Panasonic’s brand-new 8mm fisheye lens brings a 180º margin of perspective to a Micro Four Thirds camera range, permitting photographers a event to fire both a sky as well as their own feet at a same time.

On the MFT-system, with the half-frame sensor, the 8mm ƒ3.5 wide-angle is a homogeneous of the 16mm fisheye on the 35mm camera. And these ultra-wide lenses are a single of the few kinds of glass which don’t unequivocally need the super-wide limit orifice: even an ƒ2 fisheye wouldn’t give you the super-shallow abyss of margin here, and since you aren’t zoomed-in upon a single item distant away as you would be with a longer lens, you don’t have to be concerned about camera shakeup, either. Just delayed a shutter the small to get sufficient light at night.

Other than just being wide, a lens additionally lets you slide in the square of gel-filter into a back for beautiful, Lomo-like goods, as well as a seven-bladed orifice should shape any out-of concentration highlights you conduct to achieve into appreciative blurs. The stepper-motors used for focussing have been wordless (for film creation as well as a lens can focus as tighten as 10cm (four inches).

The UK cost has been voiced as £730 ($1,060), that should substantially move it in during underneath the grand in a US, possibly in July.

Panasonic Introduces World’s Smallest as well as Lightest Digital Interchangeable Fisheye Lens [Panasonic]