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10mm Fisheye, the Best of the Pancake Lenses?

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Abbazz
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Re: 10mm Fisheye, the Best of the Pancake Lenses?

Siralgovia wrote:

Awesome pictures.

Thank you!

I also have the adapter as well as the 17mm. However, my Samyang 8mm doesn't make much sense on the NX Mini with the 9-27 and 9mm lenses giving me such great undistorted image quality.

I agree about the wide angles for APS-C not making much sense on the 1" sensor of the NX Mini. But the 10mm fisheye is an exception. Because of the fisheye geometry, it has a bit wider field of view than the 9mm lens and is very sharp. I also like the fact that I can share it between both systems when traveling.

However, on my NX500 the Samyang is amazing and sharp. Strangely enough it does not work well with my 20 MP cameras, the NX3000 and Galaxy NX. On those two there's a red color cast on the left side of the images. Not on the NX500 though.

Always eyed the 10mm, but the Samyang is wider and as sharp as they come. Though it does not have AF, but I only shoot landscapes and cityscapes with it, so it just stays on the infinity setting.

I don't have the 8mm Samyang but I don't think it's wider the the10mm fisheye. The diagonal field of view on the 10mm approaches 180 degrees.

Cheers!

Abbazz

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