 ASA slide film (Agfa CTp100 was my fav), some days with the superb kodachromes 25 and 64, and looked at with my prime LEICA projector with the very very good 2.5/90 projection lens on it (I own also a Kodak Ektar projector with a very good lens and similar results), I had to refrain my Hallelujahs about this lens. Even pictures taken at f16 on bright days on sand dunes lacked sharpness. Only a minor blotch about in the center of the image was "sharp" enough.
Once, after a 3 hour voya... |
