Digital lens on a full frame body (10-20 fun)

[cyKey]

So while my 10D is in the shop getting a new spoiler I thought I'd revisit film. Now I love my Sigma 10-20mm but its designed for a 1.6x sensor, or is it? Well it is. At 10mm you get this;

However at 13mm you get this;

Idea. Its not as bad at 13mm. I doubt you'd even see the lens during gigs, which I hope to try on Friday using Ilford 3200. I'm off to Snowdon tomorrow with some new film so today I decided to go for a walk around Liverpool. With some cropping and tweaking I was able to remove the lens for the most part. It was nice to be out on a sunny day with a "compact" camera (no battery grip) just taking some shots. Been a while since I just wandered.

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[cyKey]

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[cyKey]

Very nicely done I was impressed to find that my 18-70mm Minolta AF DT actually fits on my 35mm Minolta 7000 and works although I expect I'll get the same results (kind of) if I attempted to use the 1.5x lens on my film body.

#1, #4 and #7 are my favourites.

Yer its good to know that it is *technically* useable. It was always the debate between the Sigma 12-24 and the 10-20. 12-24 is FF compatible and the 10-20 is filter compatible. Glad I can work around it, well in black and white. I'm not sure how easy it will be to remove it from colour film.

 

[cyKey]

These are fantastic, cyKey

They all have that "film" look, which is nigh on impossible to reproduce with digital.

Most impressive. And the distortions of shots 5,7 & 8 are just marvellous. Very, very impressive

So, if you're shooting at 13mm, that makes it equivalent to about 8 or 9mm on a crop body? Nice

Cheers 8.125mm on a 1.6x crop. Its just uber wide.

I guess it will be more complicated actually! But now I'm itching to try it [the 18-70mm digital lens] out on my film camera...although with £11-£12 development costs, for my FP4+ Ilford 125 stuff, I am not sure whether it would be a good idea!

Yer its expensive doing film, such a shame. I'm sure it will be more complicated too. Its easy with black and white, but trying to remove black corners from a blue sky will be tricky so I'm not going to rely on the lens tomorrow unless I shoot bw.

 

[cyKey]

Is there a point that you're trying to get across here?

 

[cyKey]

I love your shots, especially 3, 5, 6.

As a matter of interest, do you develop your own b&w film? If not, who do you use?

We have dark room equipment at home but never have the time to use it properly but still love using b&w film. My wife is a big fan of Ilford 3200.

Ilford 3200 you will need to get sent off somewhere. I hear Peak Imaging are good. I shoot Ilford XP2 C41 film so I can drop it into Boots and get 1hr processing with a photo cd.

Cheers for the comments guys Nice to know that it wasn't my 10D doing all the work

 

[cyKey]

It's an EOS50 if I remember rightly.

That it is. Musta forgotten to mention that part. Canon EOS 50.