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Best fisheye for the Canon EOS 5D MarkII camera


auriel_dahan

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<p>Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye. It was the oldest unchanged lens in the EF lineup. A sharp centre at f/2.8. I agree with Scott. Because, you cannot find one anymore where I shop. So, get a new one now before they are all gone.</p>
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<p>What those two fellows wrote . . .?<br>

Quite reasonable? at the edges, also:<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/13870253-lg.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="325" /><br>

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It handles shooting into the light reasonably well - for a fisheye<br>

Frames #3, #5 and #6:<br>

?<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/13870252-lg.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="393" /></p>

<p>WW</p>

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<p>David,</p>

<p>It isn't really true to say the new 8-15 will go from fisheye to ultrawide. What it will do is go from circular fisheye to full frame fisheye, that is, at 8mm it will create a circular image on a ff camera and at 15mm on that same camera will produce a 180º diagonal field of view rectangular fisheye.</p>

<p>Having said that, with modern software creating rectilinear ultrawide images from rectangular fisheye images is very easy, and something I have done with the Canon lens with very good results.</p>

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<p>Scott, are you correcting the fisheye images on a FF or DX body? My experience testing the correction software on a FF camera is that the areas most corrected, the edges, get very soft and useless if any detail is needed in those areas. Just wondering.</p>
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<p>Hello everybody!<br>

Thank you very much for your feedback, I do appreciate the William's post showing interesting and strong examples of pictures taken with his Canon fisheye. Thank you to Scott and David S. for their very informative exchanges of views. I am grateful to all others who reported their experiences on the 8-15mm Canon and 15mm Sigma fisheye. Guinod</p>

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<p>Hi John,</p>

<p>I use it with FF and 1.3 crop. It depends how much detail there is in the corners and how far you want to take the correction, of course. He are a couple of threads where I have posted images from my 15 mm and the software I use, DeFish (free and very powerful) and Image Trends Hemi (payed and basic, but nice).</p>

<p><a href="00XxUd">http://www.photo.net/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00XxUd</a><br /> <a href="00VOFp">http://www.photo.net/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00VOFp</a></p>

<p>Auriel,</p>

<p>You are very welcome, I notice that the 8-15 has actually started arriving in retailers now, though I am sure it will be a while before real stock levels arrive. <a href="http://www.canonrumors.com/2011/07/the-ef-8-15-f4l-is-fisheye-has-landed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29">LINK</a>.</p>

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