7artisans 7.5mm F2.8 II V2.0 APS-C Format Fisheye Lens with 190° Angle of View Compatible with Sony Emount Cameras with Protective Lens Cap, Lens Hood and Carrying Bag

I bought this for an interesting look with my fs5ii. Also use it with my a7iii. And let me tell you... this thing is sharp for such a cheap lens. The focusing works great and is spot on. Even decent bokeh wide open at closer focusing points. Also the contruction is great. Made of solid metal. Heck even the lens cap is metal. 7.5mm f/2.8 for $140? No brainer. Buy this now. I love it. You will love it.

This lens does a great job of giving a subtle "fish eye", almost panoramic sort of effect without distorting the subject too much. It does, however, cast a slight vignette, at least that was my experience using it on the Sony FX3. This is easily edited out in post-production using Premiere Pro or any other editing software of choice.

Not a lens I would use very often, but as inexpensive as it is, it's worth having. All metal and very nicely made. Feels a lot like a vintage lens and includes a metal front cap lined on the edge with a felt like material to give it a good fit. Given the short focal length, at normal distances you rarely have to refocus. The second picture shows what you can get at the minimum focus distance of about an inch. I'm not a pixel peeper, but everything seems decently sharp to me. I like it!

Said that it would fit my Canon 60D and sadly it did not, it was way too small.

This is a wide lens. On my Sony a6300 I wanted to see how wide it can get. I put it on my counter top and put a tape measure in front of it at its minimal focus distance. It is able to view over 12 inches wide. The two photos are at f/2.8 and f/22. These photos came right out of the camera with no editing. The lens hood does not show up as vignetting unless the hood is rotated. The darkness at the bottom of the photos is from the camera body blocking the kitchen light. The lens hood can be removed, but be careful to not unscrew the front cover of the lens that is holding the outer lens in place. The other thing to look out for is your hands. The lens is so wide that you can find your hands getting in the shot if you don't keep your fingers tucked back. The photos I get are sharp enough to warrant the cheap $130 price tag. This is not a lens for everyone, but it is something that I wanted to try.

For the price it deserves 5 stars, and some of its capabilities also. Concerned about lens cap.The MACRO capability of this fish eye lens is astounding. Also the sharpness and resolution in therelevant center of the frame on an extreme close up/macro shot can be startlingly good, especiallywhen my first number of shots in a low light interior (non macro) gave me semi-mediocre results.Yesterday i did some interior photos in the day in some artists' studios and got some amazingly good results also.I shoot with a Sigma rectilinear ultra-wide angle zoom, Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM FLD AF APS-C, whichi use with a LA-EA2 sony alpha to e mount converter, on my early Sony Nex 7. (related to the Sony A6000 series e mounts)That was/is a $700 plus or minus retail priced lens and a VERY good lens for what it is.This 7artisan 7.5mm f2.8 at its current pricing on Amazon is a tiny fraction of even the very-fairly-priced Sigma.The Sigma seems to have (at this early comparison point with the 7artisan 7.5mm) significantly better overallcapability which is understandable as it's 5x the price. the 7artisan, however, shines in MACRO use, and you canget twice as close to the subject photographed, than with the otherwise superior Sigma.Also, the 7artisan is E-Mount and small, and my Sigma is huge and add the adapter and you have VERY HUGE,which is fine for me, but if you want something pocketable, the 7artisan works.I do NOT have a Samyang/Rokinon 8mm f/2.8 e mount fisheye which is the most relevant comparison.i think the 7artisan will also get closer on Macro work, but i assume from reviews the Samyang/Rokinon would behard, otherwise, for the 7artisan to beat.... but i do not know this as a fact.So, bottomline, one cannot go wrong at this price for the 7artisans 7.5mm f2.8 with the ONE BIGGESTPROBLEM, and here the low price doesn't offset the problem (in my experience yet) is the durn' LENS CAP!!!the one on my Unit, grabs so tightly onto the lens, and it's a friction hold deal, not threaded, that it takes somuch torque to remove and replace it that it yanks the lens and the camera mount way too hard in the process.So, maybe my unit is a bad unit, and i need to try a replacement, or maybe there is a trick or method i donot know for taking off and putting back on the lens cap, so i will post a QUESTION on this in the question sectionalso. Perhaps a repair person, or skilled fabricator diy person, could carefully sand out the inner diameter of the lenscap, and thus eliminate the pressure problem, or perhaps there is another way to alter it and, again, maybe my oneunit, or my own clumsy hands, are the problem.so, 5 stars on macro performance, 4 stars on most everything else, and 1 star on the, to me, dangerous,lens cap.Really a FUN lens and, as others mention, beautifully packaged.REGARDING ATTACHED IMAGES: (i really regret Amazon's choice to only allow sample images to be very tiny.... in the medium distant past they allowed large samples, wherewith someone could actually make an intelligent purchase decision... and it seems iffy, so maybe these will be big enough to see.... in person they show startlingly good detail.... The first image is a crop of the cantaloupe's skin, but with ZERO sharpening or levels/contrast changes or any changes. from the jpeg as shot. Second image, is the same image from RAW, and with sharpening and levels/contrast. The next three images are full or crops from ONE SINGLE IMAGE of flower cluster. The tightest crops should show some of the detail of the hair like texture of parts of the flower stem). Good luck and have fun and somebody explain how to make the lens cap go on and off easier or have the mfg FIX THAT... (again, i'm going to have to send the lens back because of that, and with tears of regret).....

For an inexpensive lens, this thing is amazing. I was concerned because it is totally manual, but it's really not a problem. On my a6300 I just set the aperture to f/8, approximate the distance and shoot away. At f/2.8 it's great for macro shooting if the distance is set correctly. This fisheye allows for some very unique perspectives that are not possible with any other kind of lens. It's quite sharp when correctly focused with only some slight chromatic aberration near the edges. It feels solid and we'll built.

Fish eye view lens which gives decent quality output

I took a chance with this lens because it was cheap. It is soooo good I bring it and use it everywhere! Hands down my favourite lens to shoot with. Yes, it's manual, but with fisheye, unless you're shooting up close, just set it to infinity and F2.8 and you're set for all shots. The lens cap ring went loose after a month, but I fixed it with a screwdriver for glasses to tighten the screws. It hasn't had issues since. I've seen fisheye with distortion, even with the Sony wide angle lenses, but this one has no lens distortion in terms of blurriness. I'd buy this again in an instant if mine busted.I uploaded some photos from my Google Photos folder (so they're all mobile quality and not the originals). Photo descriptions:1. I was able to take an impossible shot of the funeral of Edmonton's Archbishop MacNeil with the hearse and the entire St. Joseph's Basilica facade.2. Because of the manual settings, it works well with the auto mode on the camera to figure out the rest with infinity and F2.8. This was at a night candlelight vigil at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, Israel. As you see, You can barely tell it's a fisheye lens even in such a big crowd of people. The Basilica is huge considering we were only in the plaza beside it. The statue of Mary in procession was captured perfectly to bring in the setting and mood because of the lens.3. I used the shutter priority to capture the dragon dance during Chinese New Year from behind the stage. This is located in an ice rink at West Edmonton Mall, but the large dragon looks so intimate in this space.4. To show that it's fully 180 degrees (or just about), I took this image of the roof of St. Joseph's Basilica in Edmonton. As you see, you can see both the front and back of the nave all at the same time with the stained-glass. The lens is so versatile, whether at large public events, or in small spaces, or for travel photos in places like Europe where churches are big, but there's little space to back up to take a full shot.Note also you can use the digital zoom on the Sony cameras if you don't want the fisheye, but just a wide angle shot.

Took me a while to get used to the manual focus, but I love the fisheye and mainly use for skate photography

Me ha encantado lo bien acabado que está, me ha parecido muy nítido comparado con un samyang 8mm que tenía antes. He tenido la oportunidad de probar un sigma 8mm de1000€ y el de 7artistas no tiene nada que envidiarle. Muy contento con la compra. Lo único que no me gusta es que no se le puede quitar el para sol

The build quality of the lens is outstanding. A full metal body contruction, with a smooth, yet rigid, focus and aperture ring. I did not know what to expect, but i'm blown away by the quality of the images with this lens. The 15cm close focussing distance is insane! Nothing matches this lens in the fisheye department for price and value. Highly recommend you picking up this lens, and for only $200? It's a no-brainer!