Fisheye lens on Digital body

[_dobbo_]

Hi Folks!

My first project as a DSLR owner is to update a website for a friends business - lots of photos of tasty cars.

I'd really like to get some ultra wide angle fisheye style shots, but the only lens I can find that comes close is a 10mm Nikon DX lens at over £300 - a bit much for my requirements!

Does anyone have any experience of, or know whether a screw on type lens would be any good - such as this one - bearing in mind that the pictures are for the web rather than for print...

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

[parrot of doom]

The problem with cheap w/a lenses is quality. With a lens so cheap, you're probably going to suffer from colour separation and lack of focus around the edges, which defeats the object of having one in the first place. Have a look at this example:



The lens that did this was £45 - so you can imagine how poor the one you mention will be.

If its only for a temporary project, you might be better off buying a new one, using it until you're done, and then selling it on Ebay. There are plenty of people who would buy it from you.

Consider buying an attachment that doesn't screw into your lens, but uses a rubber/plastic adaptor ring instead - they're more flexible, and more likely to sell.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=30070&item=3866173545&rd=1

If you bought one of those, I reckon you could flog it on Ebay for about £300 no problem.


>> Edited by parrot of doom on Monday 10th January 18:31

[_dobbo_]

I'm still on the hunt for a cheap way of doing this - I know that I could use the buy and sell technique, but I can't afford at the moment to have £300+ tied up in a lens that I might not be able to sell quickly.

So I've found THIS which seems ok for my purposes - anyone have any comments on "peleng" lenses? Bear in mind that I am shooting for website usage, and not high quality print use.

[V6GTO]

Why do they call it an 8mm and then say the focal length is 12mm?

Dobbo,
What about hiring a good lens for a day?

Martin.

[_dobbo_]

V6GTO said:

Why do they call it an 8mm and then say the focal length is 12mm? Dobbo, What about hiring a good lens for a day? Martin.

I think it's because of the 1.5x multiplication factor on digital bodies - it's 8mm on film and 12mm on digital.

I'd never thought of hiring - I'll look into this, thanks!

[_dobbo_]

Well I've looked into hiring and can't find anyone that seems to stock what I am guessing is fairly specialist - a fisheye for digital...

So it seems the 8mm Peleng lens may be my best route into this.

They are cropping up on ebay a bit so I might take a punt on one after I get paid...

One here

and here

[s a m]

For a short time I was using a fisheye screw on lens attachment with my D70s 28-80 to get wider shots, I recently sold it on ebay – it went for about £50 iirc. (Now have a proper 18-70 lens)

I am sure you can do what your after quite cheaply, and the quality on mine wasn’t bad – bar the fact it fisheye’d, but that’s what your going for anyway.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3342&item=3869447225&rd=1#ebayphotohosting

That’s pretty similar to what I had, just needs a lens adaptor to make it fit your cameras ring if its different from that one. Should give a nice fish eye effect depending on what lens you stick it on.

Hope that helps!