Fisheye adapters...

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Looking around the web I've come accross a couple of Fisheye adapters with prices starting aroun £40, has anyone played with any of these?

I really want a Canon 15mm as have read superb reviews and a friend has just taken delivery of his and alreay loves it but at £500 it's not something I can afford to just pop out and buy!

Are the adapters any good? I'm not expecting them to be anywhere near as good as the real thing but can you get some good results with them or are they just a gimmic to stear clear of?
 
I don't know about the technical quality, but if you have an inkling for a fisheye lens it could make financial sense to try an adaptor.
My thinking is that the novelty of taking fisheye pics may not last all that long and if you have spent £500 just to discover that then it's a lot of money wasted.
 
The image quality is terrible at a very small aperture, and unusuable at a larger one - but a cheap way of getting what is really a gimmick effect that you might get tired of quickly.
 
For a bit more than £40 but way less than £500, you can get one of these. Not perfect and it does mean waiting for prints to arrive but it does give a cheap introduction to fisheye images and lets you decide whetrher you really want a proper fisheye lens or not.
 
Thanks for the link, looking at the photo's it is a lens I definately want to add into my future collection...

Now to get people to start buying some cars to make sure I hit my targets lol :)
 
Is there a way in post processing programs such as photshop to "straighten" the image out so you can see the full 180deg a fisheye lens offers without the fisheye effect?
 
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