How often are you using your fisheye?

[hoanpham]

Just curious, I don't own a fisheye from film days, just the last 5 years.
I have a few FE:
- A Kenko FE add-on lens, capable with circular FE on both FF and aps-c, optical not the best.
- Zenitar 16/2.8, currently my best FE on FF.
- Sigma hsm 4.5 circular FE on aps-c
- Pentax DA 10-17 on aps-c.

Link to your FE photos?

[David]

My Pentax 6X7 35mm fisheye is an invaluable part of my kit. Were I to have, I dunno, crazy medical bills or something, the fisheye would be the last or second-to-last lens I'd sell from that kit.

[kds315*]

I don't. I have a few but fisheye views don't fit my work I'm doing.

[miran]

I have only one fisheye lens, it's the 30mm Arsat for medium format. I think I made about two or three photos with it so far in the two years since I bought it.

[Davichin]

Fisheyes are the most used underwater photography WA lenses.

I have nikons 10.5, 16 and a "shaved" tokina 10-17. I also have two "endoscope" lenses for "insect eye" effect.
I wish there was something like canon´s 8-15mm... It is one of the lenses I will look for if/when I get a A7/A7r...
I bought a sigma 4.5mm but gave it back after noticing that it is designed for canon´s 1.6x APS sensors (the circle produced is tangent in those sensors but not on nikon DX´s 1.5x, where it delivers too small of an image for my liking...)

[hoanpham]

WOW. Thanks David. These are amazing

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Here are my recent shots with Pentax DA10-17 on K7. Click to enlarge.

[Nordentro]

I like fisheye lenses, but I do not own many. I only have the Samyang 7,5mm for m43. I have been looking at the Zenitar 16mm for my A7R, but is it good enough Hoan?

[hoanpham]

[Tedat]

Konica UC 2.8/15 (on NEX-5n or NEX-6)















I would say I use it not less then other lenses.. maybe even a bit more. It's a wonderful lens.. on A7 even better.

[Flatcap]

I use a fisheye quite a lot... I had the Samyang 8mm but now have the Nikon 10.5mm which is phenomenal, tack sharp, even wide open. I use it on a D7000 and D700 (in DX mode, not fussed about shaving the hood) as I shoot a lot of BMX and skating, and a fisheye lends itself to this kind of photography very well. Adds something to the shot and in many cases, makes the rider or skater look higher than they actually are.

[SonicScot]

I have the Zenitar 16/2.8 for my 5D2 and the Samyang 8/3.5 for my 7D.
I keep these fisheye lenses in my camera bags all the time, I don't always use them but because they offer a unique view it's worth keeping them to hand.

[LucisPictor]

Hardly ever.
First they were some kind of replacement for a superwide.
Later, when I had a superwide lens, I tried to use the effect that a fisheye generates.
But that wore off pretty quickly in my kind of photography.
So I sold my Peleng first and recently even my Zenitar.
Sometimes I feel I should have one, but then I realise that I really don't need one.

[philslizzy]

I've had a fisheye adapter since the early 70's its not too great round the edges but its great fun to use. I crop the circle a bit and un-spherise in photoshop. Its a quick & easy way to get ultrawide shots.

just for fun though.

[ZoneV]

Great images Davichin!
I use my Zenitar 16mm not often - and I have no good image to show. Other lenses give me more easily good images.
But I still carry it sometimes around, and search for those images that are made for a fisheye.

Back then when I shoot some hot-air-balloon starts I didn´t own a fisheye :-/

[480sparky]

I don't keep track of how often I use a particular lens. But I did you my Siggy 8mm just yesterday, but I'm still PPing them.

Here's some earlier shots:

[480sparky]

[Flatcap]

That's the only thing I don't like in fisheye lenses, the circular ones like in the previous post.

By the way; please understand that's not a slight Sparky, nice pictures, it's just my personal choice. I like fisheye lenses that fill the whole frame.

This is the sort of thing I use mine for...

[480sparky]

[Nordentro]

Circular fisheye is handy for texture making (environment) for 3D games or animation or for stitching two pictures together to make s sphere (like they use in real estate sales online with navigation). I use to make these many years ago

[hoanpham]

I like the bike photo! Great capture.
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Zenitar 16mm f2.8 FE on 5dm2:
Same processing as with Pentax DA10-17.
You can compare two different sets from earlier posts.

f8:


f8:


and more here in another thread

[Nikos]

I have 2 fisheye lenses.

Canon's EF 15mm f/2.8
and
Zeiss F-Distagon 16mm f/2.8 for Rollei (from the early 70s)

The F-Distagon was one of the reasons I wanted a FF NEX.
I use my fisheye a lot when I am in panorama mood.
Especially when making spherical panoramas.

Here one of my 360ºX180º panos I like a lot:
http://www.diafragma.gr/panoramic/thira01/thira01.html

[Flatcap]

[Flatcap]

This one of my favs...

Paul Meacher at Adrenaline Alley, Corby, UK.

[hoanpham]

Very cool bike photos.

The Zenitar is soft wide open.
The sharpness improves at half click down, good at f4, very good at f5.6 and f8 can't miss.
I guess you need f2.8 (or f3.2 half click) and high iso to shoot sport.

[Flatcap]

Yeah, depends where I am... if I'm indoors I use an off-camera flash like in the last pic, but outdoors if the weathers good then it's fine. If not, up the ISO a bit but the Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8 is super sharp wide open, so I can get away with keeping the ISO low if I can.

The only problem is it's a DX lens, so on the D700 I have to use it in DX mode, but I do have a D7000 I can use it on too. I'm just trying to come up with a good FX fisheye solution without having to spend another £400+

Maybe an old AiS 16mm one??

Darren.