Panasonic Lumix G 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye

A lens with a peripherally distorted, ultra-wide angle of view for Micro Four Thirds System cameras.People are often intrigued by anything that changes the way they view subjects, which accounts for some of the popularity of fisheye lenses. Panasonic's Lumix G Fisheye 8mm f/3.5 lens, which was announced in June, is the first (and, so far, only) fisheye lens for Micro Four Thirds System cameras. Offering a 180-degree diagonal field of view it provides a radically different perspective.

The Panasonic LUMIX G FISHEYE 8mm F3.5 is a fisheye lens for the Micro Four Thirds system of interchangeable lens cameras. Offering a diagonal angle of view of 180 degrees, the Panasonic 8mm lens certainly offers a unique perspective on the world. Read our Panasonic LUMIX G FISHEYE 8mm F3.5 review to find out if it's worth adding to your lens collection.

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The Panasonic Lumix G Fisheye 8mm F3.5 captures everything in front of your camera in a unique curved perspective, but it's a love-it or hate-it lens.

Given the limited applications for a fish-eye lens and the expensive list price, we can't help but wonder how many of these units Panasonic will sell. If you want to shoot real fish-eye and Micro Four Thirds is your system of choice, the 8mm is the best (but most expensive) option.

The Lumix G Fisheye 8mm F3.5 is the eighth lens Panasonic has released for Micro Four Thirds, and sees the company venturing away from mainstream optics towards something a little more exotic. Fisheyes are ultra-wideangle lenses which project images in a different way from conventionally-corrected rectilinear designs - straight lines are rendered as curves unless they pass directly through the center of the frame, with the curvature ever-increasing towards the edges. In essence, accepting this extreme barrel distortion makes it possible to design a lens with a much larger angle of view than is normally possible.