Well Rounded AF-S FISHEYE NIKKOR 8-15mm f3.5-4.5E ED

CIRCULAR FISH-EYE LENSES can be great fun, but they can be overused and their application is mostly purely creative. This means a circular fish-eye is really a ‘luxury’ addition to a lens kit – it’s unlikely to be used all that often. Thinking practically, this is money that could be probably better spent elsewhere. But how about if a circular fish-eye came packaged up with a full-frame fish-eye in the same lens?

OK, the rectangular fish-eye’s applications are still reasonably specialised – as the angle-of-view is still around 180 degrees on the diagonal – but the general usefulness of such a dual-capability lens would definitely be increased. This is exactly the thinking behind the AF-S Fisheye Nikkor 8-15mm f3.5-4.5E ED, which zooms from circular fish-eye to rectangular fish-eye when used on one of Nikon’s full-35mm (a.k.a. ‘FX’) D-SLR bodies.

It’s Nikon’s first fish-eye zoom – Canon has had an L series 8-15mm model since 2010 – and a pretty interesting