Cheapest Fisheye Lens

Curios does anyone know what the cheapest Fisheye lens is?

Thank You!

How about the Samyang 8mm f3.5 Fisheye?

Zenitar 16mm. It isn't a very strong effect on APS-C, though. If you are shooting APS-C, I would go with what the person above me suggested. It is made by samyang, but comes in several brands. Rokinon is usually the cheapest.

tkbslc wrote in post #12243607
Zenitar 16mm. It isn't a very strong effect on APS-C, though. If you are shooting APS-C, I would go with what the person above me suggested. It is made by samyang, but comes in several brands. Rokinon is usually the cheapest.

Probably a dumb question but what is APS-C?

Im shooting with a 1D Mark II

APS-C is the crop sized sensor on many canon DSLR's.
Your ID MkII is a APS-H sensor (1.3x crop)

What type of fisheye are you looking for? There's the circular fisheye and the full frame fisheye. The circular fisheye gives a 180 degree field of view in every direction, whereas a full frame fisheye gives a 180 degree diagonal.

BaseballPhotography44 wrote in post #12243619
Probably a dumb question but what is APS-C?

Im shooting with a 1D Mark II

you shouldnt be using a 1d mark ii if you dont know what an aps-c is!!!!!

Soda-Pop wrote in post #12243625
you shouldnt be using a 1d mark ii if you dont know what an aps-c is!!!!!

probably true.

but anywho, an aps-c is the sensor size. aps-c is 1.6x crop factor. FF cameras, like yours, are x1.3 crop factor.

So all in all, if you were to use a 15mm fish eye on an APS-C sensor camera, the photos wouldnt look very fishey looking. Theyd come out more like a wide angle, and you'd probably get some serious vignetting.

TheRisingArms wrote in post #12243623
APS-C is the crop sized sensor on many canon DSLR's.
Your ID MkII is a APS-H sensor (1.3x crop)

What type of fisheye are you looking for? There's the circular fisheye and the full frame fisheye. The circular fisheye gives a 180 degree field of view in every direction, whereas a full frame fisheye gives a 180 degree diagonal.

Thank you,

Im looking for a full frame fisheye.

I didn't want to drop any real coin on one just because I will likely just be using it for novelty effect and not to often.

OMG!!! You been using a APS-H camera and don't know what is a APS-C.

Soda-Pop wrote in post #12243632
but anywho, an aps-c is the sensor size. aps-c is 1.6x crop factor. FF cameras, like yours, are x1.3 crop factor.

So all in all, if you were to use a 15mm fish eye on an APS-C sensor camera, the photos wouldnt look very fishey looking. Theyd come out more like a wide angle, and you'd probably get some serious vignetting.

A Full frame sensor is simply a 1x crop.

Unless you mean using a lens designed for APS-C on a full frame, vignetting is not dependent on the sensor size, or the type of lens used. (or do you mean distortion there)

Spaniard wrote in post #12243641
OMG!!! You been using a APS-H camera and don't know what is a APS-C.

Crazy I know...Right?

TheRisingArms wrote in post #12243643
A Full frame sensor is simply a 1x crop.

Unless you mean using a lens designed for APS-C on a full frame, vignetting is not dependent on the sensor size, or the type of lens used. (or do you mean distortion there)

Sorry it's 2am im barely thinking. haha, Yes, FF cameras are equal to a 35mm film camera in term of crop.

And it depends on what fisheye were talking about, although, most fisheyes are designed for ff's, but are often used on apsc.

Oh, and unless you want to spend serious money on a fisheye, youre going to be getting a manual focus fisheye. Which isnt a big deal when you get used to it.. Goodluck!

One you could try is the Sigma 15mm f2.8
It's around $600 though.