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Which one did you get? I've been looking at the Peleng as a fun toy to play with. Do post a defished picture so we can see how that works.


This is the 10.5mm Nikon DX fisheye, meant to work with the Nikon digital camera's smaller image sensor, defished with the freeware PanoTools (although Nikon will be happy to sell you their own defishing software as part of the $100 Nikon Capture).

The goal really isn't to point it up people's nostrils, although it's certainly tempting. I'm more interested in various and sundry artistic effects. When you use these things outside, you don't necessarily even realize that you're looking at a fisheye image. Of course, the ability to defish the lens was the real clincher for me. Back in high school, I owned a 17mm super-wideangle Sigma lens that I loved (although the yearbook editor chastised me for overusing it). Now, I can get either weird fisheye effects, or defish it and have a fantastic super-wide, all in one lens (and for much less money than the 12-24mm wide zoom).