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Samyang 8mm Fisheye Version 1

Started Mar 25, 2022 | Discussions
Siralgovia Regular Member • Posts: 157
Samyang 8mm Fisheye Version 1
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Short report on my Samyang 8mm Fisheye. Bought this not too long ago for my NX cameras, not realizing that there are two versions. The older version I bought is known to have a purple cast supposedly on any NX camera that does not have the old 14.6 sensor.

I had used it on my NX500 only in the beginning, and in my NX500 it gives me tack sharp images with zero purple casts. So sharp it actually surprised me.

I have now tried the same lens on my NX 3000 as well as on my Galaxy NX and low and behold there is the dreaded fringing.

No fringing on the even higher MP sensor of the NX 500 and obvious fringing on my 20MP sensored NXes.

I have no explanation for that, but I can wholeheartedly recommend the older version of the Samyang 8mm Fisheye lens for use with the NX500. It's very cheap and it has become one of my most fun lenses to use.

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markyboy81 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,778
Re: Samyang 8mm Fisheye Version 1

How much did you pick it up for? How does it compare to the nx10mm?

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OP Siralgovia Regular Member • Posts: 157
Re: Samyang 8mm Fisheye Version 1

I have two of them. I bid on a used one on Ebay and at the same time found a brand new one for €80. Won the auction on the used one for €43. Will be putting the used one back on Ebay when I travel back to Germany.

Never used the Samsung 10mm, I like the fact that it has autofocus and is super small but the extra width of the Samyang appealed to me. It's still a very small lens and since I pretty much only use it for landscapes, I keep manual focus on infinity. The lens is tack sharp, I can't imagine the 10mm or the Samyang 8mm version II to be that much better, but I haven't tried those two.

armin304 Contributing Member • Posts: 740
Re: Samyang 8mm Fisheye Version 1

With the NX20 the colors where totally wrong...

Solitude, Stuttgart

Ok, dcraw did not fully support the NX20 at the time. At least the red corners are different too. Here comes OOC.

Solitude, Stuttgart, OOC

With the older 14MP sensor of the NX100 the corners were better, but still with a little color cast in the left. Maybe my 8mm is not correctly centerred.

I don't have a camera with the 28MP sensor, so no example to show.

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