Cheap Fisheye

Is there a cheap fisheye lens worth buying? Just thinking about something to play around with, so not looking to spend hundreds of $. Anything good in the bargain lens bin? Used is OK. MF is OK.

Thanks for any suggestions.

The add on fisheye adapters are NOT worth buying (60 Yankee dollars or so) because image quality is very poor with those. One that is WORTH buying (for a crop camera) is this:

http://www.amazon.com …d=1296502884&sr​=8-1-spell

I have taken many shots with this, and I am extremely pleased. Some examples:

http://anscochrome.zen​folio.com …07837/h267b9252​#h2e583bf0

Every image starting from that one and moving forward (click on right arrow) were shot with that lens. Many had the bendy edges defished with this plugin:

http://www.imagetrends​inc.com/products/prodp​age_hemi.asp

Have fun!

How cheap? And what is your camera?

MF Samyang (Rokinon etc.) lenses have very good reputation. For a cropped body, their 8mm f:3.5 have a unique strereographic projection, which produces much less shape distortions than typical fisheyes. Their 14mm f:2.8 (FF) is actually not a fisheye (it's UWA, rectilinear), but is highly praised for IQ (sharpness etc.).

thats so cheap.
looks great.
i must look into this.

pulsar123 wrote in post #11750632
How cheap? The cheaper the better; no higher than $300 for sure. And what is your camera? 40D

Thanks.

Take a look at this thread for samples. I got mine used for < $300 shipped, couldn't be happier with it!

How about this?

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Once I got an extra lens cap for my 50mm lens. Drilled a small hole in the center. Bought a door peephole lens - $3. Cut off the extra metal in the rear of the lens and screwed into my cap, on fornt of my 50mm lens. Works. Even sold one of the pix.

I got a Sigma Filtermatic 16mm f/2.8 fisheye, Contax/Yashica mount, for a little under $100. It's terrible wide open, acceptable at f/5.6, but really quite good at f/11 and f/16. I know that limits it significantly, but since I'm generally shooting fisheye shots outdoors in the daytime or with a tripod, it's not as limiting. I've owned the modern Sigma 15mm fisheye, which blows the old design out of the water (sharp straight from f/2.8), but I was saving some cash and decided the $500 extra could go elsewhere.