Comments on: Sigma 4.5mm Fisheye – What’s it like?

By: Sybren

Sybren — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:12:02 +0000

@cesar: I've never used Autodesk Stitcher, so I can't comment on it. I would think that the seam would be quite visible when only using two photos. My favourite software for stitching is Hugin

By: cesar

cesar — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:31:16 +0000

by the way, when I said “I asked the administrator” i was refering to the admin. of a webpage for stitching panoramas called panomonkey.com

By: cesar

cesar — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:28:40 +0000

Hello everyone!
Great review!
I have two comments (kind of questions)
1.-I use Samyang 8mm fullframe fisheye to create spherical panoramas and the lens works great for the price. I asked to the administrator if he would recommend me the sigma 4.5mm fisheye and his response was: “Your rokinon 8mm lens is awesome. The sigma 4.5mm is shit! I do not recommend it ”.
I have seen examples of the sigma lens on flickr and the results look similar to the samyang.
2.-Autodesk Stitcher has an option for stitching two circular 180d fisheye photos and automatically corrects
chromatic aberration on the edges. Sybren, have you tried this option to see the results? this would be the only reason for me to buy the sigma.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:37:56 +0000

I have this unique fisheye lens for my Sony a350 dSLR and find it is quite impressive. I will admit however, I don’t use it as much as I really should but since I’m looking now more into artistic photography, maybe that will change.

How does it compare with a Samyang 8mm F3.5 fisheye though?

Best regards

Gavin

By: nonchiedercilaparola

nonchiedercilaparola — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:04:38 +0000

Hi, i would like to know how many shoot i have to do to take a spherical panorama whit sigma 4.5mm fisheye (i would like to buy a d90 nikon or a canon 550d eos).

Some people (forum panoramaguide) suggested me to choose a samyang 8mm fisheye becouse have a better quality and olny one-two plus.

By: Dave Lapham Photography

Dave Lapham Photography — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:25:36 +0000

I think that a fisheye lens is a must have! You can create some really unique shots with it. It is definitely the next lens I’m buying. Great post!!

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:42:20 +0000

WOW what an amazing panorama.

Nice vid and cool music too

By: Sybren

Sybren — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:26:26 +0000

I’ve just created another panorama, it’s online at my blog:

http://stuvel.eu/archive/130/360-panorama-amsterdam-central-station

By: Kyle Bailey

Kyle Bailey — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:14:30 +0000

Thanks for providing this review. I have been considering buying this lens but had not made up my mind. I think that I now will be buying this to do some fun things more than anything practical.

Thanks!

I’d like to use it to do some fun stuff with cars like this shot I took of a Lambroghini – http://www.flickr.com/photos/kylebailey/4811009249/

By: hnieef

hnieef — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:40:19 +0000

can this lense use with nikon d3000 or d300s