However, I had planned to invest a bit more of the surplus funds into lenses. That plan fails because of those silly fees that added up without being fully factored into my planning worksheets, which converted a pleasant excess into a small check that has several other important uses. So any other items will wait for January, when no house payment is needed and a bit of excess from our former escrow account will flow back to us. That money also has places to go, but a pinch of expense for that 7.5mm fisheye can probably be worked in! It's available for $50 off right now, and hopefully a few buyers won't like fisheyes and drop a copy into my happy hands. Or maybe an inventory excess sale? We'll see if it works out.
This lens took a rare 5-star award from photozone, so the secret is out.
Its all-manual functionality and fishy output just aren't for everyone though, regardless of stars!
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| image via lenstip.com |
It should be noted that Olympus sells their 'body-cap' 9mm fisheye for quite a bit less. It isn't awful and it's a whole 30 grams - but at a fixed f/8 it will not be astronomy-friendly as this f/3.5 model. With a bit more budget I could squeeze out a Samyang 12mm f/2 which gets rave reviews from astro-types. It's $100ish more than the 7.5 though, for now I'll Just Say No.
