{"id":2994,"date":"2014-04-18T11:34:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2014-04-18T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:34:37","slug":"lensbaby-5-8mm-f3-5-circular-fisheye-for-crop-sensors-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/lensbaby-5-8mm-f3-5-circular-fisheye-for-crop-sensors-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Lensbaby 5.8mm f\/3.5 Circular Fisheye for Crop Sensors Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This new lens was overshadowed last week by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/sigma-art-50mm-f1-4-pricing-announced-949\/\">Sigma Art 50mm f\/1.4<\/a>, but is worth re-highlighting: we are now tracking the new <a href=\"\/product\/05408\/Lensbaby-5.8mm-f3.5-Circular-Fisheye-for-Canon-EF-price.html\">Lensbaby 5.8mm f\/3.5 Circular Fisheye<\/a>. It&#8217;s available for pre-order for <a href=\"\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/5.8mm-f3.5-Circular-Fisheye-for-Canon-EF\/p=5408&#038;m=5\">$299.95 at B&#038;H<\/a>, <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/5.8mm-f3.5-Circular-Fisheye-for-Canon-EF\/p=5408&#038;m=20\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"\/go\/Adorama\/5.8mm-f3.5-Circular-Fisheye-for-Canon-EF\/p=5408&#038;m=6\">Adorama<\/a>. Availability is mid-May.<\/p>\n<p>We think this will be popular, as up until now the only true circular fisheye option available for crop bodies was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/03080\/Sigma-4.5mm-F2.8-EX-DC-Circular-Fisheye-HSM-for-Canon-price.html\">Sigma 4.5mm f\/2.8 DC<\/a>, at whopping $900 price tag. This new Lensbaby lens provides a true circular frame of view on a crop-sensor body (sample below) and is one third of the price. It&#8217;s a good alternative to the similarly priced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/03950\/Rokinon-8mm-f3.5-Fisheye-for-Canon-price.html\">Rokinon 8mm fisheye<\/a> which doesn&#8217;t provide a circular view on crop-bodies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_385173.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_385173\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_385173.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_385173-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_385173-240x240.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new lens was overshadowed last week by the Sigma Art 50mm f\/1.4, but is worth re-highlighting: we are now tracking the new Lensbaby 5.8mm f\/3.5 Circular Fisheye. It&#8217;s available for pre-order for $299.95 at B&#038;H, Amazon or Adorama. Availability is mid-May. We think this will be popular, as up until now the only true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[765],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lensbaby-5-8mm-f3-5-circular-fisheye-for-canon-ef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}