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testing my lenses - part 60 - Sigma 8mm/4 fisheye
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Nice results..
I've been considering to buy Samyang 8mm, now another choice.
How do it performance againts samyang 8/3,5?


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Well taken! As usual!!! Very Happy

Appropriate subjects, too. The other classic is a football huddle or scrum?


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Are these cropped? I was under the impression that the Sigma 8mm was a circular fisheye.


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elliott wrote:
Are these cropped? I was under the impression that the Sigma 8mm was a circular fisheye.


they are not cropped, it is a circular fisheye, but i'm using it on Olympus dSLR so because of the crop factor this is 16mm fisheye for me


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IAZA wrote:
Nice results..
I've been considering to buy Samyang 8mm, now another choice.
How do it performance againts samyang 8/3,5?


i really couldn't tell you how it compares to samyang because i haven't tried samyang yet, maybe somebody else can show you samples from samyang

i got this sigma for 292$ (shipping included)


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pat donnelly wrote:
Well taken! As usual!!! Very Happy

Appropriate subjects, too. The other classic is a football huddle or scrum?


well, there wasn't any scrum around at the time Laughing

one thing to add, all but last photo were taken with ND4x filter screwed inside the lens


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new samples with E-M5