sample photos from the Zenitar 16mm f2.8 fisheye

I got the lens today! i had ordered it from that russian based company, it took about 4 weeks to get here..

anyways, i am VERY VERY pleased with this lens. For $160 shipped from russia, ya can't go wrong!

it is sharp from corner to corner! the deodorant in the bottom right and the cologne on the bottom left both stay sharp!

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these were at ISO 1600 at f8

a couple more.. these are at ISO3200

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Zenitar

Yeah, I bought one from Ebay last spring. It's a great lens for the money and has surprisingly good optical and build quality for the price.

Use Panotools or PS with PTlens and you can make some nice normalized wide angle shots with it, if you get tired of the bending effects.

Cheers,

Bruce

I wish someone would compare this with the Canon 15mm fisheye. Now ya got me curious

Bro could you send us a link!!!

You can't go wrong with Russian fish eyes, for whatever reason they made/make good ones.

Eew, Ferrari? It's all about Flavio & Nando!

FANTASTIC!

Does this require an adapter?

I may just have to get this at the same time i get the 17-40

I have been wonder about this lens! Thanks for posting. do you have any outside shots?

thanks

when you order it, you specify weather you get the nikon or canon adaptor.


http://rugift.com …enitar_m_fishey​e_lens.htm


heres a link!

a place in atlanta carries these as well, but i dont know the website adress for them.

I have been wonder about this lens! Thanks for posting. do you have any outside shots?

thanks

tomorrow ill take some, its dark out

That really does a nice job! Those are a lot nicer images that I would have expected for the price.

Wow, that is an amazing value for a fisheye of that good quality. Too bad it's manual focus though, but for that price, who cares? I just ordered one off ebay after reading this post. Thanks for the heads up. This lens + PTLens will hold me over until Tamron releases their 11-18mm ultra wide (EF-S-like) lens, or I break down and get the Canon 10-22mm.

I just checked, and PTLens does have a profile for the Zenitar.

where can i download thie PTLens software? is it a plugin for photoshop? is it free?