Customer Reviews

Opteka 6.5mm f/3.5 Manual Focus Aspherical Fisheye Lens for Canon EOS 60D, 50D, 40D, 5D, 1Ds, 1D, Digital Rebel T1i, T2i, T2, XSi, XS, XTi, XT, T3 and T3i Digital SLR Cameras (New Version)

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Love this lens! It's build + image quality is pretty good, nice sharp & warped, well worth the price.
I've been using this with my new canon 7D, It gives off some lovely distortion and no vignetting.

I use this lens for the 1D mk III after sawed the hood. The image circle is a little bit smaller than 1.3 cropped sensor. 4 corners are dark but it is okay. The fisheye effect is very strong on 1.3 cropped sensor, but not much on 1.6 cropped one.
The aperture ring is loose while the focus ring is too tight.
During focus, the lens does extend very little (less than a millimeter).

This lens is amazing. The first photo I took with it and posted with it got "Explored" on flickr. That alone tells me something about its power and appeal (I pretty much never get any photos 'explored'). Even though its optical quality is not the best, with proper focusing, aperture, and sharpening in post-processing phase, this lens shines. Here are my photos taken with this lens: [...]

I bought this lens mostly for fun, though I have used it to take pictures of closed places where other lenses wouldn't work (on my 1.6 cropped sensor).

It's awesome for having fun and taking pictures without framing too much, just playing around. However when you try to get a good shot, I find that it is a bit hard to focus, and sometimes it seems it just won't go as sharp as it could. For videos it works well.

I know that if I wanted to be that picky about image quality I would have to go for a lens at least 3 times the price of this one, but beware: if you need pictures to be really sharp and focused, I'd try it out first.

Check out this test video I shot with the fisheye:[...]
MAKE SURE YOU WATCH IN HD

Description from video:
"Short test of my new fisheye lens!! It's an Opteka 6.5 and it's on my Canon 60D.

If you have a dslr and are looking to get a cheap fisheye, this one goes for 300 bucks and it's the best you can get without paying a TON for a canon or sigma. I got mine off of Amazon, and it came within three days. I love it! It's got manual aperture and focus, but I usually just keep the focus on infinity because with a fisheye you barely have to focus anyway unless you're up close. I got the lens for filming action sports, and by the looks of this high speed test it's gonna be perfect for that. If you want to see more of the lens tests and camera tests I'm doing with my new 60D then follow my site: stephendiaz.com"

Also shot this with it: [...]
It's a great lens, veryyyyyy happy with it. Perfect for skating stuff, perfect for anything really. Oh also I added some customer pictures so check those out as well!

Great quality. Grabs the entire room. For $300 this lens is a must. Works well with Canon Rebel XSi. It is very durable as well, it feels like it was made to withstand a good bang or two. Its been well over 8 months and this lens is still working perfectly.

I bought this lens for filming skateboarding with my Canon T2i. This lens have made me get into photography. its a perfect lens. best you can get for a t2i or 60d. you can buy a better canon one but why waste 8 bills. BUY IT NOW

I have a Canon T3i, and added this lens for 'play'. It is fun to set it at 1.5ft and f8 and use it like a point-n-shoot from 8'' to infinity.

Solid, easy to use, fun to experiment and full frame photos.

Just opened the box and took my first pictures. The construction of the lens is much better than I expected. Seems well built. I am using it on a Canon XSI. Attached flawlessly. I took a few quick snaps. [...]

On the description on this amazon, it says it's compatible with Canon XTi. Yet it doesn't work. 100% unless on a Canon Rebel XT.