Here it is! The full-frame sterographic fisheye I have been waiting for since early 2012, when I bought Samyang's 8mm DX fisheye. See my review of the Samyang Fisheye 8mm f/3.5 DX.
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WalimexPro 12mm f/2.8 mounted on a Nikon Df. "Walimex" is one of the brand names of Samyang. |
The FX lens is 110g heavier and 170 euros more expensive than the 8mm DX lens. On the other hand the 12mm FX fisheye is 2/3 stops faster, sharper and focusses closer (sample images below). If you own a full-frame camera, you should prefer the FX version!
Some users of the 8mm fisheye "shaved" the lens (sawing off the hood) for getting the full image circle on a full-frame sensor. The 12mm lens offers a removable hood! But why should one remove it - there is no camera with a larger sensor...
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The hood is removable! That is helpful in some special setups like the one on the right (lens plus K1 ring). |
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If you want to go as close as possible you can put the PK-11A into service! |
... but: the 12mm fisheye has a closest focus of only 20cm, which corresponds to a distance of less than 7cm between subject and front element! But you can go even closer! Combined with a Nikon PK-11A tube (8mm extension) and set to infinity, the focus is just a few mm in front of the front element. Thus, if you have some insects on your lens, you now know how to photograph them ;) If you do such things, you must remove the hood for getting as much light as possible onto your subject. A bit less extreme is the non-automatic Nikon K1 ring (5.8mm extension). The female mount of this thin tube is shifted off a bit. In order to avoid shading parts of the image you must remove the hood here, too.
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Size comparison: 8mm DX and 12mm FX fisheye lenses. |
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The lens has an AI-P interface. |
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Nut. Nikon Df, F2.8. |
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Steel factory. Nikon Df, F11, filtered with Fisheye-Hemi 1.2.5 (full frame). "Fisheye-Hemi" is a great tool if you are working with a fisheye lens, see 'links' section. |
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Furnace. Nikon Df, F11. |
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Former control. Nikon Df, F5.6, filtered with Fisheye-Hemi 1.2.5 (full frame). |
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Two times 16 megapixels: on the left Nikon Df + 12mm FX at ISO 400, F16 and 1/400sec, on the right Nikon D5100 + 8mm DX at ISO 200, F11 and 1/400sec. Both raw images were converted to jpegs with Nikon Capture NX2 without any additional processing. The rectangles show the positions of the 100% crops below. The red arrow points to the sun. In the crops below the red arrows point to ghosts (even very weak ones). |
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