FX-1000 Wide Angle lens?

[Chad Dyle]

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?

[Franklin Bencosme]

Hey Chad !!

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



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[Jo Ouwejan]

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?

[Lukas Siewior]

Originally Posted by Jo Ouwejan

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.

[Jeff Harper]

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.

[Adam Gold]

Originally Posted by Jo Ouwejan

Sometimes I get lost . . .
I thought the terrible WA of the FX-1000 would finish all needs for a separate WA.

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.

[Jo Ouwejan]

You just passed for Gold!

[Tom Hardwick]

Originally Posted by Jo Ouwejan

Now someone wants more WA on a FX-1000 anyhow. Is that for funny effects, like Fisheye distortion? Or what else for?

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.