Adorama has the Samyang 8mm f/3.5 HD Fisheye for $145 (Reg $279), this is the best price we've ever seen on this lens.
This is a great fisheye lens for Canon APS-C shooters, as it's optically good and definitely won't break the bank.
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Samyang 8mm f/3.5 HD Fisheye $145 (Reg $279)
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Will this also be well suited for a FF camera like a 5D3?
Or is this just for crop sensors?
TIA
cayenne
On crop sensors, the image will fill the frame completely. On 1.5x crop, it's supposed to give a 180 degree diagonal angle of view. Since Canon is 1.6x crop, it's supposed to give about 167 degree diagonal angle of view. It's a great fun lens, but maybe you have to adjust to focus, i.e. focus scale may not match actual focus distance. https://photonius.jimdo.com/samyang-8mm-fish-eye/
It will fit on a FF camera. The newer version (which seems to be the one shown on Adorama) has a removable hood - the lens as shown on the Adorama site lacks the hood. Thus, you will get a partially circular image, it will be cut at the top and bottom, at the left and right you will have partial circular hard vignetting (you can find samples by searching the internet). When you crop, you should get a 180 degree diagonal field of view, if you want that.
You can find them on ebay all the time for around $99-130
So the 8mm of Canon seem to be different from the 8mm of Samyang. Otherwise you should get the same circle on both lenses. Of course you can always crop to a circular image, but that would not look the same, as the edges of the circle the Canon lens produces are especially interesting.
The other solution I can think of is taking a photo, than turn the camera 90 degrees and than take another photo. Than you could reproduce the whole circle. That only works with non moving subjects though.
Yes
The image circle is not large enough to cover the entire sensor, but it's also not small enough to show as a complete circle on the full-sized sensor. If you take the hood off, you can get a partial circle where the top and bottom are chopped off.
When I get a chance to look through my photos, I'll try to attach something representational.
I was wanting to get a decent fish eyed lens to play with on my 5D3 that doesn't break the bank, but I want one that doesn't present a cropped off image.
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