Lookin for a fisheye, not for filming

proZach

proZach

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I have a nikon d3000 and am looking to expand my lenses. my buddy picked up a fisheye a year ago and I've been eying his pics with a bit of jealousy haha. I already have a macro and decent tele, but was thinking about a fisheye. does anyone have some suggestions?
I've just been looking at some sigma and nikkor lenses. my price range is around $600, but could work a few extra hours if the quality is really that good. thanks!
 
@ OP if you can do a little more than $600 this would be sick.
if not there are always the 8mm fisheyes that can be purchased just about anywhere online.
 
an extra hundred wouldn't be a big deal. I saw online them going for $675 shipped. just gotta build up to that $600 haha. any other suggestions? I checked out the sigma, pretty dope. roughly the same price too
 
love my 10.5, taken some of my best photos with it. Also, the Tokina 11-16 will autofocus with the D3000, 10.5 will not (i think). Though the 11-16 isn't a fish eye but still really wide
 
tokina makes a 10-17 fish, but it's a 3.5-4.5(something like that at least)

plus, it's a fisheye, do you really need AF with it in the first place? haha
 
I have the Samyang 8mm fish-eye, paid about $250 for it brand new. Somehow it didn't make sense to me to pay a lot for a specialty lens like a fisheye, plus I preferred the angle of view over the Nikon. I am surprised by the extremely high build quality of the Samyang, and it is very compact.

Autofocus is not important on a fisheye. However, the Samyang will not meter on a D3000 so you have to use it in manual (M) mode. On a D7000 it meters beautifully.

The Nikon is a lot sharper wide open. Still, I'd rather get a Tokina 11-16 + Samyang 8mm than paying so much for a Nikon fisheye. IQ-wise the Tokina beats everything.
 
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