Thoughts on canon fisheye lens

[Woody.]

Gonna go check out and maybe buy and 15 mm canon f/2.8 fisheye lense and figured I’d ask to see if anyone here has any strong feelings either way about it. Plan on using for skating and skiing filming.

 

[skiP.E.I.]

Good plan. Good lens as far as fisheye goes.

 

[WoFlowz]

Beagle shoots hd fish with a cannon fish& metabones adapter on a gh4 or 5 and it fucks

 

[eheath]

I'm assuming you're using a canon camera?

15mm isn't that wide unless you're using a FF camera. My fisheye on my gh5 is a 7.5mm and for most 1.5x/1.6x crops it would be closer to 8mm-10mm, just something to consider.

The other thing is that the canon 15mm isn't a cheap lens, you could spend 200-300 on a opteka (sp) 8mm fish and get your desired results.

 

[eheath]

Beagle shoots hd fish with a cannon fish& metabones adapter on a gh4 or 5 and it fucks

hes probably using the 8-16? a 15mm fish on a 2x crop is kinda ass.

 

[LukasSchroeder]

hes probably using the 8-16? a 15mm fish on a 2x crop is kinda ass.

8-15 yeh, looks amazing with speedbooster on a gh5.

I second 15mm not being wide enough, of course you could use it for follows but then just get a 12-16 or something of the sort. 8-15 or 8mm is the way to go.

 

[eheath]

8-15 yeh, looks amazing with speedbooster on a gh5.

I second 15mm not being wide enough, of course you could use it for follows but then just get a 12-16 or something of the sort. 8-15 or 8mm is the way to go.

Loved my 11-16 tokina on 1.5x and 2x crop, the fish was good for very specific situations for sure.