Samyang 8mm f/2.8 Fish Eye Lens Fuji X Silver

Product features:

• A fish eye lens is perfect for landscape photography and monuments.
• Suitable for when all of the objects are a distance from the camera.
• The lens body is produced with high quality materials.
• The lens has a number of layers of anti-reflective coating UMC to guarantee high-quality pictures.
• Conveniently fit the entire image into the frame.

A fisheye lens, also referred to as a super-wide or ultra-wide lens, is really a wide-angle camera lens employed to take panoramic, hemispherical photographs. The photo is distorted rather heavily by the profile of the glass in the lens, not only to shoot what the camera is aimed at, but additionally its environment.

Images provided by this sort of lens contain a slightly distorted, super wide look to them and create beautiful and fascinating photographs. This kind of style of lens is in addition put to use in extreme sports, but also in more regular photography, like for example landscapes, cityscapes, architecture and are very popular in skateboarding and snowboarding in particular.

The lens features an aspherical element (ASP) and two Low Dispersion lenses (ED) that reduce and prevent chromatic aberration. Each Samyang fisheye lens is covered with a coating multi-layer anti-reflective (UMC) that provides a perfect light transmission, high contrast and faithful color reproduction.

This Samyang lens is a small and bright lens and is designed for compact cameras with ASP-C sensor, the brightness of this lens ensures high quality images even when working in low light conditions. A fisheye is characterized by including the entire scene, and the larger the field of view of the lens the larger depth of field offered. 

Photograph by Franciscus Nanang Triana

The depth of field on this fisheye lens makes everything you see in the picture sharp and in focus. The Samyang 8mm fisheye lens provides an angle of view of 180º, a wide depth of field, exaggerated perspective of objects and slightly distorts straight lines.

With the angle of view of the lens and the depth of field provided, it is ideal for landscape photography, architectural and an ideal interior design tool, when it´s difficult to include all elements in the composition like when shooting the inside of a property and in small confined spaces.
 
The Samyang 8mm f/2.8 Fish Eye Lens Fuji X Silver is also ideal for creative compositions due to the spherical distortion of straight lines, unique and impressive optical effects can be achieved, for the quality this lens offers it represents excellent value for money.

Photograph by Diueine Monteiro