Talk me out of buying a Hasselblad Fisheye lens

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Too late, the price was too good to pass up. I am so glad I bought it, but heck we need an new thread on Fisheye lenses anyway.



Post your fisheye photographs here and on the Fisheye Photographs threads for double credit.
 

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I've always thought the best argument against buying the Hassy fisheye is the existence of the Arsat fisheye for 1/10th the price. Though I've never seen Sirius to want to skimp on lens quality for any amount of money, so I doubt that argument will work here...
 

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Except the Arsat/Zodiak does not have a leaf shutter, and Sirius uses a 500 series camera...
 

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Except the Arsat/Zodiak does not have a leaf shutter, and Sirius uses a 500 series camera...
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I think when you buy one of those lenses you're supposed to buy the whole camera to go with it. I think pentacon six is probably the best made and most reliable of all the eastern bloc cameras. With a WLF it's a handsome camera, not bad for a dedicated fisheye machine.
 

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Kingswood Gardens Hassy 30mm Distagon Fisheye 1 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Frog Pond, Kingswood Gardens, Mansfield Ohio. Kodak 70mm Surveillance Film, ADOX Borax MQ dev, Hasselblad 500C/M 30mm T* Distagon, Handheld exposure. Arista #2 8x10 Matte RC paper, Multigrade dev. Processed in 70mm Kindermann Dev Tank

Kodak Surveillance reminds me a lot of the older Tri-X emulsion.
The sun was just out of the frame upper left corner. The circular garden works well with the Hassy Fishy lens.

This was a fun shoot!
 

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Sirius Glass said:
Too late, the price was too good to pass up. I am so glad I bought it, but heck we need an new thread on Fisheye lenses anyway.



Post your fisheye photographs here and on the Fisheye Photographs threads for double credit.
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good for you.
 

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Grim Tuesday said:
I think when you buy one of those lenses you're supposed to buy the whole camera to go with it....
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Ha! That is actually what I did... but then I modified it to work on a 2000fcm. No point carrying an extra (failing) body and film back around. The F-Distagon would be much nicer...
 

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There was a Rollei 6000 fisheye on e-bay about a year ago. It was pretty beat-up for what they were asking. Otherwise It is almost cheaper to get a SL66 and f-distagon.
 
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Congrats on the purchase, S.G..... Although my 37mm Fisheye is a Mamiya RB67 unit I love it. I've posted one image from my gallery here at Photrio.What I like the most about the unit is you can give a slight tip and you get Fisheye results. If you keep the back parallel to the scene it works nicely as a super-wide-angle.
 
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Trail Images said:
Congrats on the purchase, S.G..... Although my 37mm Fisheye is a Mamiya RB67 unit I love it.
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I have a 16mm f/2.8 fisheye for my Nikon 35mm SLR and an 8mm f/2.8 fisheye for my mirrorless digital. However, even though I do not really need one and with the lock down and loss of business, I can no longer justify the purchase of one, I still would like to have a 37mm f/4.5 fisheye for my RB67 medium format SLR.
 

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clown2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Pentacon Six hot rodded to EX66 by Pentacon Dresden and Rolf Dieter Baier. 30mm Arsat wide open HP5+
 

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Sirius Glass said:
Too late, the price was too good to pass up. I am so glad I bought it, but heck we need a new thread on Fisheye lenses anyway.



Post your fisheye photographs here and on the Fisheye Photographs threads for double credit.
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It always amuses me, Steve my friend, when people ask me to "talk them out " of things, my reply is always the same" what are you asking me for? I'm a photographer not a psychiatrist
 
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benjiboy said:
It always amuses me, Steve my friend, when people ask me to "talk them out " of things, my reply is always the same" what are you asking me for? I'm a photographer not a psychiatrist
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I've only seen one fisheye photo that I actually liked, and that was on the cover of a Hassy sales brochure. It somehow showed no indication of the classic curvature associated with this lens, which I really dislike. I don't think I could come close to the Hassy brochure picture, which was probably the ideal subject and composition for a fisheye so I'll pass.
 

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Formal Gardens Kingswood 30 Dist 70mm WL Surveillance by Nokton48, on Flickr

Hasselblad 500C/M 30 Distagon T* Fisheye Yellow Hasselblad filter 70mm WL Surveillance Film A70 film back ADOX Borax MQ Kindermann 70mm tank Arista 8x10 #2 RC laser aligned Omega DII 180 black Rodagon Omegalite diffusion head Multigrade dev

Across all the way on the other side is large wonderful fountain
 

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The key is too kept the horizon level and in the center of the picture. Works for some things, not so much others.
 

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Sirius Glass said:
Too late, the price was too good to pass up. I am so glad I bought it, but heck we need an new thread on Fisheye lenses anyway.



Post your fisheye photographs here and on the Fisheye Photographs threads for double credit.
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You start...
 

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My biggest challenge with my one fisheye (Bronica PE 30mm) is at the same time, keeping the sun out of the shot, and my and the cameras shadow out of the shot. Best to shoot at noon when the shadows are very short.

they’re interesting lenses but very very narrow uses.
 
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