Samyang 8mm 1:3.5 Fish-Eye SI
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| Foto Walser's WalimexPro 8mm 1:3.5 Fish-Eye CS image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
The Samyang 8mm 1:3.5 Fish-Eye SI is an extraordinary product of South-Korea's lens maker Samyang. It is marketed by German distributor Foto Walser as WalimexPro 8mm 1:3.5 Fish-Eye CS.
It is an extremely fast fish-eye type ultra-wide-angle lens. It is available as manual focusing lens in variants for several different lens mounts. A version aimed primarily at video cameras has gearing on the aperture and focus rings, T-stop aperture settings (starting at f3.8) instead of F-stop, and the aperture and distance scales marked horizonally so that they can easily be read from the side. Early models have a fixed hood, later it was made removable. Due to the curvature of the lens it is not possible to fit filters.
