What is 8mm lens?
The 8mm manual focus lens focuses as close as 1′ (30.48 cm) from the lens, and has a built-in petal lens hood. Note: Produces a vignetted image on full-frame sensors or 35mm film. Ultra wide-angle 8mm fisheye lens with exaggerated perspective and approximately 180° angle of view, for dramatic effects.
What’s the difference between Samyang and Rokinon?
The Rokinon lenses are a more digitized version, while the Samyang lens has a manual aperture and has great modifications especially in auto-focus features and electrical zoom. Many top Camera products like Canon, Nikon, Samsung, and Olympus have mounts with which those lenses can be mounted.
Is an 8mm lens a fisheye?
The 8mm Ultra Wide Angle f/3.5 Fisheye Lens from Rokinon gives you a 180° view with dramatic, exaggerated perspective when used with an APS-C camera, or a circular image floating in the frame when used with a full frame digital camera or 35mm film camera.
Is a 85mm necessary?
85mm is the ideal portrait length because it maintains closeness to your subject without showing any distortion. Distortion, or lack thereof, is what is important to all photographers to ensure that things like noses don’t seem too big.
What makes the Samyang 8mm F2 8 UMC Fisheye lens so special?
The Samyang 8mm F2.8 UMC Fisheye Lens is a high quality ultra wide angle lens. It gives an immense field of view – 180 degrees, with a 12mm (35mm equivalent) field of view. Due to the very large depth of field produced by such a small focal length lens, focus can be easily achieved by simply setting the approximate distance on the lens scale.
What is the fisheye 8mm lens?
This version of the 8mm f/3.8 Fisheye lens comes with a removable lens hood that will offer glare reduction and lens protection, but can be removed to offer an increased and unobstructed angle of view when shooting with full frame digital or 35mm cameras.
What are the best fisheye lenses for Canon cameras?
Rokinon HD8M-C 8mm f/3.5 HD Fisheye Lens with Removeable Hood for Canon DSLR 8-8mm, Fixed-Non-Zoom Lens,Black Rokinon FE8M-C 8mm F3.5 Fisheye Fixed Lens for Canon – Black Rokinon 8mm F2.8 UMC Fisheye II (Black) Fixed Lens for Canon EF-M Mount Compact System Cameras (RK8MBK28-M)
How many diaphragm blades does the Samyang 8mm fisheye have?
The aperture consists of six diaphragm blades with apertures available from F2.8 to F22. The Samyang 8mm fisheye features the latest generation multilayer anti-reflection ultra multi-coating (UMC) to minimise flare and ghosting.