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$229 for a little slow fully manual fisheye is still to expensive.
No.
Whilst it’s manual, you only need to set it once at first use, and it will produce excellent results for ever. There again, if that’s too complicated for you, pay $640 for the Panasonic 8mm FE
$640 is insane.
There are fish-eye adapters for existing lenses, even native from Oly.
Any lens adapted to a MFT camera will have it FOV by half cropped and not fish-eye.
Read carefully. ” fish-eye adapters for existing lenses” (things like FCON-P01), not adapters for fish-eye lenses.
fisheye adapters are nowhere near the quality you can get out of this little marvel of a lens. If you thought: “I don’t like fisheye, because it’s just a gimmick and the images are never really worth it” – think again – this lens is in a league of its own.
It’s one of the focal lengths where manual focus and slow aperture are really a non-issue.
Yes, I see now. I had a macro adapter shipped to me accidentally, so it was free. I do use it, but I use the dedicated macro for serious work. Like all things in photography (and in life?) it’s a game of substitutions. The quality and optics will never be as good as a dedicated fish-eye lens will be. And chances are, you’re using that adapter on a kit zoom, which has compromised optics coming out of the gate, and further compromising them further by using an adapter for a purpose for which the lens was not designed. My argument was simply as far a fish-eye lens goes, this is good value for money. Its only caveat is it is a manual focus lens. All new cameras have focus peaking anyway, so it’s really a non-issue. I’m still using an e-m5 and it’s only a small problem. I don’t shoot fish-eye often so it’s only a small workaround.
It’s a great lens. In terms of IQ, it’s up there with the PL lenses. I agree, $640 for any lens on MFT is high, but this one deserves more attention. I’ve purchased about 10 primes for MFT, sold all but 4 because I didn’t like the rendering. There are two primes I have now that I will never give up: The 7.5mm f/3.5 fisheye and the PL 25mm f/1.4. 95% of the photos I’m happy with have been taken with these two lenses. If you asked me to pick a third favorite lens, I’d pick the Panasonic 35-100 f/2.8, but it doesn’t come close to the Samyang in sharpness, contrast, color rendering, flare resistance, etc…
If you don’t believe me, lenstip has a good review of the 7.5mm. Check it out.
Just so you know, this is actually one of the best lenses on the mount in terms of sharpness and flare resistance. I’ve been disappointed with a lot of lenses on this mount including some of the Olympus lenses, but this lens isn’t one of them. Every time I shoot with it, I’m blown away by the rendering. It’s just a joy to use. I highly, highly recommend it.
I payed 240€ for it in Italy (for the Samyang version) and I’m really happy with it. It’s not that slow because you can use very long exposure times and you won’t get any blur, being a very wideangle lens. 1/8 sec with the IS on the sensor is perfectly usable. It’s the perfect lens for churches and other huge monuments.
I think 200 would be more appropriate. I’ve seen them go for this on ebay. You can get a full frame Samyang fisheye for the same cash as this discount all day long in pretty much any mount. Drop that price like it’s hot please.
I agree. I own this lens and it’s fantastic (and I’m very picky about my image quality), but it’s a hard lens to recommend at this price.
All gone
How about sell the VF-4 for just 99.00 dollars, Olympus. That accessory should be as cheap as dirt. I refuse to pay a cent more.
What does this lens or maker have to do with Olympus?
Listed under the “get Olympus deals reminder” in this thread is the VF-4.
I would buy if it was rectilinear and not a fisheye wide angle. Why can’t someone make a small, fast, manual ultrawide prime? Surely, this must be the biggest current gap in the m43 universe.
I use a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 with a RJ Lens Turbo.
Is very fast, and very wide!! I love it. Unfortunately for you, this combo is hardly small however.
Have a picture of this combo on your camera?
Would you like to see it on a GF3, G3, or GH1? 😛