Fish eye lenses for astroimaging

[MartinB]

Some very nice and interesting results. This is not a fisheye as such, but I guess you know that. With a real 180 degree lens you have to be careful not to get your feet in the shot. But they are nice just the same. Though I have 3 very large and costly telephotos there is something really different about ultra wide angle shooting, for sure you rarely know what you are going to get.

Alan.

I believe it is a fisheye lens giving a full 180 degree circular field on a full format chip. With an APS chip it doesn't quite achieve full frame fisheyedom

[tingting44]

im looking to get the samyang 8mm fish eye from here

http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-samyang-8mm-f3-5-aspherical-if-mc-fisheye-cs-lens-canon-fit/p1536579?cm_mmc=googlebase-extension-_-camera-lenses-_-canon-fit-_-samyang-8mm-f3-5-aspherical-if-mc-fisheye-cs-lens-canon-fit_1536579&utm_source=googlebase-extension&gclid=cpcp1cmvhbocfcbltaodhxyarq

any one know if they are priced better else where?

id love to see some more milky way shot with this lens pretty pleaseeeee lol by the sounds of it i will have to invest in a dew strap and controller, near on £100 from FLO

[JB80]

im looking to get the samyang 8mm fish eye from here

http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-samyang-8mm-f3-5-aspherical-if-mc-fisheye-cs-lens-canon-fit/p1536579?cm_mmc=googlebase-extension-_-camera-lenses-_-canon-fit-_-samyang-8mm-f3-5-aspherical-if-mc-fisheye-cs-lens-canon-fit_1536579&utm_source=googlebase-extension&gclid=cpcp1cmvhbocfcbltaodhxyarq

any one know if they are priced better else where?

id love to see some more milky way shot with this lens pretty pleaseeeee lol by the sounds of it i will have to invest in a dew strap and controller, near on £100 from FLO

I have one of these and have never used it, I should revisit it just to make sure I wasn't crazy but sometimes it seems to come with a focus issue and you will need to recalibrate it if it has this problem.

http://www.focusonnewfoundland.com/section488880_174000.html

I should test again to make sure and make the adjustments as it seems like too good a lens to not be doing anything.

[tingting44]

nice read thanks for that link how long have you had your lens then mate?

[JB80]

I got mine Christmas last year, but have only used it for a few snaps and discovered it was out of whack and put it back in the box. It sounds like a relatively easy fix though.