Anyone want the mother of all Nikon fisheyes

Nikon 8mm f2.8 fisheye. Only used by one little old professor during apple growing season.

I think we'd need a pretty big dome... B)

boring, I'd prefer the famous 6mm 220° Nikkor - widest lens in the world :-) That would be a great experience for dome builders

oh - and get a Nikon film camera body to capture the entire circle. B)

I have used the Sigma 8mm (no comparison to the Nikon on ebay of course but same 180° circular coverage) on film - works well behind dedicated fisheye domes when sun shade is removed (had the seacam fisheye dome). But it rests for cropped funstuff now.

Julian

What Jolly is talking about......

Wow--the thing looks like its in its own dome port. From what I've read you can't view through the viewfinder as the mirror must be locked up prior to mounting the lens and it is fixed focus.

Now this would be a challenge to use underwater. I bet it would produce some awesome images though.

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What Jolly is talking about......

Wow--the thing looks like its in its own dome port. From what I've read you can't view through the viewfinder as the mirror must be locked up prior to mounting the lens and it is fixed focus.

 

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There's no need to look in the viewfinder. EVERYTHING is in the field of view of the lens, including your eye.

The 6mm f/2.8 and 8mm f/2.8 FE-Nikkor lenses were both retrofocus and did not require MLU. Nikon also made MLU fisheyes, but the maximum apertures were quite a bit less. I think one of the photos above shows both MLU and retrofocus 6mm lenses (res. too low). Besides needing a 220 degree 'dome', the diameter of the 6mm f/2.8 is given as 236mm in Cooper's Handbook. One would need a rather special port. The 8mmf/2.8 is listed with a 123mm diameter - will even this fit into the 'neck' of many ports?

Tom

Someone just needs to figure out a way to create a housing that is a complete sphere with the camera in the middle... Biggest problem I see is that it would be a little bouyant...

- MP

You would also need different housings for each lens to get the port distance right.....