Canon EF 8-15mm f/4 L USM Fisheye : Specifications and Opinions

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Puffo25

sent on 04 Giugno 2022

Pros: well built, great image quality

Cons: not compact lens, a bit heavy to carry around, not f2,8, issues with FF sensor

Opinion: Hi I use it with the Canon R5 top line mirrorless camera. The lens with the EF-R Canon adapter works well for AF and manual focus. But I am very disappointed that below 15mm degree, the lens shat to show at the edges a lot of parts of the lens itself (with the shadow hood is even worst). I am wondering if anyone on a full frame camera is happy for the results below 15mm and how to avoid this issue (I guess there is not a real solution?).

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Riccardo Arena Trazzi

sent on 21 Ottobre 2022

Pros: Build quality, AF, flare resistance, sharpness, colors, tropicalized

Cons: Not stabilized, f/4, not easy, cap, unfilterable, price

Opinion: It is a Canon L series, so excellent image quality such as sharpness and colors, chromatic aberrations not received, very good backlight resistance. Excellent build quality that also includes tropicalization. It could have been an f/2.8 for those who love night photos. Unfortunately it is not stabilized. It is better to use it at the extremes: 8mm as circular fisheye, 15 diagonal fisheye. At 10mm there is a switch - block to prevent the hood from framing. The cap - hood is quite uncomfortable. It is not filterable for obvious reasons. It is very expensive and this makes you evaluate alternatives such as the Samyang 12mm f/2.8 diagonal fisheye. Weight and dimensions are extremely small. Fast and accurate AF. The minimum focusing distance allows for truly creative close-up shots.

Ziojack

sent on 23 Maggio 2022

Pros: L-series construction, crisp files already at TA, usm and fast focus

Cons: Cost, limited use, tiring.

Opinion: Unique optics and fields of application. It can be used with FF sensors (returning circular images) or on apsc with linear images and an incredible field of view. On FF at 8 mm he creates circular images, details, with an ever-present flare and blue halos that surround the circle of the image. always very difficult not to make shadows, head, arms, legs or other parts of the body happen in the frame, A 15 mm is a very pushed linear wide angle. With minimal focus you have a noticeable barrel distortion, a creative and pleasant effect. On apsc sensors it becomes a full-fledged wide angle, returning linear images. Creative, original, pleasant, versatile lens being able to use it on both formats... But after a couple of days of use it turns out nauseating and tiring. After a couple of days of use the circular images lose their charm, their magic, they are almost absurd and far-fetched. I find the price very very high, although the optics are worth up to the last penny but still excessive. I also have a Meike 8 mm, all manual, paid 1/4 of the canon I think it is a better investment for a similar lens or to have some fun. Would I recommend it? No. Too niche and tiring.

Giallo63

sent on 29 Settembre 2017

Pros: Optical quality - Constructive quality - Versatility (of its kind)

Cons: it's gutsy and unstable - it's not a real zoom, it's basically a bi-focal

Opinion: It is a professional achievement that allows you to get the best possible results in fisheye footage. Even at full openness, it maintains more than enough quality for professional use. Closing a two stop - as always - gives the best. The only "defect" that I have encountered is the precariousness of the front cap, which must be grafted on the hood, uncomfortable to remove and put depending on the set focus. , in the end, to gluing the two parts by getting a "stopper" stable for when I set the lens, with its front face and bent very exposed to the risk of scratches and abrasions. The lens hood is totally useless with this lens. The focal lengths used with fruit using the full size are the extreme ones, that is 8 mm (circular fisheye, angle 180 ° on all the size) and 15 mm (rectangular fisheye, with angle of 180 ° on the diagonal only of the size). Intermediate focal lengths are essentially used when using apsc or apsh sensors; with full format, they return images with a growing "mechanical" vignetting until they reach the circular photo that can be obtained with the 8mm.

Alepucciprato

sent on 23 Giugno 2016

Pros: Quality at the core, firmness, clarity and colors throughout the frame, little aberration

Cons: Price

Opinion: To be a fish eye senz else this light has a general quality to the top. Compact and lightweight when mounted on standard bodies 1 unbalanced a little the handle. I was Canon would use less expensive materials; This would make the optic more attractive in my view has for this reason a lower price. Usually the fish eye is used little and does not require absolute quality, better to spend less to use it when it happens. Nell used is good but the Samyang 12mm ff and to consider given that costs 1/3 and works equally well. At the center of the Canon 8-15 deforms relatively little the picture and this allows you to use it to take pictures of fun group. It has great colors and shallow aberration in relation to the focal width, of course, always keeping in mind that remains a fish eye. Beautiful, fun, but ...... Too expensive.

Juza

sent on 04 Maggio 2016

Pros: excellent image quality, a choice of circular and diagonal fisheye

Cons: Diaphragm not bright (for those who make night photos)

Opinion: I used this fisheye in different trips and I was very satisfied; compared to the previous Canon 15mm f / 2.8 it is vastly superior in terms of image quality and construction quality. The ability to choose between circular and diagonal fisheye is very innovative and was convenient on several occasions; personally prefer the diagonal fisheye, but in some cases I was able to exploit the fish move and I was back comfortable have it available in the same goal. Another distinctive feature of this lens is its outstanding macro capabilities; It has a 0.39x magnification ratio that lets you take great macro acclimatized. The only fault I could find is the f / 4, dim, that in the night photos obliged to raise a lot of the ISO; for those who snaps prevantemente day is not a problem. He 'a specialized lens, but for those who love the fisheye or macro wants to devote himself to set recommend it very much!

Paolo555

sent on 13 Luglio 2015

Pros: Sharpness, good resistance to flare

Cons: Perhaps the lack of a protective filter to the lens.

Opinion: Skeptical until its purchase, after it tested a Canon Day in Franciacorta in 2014 on APS-H, I decided to buy this Fisheye to have something to use to below 16 mm classic Canon EF 16-35 F4, perhaps give a more creative touch to your photos and to "close" the range of 8 to 105 mm in F4. Initially the use of 8 mm, on FF, I was not impressed, the circular image is is particular, but in my opinion tiresome after a few shots. Different and 'use by 12 mm (approximately) to rise, which is appreciated as very wide angle, especially ideal in particular portraits, sports and why not on the geometry of buildings and landscapes (use this lens for close-up pictures of rally cars in a static position, or the inside of the cockpit of planes or cars). It 'a particular objective, because incentive to look, as noted by others, points of view not convenzionali.rnTecnicamente nothing to say, I think it is an excellent lens:robust, very compact and solid construction! The zoom ring works very well and does not have any type of game, to the validity of the excellent build quality. A TA center is crystal clear and the angles are more than acceptable. Closing the image quality improves across the frame, giving the images very sharp and contrasted. Good, in my opinion, the resistance to flare, while for chromatic aberration turns out to be, always, in my opinion, very minimal and therefore easily eliminated through the software; good resistance to flare. Autofocus very precise. rn

Albertopoldi

sent on 24 Giugno 2014

Pros: Great lens, sharp and contrasted quite correct.

Cons: Perhaps the cost but it is perhaps the only zoom with these specifications.

Opinion: is a great zoom quite correct from 13 to 15, while 8 to 12 distorts as it is logical immaginare.Quindi you can use it both as a good wide-angle (pushed) both as a lens for use on the effects particolari.Io 5d MARII and are satisfied with this lens for both its ductility that yield of the details to the whole apertura.la distorsine is minimal in the case where it is to be used as a simple wide angle.

Franky.ski

sent on 29 Maggio 2014

Pros: Quality construction and L series lenses; Range of use; Weight.

Cons: Can not mount a protective filter for the lens; price.

Opinion: I purchased this light after a bit of inner dilemmas. I was torn between the 16-35 f2.8 L and ottca in questione.rnLa choice fell on the FishEye sostanzailmente because I wanted a perspective that had a focal length of 15 to 16mm in order to get the views as far as the eye can see. RnInoltre mounted on a APSC me becomes a 16-24mm (approx) which is not bad as optics for street light travel (APSC, fisheye and 50mm). rnL'utilizzo to 8mm is purely creative (on FF) and in different circumstances returns photos different from the usual shot! rn

Roy155

sent on 07 Aprile 2014

Pros: Solid construction, optical quality, image quality and color saturation, handling, sharpness, resistance to flare, extreme distortion, autofocus.rnDa circular fish (FF) or diagonal (aps-c) to super wide angle lens with a simple twist of the dial .

Cons: Hood who occasionally stacca.rnPrezzorn

Opinion: Use this lens by about 1 year of aps-c, a little in all situations, street, Holidays, Portraits (very special), portraits settled, particularly in sports or contextualization of the sport. With this goal, you must "enter" in the picture, but the results are incredibili.rnPer exploit this objective it is necessary to use non-conventional points of view, so getting photos RNE 'Must one of my backpack, for any purpose situazione.rnOttimo, solid, well- built and reliable. Resistant to flare, returns excellent colors and good sharpness. Its strong point is given from the perspective that offre.rnLo stabilizer is superfluorn