8mm f/3.0 Professional Wide Angle Lens Aspherical Fisheye for Canon EOS 90D 80D 77D Rebel T8i T7 T7i T6i T6s T6 T100 SL2 SL3 DSLR Cameras with EF Mount

been into photography 50+ yrs... ive had all kinds of lenses.. never could afford " top of the line" Maker brands,, be it Minolta, Canon, or Nikon. ok, ive had some of the "standard" lenses, Minolta 50mm 1.8, Nikon 18-140mm ( currently for my Nikon 7500D ), etc. mostly i get Tamron, Tokina, Sigma.. never had an issue. this is a 'Unique" lens, and not one i would use often as it is, so i didnt want to break my bank. it shoots very nicely, feels solid, not sloppy.. might come in to play after some extensive use, but, i dont see this seeing massive use anyway.. its a fun, abstract photo taking lens for very little money. should you drop it a year or 3 later ?? ok,, you wont cry you have to sell a kidney to replace it.. easy to recommend if you want a very unique photo taking lens for some abstract shots..

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 received my Altura 8mm Fisheye lens for my Nikons and found that the learning curve for use was about 5 minutes. The easy to understand videos for the lens had me shooting and enjoying the lens quickly. I found the lens to be a bit loose on my Nikon D3300. When mounted, it did not lock into place and, turning the bezels of the lens to the left tended to loosen the lens. It moved while mounted, (rattled) but once held steady was ok. It was easy, however to simply support the camera by holding the lens in place while using the on-lens bezels, so that it did not loosen up between shots. I tried this same lens on my Nikon D3500, and the looseness disappeared, and the lens locked into place like a lens should! Apparently, the mounting hole on the D3000 is a bit larger than that on the D3500. So, with a little care it is usable on both cameras, but you'll want to watch for loosening if used on a Nikon D3000. This is a MANUAL lens. No auto focus, no monitoring, so you have to set your camera to "M" and adjust your lens by hand. Set your ISO on the camera and your shutter speed too, take a couple of test shots and go for it! The reasonable price of this lens outweighs any minor inconvenience that the looseness on the D3300 presents. It comes with a n interesting zip-open lens case that is BIG, so you'll need to make room in your camera bag. All in all, it's a keeper and I'll be using it often. Edit! BONUS! The skies were blue and the sun was bright and in the photo. The lens presented with a natural, sharp sun flare that's a great accent point!

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.

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.

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!👍🙂

You fooled me buying this by saying it was a wide angle lens.... no it's a fish eye lens, WAY beyond wide angle. Hopefully the advertisement changed to what this really is.

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