{"id":63205,"date":"2011-10-04T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/?p=63205"},"modified":"2019-11-09T01:41:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T09:41:38","slug":"canon-8-15mm-f4-0l-fisheye-lens-first-impressions-you-cant-shoot-wider-than-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.photigy.com\/school\/canon-8-15mm-f4-0l-fisheye-lens-first-impressions-you-cant-shoot-wider-than-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon 8-15mm F4.0L Fisheye lens first impressions: you can\u2019t shoot wider than this:-)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canon 8-15mm F4.0L Fisheye lens first impressions:<\/h1>\n

You can\u2019t shoot wider than this:-)<\/h3>\n

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Lake Lanier: fisheye HDR Canon 8-15mm fisheye lens review<\/p>\n

It is done by fisheye lens:-))<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently I’ve picked up a\u00a0Canon 8-15mm F4.0 L \u00a0fisheye lens<\/a> and wanted to share my first impressions:-)<\/p>\n

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1. Body and design<\/h2>\n

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\u00a0Canon 8-15mm F4.0L fisheye lens<\/h2>\n

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Canon 8-15mm F4.0L Fisheye lens first impressions<\/p>\n

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Canon 8-15mm f4L fisheye lens<\/p>\n

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The lens is very similar to the\u00a0Canon 14mm F2.8L<\/a> by size and look. I was using the 14mm for commercial architecture assignments a few years ago and I love this lens. However, unlike 14mm, the fisheye is not “corrected”, providing all kinds of distortions to a photographer. The lens has a small removable hood (14mm has non-removable hood) with cap attached directly to a hood. The hood can be used only at 15mm, and it becomes visible at focal lenght of 14mm and shorter.
\nFull description<\/strong> and explanation of\u00a0lens\u00a0controls available \u00a0at\u00a0Canon website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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2. Image samples<\/h2>\n

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When attached to a full frame camera, \u00a0image circle fills the sensor\u00a0completely\u00a0only between 14.5 and 15 mm. Zoom it to 8mm and it will show you full 180\u00b0 view circle:<\/p>\n

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Canon 8-15mm F4.0 L fisheye lens at 8mm<\/p>\n

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There is not much use for this type of zoom for a full frame shooter, IMO. It would be more practical to use this fisheye on crop sensor cameras, zoomed to 10mm on APS-C sensor it will provide the same image as 15 on a full frame.<\/p>\n

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I’ve used it for a few days with a Canon 5DMKII, shooting some photos at the nearest lake and I love it! The lens gives me such an unusual view of regular\u00a0landmarks that it’s hard to not to be creative with it. Point camera down, and you get a from a space shuttle-like look of the Earth:<\/p>\n

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Canon 8-15mm F4.0L at 14.5mm, pointed down<\/h2>\n

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Lake Lanier: fisheye HDR Canon 8-15mm fisheye lens review<\/p>\n

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Be\u00a0careful\u00a0though, as it can catch some unwanted objects: Look closely at the image and you’ll find what I mean \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Turn camera up and you’ll get an opposite curvature view:<\/p>\n

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Canon 8-15mm F4.0L at 14.5mm, pointed up<\/h2>\n

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Example photo taken by Canon 8-15mm fisheye lens<\/p>\n

\nTip:<\/strong><\/p>\n

To get interesting and creative shots without anything spectacular around, shoot from\u00a0extremely\u00a0lower position and have some objects close to the camera. To get the shot above I had camera about 2 inches from the ground. Even small stone like you see on the right can become a big rock and will look quite interesting.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. Image quality.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Lens has\u00a0relatively\u00a0good sharpness for \u00a0fisheye “L” lens, just\u00a0slightly softer than Canon 14mm F2.8. The biggest difference is a pretty serious amount of CA lens has. I guess this is the maximum what you can get from such wide zoom fisheye. Check it out, 100% crop below:<\/p>\n

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Canon 8-15mm F4 L fisheye image quality, 100% crop<\/h2>\n

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Canon 8-15mm f4 L chromatic abberations image example<\/p>\n

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However, I do not consider this to be a big issue, as Photshop CS5 fixes such things in one move of a slider.<\/p>\n

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Lens is a real fun to play with.\u00a0Weird\u00a0looking urban (still in my to-do list) and\u00a0landscapes is not only area of use for the lens, it is capable of doing creative portraits as well:<\/p>\n

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Canon 8-15mm F4L fisheye\u00a0portrait\u00a0example<\/h2>\n

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Creative portrait by Canon 8 15mm f4L fisheye lens<\/p>\n

\n\u00a0Tip:<\/strong><\/p>\n

For such\u00a0environmental\u00a0portraits I use on-camera mounted hotshoe \u00a0flash, and dial exposure compensation to -1EV and flash exposure compensation to +1 EV. Such settings works similar to HDR, but instead of multiple exposures everything gets done in one: underexposed sky (meaning it will darker) and slightly overexposed close subjects.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Few more examples of multiexposure HDRs done by this fisheye:<\/p>\n

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Canon fisheye 8-15mm F4.0 L HDR image examples:<\/h2>\n

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Lake Lanier HDR by Canon 8-15mm fisheye lens<\/p>\n

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HDR by Canon 8-15mm fisheye lens<\/p>\n

Now, you may be wondering what happened and why I\u2019ve start doing stuff like this outside the studio? The answer is simple: I\u2019ve always been shooting landscapes, but I\u2019ve never posted them here:-)<\/p>\n

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It’s funny why I got this fisheye lens: I was inspired by\u00a0talented Poland photographer\u00a0Pawel Tomaszewicz: I saw his work on Google\u00a0plus<\/a>\u00a0and was thrilled by the beauty of the images done with fisheye lens. The next day I ordered my first fisheye, Canon 8-15mm F4.0L zoom<\/a>\u00a0at BHphotovideo.com. Currently lens is back-ordered, but if you make\u00a0\u00a0an order they will ship it to you as soon as they get next batch. For me it took about 2 weeks.<\/p>\n

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