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summero

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Hey people! Can anyone recommend me some good lenses for my camera? Are there any good fisheye lenses for a Canon Digital Rebel EOS? Thanks in advance :)
 

esco

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Not sure about fish eye lenses, but when I started off with my digital rebel xt, i had a 17-85 f4.0-5.6 IS and it did wonders. Might wanna check out the Tamron 28-75 as well, heard it does pretty well on rebels.
 

Mike Teezie

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Hey people! Can anyone recommend me some good lenses for my camera? Are there any good fisheye lenses for a Canon Digital Rebel EOS? Thanks in advance :)

On a 1.6 body like the Rebel, Canon's 15mm fisheye isn't going to have much of a fisheye effect at all. You have to have a full frame camera to get the true fisheye effect.
 

ChrisA

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Hey people! Can anyone recommend me some good lenses for my camera? Are there any good fisheye lenses for a Canon Digital Rebel EOS? Thanks in advance :)

If you want a fisheye get the Nikon 10.5mm It works as a fisheye even on a crop body like the D50. Cheaper to buy the Nikon Body + lens than a digital Canon fisheye setup as you'd need a Canon full frame body and a not-cheap canon lens.

Other options: (1) Buy a manual focus film body and a manual fisheye lens. There is no need for AF with a fisheye as the DOF is from like 2 inches to infinity. If you are buying used film SLRs and want a fisheye, look at Nikon. They made a lot of fisheyes. Nikon invented the fisheye lens for 35mm cameras (2) Use Photoshop. Take a panoramma, say a 3x3 matrix stitch then together and then apply a strong flens distortion filter.
 

eyun

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Apr 17, 2007
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Or you could buy the Sigma 10-20mm for about $500. Canon makes a 10-22mm for about $750, I believe.
 

sjl

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Or you could buy the Sigma 10-20mm for about $500. Canon makes a 10-22mm for about $750, I believe.

Both of which are extreme wide angle, but not fisheyes. They are fine lenses if you want an extreme wide angle view, but if you want a fisheye, they are not the lens to get.

Sigma makes an 8mm fisheye which may be a useful option. I don't know, having not looked at this in detail.
 
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