Just bought a Rokinon 8mm Fish-eye lens to play - slightly fiddly to use as its all manual with open metering, but seems to work ok:
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8mm Fish-eye lens
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Posted 1 year ago #
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There's one available for my camera, but I can't imagine what I'd do with it... Plus it's £800.. like that shot though - looks like a cat's eye.
Posted 1 year ago # -
This was only £240 and comes with mounts for most SLRs...
Posted 1 year ago # -
Hmm.. been tempted by the OM mount adapter for mine but.. I dunno.. just too many things to mess about with
Fisheye is one novelty that can work though but it's still a particular effect that you could imagine getting fed up with.. no..?
Posted 1 year ago # -
Novelty value only I think...
Posted 1 year ago # -
Try and take the most bizarre pics you can and post them up... Gotta have a sense of humour with that lens I reckon
Posted 1 year ago # -
Perfect for portraits!
Posted 1 year ago # -
Slight fisheye is good for interior photography, tends to make rooms look bigger
Posted 1 year ago # -
This one makes my house look like a narrow boat - really long and thin - will post some up later (need to get the Tripod out for indoor ones)...
Posted 1 year ago # -
That's pretty good. I bet that would straighten up nicely too.
Posted 1 year ago # -
That's not exactly a "true" fish eye but it looks ok. They are very much a novelty lens and you'll no doubt go round using it for everything for a few weeks to come and then resign it back to the bottom of your camera bag where it will gather dust.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Yep - I think that's exactly what will happen
Posted 1 year ago # -
I've got that lens too - it's made by Samyang but branded as various things. It's really good for the money imo. I partly bought it for video but I use it quite a bit (probably too much
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St George's Works-14 by Grum Wynne, on FlickrPosted 1 year ago # -
Nice photos
Will have to keep experimenting...
Posted 1 year ago # -
A quick trip into London to get a Visa and saw this opportunity:
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St Pancras Renaissance Hotel by brf, on FlickrPosted 1 year ago # -
It'd be good to get onto the platforms where the champagne bar is - the roof there should look good through the fish ...
Posted 1 year ago # -
Wasn't so impressive inside - you really need to get close to subjects to distort them nicely.
Captures a wide fov though:
St Pancras Station by brf, on FlickrPosted 1 year ago # -
have ya tried taking a pic of yer todger with it? Not for posting here, i mean just out of interest
Posted 1 year ago # -
I've never had the time / patience to play with photo SW eg HDR, but that composite looks pretty impressive - plus you used a quality lens rather than my cheapo gimmick 8mm
CM - Still can't get my todger in the frame, need an even wider angle lens
Posted 1 year ago # -
footflaps, you could stitch things together yourself in photoshop to creat a 360 pano without the top and bottom or lightprobe stuff would be a total 6 shots.
I used Autopano because it takes the hard work out of the equation when you are dealing with 42 images!I also have a nodal ninja panoramic head which keeps the lens axis in the right place. Dont see why a landscape view wouldn't work straight off the tripod though.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Cheers - will have to investigate some SW...
Posted 1 year ago # -
I've got one of the Pentax fisheye zoom lenses. At the wide end it's a proper fisheye effect e.g.:
Nearer the long end it can also be used to give a more normal wide angle effect if you keep the horizon central and crop to panoramic:
When I first got the lens I was guilty of overusing, however I've calmed down now so only use it occasionally. It's pretty small though so easy to keep in the bag. I've also got a normal 10-20mm zoom that gets a lot mure use, but having the fisheye can be fun.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I like that Eiffel Tower shot!
Posted 1 year ago # -
Great shots.. the pics on here got me interested in it, now I want the Oly 8mm.. cheers guys!
Posted 1 year ago # -
I did have a bit of a play with de-fishing software and got some useable results. Here's the original shot:
and here it is de-fished:
There is some noticeable CA on the de-fished shot (most noticeable in the trees on the left) but overall it's not too bad.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I quite like that one fished, actually.
How about partial de-fishing?
Posted 1 year ago # -
Love the pics!!!
I have been so tempted with a Sigma 4.5mm circular fisheye recently
Posted 1 year ago # -
partial de-fishing
That proper made me chuckle. Always fancied a fisheye, but I have a 10-20 which I only use occasionally so I can't really justify it
Posted 1 year ago # -
The oly one has a 180 degree field of view diagonally. A review said you have to be really carefully not to get your feet in the bottom of every shot
Posted 1 year ago # -
Why are they called fish-eye lenses? Is this really how fish see the world?
Posted 1 year ago # -
I've not seen many fish using a DSLR with an 8mm lens.....
Posted 1 year ago # -
I think it's because they look like fish's eyes.
But I suspect that is how they see the world to an extent. However.. would the different refractive index of water require their eye lenses to be more bulged out to get the same field of view as a normal eye?
Posted 1 year ago # -
Footflaps - you just cost me £300...
(won an Oly 8mm one on eBay!)
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