The world is round

I finally got a fisheye lens that I am happy with. The fish-eye camera I bought from Lomography is utterly crap. It already broken just after 1 month, with the shutter button won't fire anymore. Then, I've been hunting for a fish-eye lens on Ebay, and not surprise all the good shit are from Russia. The first lens I bought was a Zenitar M 2.8/16 lens from Russia. I took a few shots and wasn't happy with the angular field as the pictures appeared curvy, but not much. So decided to sell it off.

This new one I got is a Peleng 3.5/8AC lens, and you definitely can see the fish-eye results. The lens is custom made to fit the Canon EOS mount, but it does come with lots of different adaptors for other cameras too. Somehow, the mount just fits in but it doesn't lock, so having bit trouble while trying to adjust the aperture and distance on the lens and the whole thing turns. Need more practice on it I think. And one more issue I found with these fish-eye lens is they don't have microchip sensor built in, so it can't really send any data back to the camera body to give you the information on your viewfinder. So sometimes when I take a picture and while trying to save it into the flashcard, it just crashed!!! Because there is no information trying to save into the flashcard together with the image and it just won't recognise it and gave me "ERROR 2" on the LCD screen. I am bit worried about it actually hopefully it won't crash the OS in the camera. If not, I'll be fucked. But still, I have great fun with it, and planning to go to Hunter Valley for the long weekend and take some great shots at the vineyards. There are more pics taken using this fish-eye lens in my Flickr.