Altura Photo 8mm f/3.0 Professional Ultra Wide Angle Aspherical Fisheye Lens for Nikon D500 D3200 D3300 D3400 D3500 D5200 D5300 D5500 D5600 D7100 D7200 D7500 DSLR Cameras
Altura Photo 8MM F/3.0 Fisheye Lens for Nikon DSLR Cameras (AP-8MN) The 8MM F/3.0 Fisheye (AP-8MN) for NIKON is the newest addition to the Professional Lens Series from Altura Photo. The lens features exceptional build quality and performance as well as straight forward ease of use for photographers of all levels.With a hybrid, aspherical element
Altura Photo 8MM F/3.0 Fisheye Lens for Nikon DSLR Cameras (AP-8MN)
The 8MM F/3.0 Fisheye (AP-8MN) for NIKON is the newest addition to the Professional Lens Series from Altura Photo. The lens features exceptional build quality and performance as well as straight forward ease of use for photographers of all levels.
With a hybrid, aspherical element and multi-layer lens coating, the AP-8MN will unlock powerful new viewing angles as well as sharply defined images. Enjoy dramatic, exaggerated perspective when used with an APS-C camera, or the iconic circular image floating in the frame when used with a Full-Frame camera. Highly advanced optics and a new and improved design make the new Altura Photo AP-8MN 8MM F/3.0 Fisheye the ultimate fisheye lens for your DSLR camera.
Features:
– Metal lens construction with hybrid aspherical element for exceptional, sharply defined images.
– Multi-layered lens coating to reduce flare and ghosting.
– Lens features multi-layer coating to reduce flare and ghosting.
– Manual focus and aperture control.
– Includes a custom designed lens protective case for safe storage.
– Lens features a 6-blade aperture with clickable stops from a f/3.0-f/22.
– Removable petal lens hood.
Specifications:
Focal Length: 8mm
Lens Mount: Nikon F-Mount
Aperture range: F/3-22
Number of diaphragm blades: 6
Optics: 11 Elements in 8 Groups with 1 aspherical element
Compatibilities:
Designed for all Nikon F-Mount APS-C cameras; including the Nikon D500 7200 5500 3400 3200 3000 300 300s D90 D80 7100 7000 D60 D40X
Note: Also compatible with FULL FRAME cameras but please keep in mind it will produce a circular, vignette image.
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This is a great little lens for creative landscape photography This is a great little lens for creative landscape photography, and it’s hard to beat that price. Unfortunately, I bought mine to use for astrophotography, and could never quite get the sharpness I was looking for, even after stepping down a few stops. I really liked this lens, but returned it for a refund. I’d still recommend it for any shooters wanting an extreme wide angle budget lens.
nice lens well built Manual focus and aperture, but they all seem to work well. (its not as difficult as I thought it would be) I had questions and the dealer called me at home personally to help with any questions I had. This is a very fisheye lens, and works the way I thought it would, but allows for idiots like me to make it work well somehow with every shot.(excluding the one I under exposed) he gave me an exercise to focus on live view at 2 ft away, then on to infinity and check them out on download…
Must have lens in your collection mainly for outdoor photography especially landscapes and skies The f/3.0 takes stunning photos in low light situations like sunrise/sunset, foothills inside closed valley. There is a decent range of angle to make the photo look straight through this fisheye to take portraits with wide scenery. It takes fair amount of learning curve on how to fully utilize this lens, but believe me once you figure it out you won’t be disappointed at all. The photos can be turned into 180 degree pan views by flattening in any editing software, I mainly use GIMP on linux. the…