Samyang 8/3,5 EOS Fish eye Aspherical

It's the cheapest fish eye at market now.

Plastic body, but there's  metal part too, at least the mount is.
Sample with Canon 60D

I tried on Sony NEX5, no vignette in 16:9 mode, but slight vignete appear on 3:2 mode (2 diagonal corners, up right & left down). That's fine for me, I shot 16:9 often than 3:2, specially for landscape.

vignete on NEX5, 3:2 mode

on EOS 650 film camera I can see strong vignette, but I haven't printed it out yet. As far I remember my friend Stefan show me pictures that Heliar 15/4,5 has slight vignette on NEX3. I thought this lens will be same. well it doesn't.

At first touch, this lens isn't easy to determine whether it's in focus or not. all look the same.

Sharpness at infinity only achieved step down to F8

Well I don't expect much sharpness from this  fisheye lens. it's 8mm!

not fair to compare it to my Takumar 17/4 which is easy to get sharp at infinity. 

I haven't post the result yet, my connection is awful now.
When I first focusing, this lens is really strange. focus is correct only at 0.3m, beyond that its blurr
I read on google, I found this lens need adjustment. It's common issue for this fisheye. I cannot believe this product must be adjusted by user not by manufacturer!
Well, it's not difficult adjustment, but hey...for new lens?? What are those guys thinking?
Now it's adjusted and function is work as it should be.

Crop from below

Takumar 17/4 Fish eye M42

When I spot this lens on ebay, I never heard nor read about it before. But I'm interested of it small size, that will match in my NEX and Takumar is guarantee of good lenses. So I bid. only me, I won.

I used Panorama mode on Nex5

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closest focus 0,2 meter to   only 2 meters. So beyond 2 meter is infinity, make it easy to take landscape.
Too bad There's no front cap.
It's not a lens for low light, very dark in viewfinder.
On daylight it takes advantage, it sharp!

heavy crop, macro with this lens

cropped

Zenitar 16mm/2,8 M42

Fish eye low end dari Russia


Biar foto aja yang bicara

contoh foto dulu dengan adapter m42 non af confirm dengan eos 1000D




sama dengan di atas, lokasi beda dikit


Yang ini dengan kamera film EOS 650, film Lucky color 200 + ADAPTER M42-eos with AF confirm, adapter without af confirm won't work on this camera, specially for M42 and exakta - EOS adapter.

Specifikasi dari toko di Russia:
The Zenitar 16mm f2.8 Fisheye lens is a compact short-focus, super wide-angle lens that allows to make original pictures with angular field of view up to 180 degrees. It is ideal for architecture, landscape, and group pictures. It is suitable for making pictures with both black-and-white, and on a colour films. A high image quality, big luminosity, the ability to transfer small object's details allow to make amateur or special pictures of various types such as reproduction, macro and micro modes photography. Clarifying multi-layer coated lens increases transmission and reduces light scattering that provides especially profitable contrast and sharpness of the image, substantially eliminates halation and glares even while photographing in the back-light mode with the big difference of brightness of the object and background.
Ini yg PK Mount;
Lens Specifications:Focal length, mm: 16
Relative aperture:
maximum f/2.8
minimum f/22
Angular field of view (to a frame diagonal): 180°
Number of elements/groups: 11/7
Minimum taking distance, m: 0.3
Dimensions (from a base face), mm: M 63x49
Weight, kg: 0.31

Kalo baca review dari Ken Rockwell, ngalahin Nikon Fish eye