Canon 15mm f2.8 Fisheye

[curtisl]

I am thinking about purchasing this lens. Has anyone got any opinions on it?

I have also seen the Sigma 8mm f3.5 EX DG Circular Fisheye Lens. it is a bit cheaper but looks like it still has good reviews.

anyone got either lenses

[curtisl]

bump.

[stuthemong]

They are very different lenses really, aren't they?

The canon 15 is great, the sig 15 is cheaper and not far behind in IQ.

The sig8f3.5 is a good little lens, much sharper than old f4 version.

What do you want to do with the lens? What body do you have? (you realise the 8 will be a circular image on a FFS?)

[curtisl]

stuthemong said:

They are very different lenses really, aren't they?

The canon 15 is great, the sig 15 is cheaper and not far behind in IQ.

The sig8f3.5 is a good little lens, much sharper than old f4 version.

What do you want to do with the lens? What body do you have? (you realise the 8 will be a circular image on a FFS?)

it will be mounted to a 400d. I am looking for the circular distortion, now exchuse my ignorance of fisheyes, i really need to try before i buy but i am looking for this



rather than this



but i understand that the two images are only seperated by a bit of software or am i talking crap?

[SamHH]

I think that if you use it on a small sensor camera you'll lose a lot of the 'wide-angleness' and 'fisheyeness'. Nikon make a 10.5mm (or something) fisheye for their small sensor cameras but Canon don't. I think there is a Sigma fisheye for small sensor cameras and Tokina or maybe Tamron make a fisheye zoom that may be good for what you want.