Canon Fisheye / wide - options?

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Hi im after one for static car shots and ive tryed googling but thought i would ask you lot aswell.

What are my options for a wide angle / fisheye lens for my canon?

Cheapest being the forefront, but obvioulsy after some half decent quality too. (although i know they dont go together :thinking:)

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Andy
 
I have the Canon 10-22 wide angle. I took it out to an off-roading event we went to, purely so I could fit the entire car in as you often are in quite confined ruts, path etc. Anyway the general feedback I got on the pics were people didn't like the distortion from the wide angle.. I guess it depends what sort of end result you are after, perhaps people didn't like them because it wasn't distorted enough to look deliberate....

I have looked into fisheye lens in the past and because you have a cropped sensor the only lens that I am aware of which will fit your camera and give you a full circular image is the Sigma 4.5mm (it's about £700 though). The 8mm lens will give you a cropped circle unless you have a full frame camera.
 
I've an M42-fit Russian manual focus Zenitar fisheye with a Canon adapter. They come with Canon mounts as well I understand. I got mine for £100 and as long as it is stopped down to f8-ish it gives very acceptable images. MF doesn't matter so much as the depth of field is enormous. It produces full frame (ie not circular) images but the distortion can be huge and Nicky's comments above about extreme wide angle shots probably apply. But if you want a cheap introduction to fisheyes I recommend the Zenitar:

http://cpicture.net/zenitar/index.html

Ian
 
Fish-eyes and wide-angles are very different.

A fish-eye is uncorrected for linear distortion, so straight lines towards the edges of the frame are strongly curved into a barrel shape. They also have a 180 degrees angle of view.

A wide-angle is rectilinear, corrected for distortion so that straight lines stay straight (or should do). But as a result of that, the sides and corners of the frame have to be 'stretched' into line, sometimes making people look fat and with egg-shaped heads on a super-wide lens.

Lots of regular wide angles about. Fish-eyes are less common. This one looks good value - Samyang, about £240 I think http://www.lenstip.com/160.1-Lens_r...5_Aspherical_IF_MC_Fish-eye_Introduction.html
 
That's just wide angle, in fact it says above the image is was taken at 13mm on the Tokina lens
 
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