zykkor fish-eye compatibility?

I saw this lens on auction: Zykkor super wide semi fish-eye 0.42x The

seller doesn't seem to know anything about it or what cameras it

would fit, and it's damn cheap. Would anyone know if it fits a Canon

EOS or Yashica manual focus bodies?

These are auxillary lenses made to screw into the filter ring of a lens. they usually fit into 37mm or 52mm threads. These are usually used in video cameras, and are not quality lenses.

Oh I see. Thanks for the explanation - I have never come across this sort of thing before, so I was a bit confused.

Depending on the EOS camera you have the Zenitar 16mm 2.8 Fisheye in EOS mount might be a good alternative. You can get them for about $200 from Kiev camera and they're really quite good. Especially for the price. I have one for my Nikon FM, rather than for my EOS gear.

I have a fairly inexpensive fish-eye adaptor probably similar to this one. It goes on a 50mm lens and gives a wide-angle fisheye view. It was fun to play around with a bit, but never really gave a sharp enough image to be useful for anything, and it now sits unused in my camera bag.

 

I'm not sure exactly how to describe it, but the wide-angle look is not as pleasing as that through regular fisheyes. It seems like the image is less wide-angle at the center, then gets more squished together at the edges, as compared to a real fisheye.

Here's a review of a similar (if not identical) product:

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<A HREF="http://photonotes.org/reviews/fisheye-adapter/"> http://photonotes.org/reviews/fisheye-adapter/</A>

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Fun toy. Low quality.