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Yesterday I bought a Canon EF-S 10-18mm f4.5-5.6 IS STM. First tested it on my EOS M to see if it had bad alignment or other issues, but all seemed quite ok.
I screwed off the mount, it encompasses the entire back of the lens, one single piece. I sawed off the part that protrudes into the FF mirror box too much (the mirror will hit it), sanded it down some more to be sure the back plate/mount clears the mirror, and screwed it back on again.
To my surprise, at 14mm the lens already does not vignet anymore (real vignetting I mean, not the light fall off variety). So, the lens is essentially a 14-18mm f5-5.6 lens on full frame! At 13mm black corners appear.
At 18mm f8:
And at 14mm f8:
Maybe not too bad, for a €269 lens that weighs a bit over 200 grams, and which has IS and silent AF? Makes for a nice light travel UWA I think. More testing this week (only finished adapting it 2 hours ago).
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07-13-2014, 09:08 PM
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Beats the ubiquitous Samyang 14mm for this purpose I guess... Smaller, has AF, AE and IS, can use filters out of the box. Though this conversion is not for the faint of heart.
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Well, it beats it with AF, AE and IS, can indeed use filters, and beats it with much lower distortion. But the Samyang beats this lens by a large margin in light fall off performance towards the corners, and corner sharpness (they get rather mushy with this lens). More test images to follow.
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07-14-2014, 11:00 AM
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RE: sharpness: doesn't it get acceptable stopped down?
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The overall sharpness gets pretty good, so it is not an issue for every shot. But the extreme corners remain mushy, a larger area at 14mm than at 18mm. I will post more images somewhere this week.
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Would also be interested to see the mod too!
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My Sigma 14/2.8 never really gets sharp in the extreme corners of APS-H frame, and it's a full frame lens weighing 655 grams. My point is, maybe it's naive to await miracles from this EF-S lens that weighs 1/3 of the Sigma...
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Quote:My Sigma 14/2.8 never really gets sharp in the extreme corners of APS-H frame, and it's a full frame lens weighing 655 grams. My point is, maybe it's naive to await miracles from this EF-S lens that weighs 1/3 of the Sigma...
I'll be sure to make an APS-H crop for you to judge.
Quote:Would also be interested to see the mod too!
I'll make a photo of the "mutilated" backside for you.
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Thanks, though I'll hardly ever get around to replacing the Sigma - I'm too fond of it even though I'm only using it sporadically.
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07-15-2014, 11:21 PM
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Quote:Thanks, though I'll hardly ever get around to replacing the Sigma - I'm too fond of it even though I'm only using it sporadically.
Just to get an idea:
the lens at 12mm (f8), cropped to 1.3x crop format (CA corrected in PS, standard DPP conversion):
Sorry, photozone seems to downsize the file to 1600 pixels wide max.
Later I will post a 13mm and 14mm 1.3x crop example.
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