Recommended Fisheye?

Good Morning All,

I am looking for a fisheye for my 400D, as it is not a full-frame camera, I was

wondering what lens people would reccommend. I would like a fisheye that covers

all of the frame, ceratinly don't want to have a circle of black going around

the shot. What would people reccommend? I have looked at the Sigma 8mm as well

as Canon's offering. Just not sure which one would give a better result,

without having to crop the final image.

Many thanks,

Michael

The Cannon at 15mm is hardly worth calling a fish eye. You don't realy notice the fishness much. So it's the Sigma or the Peleng 8mm.

You won't use it more than a handfull of times (promise) I went for the Peleng 8mm moderate quality and manual. But if you have money to throw away go for the Sigma either way it will be unused within the year. :)

If you want it to look really fishy on your 400D than the 8mm options are your best choice. There are also two new lenses from Sigma but they are not marketed yet.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0711/07111402sigma45fish.asp

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0711/07111401sigma10fish.asp

http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/lenses/peleng_8_35/index.htm

The "regular" 15mm options from Canon and Sigma are not so fishy.

http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/lenses/canon_15_28_fish/

And at last, the only fish-eye zoom.

http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/lenses/tokina_1017_3545_nikon/index.htm

Happy shooting,

Yakim.

Cheers for your responses. have had a go with the Canon 15mm and not that impressed with the lack of fishyness if I'm honest. Could get the same results with Sigma 10-20 or something similar.

I'm going to be using the lens for shooting in nightclubs. DJ's, crowd shots, etc. So certainly want to have distorted perspective on the shots.

With the Sigma 4.5mm, I assume that the end shot will be circular when used on a non-full frame camera, like the 400D. But the Sigma 10mm will give a nice rectangular full image.

The Tokina looks quite nice, with limited Vignetting. The eg's on the page are with a Nikon D70 and D200 does anyone know if the sensor is the same size as the Canon 400D?

Thanks for all of your help

I have the Peleng 8mm . you do get black corners and a very distorted effect. It's a manual lens, with ok IQ, dificult to focus as you have way too much in the frame. I bought it for 220 Euros on E-bay.

It's fun althought you won't be using it as much

Hmmm, I think the Peleng may be out, due to not really having the time to manual focus whilst out shooting in nightclubs.

The Sigma 10 and Tokina 10-17 seem to be the best for what I want at the moment. Hopefully going to be saving for a Canon 10-22. Have seen some nice results at the wide end of this lens, and gives a nice distorted effect too. Just a tad pricey at 650 Pounds! :s

Sigma announced that they have two fish eye lenses for cropped sensors. No pricing nor availablity yet. Hopefully will be out by Jan08.

http://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/lenses_all_details.asp?id=3336&navigator=6

http://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/lenses_all_details.asp?id=3337&navigator=6

You need to learn what is and isn't a fisheye.

"...Hopefully going to be saving for a Canon 10-22. Have seen some nice results at the wide end of this lens, and gives a nice distorted effect too..."

The 10-22 isn't a fisheye and has the least distortion of any of the APS-C wideangle lenses.

You seem to be confusing "fisheye" with "wideangle" and rectilinear lens perspective with fisheye perspective.

You also say "I am looking for a fisheye for my 400D" and 4 hours later you say "Have had a go with the Canon 15mm and not that impressed with the lack of fishyness", despite the first response here telling you that "The Canon at 15mm is hardly worth calling a fish eye"

You might want top read this http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/reviews/wide-angle-lenses-2.html and perhaps this http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/technical/field_of_view.html

You might try the Sigma 4.5mm F/2.8

http://www.adidap.com/2007/11/15/sigma-dethrones-nikon

even with the 1.6x crop that would still give you 7.2mm effective fishness ;-)