I usually do my own work however I went to the Dodge dealer and had them change the oil. My hot rod car decided to start leaking oil. Wow! Some of the posted photo's are really fun to look at and fantastic as well! Many thanks for showing some of your examples as well as helping me with non canon lenses. I have not used the Sigma Fisheye so I am limiting my comments only to the two canon lenses. The fact that it is F/4 (and not F/2.8) doesn’t matter at all, because we both now have cameras with much more than an extra stop of ISO Speed, than when we bought our 15F/2.8 lenses - so it is still easy to use the 8~15/4 in low level Available Light at the Wedding Reception (as one example). The fact of the matter is – if you buy the 8~15/4 as a replacement for your broken lens, you will have a 15mm F/4 fisheye which adequately replaces the 15/2.8 and as a bonus you also have all the other Focal Lengths, which you can play with. if the 15/2.8 is not repairable for a reasonable cost and the funds were available: then I would buy the 8~15 F/4 as a replacement lens for it. Speaking from only a business perspective, if I were in your position: - if the EF 15/2.8 could be fixed for a couple of hundred then I would have it fixed because as a business purchase, I cannot see the 8~15F/4L being a big extra money spinner for any Wedding and Portrait business for the money that you have to outlay to buy it. I relate strongly with Philip Wilson's comment about "thinking of the lens as either an 8mm lens or a 15mm lens" - although I have found that the zoom function is more useful (actually quite useful) and I use it a lot when the lens is used on an APS-C camera. And I think that the trick is to very slowly zoom the turret as 1mm difference is a VERY BIG difference in the final image and it is easy to miss how much of a difference that is when looking through the viewfinder. ![]() Perhaps I will learn the 8~15/4 with time and as I use it more often I think that will be the case – as I have not used it all that much so far. ![]() I find that I really have to think about how to use the 8~15/4, whereas with the 15/2.8 I just “know” how to use it. And certainly my business didn’t need it. I bought the 8~15/4 as a real “luxury” item – I didn’t need it at all I just wanted it. ![]() I also have a 15/2.8 and have found to a very versatile and useful lens and have using it for many years: I like it a lot – but I don’t use it a lot. That shot is one from a practice session I did when I first bought the lens – I was playing with how I might use it as a Portrait Lens – for example the couple situated at the far end of the Bridge. I haven’t used the 8~15 F/4L at a Wedding, but, I pulled out and posted that first example (the Bridge) especially for you. The first is on and APS-C (at 10mm) and the second on a 5D (at 8mm).
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