Budget fish eye converter lenses

I think you'll probably get as frustrated as bored with a cheap converter.
 
As in another recent thread...

I've had two of these cheap wide adapters. One was pretty poor general image quality wise but would focus quite close and so was quite good as a sort of pseudo macro, the other was quite good for real world shots as long as you didn't nit-pick but not as good as a real wide angle lens.

One big issue with these is possible vignetting so you need to note the thread size of the adapter and what you are going to fit it to. You may end up with quite a small circular image surrounded by blackness if the vignetting is at worst case.
 
I took this image with a budget wide angle adapter on my nikon kit 18-55 lens, I'd rate them for occasional use but I was frustrated by the chromatic aberration towards the edges in a lot of situations and ended up with a second hand Sigma 10-20 which I love (but which was 13 times the price!)


Cows-12.jpg by Brian of Bozeat, on Flickr
 
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