Fisheye lens for a Nikon Camera (Page 2): Agree!! :sm24:...

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

drmike99 wrote:

I have the Rokinon AE 8mm f/3.5 aspherical Fish Eye (same as Samyang I believe). Very reasonable price, a DX lens, good IQ. Be sure to get the one with the chip. Minimal price difference. I like it a lot.

Agree!!

drmike99 Loc: Fairfield Connecticut

I took this about 6 years ago with the Rokinon 8mm fish eye and my old Nikon D5000.

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jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I use a Meike 6.5mm fish eye lens ($150) on my D750 occasionally. It's fun to play with it and get different effects.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

JR69 wrote:

Looking to buy a fisheye lens for one of my camera... (show quote)

I have this lens.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/769466-REG/Rokinon_FE8M_N_8mm_Ultra_Wide_Angle.html
Incredible lens for the price.
AF is not needed, in fact I just back it off slightly from infinity and just leave it there.
For a not commonly used lens I did not want to make a huge investment in a fisheye. This one does it all for a price that you do not feel bad if you do not use it all the time, but is there when your vision says it is needed.
Have fun.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

JR69 wrote:

Looking to buy a fisheye lens for one of my camera... (show quote)

With a modification, the 10.5mm will work on an FX camera and provide a curved field

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3720479

lsaguy Loc: Udall, KS, USA

Just a question for the group. Could the OP use an 8 or 12 mm extension tube on the D500 to get the full fisheye effect from a lens that gives that effect on the D850?
Good luck in your quest.

Rick

Gorzek

4/14/2020
I used the first Nikkor 8mm Fish-eye for a summer in 1967, and enjoyed it a lot. Today, I have two Nikkor Fish-eye lens, the 10.5mm and the 8-15mm zoom fish-eye. If you use a DX Nikon body the 10.5mm will give you some interesting images. If you photograph with a full-frame Nikon I think you would be happier with the 8-15mm zoom fish-eye. It has Nikon Nano-coating that nearly eliminates sun and bright light source reflection within the lens. Examples attached—Polevault-10.5mm, PalmTrees-8-15mm zoom at 8mm, and Skull in Field-8-15mm zoom at 8mm and15mm
Don Gorzek 262-251-8073
don@gorzek.photo don@imagemastersbygorzek.com

sandiegosteve Loc: San Diego, CA

For DX, I like 8mm. I got a cheap manual focus Samyang that works great. At 8mm, hyperfocal is like 1'. I used it as a goal cam lens in ice hockey on a remote and it was great. Later, I used it for more stuff. It was super cheap used off ebay (I expected it to possibly die as a remote, but it didn't).

So, there are options. My cheap Samyang also is re-branded under a number of names. They all look the same. For fish eye, manual focus isn't a big deal. The focus ring is like .2, .75, 1.5, infinity in a quarter turn.

cambriaman Loc: Central CA Coast

drmike99 wrote:

I have the Rokinon AE 8mm f/3.5 aspherical Fish Eye (same as Samyang I believe). Very reasonable price, a DX lens, good IQ. Be sure to get the one with the chip. Minimal price difference. I like it a lot.

I found this lens very useful for the kind of images I wanted to get. The price was affordable. But, remember, this type of lens has very few applications that are worth creating. It's certainly no "walk-around" lens. That is why I chose the Rokinon instead of the Nikon.

jno

Depending on what you are going to photograph and how often you will use the lens look at the inexpensive but good Rokinon 8mm and similar lenses. Manual but inexpensive!

Pixel-pusher

Wow !!!
I wish I had known that before I bought my 8—15mm fisheye.
That extra three degrees would be just enough to solve my blue equator problem in my fully spherical 360° (aka 4π steradian) panorama shots. I'm working on other solutions but they are complicated.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

JR69 wrote:

Superfly
OK So I understand a FX fisheye lens filling the sensor (full circle) which is what I am looking for on a fx camera. And using the FX fisheye on a DX camera the circle would be bigger than the sensor so not as much curvature.
Now a DX 10.5mm fisheye, that lens I would assume would fill full circle on a DX sensor. But if I were to use the DX lens on a FX camera, the camera automatically sees that I have a DX lens mounted and only fills the sensor to that of a DX sensor wouldn't it

I own and shoot both a D500 and a D850. The D850 can easily be set NOT to automatically switch to DX format when a DX lens is installed.

I do not have the lenses you are considering, and therefore cannot speak to specifics of what each lens would do on your cameras. But I can definitively speak against the myth that your D850 will force you to DX format even if you do not want it to do so.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

larryepage wrote:

I own and shoot both a D500 and a D850. The D850 can easily be set NOT to automatically switch to DX format when a DX lens is installed.

I do not have the lenses you are considering, and therefore cannot speak to specifics of what each lens would do on your cameras. But I can definitively speak against the myth that your D850 will force you to DX format even if you do not want it to do so.

But with a full fisheye DX lens you would still be limited to a circle of coverage that’s designed to fit inside a DX sensor.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

SuperflyTNT wrote:

But with a full fisheye DX lens you would still be limited to a circle of coverage that’s designed to fit inside a DX sensor.

I do not know the size of the image circle of the DX fisheye under consideration. I no longer have a large number of DX lenses, and have never had the 10.5mm. But image circles of DX lenses that I have tried vary considerably in coverage. For instance, my 18-200mm comes pretty close to covering an FX sensor, especially at shorter focal lengths. My 17-55mm makes a somewhat smaller image. But all of them will cover a 24x24mm space, which would be plenty for a circular fisheye image.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

larryepage wrote:

I do not know the size of the image circle of the DX fisheye under consideration. I no longer have a large number of DX lenses, and have never had the 10.5mm. But image circles of DX lenses that I have tried vary considerably in coverage. For instance, my 18-200mm comes pretty close to covering an FX sensor, especially at shorter focal lengths. My 17-55mm makes a somewhat smaller image. But all of them will cover a 24x24mm space, which would be plenty for a circular fisheye image.

That may be true of other lenses, but if a fisheye lens has an image circle that’s bigger than the sensor then it’s not a full fisheye.