Comments on: 15 Fun Fabulous Fisheye Photos

By: Zoe Hellar Camera Reviews

Zoe Hellar Camera Reviews — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:53:19 +0000

Thanks for the correction and the links Neil. I also appreciate the prompt response to my comment.

By: Neil Creek

Neil Creek — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:17:45 +0000

Zoe, you may have missed the last few paragraphs of the post, where I refer to a couple of cheaper alternatives, inclucing hacking door peepholes (particularly for compact cameras) as well as cheaper alternative lenses, such as the Peleng. The link I provided to the Peleng is outdated, but here are a couple of new ones:

http://www.dyxum.com/columns/articles/lenses/Peleng/Peleng_8mm_fisheye_review.asp

http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/fisheye/test.htm

There are other manufacturers making fisheye lenses as well of various features, quality and price. I’m sure you’ll be able to find something at a reasonable price.

By: Zoe Hellar Camera Reviews

Zoe Hellar Camera Reviews — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:48:55 +0000

Unfortunately creativity is limited by the cost of fish eye lens, thus making it unavailable for many amateur enthusiasts

By: toe

toe — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:54:28 +0000

Here’s another gallery of intriguing fish eye images:

http://theopenend.com/2009/02/02/im-not-a-fish-nine-examples-of-fisheye-photography/

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:24:33 +0000

I just got my fisheye lens from ebay today and I went out at once to play with it. lol. I love it.

By: Douglas Nelson

Douglas Nelson — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:34:30 +0000

I’m a little confused. According to the Sigma website that lens does not exist. They show the 8mm F3.5 EX DG Circular Fisheye.
Is this the same lens ???
Douglas

By: Gerry Vrbensky

Gerry Vrbensky — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:03:22 +0000

Excellent tip. This is the type of creative photography I’m looking for. :)

By: David Price

David Price — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:49:30 +0000

Fisheyes work pretty well on crop sensors, I use a Tokina 10-17 fisheye on my 400d and it goes from mild distortion at 17mm to big curves at 10mm.

Using the Canon 15mm on a crop won’t produce a huge fisheye effect. But I bet the Sigma 8mm and 4.5mm would.

Plus the close focussing is great

By: Dazzam

Dazzam — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:21:08 +0000

@grant and josh:

It’s possible josh, you thought that the D50 was a Canon, where using an adapter, you do indeed have to manually focus everything.(though with a typically huge DOF it’s not a great problem)

The D50, being a Nikon, I don’t believe there should be any problem.

That said, if you are doing panoramas, it’s best to shoot with everything on manual to get a good transition between images.(eg. you don’t want different exposures for ea. image)
I usually take a couple shots and choose aperture/shutter speeds based on them in full manual, switch off autofocus. If you are not shooting in RAW(ie. you are using JPG) then also lockdown your whitebalance.

By: RayPG

RayPG — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:32:12 +0000

The new experience of the fish eye lens is very cool, I have one too and I have a lot of fun with it :D

Here is my set of fish eye photos, http://www.flickr.com/photos/raypg/sets/72157600095080476/

let me know what you think :D and if you get a chance to own these lens happy shooting :D