Has anyone tried Canon 15mm fisheye lens on T1i 500D Rebel?

3 Comments

1. fhotoace says:

   June 16, 2010 at 6:29 pm

   It cannot cover a full 180 degrees on your T1i since your sensor is so small. The EF 15 mm lens is designed to cover 180 degrees when i is used on a 35 mm SLR or full frame digital camera like the 1Ds and 5D cameras. The equivilant of putting a 24 mm lens on a 35 mm camera

   IF Canon made a fisheye lens for your camera, it would be about a 10 lens or shorter.

   There is one generic fisheye lens made you might want to consider (although since you already took the plunge before asking, it may be a little too late) is the Tokina 10-17 mm fisheye zoom.
2. Paul R says:

   June 19, 2010 at 5:45 pm

   The crop factor will kill it, this is a moderate fisheye lens even on a full frame camera (it is the diagonal type which means a full frame image is recorded, the centre is largely unaffected with the distortion really coming in at the edges) on a cropped sensor camera you will lose this effect pretty much.

   Sigma do a couple of very wide DC EX fisheye lenses which will give either a diagonal fisheye effect (like the 15mm would on a 5D2) or a circular effect (very very distorted with extreme vignetting)

   Both of these lenses are ideal for a 500D:

   If you are using a 5D2 as well then you need the DG version:

   Unfortunately the crop of the 500D will make it difficult to get a fisheye to suit both.

   I would also say on a general point that fisheye lenses are great for very specific applications, they can be a novelty you tire of quickly, why not hire first?
3. Mark says:

   June 22, 2010 at 4:59 am

   Because that is one of the many DSLRs that has the APS sized sensor you will want to look for lenses that are fisheyes made for that sized sensor.

   Below I listed a link that will web page listing 3 lenses.

   Hope this helps.

   Mark