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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Samyang 8 mm F3.5 Announces fish-eye for videographers

Photokina 2010: Samyang has a version of the 8 mm F3.5 Fish-eye lens that has been optimized for film-makers. Designed for APS-c Canon and Nikon DSLR's video-compatible, the 8 mm Aspherical IF MC fish-eye CS F3.5 V-DSLR offers the same optical construction if it still photography-version, but has been adapted to the Follow focus system for smoother focusing.
Press release:

To meet the needs of the film-makers, Samyang Optics has decided to completely new product generation – super wide angle lens Samyang 8 mm Video-DSLR Aspherical IF MC fish-eye cs from F3.5 customized to Follow Focus systems.
Samyang 8 mm V-DSLR F3.5 Aspherical IF MC fish-eye CS is super wide angle manual "Fish-eye lens with high quality of the point of view of 180 °. V-DSLR Samyang 8 mm F3.5 aspherical if MC fish-eye CS is built on the same optical construction, as the samyang 8 mm F3.5 aspherical IF MC fish-eye that is becoming more popular with the photographers from all over the world.The new lens is designed to the movies with APS-C digital SLR cameras and adapted to the Follow focus system.The lens offer vastly better image quality and is much more practical than comparable and expensive products of renowned brands.

Compare with the photographic version with flexible adjustable aperture, the shape of the envelope has been changed and sharpness adjustment rings are replaced by the following bars. This change may easy and accurate parameters using Follow focus system. to facilitate reading the distance during the filming, its indices turned by 90 °. Additionally, tulip housing in V-DSLR Samyang 8 mm F3.5 Aspherical IF MC fish-eye CS shall be replaced by the following large collar.

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