Shooting the Tokina 10-17mm

Staff · Issue 37, Jul/Aug 2007 · pp. 23

Products mentioned: Tokina 10-17mm, Nikon D2X, Subal housing, Subtronic Alpha Pro strobes, Inon WL-165, Nikonos RS

I am sorry that this review is late. I wasn’t the first to get my hands on the Tokina 10-17mm when it was released at the end of last year and I had actually expected it to have been reviewed by now. I believe that this is a very important lens for underwater photography and it would be a glaring omission if it wasn’t covered in the hallowed pages of UwP. So here are some of my thoughts on shooting this lens - better late that never. Fisheye lenses have always been popular in underwater photography because they are the widest viewing lenses, allowing us to shoot large subjects from as close as possible and also to create space in the murky undersea world. Our community has a long history of taking them underwater often showing great inventiveness in doing so. For example, in the early 1970s, before housings were widespread, Geoff Harwood designed and made the Vizmaster I and II for the N…