Full Rokinon/Samyang 7.5mm and Panasonic 8mm fisheye reviews.
ThePhoBlographer (Click here) tested the newest of all Micro Four Thirds lenses, the Samyang (Rokinon in USA) 7.5mm fisheye: “I want to recommend this lens to everyone simply on the matter that the build quality is something that everyone should experience and that this lens is truly how Micro Four Thirds manual lenses should be created. The lens exhibits exceptional sharpness, color rendition with no fringing, little to no vignetting, and meters well with the camera. It’s a lens that everyone would ask for.”
You can find plenty of image samples taken with the lens on his website!
P.S.: The lens is already in Stock on eBay:
Click here to buy the Black Samyang 7.5mm lens.
Click here to buy the Silver Samyang 7.5mm lens.
And ePhotozine (Click here) tested the much more expensive Panasonic Lumix G 8mm Fisheye Lens: “The compact size, and excellent optical performance of this fisheye optic will make it certainly worthy of consideration if the distorted fisheye effect is what you’re after.“.
You can click these links t check price and availability Amazon, Adorama, B&H, J&R, eBay.
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Comment from Brod1er: Fisheyes are THE standard wide angle len...
Comment from Janie: He says it will be $299? Hm, that sounds...
Comment from flash: Good for the skateboard park, eh? That ...
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Ahem
9 months ago |The Blogotogprharher continues to amaze: he recommends a FISH-EYE lens to “everyone”? Not only is he recommending a highly specialized fixed focal length lens to “everyone,” he is basing his recommendation on BUILD QUALITY. Shows what photography blogs are all about: gear, not photography.
Not to mention “build quality” is a useless and highly subjective metric which doesn’t give any indication into image quality or even robustness.
Ulli
9 months ago |“Blogotogprharher”?
Ahem
9 months ago |Try pronouncing the name of his site out loud, I dare you. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is easier to say.
John
9 months ago |Wow really? You can’t pronounce that?
The
Pho
Bla
Grapher
ThePhoblographer
That was easy. You want some hard words try:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, hell even that is easy when you break it down. What happened to learning phonetics in grade school…
Vlad
9 months ago |And you made a mistake yourself
I am about to barf
9 months ago |I am about to barf after seeing a string of those images.
I have a headache.
lily
9 months ago |Actually, he said he *wants to* recommend it to everyone because it’s so well built, but he *can’t* recommend it to everyone “simply because it is not a tool that everyone needs or really wants”.
Ahem
9 months ago |You actually RTFA after that summary?
mclarenf3
9 months ago |Why not? It’s a summary created by the author of this website which should have no bearing on what is actually in the article.
Nick Clark
9 months ago |Did you actually read the review?
First sentence of the Conclusion: “Can I recommend the Rokinon 7.5mm f3.5 fisheye lens to everyone? No, simply because it is not a tool that everyone needs or really wants.”
Mr. Reeee
9 months ago |Only a tool really needs or wants a fisheye lens?
+10
Yep, That sounds about right.
I could see using it a few times, but not enough to justify the storage space.
flash
9 months ago |Everyone(photographers)should use a fish-eye. Once.
I have used a fish-eye twice, the second time was not so special. Dam I am beginning to sound like that new Nikon commercial
macNcheez
9 months ago |this is true, most photographers/videographers dont need a fisheye, but there are alot that do, specifically for extreme sports shooters.
every time one of these posts comes up about a fisheye i see the same ignorant comments “oh a fisheye who would ever need that?”… respect the tool weather you need it or not, just because you cant be creative with it or put it to use doesnt mean others cant.
Leiya
9 months ago |+1 to macNcheez !!
flash
9 months ago |Good for the skateboard park, eh? That is where I used one.
John
9 months ago |I just want to know where i can get a strap like the one in the picture!
napalm
9 months ago |me too!
napalm
9 months ago |hey what’s that brown strap on the E-P2? I’d like to get one
Ahem
9 months ago |I have a similar-looking wrist strap for my E-PL1 – it looks nice, works well, and is better suited for it than a neck strap. YMMV.
Janie
9 months ago |He says it will be $299? Hm, that sounds better than 299Euros…
All the pictures on his review are soft, some of them out of focus, I really don’t see a reason to shoot a fisheye lens wide open.
I agree with him that they should have put a dof scale on the lens, and I will wait for the price of it to go down to $200-$250 mark and more reviews, to see if that lens is actually worth it, if it is really quite small and cheap, it might be a good lens to take to a concert or a nightclub
Brod1er
9 months ago |Fisheyes are THE standard wide angle lens for underwater. I have just taken nearly 2000 photos on holiday with mine. You really need AF unfortunately though.