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Sigma 8mm f/3.5 EX DG Circular Fisheye Lens for Nikon SLR Cameras


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Technical Details:
Digitally-optimized, circular fisheye auto-focus lens
Produces circular images with an angle of view of 180-degrees when attached to a full-frame digital or 35mm film SLR camera
Maximum aperture of F3.5, a minimum focusing distance of 5.5 inches, and a maximum magnification of 4.6x
Super multi-layer lens coating reduces flare and ghosting
Gelatin filter holder at the rear
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Customers Reviews

2010-01-24
Wicked fun.
This lens is just wicked fun. It's small and light enough that you can just keep it in your bag to pull out any time.

It seems to make skies just pop even more than a circular polarizer does on a standard lens. Very few lenses will give you a cool picture just by pointing it up at the sky. This one will.

For framing shots, just a few steps back and you can get grand vistas. Get right on top of something and it looks like the whole world is a fishbowl around your subject.

With a 180 degree view, the hardest part about using this lens is keeping yourself out of the picture. Toes, elbows, and shadows all end up finding their way into your shot. The kids who are used to standing next to me if I'm trying to get a scenery shot are now in the shot.


There are just a few things that keep me from giving it 5 stars.

First the instructions say that you should turn off the auto focus to use manual focus. I like lenses that allow the full time manual focus.

It did require a little autofocus adjustment on my camera to get the best results. If your camera body does not support the autofocus microadjustment, you may not get everything you can out of the lens. It wasn't really bad before adjustment, just not as good as it can be.

Autofocus is fairly noisy compared to other Sigmas I've used, but this is a small nitpick.





2009-09-27
8mm rules on full frame!
Disclaimer: I only have a second hand 8mm/f4, without DG. Use it on 5D.

Pro:

1. Fun factor. There is nothing like it on a full frame such as 5D. This lens rules!
2. Light weight, compact, extremely smooth MF ring! The lens cap is of great design and quality, smooth, secure, and firm, period!
3. Surprisingly low color fringe and flair when light source is in or around the frame.
4. Very short close focus distance.

Neutral:

No HSM, AF can get lost - quite understandable though, for a lens THIS WIDE.

Con:

So so sharpness over all. Very good around F8 - F10. But not too bad wide open either, unlike the Sigma 20/f1.8 and 24/1.8 I have - these two primes are awful wide open at F1.8, but immediately get better stop down (probably a market trick to lure buyers away from Canon's more conservative F2.8 primes).

Bottom line:

This is fun unlike anything else. Full frame at 8mm + 180 degree view angle - sweeeet! I heard the newer f3.5 DG is far better in IQ department. But my fisheye is for fun really, the distortion and the covering all/missing none effect, so pxiel level sharpness is not the most important thing for me here. Besides, I got my F4 copy for $450, what a deal! Just love it! Just be careful with the front element since it can focus so close that it could have touched the nearest object without you noticing...

2009-08-08
Fun lens!
I have had this lens for some time and find it to be quite a bit of fun. It is a quirky world view giving you 180 angle of view and full circle image on full frame sensors (Your feet will be in many photos!). It is super close-focusing (you can nearly touch the subject with the front element!), and VERY sharp. Of course there is a lot of distortion (it is supposed to be there!) and you must edit all images. I would love to find a Photoshop action to automate this process as it does discourage my use of it somewhat. The lens itself is QUITE small, but solidly built as are most Sigma "EX" lenses. I often throw this lens into the bag on any outing as it can provide some creative outlet not possible with other lenses, and get me to think outside the box. My only niggle with the lens (and if I could I would rate it 4.5) is that is not internal focusing and I am always surprised to feel the front element spinning when focusing. The lens is TINY so a bit of bulk for an IF design would not hurt its usability much. Highly recommended.

2009-03-26
Great lens
Great lens, but has blue chromatic aberration on the edges of the circle, easily fixable in photoshop. I loved it for my Canon Rebel xti (cropped cirlcle due to cenversion factor), now I love it even more for my Canon 5D Mark II ( full circular fisheye ). Great lens for special effects, not everyday use.

2008-09-07
Excellent Choice for my Canon 40D
I own an excellent selection Canon "L" lenses. But I was ready to try to fisheye. After extensive research, I decided to give the Sigma 8mm f/3.5 EX DG Circular Fisheye a try. I'm glad I did. This lens feels good, it's small (compared to my "L" lenses), it focuses fast and quiet. The photos it takes are outstanding. I have even stated using the Fisheye-Hemi Photoshop plug-in to manipulate the images and "straighten" them out a bit. I recommend this lens!

-- Canon Digital EOS 40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L USM
Sigma 8mm f/3.5 EX DG Circular Fisheye
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Canon EF 1.4X II Extender
Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG APO Macro

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Release Date: 2006-08-01
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Nikon Cameras History

Nikon Corporation is one of the major companies of the Mitsubishi Group, a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and specializing in optics and imaging.

Nippon Kogaku K.K., or Japanese Optical Society (afterwards became known as Nikon Corporation) was formed at July 25, 1917 as a result of merging of three firms: Tokyo Keiki Seisaku-sho's optical division, Iwaki Glass Seisaku-sho ?? Fujii Lens Seizo-sho. The new company was aimed at manufacturing high-quality optics for Imperial Japanese Navy. And up to 1945 it actually was their main goal that determined the company’s philosophy and traditions. The first president of Nippon Kogaku was Yoshihira Wada.

Apart from military equipment the company produced microscopes, telescopes and other measuring instruments for industry and science. From 1932 they started serial production of Nikkor lenses for photo cameras. It’s an interesting fact that all Canon cameras, launched between 1937 and 1947 were equipped with lenses produced by Nikon!

After the WW II Nippon Kogaku K.K. manufactured its own camera –a rangefinder Nikon 1 – and stopped manufacturing lenses for Canon. The new camera appeared already Nikon-branded.

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