Samyang 8mm f/3.5 Aspherical IF MC Fisheye
Facts
- a modern manual fisheye lens
- in my use from 12/2011 to current date
- estimated retail price 290 EUR
- this is the right fisheye lens for many: better than Peleng 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye, cheaper than Sigma 10mm f/2.8 EX DC HSM Fisheye
Pros
- offers the full fisheye fun
- from f/5.6 provides nice image quality beating the classic Peleng
- has a thing called stereographic projection that everybody wants but no other fisheye lens on the market offers
- usable on a 1.3x crop body with a little cropping
Cons
- images shot full open lack some sharpness and contrast, so best to use it starting from f/5.6
- targeted to 1.6x crop bodies