Fish eye adapters..?

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Hi guys,

Been looking at buying the fish eye adapter lens, they seem to go for around 10-20 pounds, does anyone have any first hand experience with one?

I do alot of car pictures, and they sometimes work well?

Any feedback is appreciated!

Cheers
 
See if you can get one 2nd hand then if it's no good for your purposes, you'll be able to sell it on for what you paid for it.
 
I have on for my mobile phone which is fun but poor quality, specially the edges.... but its 235 degrees :D
The dslr ones are mostly poop apart from some Nikon ones, which cost as much as a fisheye lens.....
peleng and Samyang do the cheapest
 
Another point to add... A fisheye is a one trick pony but it's the only pony that can do the trick properly! I enjoy using mine (Sigma 8mm on an FF body) but it's easy to overuse the thing.
 
@Nod , except an 8mm fisheye is a proper fisheye. The guy wants an adapter screw-on lens.

what is your thread diameter? I have a 55mm I would sell in the UK.

Experience wise: fisheye has almost never been ones in which you care about sharpness so let's not care about sharpness. The edges will be significantly worse in a cheap screw-on lens. You really get what you pay for, but if you're buying an expensive screw-on adapter, I would suggest a proper fisheye lens such as the Tokina 10-17mm
 
Hmm, cheers for the feedback guys, yeah I kinda see the 1 trick pony side of things, that's why am not really wanting to spend a lot in fair ness.. Hmm
 
I was looking to go down this route for my Lumix GX7 as the wide angle lenses for the m4/3 cameras are just too expensive for me at the moment.

I thought about some of those sold on ebay which are not too expensive but thought better of it (or so I thought) and went with the more expensive Raynox offering, knowing how good their macro lens converters are.

I went for their 0.66x version so not that strong hopping that it would give better results over a fisheye version.

What a bit of bottle glass it turned out to be with about 90% of the image not only blurred but also totally distorted and smeared. Utter Utter Rubbish. and £50 down the drain, glad I didn't pay the new price ;)

I should have saved my money and got the Olympus Lens cap lens.

Paul
 
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