The samyang fisheye lens is an alternative to the native panasonic lumix g 8mm f 3. It features an extremely wide field of view, it is small and compact, and its build quality and optical construction are superb. A natively designed fisheye would probably be much shallower, closer to the olympus micro 4. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone. The lens construction uses 10 elements in 7 groups, including an aspherical hybrid lens. Its build quality and sophisticated optics are designed to deliver a frame filling 180 diagonal field of view with exceptional sharpness, color rendition, and ergonomic fit. With hybrid aspherical lenses and a multilayer coating, you\ll be able to produce sharply defined images with a minimum of flare and ghosting.
Although it is a manual lens, it is well made and useful in tight shooting situations, for macro photography and for astrophotography. What is the correct, standard exif metadata to add for. Offering an exceptionally wide angle of view, up to 180 degrees diagonally, the 7. However the depth indicates to me they just took an existing lens that had been designed for use with a variety of cameras, and cobbled an adapter permanently attached to the lens.
Sep 14, 2011 flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. It features the widest field of view over any other 8mm fisheye lens, and its build quality. The rokinon 8mm lens is designed for digital slr cameras with apsc image sensors. After a few days of mostly outdoors shooting, i can share a few first impressions. Reviews, news, data, and techniques for mirrorless cameras of all brands, since 2009. Rokinon and various rebadged versions of the same and panasonic both offer. My problem with making photographs with a fe that i know i will want to defish is that until such is actually done i do not know if the end result is what i envisioned. The apsc version provides a 180degree field of view.
Rokinon and various rebadged versions of the same and panasonic both offer fisheye lenses that are more affordable. Created for digital slr cameras with apsc image sensors, the rokinon 8mm f3. The olympus fisheye is also quite pricey, but at f 1. Some other manual focus lenses for micro four thirds are older designs with a new mount. Distortion is less extreme than with the nikkor 10. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to. The lens i worked with is designed for the nikon dx apsccropped sensor. Its build quality and sophisticated optics are designed to deliver a frame filling 180 diagonal field of view with exceptional sharpness, color rendition. Despite its small size, the new samyang successfully combines the best features of the popular model with 8 mm focal length offering highest quality optics closed in a compact and visually attractive casing. Apr 24, 2012 flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Its top notch, especially for something priced like this, granted, its manual focus, but. Probably the best superwideangle lens for micro four thirds cameras in its price range. Samyang is a korean company that makes beautiful, cheap and underrated lenses.
Diagonal angle of view, budgetfriendly and welldesigned. With hybrid aspherical lenses,multilayer coating and a builtin petal lens hood, youll be able to produce sharply defined images with a minimum of flare and ghosting. Its a completely manual lens focusing and aperture changes are done on the lens. It features the widest field of view over any other 8mm fisheye lens, and its build quality and optical construction are superb. Other versions are available for other croppedsensor interchangeablelens. When mounted on a fourthirds sensor camera, it will give you an ff equivalent focal range of 16mm. Its a diagonal fisheye, meaning it offers a 180 degree diagonal angle of view and illuminates the entire frame. Mousingover to reveal the prooptic lens, notice how it both shows a larger overall angle, and squishes the corners much less. A fisheye can be used for architecture pretty effectively though.
With hybrid aspherical lenses and a multilayer coating, youll be able to produce sharply defined images with a minimum of flare and ghosting. Announced sep 5, 2011 wideangle fisheye prime lens micro four thirds. Find out which is better and their overall performance in the mirrorless camera lens ranking. Its a completely manual lens focusing and aperture changes are done on the lens barrel, theres no electronic connection to the camera. Micro four thirds enjoys no fewer than three fisheye lenses. Despite its small size, the new samyang successfully combines the best features of the popular model with 8 mm focal length offering highest quality optics closed in a compact.
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