Japanese fisheye specialist Entaniya has introduced a new fisheye lens in a PL mount that’s aimed at large format video camera users, and which can offer a range of effective focal lengths using different sized spacers. The Entaniya Fisheye HAL 220 is designed to cover Super 35mm and full frame sensors and can provide focal lengths between 6.14mm and 8.03mm through 15 increments via the included set of zoom spacers.
The lens has a maximum aperture of T2.9 and uses 17 elements in 12 groups to provide a maximum angle of view of 220°. The depth of the spacer used has an impact on the size of the covering circle of the lens, so when the thinner spacers are used—or no spacer—the lens has a smaller covering circle. This is useful for those who want a circular image, but doesn't leave out those needing the whole recording area covered.
No pricing or availability details have been released so far. For more information and to see how the lens covers different formats go to the Entaniya website.
Some people don't seem to understand the power of fisheye lenses when combined with software such as RE:Lens we do, particularly for video -> to project a section using a normal lens look (what at some point GoPro when they later did it called over-capture which is a good term I think). Of course assuming you have a lot of resolution.
- Shoot in narrow spaces - Shoot unscripted unpredictable events on a tripod and "PTZ" in post - Shoot on a stable tripod and animate rotation (X.Y,Z) and zoom - Create very wide field of view (wider and looking better than a wide-angle rectilinear could do) - Ability to convert to 360 video formats and dome projection
I understand it's a bit counter intuitive to say this allows you to shoot real near something as without projection to a normal lens view it looks very distorted.
The new lens is also interesting as it's 1) near perfectly equidistant and 2) will work on sensors larger than full-frame.
I will never understand circular fisheye lenses. Prints are rectangular. As are monitors. I don't know that I've ever seen a circular fisheye shot that did anything for me anyway... admittedly that just means I'm not the target audience, but...
I wish a company would go the other direction and make an edge-sharp, 160~ degree non-circular fisheye. Then I won't ruin 2/3 my shots with a tripod leg or a finger. For fisheye lovers that probably sounds boring and awful, but as a landscape shooter, I see the value in going crazy wide, and I actually enjoy the distortion. I just already suck enough with 180 degrees!
I had a blast with the Olympus 9mm Body Cap fisheye for the short time I owned a micro four thirds camera. If it had been more of a 'real lens' in terms of IQ, the 140 degree fisheye effect it gave would've been fantastic, at least to me.
8mm on m4/3 translates to a FOV of “only” 107 degrees. To reach 160 degrees as the OP demanded, you will need a 2mm lens.
The widest fisheye for an ILC that I’ve heard about is Fisheye-Nikkor 6mm F2.8, which would be equivalent to 3mm in m4/3 and represent an FOV of 150 degrees.
It's forced distortion, so the results aren't meant to represent things as normal. Like a clown wearing oversized shoes. Sure.. limited appeal, but you can cut a square print to make it round if you want. No need to be bound to conventions.
Here's a shot I took that I'm rather proud of. Security asked me to leave about 2 minutes after. Hope the link works.
Still don't think it's for me, but I understand a little better now!
And as far as suggestions - I did mention the micro four thirds was a short time deal. I shoot FF Sony now :D So hey, if someone knows a 140-160ish fisheye for that... :D
Wishing a rectilinear 160°-view lens?! Do you really know what you are talking about? If so, what are the intended applications?!
A control question: which part of such an image would be taken by the field of view of 50° rectilinear lens? Is it more or less than 0.5% of the area?
The whole idea of fish-eye is that it distorts LESS than rectilinear (unfortunately, the term “distortion” is not what is applicable here… The problem with words — they do not mean what one may wish…).
I never said rectilinear, other people did. I just said...
1) Not circular 2) Decent IQ, IE not like the Olympus 9mm Body Cap fisheye 3) Sub-180 degrees because I hate getting fingers, feet and tripod legs in my image. And I prefer to compose slightly less wide.
This doesn't seem like a wild ask considering there is a 140 degree fisheye lens out there, which I mentioned. I just want something similar to the 9mm body cap lens in terms of FOV and distortion, but without the weak IQ. And made for my FF :D Doesn't even have to be tiny, just similar FOV.
Indeed, you did not say “rectilinear” — sorry! But:
> Then I won't ruin 2/3 my shots with a tripod leg or a finger.
May I suggest — gasp! — cropping?!
… If 1/3 of your shots win from wider angle of view, and the rest require cropping (due to fingers, etc.) — it looks like a win/win situation, does not it?
Just the lens needed for this one, specific purpose. Imagine a scene, where a small child is home alone. There is a hollow-sounding knock at the door. Who is it? Has Mummy left the keys at home? Or is it the Bogey-man?! So the child goes to the front door, and peers through the peep hole. !CUT!
Next shot: Bogey Man peers into the 6.14mm fish-eye lens. !CUT!
So they made a specialized lens that was supposed to photograph the insides of pipes, as the Nikon 6mm was made to do? Awesome. I wonder it'll be worth $$$$$$$ in a few decades?
The zoom spacer rings is extremely cool. It makes it a 6.14-8.03 mm zoom. At 6.51 mm it is a circular fish eye for FF. At 8.01 it is OK as circular fish eye for Fuji GFX.
So far as I can see from the video it is very sharp.
The lenses they have today (200 degrees and 250 degrees) are in the order of US $3K-$10K.
Yes, it probably is. And I think it mechanically only can do that. But, such extreme lenses can be used even more interestingly if you can raise them 90 degrees. But, I assume this is out of the question for this lens.
What lens are you talking about? And how sharp is it?
BTW - 220 degrees (and even 200 degrees) is much more useful than 190 degrees. The film above shows why. You can see things coming straight at it and leaves in the opposite direction. You can also point it upwards and catch everything around it. And for stitching two images to a sphere, it is a breeze with the 220 degree thingie.
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