Anyone used the Fantasea BigEye M67 (with an s90)?

[BSOD]

Fantasea Line Water Sports Photo Products & Accessories- BigEye Lens M67

It seems a bit shorter than the oft mentioned FIX or Inon fisheyes, which may minimize the usual vignetting. Not to mention it's also a tad bit lower in cost.

 

[Nemrod]

It will also be a "tad" bit lesser FOV than the UFL165AD or Fisheye UWL-04, like about less than half.

N

 

[slowhands]

Fantasea Line Water Sports Photo Products & Accessories- BigEye Lens M67

It seems a bit shorter than the oft mentioned FIX or Inon fisheyes, which may minimize the usual vignetting. Not to mention it's also a tad bit lower in cost.

This is only intended to restore the original focal length of the lens at the wide end, to compensate for the 25% reduction caused by the refraction of water. So a 28mm lens in air remains a 28mm lens in water, instead of effectively a 35mm lens. It's a mild wide angle enhancement, say .8x, in a compact form. Cost is about $220 at major dealers. You will have to zoom in a little, since the port on an S90 or G11 housing is slightly wider than 67mm.

The Inon wide angle adapter presents a wider image, at considerably higher cost. Classic tradeoff.

If you want extreme wide angle, also consider a DSLR with an 8mm fisheye, or 10-17mm fisheye. There is even a 4.5mm fisheye from Sigma.

 

[mrivken]

Do you know how it works with zoom ? I used Inon's UWL-100 few times and it does not allow to zoom at all (even with smallest zoom lens create extremely "soapy" vignetting) ?

Michael

 

[swee sin]

i think most inon wide lens perform best at 35mm...
so for S90, you need to zoom out a little bit to get rid of dark corner.
i think UWL-100 shld performed better than AD lens
i'm using Inon 105AD with S90 ...