FX-1000 Wide Angle lens?
 

I'm looking for a wide angle lens for my FX-1000 and would like to know if anyone has purchased a lens they really like. I have a Sony WA lens for my FX-1, but there is a ring that sticks out just before the threads and it won't allow me to attach it to my Z7U or FX-1000. I guess that is Sony's way of making sure I buy another product. Any suggestions?

Hey Chad !!

I have this one on my Z5 and FX1000 some times and is AMAZING !!!



16x9 Inc. | 72mm EX Super Fisheye Lens | 169-HDCSF4X-72 | B&H

Sometimes I get lost . . .
I thought the terrible WA of the FX-1000 would finish all needs for a separate WA. And the quality of the image is very nice, even in the corners. Hardly any barrel distortion.
When completely wide however, people in a landscape are miniaturised, so that they get lost in the image . . .
Now someone wants more WA on a FX-1000 anyhow. Is that for funny effects, like Fisheye distortion? Or what else for?

Yup - it's all about Fisheye look - all the skateboarding videos, or other extreme sports.

I would love that fisheye, it would make for some fantastic creative shots in the churches. That does appear to be a nice lens for the money.

I think you mean "terrific." Terrific is good, Terrible is bad, even though they have the same roots.

But your English is way better than my Dutch.

You just passed for Gold!

Fisheye (barrel) distortion is but one disadvantage of wide-angle adapters in general, though sometimes it can be used to good effect of course. But very wide and very non-distorting wide-angle lenses (think Krubrick following Danny down the corridors of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining) are used because of the perspective control they offer, and little else.

Wide-angle lenses are not to 'get everybody in' as such, they're primary function is to make great play on the incredible dof and pov they offer.

tom.