Fisheye

[Mr Darcy]

I was bitten by the astronomy bug quite early. It has lain dormant for some years now, but was reawakened by the recent partial eclipse. To that end, I picked up a fisheye to capture as much of the heavens as I can get in a star trail.
It does have other uses though.
This is first photo. I defished, then because I was curious, I pushed the defish as far as I could, reaching that state that Terry Pratchett would call eyehsif. I quite liked the result:

A little blurry as the exposure was 2Sec. A bit long even for a 16mm lens. Why is AutoISO never on when you need it?

[aim54x]

Certainly an interesting look. What does Pam think? Which fish eye did you get?

[Mr Darcy]

What does Pam think?

These photos always have to go past the censors.
Verdict:

Which fish

I couldn't go past DDP's price

[aim54x]

Very jealous now.....I think I can only top this lens in one way....going Russian!!

That is a fine piece of glass! I am also glad that you manged to slip that image past censorship

[zafra52]

am also glad that you manged to slip that image past censorship

I wouldn't show it to too many people. It will be
interesting to see the images you come up with
that lens.

[Remorhaz]

It's funny - in the last few days I've been considering getting that cheap Samyang/Rokinon/Bower/... 8mm f/3.5 fisheye (all reports indicated very positive reviews and super sharp from f/5.6 onwards, MF of course but the newer ones are chipped to meter fine with Nikon cameras) and was about to pull the trigger when I saw Rokinon announced a new version with a detachable lens hood (so you "could" use it on FX if ever needed) - you'd still get a more circular image but at least you wouldn't have to grind off the hood.

[sirhc55]

Taken with the Samyang 8mm on a Pen. No de-fishing done.

[aim54x]

I saw Rokinon announced a new version with a detachable lens hood (so you "could" use it on FX if ever needed) - you'd still get a more circular image but at least you wouldn't have to grind off the hood.

Very interesting...Im very tempted to pull the trigger on the Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 to complement my Tokina 10-17....but a cicular fish would be very interesting for the D700