D40 and Fisheye lens

ERU

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Hey all,

I'm looking to buy a 'fisheye' lens for my Nikon D40 and I was thinking this looked a good deal. Can anyone advise me before I commit to buying it? I'm looking to use it with the stock lens and take exposures of a cliff-face. The idea being to fit the area (landscape) onto the page - as opposed to the artistic reasons.

Cheers
ERU
 
ERU said:
Hey all,

I'm looking to buy a 'fisheye' lens for my Nikon D40 and I was thinking this looked a good deal. Can anyone advise me before I commit to buying it? I'm looking to use it with the stock lens and take exposures of a cliff-face. The idea being to fit the area (landscape) onto the page - as opposed to the artistic reasons.

Cheers
ERU
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Looks like a waste of money to me. Although I have no hands on experience.
 
well firstly , using an adaptor like this will have photos coming out like this :


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Aposing to real fisheye lenses that do this :

boats-fisheye-big.jpg
 
hmm, i've always fancied a fish eye for my D40 as well, that adapter one looks alright, as i want the black border!
 
Well after a bit of reseach on the software side i've found 'Hugin' ! Seems the fisheye will loose the perspective if I do it either hardware or software. 'Hugin' looks like it will sort my landscapes out for what I need. Going to give it a try now.
 
Yarde said:
WHY IS THAT SOOOOO EXPENSIVE?!!??!!?
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6mm is as wide as it gets.
2.8 is also damn fast when you are that wide.
Making a high quality fish eye that wide requires extreme engineering and production. The front lens element was supposed cured over a period of 24 months. All were hand made.

Only 600 of all models were made, of this specific model only 29, and at least some have been destroyed in accidents.


Designing and building a fish-eye lens is muh harder than most exotic telephotos.
 
D.P. said:
6mm is as wide as it gets.
2.8 is also damn fast when you are that wide.
Making a high quality fish eye that wide requires extreme engineering and production. The front lens element was supposed cured over a period of 24 months. All were hand made.

Only 600 of all models were made, of this specific model only 29, and at least some have been destroyed in accidents.


Designing and building a fish-eye lens is muh harder than most exotic telephotos.
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unbelievably what some people pay for lenses!
 
d40 is a good little camera, cheap lens adaptors like that one ebay are rubbish. if you can't see what is wrong with the image they produce then you may as well sell the d40 and just use your phone camera with an el cheapo adaptor stuck to it.

borders are photoshop territory
 
GeX said:
d40 is a good little camera, cheap lens adaptors like that one ebay are rubbish. if you can't see what is wrong with the image they produce then you may as well sell the d40 and just use your phone camera with an el cheapo adaptor stuck to it.

borders are photoshop territory
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