Meike Announces 6-11mm f/3.5 Fisheye Zoom for Canon EF

[Canon Rumors]

Meike announced a 6-11mm f/3.5 fisheye lens for both the Canon EF and Nikon F mount. This manual focus lens has the same 180-degree field of view as the Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L fisheye at 6mm.
The 6-11mm f/3.5 fisheye also offers a 180-degree field of view for APS-C and Micro 4/3’s shooters.
Meike 6-11mm f/3.5 Fisheye Zoom Specifications:

Lens Type: Fisheye
Max Aperture: f/3.5
Minimum focus distance: 150mm at 6mm, 250mm at 11mm
Focal length: 6-11mm
Lens structure: 8 groups / 11 elements
Size: 64mm x 94mm
Weight: 541g

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[tianxiaozhang]

If optically good it looks like a winner...

 

[lightthief]

yeah, finally a zoom full frame to full circle fisheye for 16:9 video at the wide end. The 8mm are to big for video.

 

[tapanit]

yeah, finally a zoom full frame to full circle fisheye for 16:9 video at the wide end. The 8mm are to big for video.

Unfortunately it's not full-frame but designed for APS-C sensor. Although it'd presumably mount on FF bodies, how well it'd work on them is uncertain.

 

[lightthief]

Unfortunately it's not full-frame but designed for APS-C sensor. Although it'd presumably mount on FF bodies, how well it'd work on them is uncertain.

Oh, my mistake.

 

[Quackator]

On the Canon EOS R it counters the 4k crop mode.

 

[Sharlin]

It functions as an edge-to-edge FF circular fisheye somewhere in the middle of the zoom range. At 11mm it appears to fill the FF frame horizontally but not diagonally.

 

[Deleted member 378664]

could be an interesting lens for the EOS M system to have a 360 pano kit.
I'm already using a M43 Samyang Fisheye with EF-M mount conversion for that purpose, but the lens is not good when it comes to flares (which outdoors is always the case with 360 panos).

 

[NancyP]

circular fisheye might be of interest to me.