Rokinon 8mm F3.5 Ultra Wide Fisheye Lens

 

Rokinon 8mm F3.5 Ultra Wide Fisheye Lens

 

By : Sony Nex Rokinon
Price : $299.00
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Product Description

Style: Sony Nex
The NEW ROKINON 8mm Ultra Wide Angle Fisheye Lens is the most very affordable 8mm Fisheye Lens on the industry. The ROKINON 8mm lens is designed for digital SLR cameras with APS-C image sensors. For these types of cameras, it provides full-frame coverage. For cameras with complete-frame sensors, the lens will produce photos with a semi-circular image and close images will appear proportionately sizeable for a dramatic effect. The ROKINON 8mm lens creates images with an expanded and exaggerated perspective and an really wide 180° angle of view.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 3 x 3 inches ; 1.5 pounds


• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)


• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.


• ASIN: B005FKT7GS


• Item model number: FE8M-NEX
  

Consumer Evaluations

Fisheye lenses are very entertaining - they give a entirely numerous perspective compared to just about any lens out there. The most typical kind seem to be the "circle" type, which item a major circle in the center of your image (with the fisheye image inside of that). On digital cameras with a crop-element (like the Canon Rebel series, XXD series and even 7D), this can from time to time outcome in what looks like a circle with the top rated and bottom cut off.. not the most enjoyable image.
That is exactly where this a single comes in - the Rokinon made a rectangular fisheye image - there is no "circle" as with other forms of fisheye lenses, but you still get that good fisheye look (distortions and all).
You may well see other similar searching (and priced) Fisheye lenses out there out there.. Bower, Pro-Optic, Samyang, Rokinon, Vivitar, Falcon. These are ALL THE Very same LENS - Samyang, the manufacturer, merely re-brands it and alterations the colors a bit (For instance, look at: Vivitar - Fisheye lens - 7 mm - f/three.five - Canon EF Pro-Optic 8mm f/three.five Manual Concentrate, Fish Eye Lens with Canon EOS Mount ). With that mentioned, be confident to check out the other people to uncover the most reasonably priced. The Rokinon is sometimes 50-75 dollars much less than the Vivitar.
The lens is a Canon EF mount (I only mention this simply because it's not listed in the description, only that it's "For Canon" - I wasn't confident if it was EF or FD mount prior to ordering). It WILL fit onto any EF Mount (meaning it will function on a 5D) but because it is SO WIDE, the hood will show up in images on a fullframe camera (it will not show up on pictures on a 1.6x crop camera like the Rebels, 7D or XXD line). The hood is not removable, but some folks in fact cut it off to use with complete-frame cameras like the 5D.
The lens is rounded like a classic fisheye, so you can not use lens filter in front of this.
The angle is Exceptionally WIDE - very likely 180 degrees.. I have the lenscap on a leash (capkeeper) and it shows up in images if I do not move it. Items suitable to the side of the lens will seem in the photo.. it really is tough to hide from it!
The low price tag comes given that the lens does NOT make electrical make contact with with the camera. It is a MANUAL LENS - there is no autofocus, and the camera will not recognize it as a lens. You alter the aperture by turning the manual aperture ring on the lens itself. You concentrate using the bigger ring. Due to the fact the lens is so wide, if you set it to infinity (on the concentrate scale), then bring it back to just before that mark, most of your image will be in concentrate. It is in reality tougher to get stuff out of concentrate than in focus (fantastic for those like me who cannot manual focus at all)
If you set your camera to AV mode (haven't tried the others) it will automatically figure out exposure for you (I was worried about this, figuring a manual lens had to be set manually (including exposure)) - You can, of course, nonetheless set it manually. And when it does meter, it is not constantly perfect so be sure to evaluation your pictures once in a although to make positive every thing is turning out. A single of the complications is that with such a wide angle of view, there can frequently be especially unique lighting circumstances. Taking a photo indoors, for instance, will normally result in a darkened room and incredibly bright light sources wherever windows are. You practically want to "HDR" these to get usable images. Outdoors or in even lighting circumstances, it works terrific.
The cost is considerably much less than other wide angle lenses (for the reason that these have name-brands behind them and characteristics like autofocus and probably superior optics). The only less expensive option are the poor screw-on fisheye filters that attach on best of an current lens, but these will regularly produce near unusable photos. The photographs from the Rokinon are surprisingly sharp.
The downside to it is that top quality control on the distance-scale can be poor - a number of people today are reporting having this lens (or the other rebranded variations) with a distance scale that is "off" - meaning that the 2 foot mark may possibly essentially be "Infinity", but I feel it is some thing you can understand to deal with just after a handful of utilizes. It does not make the lens unusable by any implies.
The other unfavorable is that this lens is about 300 bucks for a manual-only lens made by Rokinon (or Samyang, and so on..) - that is almost the similar as you'd spend for a Canon 50mm 1.four lens (or related). With that stated though, I nevertheless honestly appreciate it and would re-get it once again if I had to make the choice once more.

If you are reading the review for this lens, you are searching at a extremely underrated lens. The efficiency of this lens has shocked a lot of critics including Ken Rockwell and photozone. If you are out there shooting with fisheye, you definitely should not mind about manual focus and manual aperture. Otherwise, go ahead and invest three occasions as much of your tricky earned money on Sigma or at least 4 instances as significantly on the new Canon 8-16mm L which hasn't been shipped but. BTW the price tag of this Samyang fisheye has dropped to $263. Hello? How a lot does the plasticy Canon kit lens price? For the superior of its optics and build (metal), the Samyang is a real bargain. The initial issue I did with this lens was to shoot toward the sun and confirmed that flares had been extremely effectively controlled. You get a good single streak of flares and they are not all more than the location. Just be realistic with laws of physics, you can't expect no flare at all with such wide angle even with nano or whatever coating. This Samyang is arguably the best alternative for APC DSLRs with all elements regarded. And it 's produced in Korea as well in contrast to some N business with inexpensive Chinese created lenses.

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