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Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM Ultra-Wide Zoom Lens for Canon EOS SLR Cameras
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Brand | Canon |
Focal Length Description | 8-15 millimeters |
Lens Type | Wide Angle |
Compatible Mountings | Canon EF |
Camera Lens Description | 15 month |
About this item
- Advanced Optics For Professional Imaging
- Quiet And Fast Autofocus And Low Light Performance ,
- Built For Professional Performance
- Max Focal Length: 15.0
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Picture quality | 5.0 | — | 4.2 | — | 4.6 | 4.0 |
Quality of material | 5.0 | — | — | — | 4.6 | 4.3 |
Auto focus | — | — | 4.5 | — | 4.8 | 2.9 |
Sold By | SSE Photo & Video | Hunts Photo and Video | Amazon.com | Web Offers | Adorama | Digital Goja |
lens type | Wide Angle | Telephoto | Macro | Telephoto | Wide Angle | Fisheye |
compatible mountings | Canon EF | Canon EF | Canon RF | Canon EF | Canon EF | Canon EF, Canon EF-S |
lens design | Zoom | Prime | Prime | Prime | Zoom | Prime |
focus type | Auto Focus | Ultrasonic | Auto Focus | Auto/Manual | Auto Focus | Manual Focus |
minimum focal length | 8 millimeters | 400 millimeters | 16 millimeters | 85 millimeters | 17 millimeters | 8 millimeters |
max focal length | 15 millimeters | 400 millimeters | — | 85 millimeters | 40 millimeters | 8 millimeters |
fixed focal length | 15 millimeters | 400 millimeters | 16 millimeters | 85 millimeters | 40 millimeters | 8 millimeters |
real angle of view | 180 degrees | — | 108 degrees | — | 104 degrees | 180 degrees |
Product Description
Product Description
For filmmakers and photographers who want the look and feel only possible with extreme wide angle and fisheye photography, the new Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM is a world-class choice. With its unique focal length range, the EF 8-15mm f/4L USM is the world's widest fisheye zoom lens. It delivers 180 diagonal angle of view images for all EOS SLR cameras with imaging formats ranging from full-frame to APS-C, and provides 180 circular fisheye images for full-frame EOS models. It features UD glass for suppression of chromatic aberration, a Subwavelength coating for reduced ghosting, a newly developed Fluorine coating that keeps soiling, smears and fingerprints to a minimum, has full-time manual focus for instant switching from AF to Manual operation, and is built to the standards of the amazing Canon L-series of lenses. This means the finest optics, the best construction and the best performance available, all in a lens designed to stimulate creativity and deliver stunning images every time. Specifications Filter Size - Rear Gel Holder (accepts up to 3 pre-cut gel filters) Max. Diameter x Length, Weight - 3.1 x 3.7 in, 19.1 oz. / 78.5 x 83.0mm, 540g. Focal Length: 15mm, Diagonal Angle of View: 180 degrees, Closest Focusing Distance: 0.51 feet.
From the Manufacturer
For filmmakers and photographers who want the look and feel only possible with extreme wide angle and fisheye photography, the new Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM is a world-class choice. With its unique focal length range, the EF 8-15mm f/4L USM is the world's widest fisheye zoom lens. It delivers 180º diagonal angle of view images for all EOS SLR cameras with imaging formats ranging from full-frame to APS-C, and provides 180º circular fisheye images for full-frame EOS models. It features UD glass for suppression of chromatic aberration, a Subwavelength coating for reduced ghosting, a newly developed Fluorine coating that keeps soiling, smears and fingerprints to a minimum, has full-time manual focus for instant switching from AF to Manual operation, and is built to the standards of the amazing Canon L-series of lenses. This means the finest optics, the best construction and the best performance available, all in a lens designed to stimulate creativity and deliver stunning images every time.
Technical Specifications
- Focal Length & Maximum Aperture: 15mm 4.0
- Lens Construction: 14 elements in 11 groups
- Diagonal Angle of View: 180°
- Focus Adjustment: Lens extension via inner focusing and focus cam plus floating mechanism
- Closest Focusing Distance: 0.16m / 6.2 in.
- Drive System: Ring USM
- Filter Size: Rear Gel Holder (accepts up to 3 pre-cut gel filters)
- Max. Diameter x Length, Weight: 3.1 x 3.7 in, 19.1 oz / 78.5 x 83.0mm, 540g
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Product Dimensions | 3.27 x 3.11 x 3.11 inches |
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Item Weight | 1.19 pounds |
ASIN | B0040X4OZU |
Item model number | 4427B002 |
Customer Reviews |
4.4 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #604 in SLR Camera Lenses |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | August 26, 2010 |
Manufacturer | Canon Cameras US |
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Customers like the quality, sharpness, performance, and focus of the camera lens. For example, they mention that it takes great quality pictures, it focuses faster, and provides limitless creative potential. Some are satisfied with the zoom range. That said, opinions are mixed on the value.
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Customers are satisfied with the quality of the lens. They mention that it is a great landscape lens, with good image and build quality. It takes great, crisp photos and is fun to use. It is also a super high quality lens, very sharp, accurate, and great. It's also praised as being optically excellent and practical. Overall, customers are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.
"...The 8-15 lens is the most amazing lens. It is optically excellent and it is also very practical If you want to use it for multiple situations like..." Read more
"...A great lens of choice for shooting active kids, playful pets, funny players, or for covering certain dancing or sports, or for capturing just about..." Read more
"...Overall, this is a well built lens with high optical quality for a fisheye lens - normally mainly a prime lens user, I enjoy the flexibility in the..." Read more
"...It is very fun and the images it produces are amazing." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the sharpness of the lens. They mention that it does an excellent job of producing a sharp image. Some say that the lens has great color and sharpness.
"...This is my favorite lens. I use it for 360 VR panos its very sharp compared to other fisheyes I have used...." Read more
"...super sharp: I think it's sharper than my 16-35mm/f2.8L, 24-105mm/f4L, and 70-200mm/f2.8L. And it looks like even sharper than my 24mm/f1.4L..." Read more
"...I am amazed by this lens - especially by its sharpness which I still find extraordinary for such fisheye lens with up to 180 deg view...." Read more
"...I'm glad I did, the lens produces great pictures, very sharp. Great built, weather sealed, solid and smooth feel of the focus and zoom rings...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the performance of the lens. They mention that it provides limitless creative potential, is practical, and versatile. Customers also mention that the lens produces interesting effects on all types of objects and provides a new point of view.
"...It is optically excellent and it is also very practical If you want to use it for multiple situations like I do.HAND HELD 360 PANOS..." Read more
"I love fisheye photography, and this lens provides limitless creative potential, I did not realize it until I actually used it...." Read more
"...The list of possibilities is endless--this is a super high quality lens, very sharp, very accurate, great contrast at all apertures...." Read more
"...Very useful for my purposes but a specialty item for sure. What it lacks is a lock at 8mm (it has one set up for smaller frame cameras)...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the focus of the camera lens. They mention that it focuses faster, and works on any Canon body. They also appreciate the continuous manual focus.
"...Other notes: This lens focuses really fast...." Read more
"...it focuses super fast: nearly every time, instantly...." Read more
"I just received my 8-15 and WOW! I am highly impressed already. Super fast focus on the 5D MkII and T2i...." Read more
"...This is sharper, focuses faster and works on any Canon body. It's also nice and compact...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the zoom range of the camera lens. They mention that it offers a high quality digital zoom that just uses the center 1920x1080 pixels. Customers also appreciate that it has both zoom and auto focus capabilities, making it a wonderful lens for short distance photos.
"...This is a high quality digital zoom that just uses the center 1920x1080 pixels so there is no scaling...." Read more
"...The biggest plus of this lens is its zoom range - simply by moving the lens ring between 8 and 15 mm on a full frame camera, you can determine the..." Read more
"...This is wonderful lens for short distance photos. You should try it...." Read more
"...The best thing about this fisheye is that it offers both zoom and auto focus- both are features that are not available on most fisheyes...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the value of the camera lens. Some mention it's well worth the money, while others say it'll be a sacrifice.
"...in this lens after Canon announced it - unfortunately for a shockingly high price...." Read more
"...Why 5 stars? Though $1400 is not cheap for this lens, I think it is good value being that this is the only zoom fisheye available, going from full..." Read more
"...I know this lens is pricey, but something tells me that if you shoot underwater you're used to the sting..." Read more
"...But even at it's current price ($1428), it is very high priced. The Sigma 10mm Fisheye might have been a better buy...." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the ease of removal of the lens cover. They mention that the lens cap and hood come off easily, exposing the front element. Some customers also report that the hood came off in their bag, causing damage.
"...== Two things I don't like ==One is the lens cover repeatedly falling off the hood...." Read more
"...Let me make this clear - THE LENS CAP AND HOOD WILL COME OFF. As a result, you will scratch this lens...." Read more
"...lens cap clip-on design does NOT work very well, it's very easy for it to fall off exposing the front element to everything." Read more
"...My one complaint is that the lens cover comes off quite easily. You might need to add some gaffer's tape to make the seal tigher." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the image quality of the camera lens. They mention that the images seem oddly distorted, the color distortion on the circular edge, and that the image is poor indoors.
"...The other is the color distortion on the circular edge of its circular image. But I think this is unavoidable...." Read more
"...-at 8mm handheld image quality indoors was pretty poor, some experimenting and maybe a camera stand and better ISO settings could correct this...." Read more
"...Yes, there is some image distortion with the wider angle for images too close to the camera, but its imperceptible on the narrowest angle use and..." Read more
"Images seem oddly distorted. Love it. Great for Portraits!" Read more
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This is in response to bruce's request for a lens suggestion. I am going to add some of my experience shooting with the Canon 8-15mm F4L lens on multiple cameras (full frame, apc, and 4/3).
I bought the Canon 8-15mm F4 after testing many lenses. The 8-15 lens is the most amazing lens. It is optically excellent and it is also very practical If you want to use it for multiple situations like I do.
HAND HELD 360 PANOS
After a little bit of practice, you can shoot hand held 360x180 panos and the 8mm mode of the 8-15mm makes it easy. On full frame, normally 3-4x shot on one row tilted up slightly + one pointing down for the floor (nadir). Zenith not needed. I use my foot as the nodal pivot point. I will plan out my shots based on the shape of the room and the people in it so i can avoid having stitching lines cross major features like people or art. I use PT GUI Pro's masking feature to do it.
This was hand held in NASA's dark room. (5DMK3 With 8-15@8MM)
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Handheld Trick photo as little planet: (5DMK3 With 8-15@8MM)
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original 360 pano (5DMK3 With 8-15@8MM)
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If you use a APC camera it helps to shoot portrait mode.
When i shoot hand-held 360s at night, i will go with wide aperture and high iso to prevent shake. Since the stitched images are bigger than i need them to be, reducing the size of the pano has the nice side effect of reducing the noise of the image.
TRIPOD 360 PANOS:
You can reduce the number of shots and get better faster stitching and better accuracy by using a pano head + tripod. This was taken with a tripod + nodal ninja pano head. (5dmk3 with 8-15@8mm in desert environment)
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I have used this lens on a APC sensor, full frame sensor, and even a Sony Micro 4/3s camera and it really is very versatile and produces very sharp pictures on all cameras. It works great for a walk around lens since you can shoot panos really quick at 8MM then take subject pictures using the 15mm zoom and getting closer. Also if you need super resolution panos, you can zoom in and take take more pictures per row.
If I use it on a pano head, i will stop it down to F9 or so for better sharpness and low iso because the tripod keeps it steady.
HAND HELD NON PANOS + FLASH TIPS:
I have taken this to parties for and I have found this setup works great:
RIGHT HAND: Camera + 15MM. My previous Canon T3i APC camera had a master popup flash built in. for the 5D i am using the cheap Canon 90EX as an ETTL capable master trigger but radio or IR trigger would work too.
Left hand : Yongnuo YN-565 flash set to optical slave with stoffen diffuser.
Pocket: Lens Cap
When i am not taking pictures, I take the lens cap out of my pocket put it on the camera. And put the flash back in my pocket instead. Then I reach for a rum & diet.
sample photo (Canon T3I with 8-15mm at 15mm and flash)
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Other notes: This lens focuses really fast. There is a adobe lens profile for the "8-15 on 7D" that is available for free download, that when used with Adobe light room's lens correction can turn the fisheye image to a non-fisheye if you need it. It works amazing for any APC sensor camera. I have tried it with the Full frame sensors, with ok results. I have found for web, you can seriously crop the image and still have great sharp results.
VIDEO TRICKS:
Here are some tips that people shooting video with this fisheye may enjoy:
Canon 5dmk3 + latest magic lantern can shoot square full frame video at 8MM. Amazing!!!! The built in video recorder button does crops the video to be 16:9 so you need to use the Magic Lantern hack if you want full frame video.
Some of the canon cameras (rebel series) can do a digital zoom that crops just the center of the image. This is a high quality digital zoom that just uses the center 1920x1080 pixels so there is no scaling. So its like having another zoom lens range that has pixel perfect quality! This is a great feature to have with this lens.
CONCLUSION:
I have found the 8-15 zoom is optically excellent and extremely practical in multiple real world situations. It works perfect when paired with a pano head, but it is the most fun to shoot 360s hand held. It allows me to get my camera places that a tripod would be impractical. I have so much fun with it and am confident of it when I want professional results. I hope you find my review and tips interesting.
Dr. Clement Shimizu
Director of Software Design
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Immersive Projection Design
P.S. I am very passionate about this topic because I work with other peoples panoramic and 360 degree images and video all day for work.
>>>> OLD REVIEW
This is my favorite lens. I use it for 360 VR panos its very sharp compared to other fisheyes I have used. I also use it when I go to parties and want just an easy camera to take pictures of party situations when I'm shooting from the hip. I can just point the camera in the general direction of the action and I get everything. I love it.
UPDATE:
I am still loving this lens. I have had a chance to compare it to a prime fisheye lens by Sunex and the sharpness on this blows it out of the water. Its amazing that canon can make a zoom that is superior to a fixed lens.
A few tips for lightroom users:
1) I have noticed in Adobe Lightroom, you can download a lens profile to de-warp the images in the lens correction settings(you need to download it through adobes lens profile downloader). Under lens correction, it will "autodetect" the lens type and zoom settings, but only if you shoot in raw.
2) In lightroom if you choose to dewarp the image, people at the sides of the image circle will become extremely streched. For this reason, if I am un-warping an image, I usually don't do it completely, just a bit. Dewarping faces to one side or the other can be achieved by using "LensCorrection->Manual->Horizontal Offset" in combination with "LensCorrection->Profile->Distortion".
I almost ordered this lens last year when I saw it first listed on B&W website for pre-ordering. But I was hesitant at that time, wondering how useful this specialty novelty lens can be on daily shooting. After some time-consuming research, I finally went for it... It was in a pizzeria store in Las Vegas while I was waiting for my pizza that I first opened the Amazon package containing my brand new copy of the lens... Wow! As soon as I put it on my camera (5D3) and started to shoot with it, I was awed! I tried to shoot nearly everything and everybody with it, a lot of photos and videos. And it stayed on my camera for the rest of my Las Vegas trip (2+ days).
Here, I'm not writing a full review or anything close. I just want to point out a few things about the lens (or my copy of the lens).
== On my 7D ==
It won't give me a full circle image, not even something close. Instead, it becomes a super wide zoom lens with fisheye distortion. To me, the distortion is not more annoying than that from a regular super wide lens, and is typically as acceptable (or similarly unacceptable in the case I don't like the wide angle distortion).
== On my 5D ==
It offers a full circle image at 8mm, and a very interesting (somewhat bizarre) image at 15mm. I have almost only used this lens on my 5D, and typically at 15mm only. On my 5D, the lens is
1) super sharp: I think it's sharper than my 16-35mm/f2.8L, 24-105mm/f4L, and 70-200mm/f2.8L. And it looks like even sharper than my 24mm/f1.4L II.
2) it focuses super fast: nearly every time, instantly. Even in a dark environment, as soon as it can see a bit light, it can focus lock on it.
== Two things I don't like ==
One is the lens cover repeatedly falling off the hood. Yet, to prevent the lens from hitting any hard object while it's hanging on my shoulder, I still have to somehow protect the front glass that protrudes from the lens barrel. The coating on the lens glass seems very special that I can easily wipe dusts, water drops, or fingerprints off from it. But it's much easier to get hit, even with its hood on, than all other lenses I have.
The other is the color distortion on the circular edge of its circular image. But I think this is unavoidable. It's not much of a concern to me, though, for I don't shoot many circular images.
== My conclusion ==
This is a great walk around lens (to me), especially for shooting indoors or on busy streets. When and where I typically would go for my 16-35mm, I now would rather use this lens, except when I only want (relatively) distortion-free images.
In places where space is super tight, this is the about only go-to lens that can capture a most usable widest wide shot with a Canon DSLR camera.
This is a great lens for expressing an uplifting sense of humor. A great lens of choice for shooting active kids, playful pets, funny players, or for covering certain dancing or sports, or for capturing just about everything or anybody that you want to look happy, exciting, exaggerating, and so on.
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Hopefully my experience is helpful to someone who's considering the lens. Happy shooting!