EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye

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15mm fisheye - Indroduced in 1987
15mm fisheye - Indroduced in 1987

I received the following email a couple of minutes ago.

I talked with Canon tech support today and they said they are no longer going to produce the Canon 15mm fisheye!!

I’m not sure what anyone in tech support would know about product availability. I haven’t seen an official discontinuation yet.

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  • I sold mine when I only had my 40D.(not much of a fisheye on a crop camera) I wish I had it back to use on my 5D2.

  • Well, it’s been over 20 years – I’ll be there’s a new design on the way. Perhaps not 15mm, but something new.

  • I’d think if this were true there would be a replacement for it coming. And I agree tech support people are harldly in the loop for product development.

  • I would also think replacement, especially considering they’ll be making more FF cameras

  • I doubt that Canon would not have a fisheye lens in their lineup. Not when the sigma
    does well and Nikon has one in their line… Not to mention, they recently updated the
    14mm Aspherical. So I’ll just sit on my hands wait patiently. Curse the uncertainty of the situation and maybe i’ll be thankful they ran out just before I was about to buy the older
    model…

  • I keep mine preciously !

    Canon has a lot of new lenses to introduce in short period of time if they want to renew their lineup…

  • Just asked Canon USA and they said: the EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye lens is currently in production

  • C’mon these fisheye lenses are only good for cropped sensors. If you have seen one picture made with fisheye lenses you have seen them all.

    Canon please discontinue this lens and use the R&D on something worthwhile.

  • its a niche product and a weird one at that… there are plenty of alternatives and if canon discountinues this one to make room for something more useful then I’m certainly going to be happy

  • hmmm… I don’t think you guys have seen the better fisheye pictures that are out there, I agree that it is a niche market, but it is a useful lens. I hope they keep or upgrade it, especially considering how little R&D it takes to improve a fisheye lens.

  • It’s not a niche market- every surf, snow and skate photog in the world relies on their fisheye on a practically daily basis… For taking watershots of surfers in tubes its the standard lens…

  • Very true Sharpy, a fisheye lens is the “money maker” every pro has to have it, nothing comes close.

  • What is up with this lens? This seems a long time for it to be out of stock. It may be an old lens, but it is well regarded, and this is not a good time for Canon to be replacing it unless the replacement is not that much more expensive.

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