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New 4mm f/2.8 fisheye

Started 6 months ago | Discussions thread
John Crowe
John Crowe Veteran Member • Posts: 3,476
Impressed by Laowa lenses. Difficult/impossible keeping legs out of image.

I am impressed with Laowa and their 4mm is actually available.  It is a phenomenal 210° lens.  I see the 7artisan is supposed to be 225° which could be even more problematic keeping one's legs out of the image.

Funny, the first sample shots I found on the internet the guy handheld it and got his fingers in every shot, except two!  He also got his legs in a few of the images. It seems to have incredible flare control.

When you print or share your fisheye images I highly recommend that you crop out the typical blue halo.  It is the last thing I do when processing my circular fisheye images and I have never understood those who don't.

It will be very difficult to keep your feet or tripod out of the image.  Be wary of this and allow for cloning to repair.  Of course shooting straight up won't be a problem, but most of my images are made perfectly horizontal.

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Canon EOS 5DS R Canon EF 70-200mm F4L USM Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L Kenko Teleplus Pro 300 AF 1.4x Venus Laowa 12mm F2.8 Zero-D +15 more
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