Why would I buy a Fisheye lens?

[AndrewFlannigan]

Speaking of screw in fisheyes, Nikon produced a surprisingly good one for their Coolpix 9XX digital cameras, the ones with the twist screen & lens design.

 

[Petrochemist]

It's been a while (long while) since I looked at crop sensor lenses, but Tokina 10-17mm fisheye zoom every time. Should be easy on the budget.

It's a bonkers 180º rectilinear (so square image, not a circle in the frame which personally I'm not a fan of) fisheye at 10mm, but to stop it being a one trick pony, zoom in to 12-15mm and it's just a bendy bonkers super wide angle lens. So it's not the usual fisheye one trick pony.

I suspect the Tokina may be much the same as my Pentax 10-17 (possibly even identical?). In which case I agree an excellent option. But it's not rectilinear as that term means it presents straight lines as straight lines with minimal distortion - basically all lenses other than fisheyes.

I couldn't recommend a macro for Canon, the only Canon macro I know id the MPE 65 which is fantastic but somewhat more specialised than normal macro options

 

[Nod]

Decent budget(ish!) macro options are the Tamron 90mm and Sigma 105mm. I ended up with a Tamron purely because that was what turned up on a local 2nd hand shelf first.

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

You don't always need a fisheye lens to get fisheye pictures...

 

[Petrochemist]

Decent budget(ish!) macro options are the Tamron 90mm and Sigma 105mm. I ended up with a Tamron purely because that was what turned up on a local 2nd hand shelf first.

You probably don't mean the same Tamron 90mm macro as I have, mines an old Adaptall2 model, an excellent lens but only managing half life size. Sadly mine is not in great condition, but it did only cost me £1 with the right mount fitted