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The Samyang is the second third party lens (non Oly non Pana lens) after the [shoplink 15659 ebay]Voigtländer Nokton 25mm f/0.95[/shoplink]. I am not a fisheye fan but I know Samyang can do very good lenses. I do hope they will announce more m43 lenses soon! Meanwhile let’s see how this lens performs! Lenstip (Click here) tested the brand new Samyang 7.5mm. And there are only good news! The lens has a “sensational image quality in the center of the frame…excellent image quality on the edge of the frame, including the maximum relative aperture“. There is only ver low chromatic aberration, almost no astigmatism, no coma and well balanced vignetting. The only “Cons” for the polish website is the lack of depth of field scale. You can find plenty of image samples after their conclusion text.
The lens is already in Stock on [shoplink 25327 ebay]eBay[/shoplink]:
[shoplink 25325 ebay]Click here to buy the Black Samyang 7.5mm lens[/shoplink].
[shoplink 25326 ebay]Click here to buy the Silver Samyang 7.5mm lens[/shoplink].
UPDATE: There is a hands-on video on the facebook page of ThePhoBlographer.
21 Responses
This lens is so cool looking…and apparently sharp too…maybe I jumped the gun on my Panasonic 8mm fisheye!!!!!! 🙂
I’m not a fisheye lens either, but I know you’re always typing on the go Admin. 😉
This lens looks really good. It’s probably cheesecake to MF something like this. I hope they get alot of sales from this review and make some other focal lengths!
Yes: small, light, good priced, great performer… looks like the perfect lens (and yes, manual focus shouldn’t be any hard with it).
I’m also not a fisheye lens myself, but if I was, I would definitely like to be this one!
Admin, your link to the Lenstip.com review doesn’t work!
For those of you actually interested in reading it:
http://www.lenstip.com/index.php?test=obiektywu&test_ob=317
– Olympius
Ops sorry. Fixed!
Oh, hear’s the money quote from Lenstip.com on the Samyang 7.5mm fisheye:
“Already at the maximum relative aperture the lens exceeds the level of 75 lpmm and by f/4.0 it approaches 80 lpmm. What’s more, the edge of the frame looks equally great. At the maximum relative aperture we get the result of over 60 lpmm. I do not hesitate to write that, in the resolution category, it is the best fisheye lens I have tested so far.”
A fisheye that works GREAT at maximum aperture? Insane! There is no such thing, until now. As a fan of the fisheye lens, I’m very, very impressed by this Samyang. Definitely going on my “must have” list in place of the Lumix 8mm.
– Olympius
Fisheyes are in general extremely short focal length lenses compared to other lenses so possibly they suffered even more from mirror making flange back distance inbalanced compared to sensor size in mirror systems.
I definitely hope samyang does more lenses for micro 4/3. I don’t really foresee myself ever buying any sort of telephoto lens without autofocus, but lack of autofocus isn’t nearly as much of a problem with wide angle. It’d be nice to see maybe 10mm, 14mm, and 17mm rectilinear lenses from samyang made specifically for micro 4/3 (neither the panasonic 14mm nor the olymups 17mm look very appealing IQ-wise), or at least specifically for mirrorless systems (I could definitely understand if they wanted to build lenses that work on sony and samsung as well). A good, inexpensive 1:1 macro would also be nice, maybe samyang will come through there as well.
I’ve read this claim so many times (no need for AF in wide angle lenses). It may be the consensus but personally I disagree. I find it is easier to critically MF longer focal lengths, as the image snaps into focus.
Using my 11-22 lens, for example, it is very difficult to assess critical focus manually while shooting but unfortunately focus errors become very visible when viewing on screen or print.
whoa! tempting lens!
downloaded some pics from lenstip, then edited with fisheye hemi a plg in for photoshop/Aperture.
The resultis sensational.
This is a plug in that really change the way you can use a fisheye.
I will buy this lens!!!!
Ken Rockwell:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/fisheye-hemi.htm
nice plugin…. would deffinatly use this with this lens – as well as full rectolinier correction for some shots!
A good alternative to stack of several shots (with a wide angle) for 180° panoramics ? with maybe less definition ? but really simpler with really less work…
Just ordered the black version! Do you know If the plugin does anything that cs5 cannot do with its different tools?
Well, someone has to do those actually high quality lenses when Olympus and Panasonic are so devoted to making “paralympus” optics.
Looks like Samyang are going to be a force to be reckoned with in m43 lenses. Good looking design coupled with excellent IQ; they can’t go wrong!
Amazing! Even better than the excellent 8mm DSLR version!
How is the barrel distortion? 😛
Fantastic, there’s loads of it!
Already got this lens here in HK for US$318. It’s compact and very easy to be used even for a beginner like me. Manual focus is not an issue for this lens.
Can someone explain how Samyang 7.5mm will work with my GH2? Do I have to switch to “Shoot with Lens Off” everytime I attach lens on? Do I get it right, that only A and M modes would work with manual lenses, so it’s full manual focus lens, not just only manual focus lens
Interesting, how is video capturing would work with it, would system adjust shutter speed?