Peleng 8mm f/3.5 fisheye?

aquillae · Post by **aquillae** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:24 pm

Hi guys,

do you know if anyone/store in Singapore supplies this lens?

Thanks,

Jeff

Post by **weixing** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:30 pm

Hi,
I think you'll have more repond if you put this in ClubSnap ( http://forums.clubsnap.org/ ).

Have a nice day.

aquillae · Post by **aquillae** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:50 pm

thanks alot Weixing.

alvinsclee · Post by **alvinsclee** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:04 am

Bought mine from her (she's a good and responsible seller)...

http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=245544

Interesting lens... I've yet to use it for whole-sky astrophotography

aquillae · Post by **aquillae** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:01 pm

sweet, thanks a lot Alvin:)

addy · Post by **addy** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:44 pm

for the same price or a little more, I would recommend a Sigma 8mm f/4 lens.. The sigma lens is optically better and is a true full circle fish eye lens..

The Peleng though interesting is not a true ful circle.. the top and the bottom areslightly chopped (like an orange)..

If you are using a full frame DSRL (or film cam), you will notice the top and bottom parts slightly chopped.. Otherwise on most of prosumer DSLRs, you will not notice it.

Tachyon · Post by **Tachyon** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:52 pm

addy wrote:for the same price or a little more, I would recommend a Sigma 8mm f/4 lens.. The sigma lens is optically better and is a true full circle fish eye lens..

The Peleng though interesting is not a true ful circle.. the top and the bottom areslightly chopped (like an orange)..

If you are using a full frame DSRL (or film cam), you will notice the top and bottom parts slightly chopped.. Otherwise on most of prosumer DSLRs, you will not notice it.

Any idea how much a Sigma 8mm f/4 lens cost?

aquillae · Post by **aquillae** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:32 am

Thanks for the input, Addy.

I got a local quote (Indonesia) for the Sigma 8mm f/4 lens and it's around 1000SGD.

The Peleng lens would cost me around 450SGD(shipped off E-bay) or 480SGD off Ullyss (if it's still available).

so pretty much the Sigma lens would cost around 2x of the Peleng lens, unless I got a really bad quote.

decision decision....

addy · Post by **addy** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:04 pm

I am sorry for the late reply.. wasn't online for the last few days..

I bought mine at around $600 (new) a couple of years back.. Din know that the price of Sigma has gone up that high.. You can check the quotations from Alan photo in singapore (alanfoto@singnet.com.sg) or cathay photo (email@cathayphoto.com.sg) or MS color (sales@mscolor.com.sg or mscolot@singnet.com.sg).. I believe that you can get better price from them, but shipping could be an issue.

regards
Andy

aquillae · Post by **aquillae** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:15 am

Thanks again for the info Andy.

cheers,
Jeff