I have a rokinon 8mm i use for night sky photography and id like to straighten some of the images. Id really be unhappy buying lightroom and finding that it wont defish an image. Micro four thirds enjoys no fewer than three fisheye lenses. If you follow the blog, you would have seen me testing some defishing techniques using a rokinon 7. You do throw out some of the capture pixels though. This is a photoshop plugin which converts fisheyelens shots into something useful, especially for shots of people. The above problems were removed by the introduction of the samyang 7. But for someone who never had a fisheye before, its sure a. See the world in a different way with the cinema style rokinon 7. Defishing can also create some fun distortion in your scene.
The main disadvantage of using a fisheye as an ultrawide lens is not the image quality, but the difficulty of composing the scene. Oct 27, 2014 samyang is a korean company that makes beautiful, cheap and underrated lenses. Fisheye manual focus lens for micro four thirds cameras delivers a unique 180 angle of view. I dont agree that you have to crop away the corners theyre a bit soft at 100% zoom, but fine for most purposes. Jul 07, 2014 in this video lesson ill show you the best way to defish a fisheye photo. After applying the lightroom fisheye profile to defish the image, the file dimensions remain the exact same. You can defish it in pretty much any raw processor, including the. I have used the kdenlive video editing software for this effect.
The samyang fisheye lens is an alternative to the native panasonic. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone. Oct 12, 2015 the one i purchased is the rokinon 12mm f2. Its build quality and sophisticated optics are designed to deliver a frame filling 180 diagonal field of view with exceptional sharpness, color rendition, and ergonomic fit. The only thing to be concerned about is possible lack of support for new cameras and lenses, but manual corrections are always an alternative and may be better, anyway. With hybrid aspherical lenses and a multilayer coating, you\ll be able to produce sharply defined images with a minimum of flare and ghosting.
Unfortunately, this one for the nikon 1 series is a completely different beast. Some other manual focus lenses for micro four thirds are older designs with a new mount. This lens is also marketed under the bower, rokinon and prooptic brands, like its 8 mm big brother. Rokinon mtf charts use theoretical equations to plot performance and do not rely on subjective opinion, subject matter, camera features, software or other factors. Get your team aligned with all the tools you need on one secure, reliable video platform. It is available in sony e, canon ef and nikon f mounts. If you come here often, you should tell us and the whole world, really about yourself in the bio section of your profile. In addition, shooting at 4k on the gh4 camera will further crop your view. I have read about software that converts the curved lines that are characterisic for. Just did some tests removing the fisheye distortion from the samyang 7.
Im using elements 11 and it wont let me skew the image in a way that counteracts the distortion. Resolution loss, quite noticable in the cornerscpu intensive, quite slow rendering times the lens distortion effect in premiere pro was used, with a curvature of 38. The best method of defishing a fisheye photo lonely speck. Samyang 8 mm on micro 43 adapter left and samyang 7.
Your other option, if you want something super wide for video, is an 8mm apsc manybrand in the mount of your choice most go for canon ef or nikon, and a matching focal reducerspeedbooster. With hybrid aspherical lenses,multilayer coating and a builtin petal lens hood, youll be able to produce sharply defined images with a minimum of flare and ghosting. The hugin software is the best solution for defishing the samyang. There are at least two other software that you can use. Aug 28, 2014 i shot with a rokinon fisheye on my mft bodies for a couple of years, and loved that lens. Well be using adobe lightroom and adobe photoshop with the image trends fisheyehemi plugin to convert a fisheye photo. It is a lightweight, wideangle fisheye lens that is optimized for digital cinematography and features a micro four thirds lens mount. With hybrid aspherical lenses and a multilayer coating, youll be able to produce sharply defined images with a minimum of flare and ghosting. Sep 14, 2011 flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Defished fisheye compared with ultrawide micro 43rds. Its a completely manual lens focusing and aperture changes are done on the lens barrel, theres no electronic connection to the camera. Comparison with the lumix g 714mm ultra wide angle lens at 7mm. Mar 26, 2012 example video showing both the original video footage, and the defished video.
Apr 24, 2012 flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. The best method of defishing a fisheye photo youtube. Defishing video my example above looked at defishing a still image. Mar 26, 2012 the transformed rectilinear image from the samyang 7. In order to defish, lightroom warps and straights out the image. Jun 18, 2014 one of the concerns with shooting on micro four thirds is with its cropped view. They plot the contrast and resolution of a lens from the center to its edges, against a perfect lens that would transmit 100% of the light that passes through it. Despite its small size, the new samyang successfully combines the best features of the popular model with 8 mm focal length offering highest quality optics closed in a compact and visually attractive casing.
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