There is a $100 discount on the Bower 7.5mm MFT fisheye lens at BHphoto (Click here).
Deal reminder:
Panasonic GH3 for $958 (with 4% back in reward) at Amazon (Click here).
$380 for the G5 with kit lens (Click here).
The 20mm pancake can be bought for $348 at BHphoto (Click here and add the lens to cart to see the real price).
Olympus 75mm f/1.8 DEMO lenses for $758 on [shoplink 41332 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Wow, a must-buy at that kind of price!
Bought it when it first came out. Amazing lens! Ultra sharp and little to no flare at all. Even when aimed straight to the sun!
But I just bought Samsung’s pancake fisheye. While haven’t really test it enough, I can say the size and weight saving is very nice. Not that it’s totally necessary, but AF wouldn’t hurt either.
This is the best fisheye lens on any system. At that price it’s worth having alongside some cheapo m43 body even if you’re not into m43 as a side fisheye capable camera.
It’s a great lens but it is nowhere near as good as the Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8. I own both. The Nikon is another league.
very interesting… for US buyer…
This lens is very expensive in EU…
Well, it costs way more here, but at 250-300 euros I would not call it expensive anyway. IMHO it is great lens with very reasonable price.
My other wide lens is Canon 16-35L, and it loses to this tiny cheap no-brand lens in many ways. (I know, I know, they are totally different lenses, but still… Even built quality feels pretty equal.)
I’m trying to buy this lens for more than a year now, just can’t get it for the right price. The prices I found is 240-260 €, hope in the future I can get it in second-hand or something..
you should count 1 euro per hour of your life spent on finding the best price.
when it becomes too costly, just go and buy it anywhere you can – I bit the bullet and bought it at an acceptable price for me(~250 euro I think) as soon as it was available – and have been using it since.
Some of the photo’s I made in the meantime mean more to me than the 20 or 30 euro I could have perhaps saved, waiting forever and spending hours and hours looking for a good deal.
great lens for bmpcc
I have this and at this price it is an unbelievable value
Sold out… 🙁
That’s the kind of price I would consider it, since it’s an often on the shelf kind of lens. But it’s a US only (why?) deal…
Just because I was curious I tried to see what I would have to pay including tax and delivery to Europe.
SubTotal: $199.95
Duties & Tax : $99.17
Shipping: $43.95
Order Total: $343.07
Hey Admin, do you have any information of the numbers for the GX7? Can I hold off on the preorder or is it going to be perpetually sold out like the GH3 was?
For ultra wides, I very prefer having AF. If I wanted a fisheye, I’d consider the Panasonic despite being considerably more expensive.
Why since the performance is almost identical and focusing on a lens like this is as easy as it gets.
You basically don’t have to focus this lens. Even wide open its depth of feild runs from .25m to infinity
This is a widespread myth. Focusing is not as easy as it gets on UW angles, where critical focus is actually easy to miss while hardly obvious right away small LCD.
A missed focus may look subtle on a aide angle, it ruins the shot nonetheless.
And to AL : thats 0.8m actually. If you are landscaping only, thats fine, but for a lens that can focus as close as 10cm, thats still is a 70cm gap where AF is very desirable.
I’ve never had an issue. Those that started with all manual learned how to focus, in fact many experienced photographers can guess the exposure of a scene. It’s not a myth if it’s not an issue for some. I suppose street shooters live in a mythical world when they set a lens to a fixed focus and don’t miss with the huge DOF of a wide angle. It’s not a macro lens and having a need for auto focus seems like an ad for auto focus products products. How do all those Nokton users ever make it thorough the day.
Sweet…placed my order. $199 w/no tax and free shipping.
Thanks admin…been waiting for this to go on sale for a long time.
Dang. I bought this lens a month ago for a trip to Iceland. Fantastic lens.
Thanks for the tip off AND review!!
Purchased. 🙂
How much was it? I missed the deal.. : (
was until last night for 200$ (2 days long, in between for a night “back ordered”). this morning for 250$, so still a bit cheaper.
since i am this weekend in new york, i thought i could avoid the canadian import tax… but still not sure if i should not get instead the oly 9-18, since fisheye is special, even though i like it. and i have a fisheye for my analog minolta xd7 (ok, a slow & very old 18mm/9.5, but maybe enough for the rare fisheye fun…). and for now my widest is the oly 12-50 for mFT (and 24/2.8 for the minolta).
mh, guess i get some more thinking time until the next deal shows up…