Oh, foolish me: I didn't realize that Panasonic also ships their own 8mm fisheye lens in Micro-FourThirds mount!
Panasonic : LUMIX G FISHEYE 8mm F3.5 http://four-thirds.org/en/microft/single.html#i_008mm_f035_panasonic B&H Photo: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/731983-REG/Panasonic_H_F008_Lumix_G_Fisheye_8mm_F3_5.html It's even $150 less expensive than the Olympus FourThirds SLR offering, and no adapter needed. :-) G On Sep 8, 2013, at 12:19 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com> wrote: > On Sep 7, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> Sure, but there's nothing like the 8mm fisheye you can get for APS-C for >> 12mm/e. For most purposes, you're correct that's sufficient, but people >> who really care about extreme wide-angle are likely to be less satisfied >> with m4/3. > > "For most purposes ..." Don't be ridiculous. > > A fish-eye lens is a specialty lens, and the ONLY wide-angle lens focal > length not listed in native Micro-FourThirds mount. Perhaps that's because > there's a superb fish-eye lens in FourThirds SLR mount, which work on mFT > bodies with any of the four available, dedicated Panasonic and Olympus > FourThirds to Micro-FourThirds mount adapters for 100% full function > operation. > > Olympus Zuiko Digital 8mm F3.5 Diagonal Fisheye Lens: > http://four-thirds.org/en/fourthirds/single.html#i_008mm_f035_olympus > > B&H Photo: > http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/405508-REG/Olympus_261010_8mm_f_3_5_Fisheye_ED.html > > Your comment sounds like it fits one of the categories in Ctein's most recent > column on "The Online Photographer": > http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/09/bad-science-vs-good-science-a-guide-for-the-layperson-part-1.html > > Check out the "God of the Gaps" category. ;-) > > G > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
