Samyang 8mm T3.8 UMC CSII Fish Eye VDSLR Lens Nikon

The Samyang 8mm T3.8 UMC CSII Fish Eye VDSLR Lens Nikon has an optical construction of the Samyang 8mm T3.8 Fish-eye CS VDSLR (Video DSLR) lens, and it was mainly created for filming and video applications using cropped sensor DSLRs and specialized camcorders, by way of matching mounts.

The Samyang 8mm T3.8 fish-eye lens serves as a manual focus lens, and delivers an incredibly large depth of field / depth of focus. The lens includes a built-in lens hood to help in reducing lens flare via light sources hailing from behind the lens, this lens is perfect for photographs and videos of landscapes, buildings, monuments and sport photography.

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Product features:

• Samyang 8mm VDSLR compatible with Nikon SLR cameras APS-C sensor.
• Compact and light, perfect for recording and shooting in low light.
• The fish-eye lens is perfect for photographs and videos of landscapes, buildings, monuments, and sports activities.
• Lens optics are composed of 10 elements arranged in 7 groups with a hybrid aspherical element to avoid chromatic aberration.
• The lenses contain a number of layers of anti-reflective coating UMC for optimum light transmission, increase contrast quality photographs and make certain high-quality images.
• The focus ring and aperture are jagged ensure better coupling systems focus Follow-Focus.
• Lens offers exposure and focus confirmation and also the advantages of the i-TTL flash system.

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Main features of the new version of this lens incorporate toothed rings suitable for professional geared follow-focus systems which are found in the film industry, and in addition a smooth toothed variable aperture ring. These sort of improvements make it possible for exceptionally specific control over focus and aperture for the duration of video recording.

The main reason for working with a fish-eye lens is that it gives you a perspective of the full image, you can look at a skate boarder approaching and going. The skating arena years ago determined these were the favorite types of lenses for viewing skating along with lots of other types of fast action sports. If recorded using a regular lens you'll miss out on a lot of features. Yet if you're shooting coming from beneath a rail or wall or equivalent, you will have the extreme wide angle of a fisheye to record  the activity, whilst fitting most of the scene into the frame. 

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Fish-eye lenses are unique in order that they are amusing and great fun to work with, they permit you to be innovative having a unique perspective. Not everyone has one and so an image naturally is more noticeable any time it is shot making use of a fish-eye lens. It focuses rapidly at both close to and far away focusing distances.

The Samyang 8mm T3.8 UMC CSII Fish Eye VDSLR Lens Nikon includes an electronic circuit, such as some other AE models, this enables for full control of exposure parameters from camera level, as well as tends to make it simple to make use of i-TTL flash automatics. Due to the built-in microprocessor, the light measurement system works well in all photography modes as well as for all types of Nikon DSLR cameras.

Optically both lenses are the equivalent, offering 10 elements in 7 optical groups, one aspherical lens element, along with multicoated optics to provide improved clear images.

It can be likewise implemented in still photography, in spite of this users could find the standard stepped / clicked aperture version (Samyang 8mm F3.5 fish-eye) probably a considerably better solution, in order to avoid unintended changing of the aperture between shots.