Dante_Stella
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I received today a sample of a 12mm f/7.4 fisheye in native XF mount. I believe this lens is already being sold for the NEX, with very minimal information about it availanle online. Here is some:
The performance, at least inasmuch as I could tell this evening would be quite good - very sharp at 100% with no chromatic aberration. I will be able to post some sample shots early next week.
The catch would be the spherical distortion (characteristic of a frame-filling fisheye), which is not always fully correctible (not unline every other fisheye). CS6's Adaptive Wide Angle function does an amazing job, but no fisheye can rewrite the laws of physics and geometry.
EVF seems to work fine with it. You would need to use the 10x magnification to really see how it is focused (DOF is pretty considerable anyway).
Uses? Traditional fisheye views, obviously; landscapes where there are few rectilinear points of interest; wideangle shots where you could live with the cropped frame that results from full distortion correct.
I'm guessing this would street in the high $100s/low $200s.
Thoughts?
Dante
- It doesn't have any electronics (probably never an issue since the aperture is fixed and focus is purely manual).
- Focus is manual and continuous between two distances - 0.5m and ∞.
- It has a built-in petal hood and does not take filters.
- Body is metal, and the lens is made in Japan.
The performance, at least inasmuch as I could tell this evening would be quite good - very sharp at 100% with no chromatic aberration. I will be able to post some sample shots early next week.
The catch would be the spherical distortion (characteristic of a frame-filling fisheye), which is not always fully correctible (not unline every other fisheye). CS6's Adaptive Wide Angle function does an amazing job, but no fisheye can rewrite the laws of physics and geometry.
EVF seems to work fine with it. You would need to use the 10x magnification to really see how it is focused (DOF is pretty considerable anyway).
Uses? Traditional fisheye views, obviously; landscapes where there are few rectilinear points of interest; wideangle shots where you could live with the cropped frame that results from full distortion correct.
I'm guessing this would street in the high $100s/low $200s.
Thoughts?
Dante
