First Images With TT Artisan 11mm Fish-eye Lens For Canon RF
Lately I am shooting landscapes with Fisheye Lenses for a very wide angle of view with 1 image or sometimes multiple image panoramas. Fish-eye lenses give you a very wide Field of View but you have the Fish-eye Effect look or Warped looking images. But when working on the files it is easy to correct and remove the Fish-eye look. This is also useful if shooting multi-image panoramas with Fish-Eye lenses for an even wider view because the Fisheye effect makes it almost impossible to blend the images nicely. If shooting Multi-image Panoramas with Fisheye lenses before blending the images you have to remove the “Fish-eye” distortion. So I use Photoshop’s Adaptive Wide Angle filter under Filters and enter the info needed there to de-fish the images. Sometimes it takes a few tries especially with Fisheye lenses like this 11mm Fisheye lens. You can also use the Warp tool to fine tune the image distortion a little more after using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter. The Artisan TT 11mm lens does not communicate with the R camera body so you have to set the camera to shoot without a lens and manually set the f/stop you want to use on the lens. If you use f/11 or f/16 almost everything is in focus without manually focusing if you set the lens to infinity & the Camera on Aperture Priority.
Meeting House, 11mm, camera tilting down to show distortion if not centering horizon. Easily fixed if applying PhotoShop’s Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
Horizontal Image, horizon somewhat centered in image lessens Fisheye distorted look (I could have used Photoshop’s Warp feature to correct the building some what more but left it alone for now.
Meeting House, same image as above but used PhotoShop’s Adaptive Wide Angle Filter to Correct Fisheye Distortion. 11mm, camera tilting up for more sky. Shows distortion if not centering horizon. Easily fixed if applying Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
2 Image Panorama made after using PhotoShop’s Adaptive Wide Angle Filter to Correct Fisheye Distortion for each image before making 2 image stacked Panorama. 11mm, camera tilting up for more sky on top & 2nd image tilting down for more foreground.
Meeting House, 1 Image Vertical view, corrected with PhotoShop’s Adaptive Wide Angle Filter. Also somewhat centering main building for less distortion. Also fine tuned with Photoshop “Warp” Feature.
Meeting House, 1 Image Horizontal view, corrected with PhotoShop’s Adaptive Wide Angle Filter. Also somewhat centering main building in center for less distortion. Fine tuned with Photoshop “Warp” Feature.
Meeting House, 1 Image Horizontal view, showing a more distorted effect if having horizon higher in frame for more foreground when shooting with Fisheye lenses. Better to shoot 2 stacked images with top image farther down towards the center.
Meeting House, 1 Image Horizontal view, showing a somewhat un-distorted view if having horizon more centered in frame for more foreground when shooting with Fisheye lenses. Better to shoot 2 stacked images with top image farther down towards the center.
Meeting House, 1 Image Horizontal view, showing a somewhat un-distorted view if having horizon more toward the bottom of image in your frame when shooting with Fisheye lenses. Again corrected with Adobe filter-Adaptive Wide Angle Filter and fine tuned outside edges with Adobe’s Warp filter.
6 Comments on “First Images With TT Artisan 11mm Fish-eye Lens For Canon RF”
nice lens!
I’m curious why you wanted something so wide? If you want to see barrel distortion best, go to a city with tall buildings. Lots of vertical and horizontal lines.
I see it has the F stop markings. Most lenses these day for go that. Even wide open that lens would have tremendous DOF I bet!
I wanted a lens so wide because I like doing multi-image panoramas. It is a fully manual dumb lens so you set your f/stop on the lens. There is no communication between the lens & camera. That is why the f/stops are set on the lens. So you have to set the camera to shoot without seeing the lens and use aperture priority only. At f/16 or f/11 from very close to infinity is all in focus. Once I shoot a series of images I have to de-fish the images before I load them into 1 Photoshop file for making the final panoramas. I like photographing panoramas and with this lens I can shoot half as many to a get very wide panoramas. Some of my panos before this are with 10 to 100 images or more. Some are also multiple rows of multiple images. So with this lens I only need half as many. Plus it is fun to try different ways to get the images you see in your mind. I was a Commercial photographer for 50 years so I enjoy the challenge to find different ways to get the images I see in my mind. I also hate photographing in cities and like to shoot out in nature. I only used the Meeting House for this post because it was in my neighborhood and wanted to see how good the lens would work for me
I wanted a lens so wide because I like doing multi-image panoramas. It is a fully manual dumb lens so you set your f/stop on the lens. There is no communication between the lens & camera. That is why the f/stops are set on the lens. So you have to set the camera to shoot without seeing the lens and use aperture priority only. At f/16 or f/11 from very close to infinity is all in focus. Once I shoot a series of images I have to de-fish the images before I load them into 1 Photoshop file for making the final panoramas. I like photographing panoramas and with this lens I can shoot half as many to a get very wide panoramas. Some of my panos before this are with 10 to 100 images or more. Some are also multiple rows of multiple images. So with this lens I only need half as many. Plus it is fun to try different ways to get the images you see in your mind. I was a Commercial photographer for 50 years so I enjoy the challenge to find different ways to get the images I see in my mind. I also hate photographing in cities and like to shoot out in nature. I only used the Meeting House for this post because it was in my neighborhood and wanted to see how good the lens would work for me. Thanks again!
Thanks so much Donna! Fisheye lenses are fun to use for very wide Field of View images. Plus with Photoshop’s Adaptive Wide Angle Filter automatically de-fish the images for multi-image Panoramas. Thanks again!
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nice lens!
I’m curious why you wanted something so wide? If you want to see barrel distortion best, go to a city with tall buildings. Lots of vertical and horizontal lines.
I see it has the F stop markings. Most lenses these day for go that. Even wide open that lens would have tremendous DOF I bet!
I wanted a lens so wide because I like doing multi-image panoramas. It is a fully manual dumb lens so you set your f/stop on the lens. There is no communication between the lens & camera. That is why the f/stops are set on the lens. So you have to set the camera to shoot without seeing the lens and use aperture priority only. At f/16 or f/11 from very close to infinity is all in focus. Once I shoot a series of images I have to de-fish the images before I load them into 1 Photoshop file for making the final panoramas. I like photographing panoramas and with this lens I can shoot half as many to a get very wide panoramas. Some of my panos before this are with 10 to 100 images or more. Some are also multiple rows of multiple images. So with this lens I only need half as many. Plus it is fun to try different ways to get the images you see in your mind. I was a Commercial photographer for 50 years so I enjoy the challenge to find different ways to get the images I see in my mind. I also hate photographing in cities and like to shoot out in nature. I only used the Meeting House for this post because it was in my neighborhood and wanted to see how good the lens would work for me
nice
I wanted a lens so wide because I like doing multi-image panoramas. It is a fully manual dumb lens so you set your f/stop on the lens. There is no communication between the lens & camera. That is why the f/stops are set on the lens. So you have to set the camera to shoot without seeing the lens and use aperture priority only. At f/16 or f/11 from very close to infinity is all in focus. Once I shoot a series of images I have to de-fish the images before I load them into 1 Photoshop file for making the final panoramas. I like photographing panoramas and with this lens I can shoot half as many to a get very wide panoramas. Some of my panos before this are with 10 to 100 images or more. Some are also multiple rows of multiple images. So with this lens I only need half as many. Plus it is fun to try different ways to get the images you see in your mind. I was a Commercial photographer for 50 years so I enjoy the challenge to find different ways to get the images I see in my mind. I also hate photographing in cities and like to shoot out in nature. I only used the Meeting House for this post because it was in my neighborhood and wanted to see how good the lens would work for me. Thanks again!
Wow, amazing Reed!
Thanks so much Donna! Fisheye lenses are fun to use for very wide Field of View images. Plus with Photoshop’s Adaptive Wide Angle Filter automatically de-fish the images for multi-image Panoramas. Thanks again!