Altura Photo 8mm f/3.0 Fisheye Wide Angle Lens for Canon EOS, EF Mount

I bought this lens to use on a first generation Canon 7D. It's all manual, so I put the camera dial on M and adjust ISO where needed for lighting. Then I fiddle with the f-stop and shutter speed to get the exposure and depth of field desired. I find it helpful to put the metering in "spot" mode to get an exposure for the most important part of the image, then adjust f-stop or shutter speed up or down a bit to make sure that other interesting bits of the image are usable. I always under-expose a bit when in doubt since that's easy to correct in post, but blown out highlights are never recoverable. Since the field of view is so wide, using exposure metering modes than the "spot" can result in a less than optimal exposure if something off center flaunts itself when using the other metering methods. Play with it and figure out which metering method works best for your kind of shots. For what I do, the spot metering works best for most shots. I purchased the lens mainly for night sky shots, so I went out to test it at night on the day I received it. The included images where shot in RAW and adjusted in Photoshop. Since the field of view is so wide, it is difficult to focus through the viewfinder. Everything is so small that unless your subject is just a couple feet in front of the lens, focusing through the viewfinder for general wide shots isn't really practical. I won't be doing much close up with this lens, so the focus assist and live mode combo works well for me. By putting the camera in Live Mode so you can see the image on the screen instead of the viewfinder, and then using the focus assist button to magnify the screen 10X, focusing is relatively easy to do. Not quick, but easy to accomplish. For the price, it's a great lens and will do what I want to it to do.

I am only an amateur at best especially when it comes to very wide angle. Have spent a bit of time experimenting and this seems to be working as expected. A bit of a learning curve but that is on me not the lens. Would recommend as a great learning and experimenting lens.

For the price it is easy to use and the photos come out pretty decent although, the only issue I have is knowing how to properly focus the image. No matter how many times I move the focus ring or how close/far away I get the image is still the same. It is a hassle as it is a manual lens but after a few tries I was able to see the difference in some pictures that I took in different focus settings. I like that the lens came in with its own protection not just the cap but also the case. It is a good way of ensuring your lens stays safe. In general, it is not too big to store or makes the camera feel heavy when it is installed. Overall, I do recommend this lens for those who would like to use a fish eye lens but beware of the test shots you'll have to do in order to get a hang of it.

Manual focus and aperture, but they all seem to work well. (its not as difficult as I thought it would be) I had questions and the dealer called me at home personally to help with any questions I had. This is a very fisheye lens, and works the way I thought it would, but allows for idiots like me to make it work well somehow with every shot.(excluding the one I under exposed) he gave me an exercise to focus on live view at 2 ft away, then on to infinity and check them out on download. Surprisingly, the DOF is SO VAST, that it focused well on all of them. This lens is going to be fun with creating artistic shots, and landscapes that are so beautiful that you have to get it all in one picture to get the effect. The amt of (for lack of a better word) fisheye effect is going to be fun and creative, what else can I say. It comes with a nice fitted case. I will try to add some photos later when I have more time. For the price, the manual isn't that big of a deal, esp with digital photography, if it looks bad, erase it and do it over, right? I highly recommend this lens for a fun way to get a good quality wide angle fish eye lens at a very low price point.

Canon EOS M50 with Viltrox speed booster adapter (All pics edited in Lightroom) IG @MICVH Pros: -Captures an amazingly wide view. I placed my hand literally right on the lens and it captured my whole hand. -can’t beat the price for what it is. I mean 3.0 aperture?! Common now how much better can it get? -very sturdy/quality build. The lens feels like a canon quality lens. -gets the job done for astrophotography Cons: -the quality of picture is not the best. It gets the best quality for me at the lowest focus. The closer to infinity, the blurrier it gets. Even for shots of the sky. -manual focus only -the lens hood shows in the shots as shown in one of my pictures Overall, it’s a fun/ unique lens and definitely worth the price

I was very excited to find a fisheye lens for my Canon T6i for under 200 bucks, and I even did the Amazon Credit Card sign-up to get the extra -$80 off-putting my total cost at just under $110. I was thinking I was really getting this thing for a song. The lens came this afternoon, a DAY early no less! How much more 'right' could this get? Then I started doing my test shots. Immediately I had problems getting a properly exposed image. Now... I am no professional photographer... and I am using a crop sensor $400 Canon Body (The Rebel T6i) which is pretty good... but it's no 5Dmk3... But still... I was expecting more, especially after watching the Gojo tutorials and reviews on this lens. First thing - when they say it is fully manual... they are not kidding. The image feedback in Live View is waaaaay off. I went searching the interwebs for answers to correct this and after 2 hrs of dinking with it, and reading up online and watching videos of 'similar' camera setups (cuz there was no setup for EXACTLY my camera... closest I found was for the 70D) ... anyway, the Live View is unusable with this lense. That means you are using 100% the viewfinder to get your settings right. Sadly, the T6i doesn't even acknowledge that the lens is attached, so you have to futz around with the settings to jigger it without bad information on the screen. Essentially you cannot rely on the settings of the screen. The histogram reads hot, so you have to manually compensate if you use the histogram. The exposure meter in the viewfinder reads anywhere from 2 - 2.5 stops over... and to top it off.. the IMAGE that shows up when you review what you just shot on the camera screen is also WAAAAY off.. so the only real way to know what your image looks like is to download it to your computer and call it up on Photoshop/Lightroom (i used photoshop) and look at the Histogram there and make your notes, and then go BACK to the camera and reset your settings so you can get a properly exposed image. After doing all this, the sun was getting low in the sky and so I went ahead and got some test shots, went back to my porch, got some final shots and THEN I swapped lenses to a Canon lens so I could compare the colors and the detail. I was very disappointed. The comparison lens I used was the Canon EFS 10-22mm. It was the next Widest lens I have. The image I am including is the from the Altura Fisheye In all the test photo's there was terrible chromatic aberration. I've blown up the small red square so you can see it (hopefully it will be visible on this review) The clouds have a red edge, and there is a thick purple smear of color along the edge of the wall at the sky. The purpose I bought this lens was to stitch together 360-degree spherical images. And for that purpose, the detail at the edges of the frame are in some ways more important than the detail in the center of the frame, because that is where the stitcher is pulling common points to create the spherical image. So, to have a lense that has terrible chromatic aberration on the edges of the image... That's a deal-breaker for me. I gave this an overall 3-star rating because the construction of the lens is good. It is solid and has the kind of weight that other similar fisheye lenses I have worked with in the past do. I am sorry to report, in my case, the Canon EOS Rebel T6i this lense is a terrible fit. [Amendment] 24 hrs later, still doing test shots, I have determined that if you use the histogram information to set up your shot, you will get a terribly dark/unusable shot. The live-view screen histogram is unusable. You have to do a test-shot, then look at the test shot in review and examine the histogram THEN. Unfortunately, because of the view-screen is SO dark during shooting (especially if you are in the sun) the only way you can see your image enough to use the viewer for framing is to bump it up 3 stops... get your framing.. then bump it back down, switch off live-view and just use the screen for data. Again, this review pertains specifically to the Canon T6i. Seems the 5D series have the ability to make the View Screen function normally with this lens. If you are shooting a T6 series (or similar, I imagine) forget relying on the view-screen. You will HAVE to go old-school on this one.

It surprised me how well build and solid this lens is. It is a beauty. A heavy one though. It is heavier than my 77D because it is made from steel. Even though it is a manual lens it is very easy to use. One only needs to set the focus manually when shooting very close objects, otherwise just set focus to infinity and almist every shot will be sharp. There also is a wheel to set aperture which in case of a fish eye lens mostly controls how much light is let in, field of depth doesn't really play a role in most situations. I think the price is very fair and it comes with a protection case and a cleaning cloth, which is nice. I'm happy with this lens, it is a lot of fun to do fish eye photos and trippy videos. I have nothing bad to say about this lens, it does what it should and it's robustly manufactured. It is waterproof too as it doesn't contain any electronics.

I noticed when I picked up the lens, it was some weight to it, it didn't feel like cheap, light weight plastic, it must be made from aluminum and ocular glass, attached it to my Canon camera, set it on manual and started using it, it took high quality excellent pictures, I'm well pleased!👍🙂

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