> I'm thinking I want the the Canon fisheye. Does anyonne have one? Does > anyone know of any any full size uncropped full frame or 1.3x crop > images that out in the wild that I can look at?
I have had the 15mm fisheye for years. I don't use it much, but it is the widest (*) lens in my arsenal even after defishing, so it gets used when the 16-35 does not suffice. It is a fairly old design, as apparent in the noisy autofocus (not that autofocus is that important in such a lens). This is a full-frame fisheye (180 degrees FOV in diagonal). The more you crop (either in camera or later), the more it diminishes the actual fisheye effect. It is reasonably sharp (not surprising since the optics do not have to rectilinearize). I haven't really seen the price go down much - I bought might nearly 10 years ago in Hongkong in the good old days when the US dollar was still worth someting. (*) I just got a Peleng 8mm circular fisheye this past weekend for my birthday, but those two fisheye lenses are classes apart. The Peleng is a circular fisheye and it is not quite as sharp as the Canon 15mm, but the Peleng sure is a FUN lens. Lars -- .~. Lars Michael /V\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /(_)\ http://www.larsmichael.com/ ^^ ^^ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
