Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye

Canon 15mm f/2.8 FD Lens (semi fish-eye) This is a remarkable lens. Both in its small size, clarity and speed. It also includes a built in filter in 4 colours, sky (clear), red, yellow and orange. I think its light-weight too, specially compared to my normal 55mm/1.2 asymetrical. Lens has many more uses that you first may think; nature, spectacular scenery when you want to catch small stuff near yet bring the whole landscape into the picture. Closeups feasible due to the short closeup-distance, flower or miniature-photography. Architechture or comic photos. Artistic photos. Poster-works, postcards, interior photography! Dramatic skiing and sport-pictures! All this in one lens and no extra ad-ons needed! One funny thing is that you could use this semi-fish-eye-lens and still get straight lines to remain straight, just make sure the lines go from center and then perpendicular to the edge. The oposite effect may be used in creative ways like curving the horizon (thus proving the earth is rounded). This isnt a regular fisheye but it fills out the whole frame, giving a rectangular field of view. The wide angle is a full 180 degree on the diagonal. Hence it's often refered to as a semi-fish-eye. The focus-ring is from 0.25m (less than one feet) and the short lens makes the depth very wide and deep even at moderate apperatures. Stopped at 22 its almost full focus from infinity to very very close. This is a lens you will never miss out on focus with! features: 1/f = 2.8 - 22. Shortest focus less than 0.25m (less than 0.75 feet) 4 different colour built in revolver filters, easy to shift with the revolver ring. A fixed built in lens shade, wich also helps protect the front-lens. Special metal dustcap. 180 degree field of view diagonally! FDn quick snap on and lock mechanism.Read full review

Excellent lens for wide angle and creative effects The Canon f2.8 fisheye lens is a great addition to any camera bag and is very useful when a very wide scene must be captured, or for times when a creative effect is desired. Often an ordinary scene can be made interesting with the use of this little gem. The lens creates barrel distortion that gets more dramatic toward the top and bottom of the image, while the center of the image and the middle of the frame along the horizontal center axis remains straight and distortion free nearly to the edge of the frame. With this in mind, different compositions can be created depending on how one chooses to frame the photo. This lens can be used to get a shot that would not normally be possible without moving a lot further away from the subject, and the fisheye effect can be somewhat mitigated with software if desired. Whether or not a fisheye shot can be made totally straight is probably a subject for debate. Note the the greatest fisheye effect is realized when using this lens with a full-frame body. I use it on a the 1.3x crop Canon 1D Mk2N, and it works very well, although with less fisheye effect than would be the case with a full frame sensor. The fisheye effect on a 1.6x crop body would be even less. The lens is small, light and compact, and has a different kind of lens cap than other lenses, because the cap has to protect the round protruding front glass element. Some folks have complained that the lens cap may become too loose, but so far that has not happened to mine. The build quality of this lens is very solid. The maximum f2.8 aperture of this lens makes it fast enough to work well in many low light situations. The lens is useful in some architectural photography applications as well.Read full review

Excellent lens for wide angle and creative effects The Canon f2.8 fisheye lens is a great addition to any camera bag and is very useful when a very wide scene must be captured, or for times when a creative effect is desired. Often an ordinary scene can be made interesting with the use of this little gem. The lens creates barrel distortion that gets more dramatic toward the top and bottom of the image, while the center of the image and the middle of the frame along the horizontal center axis remains straight and distortion free nearly to the edge of the frame. With this in mind, different compositions can be created depending on how one chooses to frame the photo. This lens can be used to get a shot that would not normally be possible without moving a lot further away from the subject, and the fisheye effect can be somewhat mitigated with software if desired. Whether or not a fisheye shot can be made totally straight is probably a subject for debate. Note the the greatest fisheye effect is realized when using this lens with a full-frame body. I use it on a the 1.3x crop Canon 1D Mk2N, and it works very well, although with less fisheye effect than would be the case with a full frame sensor. The fisheye effect on a 1.6x crop body would be even less. The lens is small, light and compact, and has a different kind of lens cap than other lenses, because the cap has to protect the round protruding front glass element. Some folks have complained that the lens cap may become too loose, but so far that has not happened to mine. The build quality of this lens is very solid. The maximum f2.8 aperture of this lens makes it fast enough to work well in many low light situations. The lens is useful in some architectural photography applications as well.Read full review