I really want a Fisheye Lens for my SLR camera, so I've got my eye on this, the Samyang 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye lens for Canon.

I've wanted a Fisheye lens for my camera for ages because I love the Fisheye effect in photos, it's great with travel photography, but you can also do really interesting portraits or culture pictures with them too.

The only things that's been holding me back from actually getting myself a fisheye lens is the price; they can be just so expensive. They're clearly more expensive to make so the cost is passed on, but I've come across the solution: this Samyang lens!

I was asking my friend where he got his r4i gold because I needed to order one, and he told me that he got it from the same place as his fisheye, which naturally got us talking about fisheye lenses! I was so surprised at the quality of his images and the cost of the lens.

It's a manual focus which the lazy digital photographer in me doesn't like, but with fisheye you don't really need small depth of field so manual focus should be fine, and it gives you more control too.

Photo: derfian (Flickr)