Comments on: Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye Review

By: Karel Donk

Karel Donk — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:33:14 +0000

Thanks for the comment Lea. It is indeed a great lens, one that would make me buy a Canon body just so I could use this lens. You can’t use it for everything but you can get really creative with it. I’m also doing events with it as well (weddings, etc.) for really great looking views. After I wrote this review, I took one of my favorite shots so far with it, you can see it in the gallery above, with the human pink ribbon taken from the air.
And yes the aliasing is because of the way flash handles images. It is possible to get rid of it, but then the viewer becomes really really slow as it processes all the tiles and makes them smooth for every update. I guess we have to wait for a faster viewer.
Enjoy the lens.

By: Lea Minshull

Lea Minshull — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:18:14 +0000

Thanks so much for this excellent put together review of this lens, having read it I went out and got one and it is as you say a fantastic piece of kit I love it and use it for things I never thought possible like event photography. I mainly use for 360 panos I just got into that. I love you pano quality all we need to do now is find away to kill the Anti Aliasing in 360 panos and it is finally a the next great thing. I am shooting with a 5D2.
Anyway thanks again.
Lea Minshull

By: Karel Donk's Blog » Canon EOS 5D Mark III Review

Karel Donk's Blog » Canon EOS 5D Mark III Review — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:30:36 +0000

[...] products. Also consider the range of EF and EF-S lenses available from Canon, with such gems as the EF 8-15mm f/4 L Fisheye lens and others, and more coming in the near future. Canon’s EOS line of products for both stills [...]

By: The Empire Strikes Back | Fake Chuck Westfall

The Empire Strikes Back | Fake Chuck Westfall — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:10:27 +0000

[...] system is screaming for a replacement. We’ve got some absolutely killer new lenses coming up. Moses recently wrote about the 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye lens, which those morons at PDN thought wasn’t that great. But we’ve got the 200-400 f/4L [...]