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The image on top shows you the current bulky [shoplink 6779 ebay]8mm fisheye lens[/shoplink] from Samyang which has been optimized for the use on the [shoplink 3058]VG-10. But we have been just told by our soruces that a new version is going to be announced soon. It will be far more compact than current fisheye lens. The design will be slightly different than the just announced [shoplink 8975 ebay]Micro Four Thirds 7.5mm[/shoplink] pancake fisheye but the size and FOV will be similar! And that’s good news because as you can see here the lens is extremly tiny! Nice!
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On eBay you can find the two mentioned fisheyes:
The [shoplink 6779]8mm for the VG-10[/shoplink]
The [shoplink 8975]7.5mm for m43[/shoplink]
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I rather like the champagne silver look. They should do more lenses like that.
I hope I can sell my old 8mm lens before this one hit the store.. otherwise selling price will be low.. hahahaha
I really hope they maintain the same projection, it’s what makes the 8mm Samyang fish-eyes so wonderful. IMHO, they are the best looking fish-eye out of all lenses.
Personally, I don’t care that much about the size of a lens I only use occasionally so if they do change the projection I’ll probably just buy the bigger one.
i’ve been envious of the m43 fisheye, now it looks like we are getting our own! hope the size is very close to the m43 version.
new Nex-7 full-size pictures http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/NEX7/NEX7A7.HTM
i have samyang 8mm f3.5 its very good lens
Anyone know of a good, CHEAP wide angle lens? By cheap I mean <$200. And by wide I mean wider than 18mm. I don't necessarily want the e-mount 16mm. I've been treasure hunting on ebay for some old, dirt cheap lenses. Haven't found anything as of yet.
I also want a pancake that'll mount w/o a fat-ass adapter!
The success of this fisheye will completely depend on image quality. There is already a cheap and surprisingly good fisheye for the NEX (the fisheye converter that attaches to the 16mm pancake).
If the new Samyang fisheye isn’t obviously superior to the optics of that Sony fisheye converter with the 16mm then I don’t see many people buying it.
any news on the new version of the 8mm fisheye? didn’t they just released a updated version for nikon with no design changes?
So I’m interested too: “where’s my hecking tiny fisheye?!” 😀