Lenses for Canon Digital Rebel EOS

[summero]

Hey people! Can anyone recommend me some good lenses for my camera? Are there any good fisheye lenses for a Canon Digital Rebel EOS? Thanks in advance :)

[miloblithe]

I'd recommend looking at some of these links:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=257862

and then looking through some of the many lens recommendations threads that have already been posted, and then start again with more specific questions.

[esco]

Not sure about fish eye lenses, but when I started off with my digital rebel xt, i had a 17-85 f4.0-5.6 IS and it did wonders. Might wanna check out the Tamron 28-75 as well, heard it does pretty well on rebels.

[Mike Teezie]

Hey people! Can anyone recommend me some good lenses for my camera? Are there any good fisheye lenses for a Canon Digital Rebel EOS? Thanks in advance :)

On a 1.6 body like the Rebel, Canon's 15mm fisheye isn't going to have much of a fisheye effect at all. You have to have a full frame camera to get the true fisheye effect.

[ChrisA]

Hey people! Can anyone recommend me some good lenses for my camera? Are there any good fisheye lenses for a Canon Digital Rebel EOS? Thanks in advance :)

If you want a fisheye get the Nikon 10.5mm It works as a fisheye even on a crop body like the D50. Cheaper to buy the Nikon Body + lens than a digital Canon fisheye setup as you'd need a Canon full frame body and a not-cheap canon lens.

Other options: (1) Buy a manual focus film body and a manual fisheye lens. There is no need for AF with a fisheye as the DOF is from like 2 inches to infinity. If you are buying used film SLRs and want a fisheye, look at Nikon. They made a lot of fisheyes. Nikon invented the fisheye lens for 35mm cameras (2) Use Photoshop. Take a panoramma, say a 3x3 matrix stitch then together and then apply a strong flens distortion filter.

[Lovesong]

...and of course, option three is to get the Nikkor 10.5mm, as ChrisA said, and then get an EF to F adaptor
http://www.cameraquest.com/frames/4saleReos.htm

[eyun]

Or you could buy the Sigma 10-20mm for about $500. Canon makes a 10-22mm for about $750, I believe.

[beavo451]

Or you could buy the Sigma 10-20mm for about $500. Canon makes a 10-22mm for about $750, I believe.

Those aren't fisheyes.

[sjl]

Or you could buy the Sigma 10-20mm for about $500. Canon makes a 10-22mm for about $750, I believe.

Both of which are extreme wide angle, but not fisheyes. They are fine lenses if you want an extreme wide angle view, but if you want a fisheye, they are not the lens to get.

Sigma makes an 8mm fisheye which may be a useful option. I don't know, having not looked at this in detail.

[seenew]

Those aren't fisheyes.

No, but I had the 10-22, and it was a spectacular lens for a 1.6 crop body. Had to sell it for a FF equivalent, though, for my Elan. :( Got the 17-40 f4L, though! :D