Panorama Shot: photos.app.goo.gl/47ZGeLEWyACKA6iY7 Olympus 8mm f1.8 Fisheye Pro Lens USA: amzn.to/2RLVx4v UK: amzn.to/2Xh6HEs DE: amzn.to/2xhtQXT Donations to support my channel greatly appreciated! www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=76UF47BN2ZJA6 Social: Instagram: instagram.com/robtreklens/ Facebook: facebook.com/RobTrekLens/ My Blog: robtrek.com Recommended Gear*: www.amazon.com/shop/robtrek My eBay Store*: ebay.to/2DuHOt8 *We are a participant in the eBay and Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Ebay.com Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Your enthusiasm with gear that works for you and gives results unexpected comes across very well in your reviews. I have no pro lens, my olympus primes I think you have also, when it comes to image quality of the olympus 1.8 primes in comparison to your pro lens, would you use one over the other or is it only in the build that is different? Thank you again for a terrific review.
Thanks. In addition to build quality materials, the pro lenses are sharper wide open. Not enough to justify the cost for personal use, but I'd say if you use a particular focal length for paid work it's worth it.
I think this the 1st Pro lens that you really praise as being worth forking out the extra dollars for above the cheaper alternatives. Certainly caught my attention!
Hi, Rob. I absolutely love your videos and insights. I have the 8mm fisheye and agree wholeheartedly with your comment. It is a surprisingly versatile lens and I love working with it. 😊
Hi Rob, I also bought the Olympus 8mm PRO fisheye last week 😁. Yes, a truly incredible lens that beats all other fisheyes I've ever used. Indeed, as a professional cave expeditions photographer (in my deep and murky past) the fisheye lens was something of a speciality of mine. The trick with getting to grips with a fisheye is to use it to the exclusion of any other lens for a week or a fortnight. With no other lens available, you have to find out how to use it. No other choice. (Obviously, that's not something you can risk in your professional real estate job, but for amateurs, working exclusively with just one lens is the best way to learn about it.) As something of a fisheye expert, I'll deal with your other points in my reply to your second fisheye video. So, everyone out there, please look for Rob's follow-up video on the fabulous Olympus 8mm fisheye PRO lens. Rick
Thanks Rob, this lens I had a demo of from an olympus rep when I bought my em5 mk3 and amazed how much it image it pulled in and the correction was unbelievable. You kind of want a pair of glasses to do the same thing. For me indoor shots is where this lens shines, meetings, parties, presentations, equipment rooms and so on.
Thanks for this great review! Today i received my olympus 8mm f 1.8 mft lens. I have one question. I want to use it with my panasonic g9. Does the fisheye distortion correction in the olympus workspace work if i use a panasonic camera? Thanks
Hi. Unfortunately it doesn't work when I put my 8mm onto my GX85. Also, Workspace will not open Pansonic raw images, only the jpgs. Sorry for the late reply.
Yes. I looked at the Laowa but I got a great deal on the Olympus 8mm ($340 off). I didn't see the need for the Panasonic since I already owned the 7-14mm.
Thanks so much Rob. I got a really good price on this lens ($600 refurbished) and am really looking forward to trying it out. I had my doubts because of it being "fish-eye" but your excellent examples and explanations convinced me! Thanks for your great teaching and information.
Thanks for your review! Is it possible to use 8mm 1.8 lense with gh-5 as an action camera with a camera helmet? Gopro freezing too often and I need something reliable. Size and weight is not important for me whhle filming important projects. Im afraid of distortion with 8mm fisheye. Will it make more problems then gopro 7 superview distortion?
You will have to correct fisheye in post processing. It's very easy to do in Davinci Resolve. Not sure about other software. I'm not familiar with gopro products so can't compare.
Thank you for this video Rob. Do you know if can we take videos with the Em1m3 + 8mm fisheye pro + fisheye compensation? I read that video is disabled for the combo using Em1m2. Happy holidays and be safe!
Very cool lens - Thanks! The angle of view is wild! I had to look up my Olympus 7-14mm as well as the Panasonic 7-14mm maximum angle of view, and those are 114º vs 180º for the 8mm fisheye you have here. Weird but true. I have a Meike 6.5mm manual fisheye ($129 but sharp as a razor and no CA that I have seen!) that is 190º -- Yipes! With that, for great rectilinear images, I need to use a software plugin called Fisheye Hemi after first enlarging the "canvas size" by 15% or so in Photoshop. [
That Meike is a great alternative. I have the older version for my Nikon. I looked at that Hemi plugin but was not convinced it would fully defish my lenses. Thanks for that tip on enlarging the canvas! I need to try that with my other fisheye lenses.
@@RobTrek I should clarify about the Meike (didn't want to stuff too much detail into comment above), I use the Fisheye Hemi and then fine tune with the lens correction filter. I do have your email if you would like a typical example "before and after" image.
I bought this lens last year for a Milky Way shot and got excellent results using the Imadio Fisheye-Hemi Plugin mentioned by AerialLensVideo. A good tutorial can be found at Lonely Speck (www.lonelyspeck.com/defish/). The tradeoff is wider FOV with Hemi plugin but not takes work versus the Olympus software conversion which gives better and easier correction but with loss of FOV.
One question Rob? Why did you choose the Panasonic and not the Olympus 9-18? Now that I switched to Olympus, I’m so confused because we have so many options. I prefer to buy pro lenses but the pro wide angle is bulky and I have to buy an extra accessory for the filters. Thank you for your awesome tutorials.
I haven't purchased anything yet, but I looked at how streamline the process was vs. results. If the software stitched the images and created an accurate pano with very few steps, then it's a winner. However, if the stitching doesn't go well, how easy is it to tweak settings to get better results? So what I found so far is Photoshop does a decent job most of the time but is hard to correct if stitching doesn't go well. Panorama studio did even better than photoshop and was way faster. However, it to lacked easily correcting bad stitching. PTGui offered the best stitching and tons of other features for batch processing but was harder to use and double the price. For the enthusiast/hobby photographer, I'd recommend Panorama Studio. For Pro work, the PTGui.
Rob Trek As always thank you for your generosity in sharing information. I was following your videos as I liked your balanced approach to subjects. I recently realized that you are doing real estate photography which I’m very interested in exploring. I’m due to retire from government next year and want to work with my camera for the last part of my working life. Have to ask if you are using Panos in your real estate work?
Wow!!! That is gorgeous! It makes a any shot more interesting! I’m still a beginner but I’m trying to decide what lenses to bring for our Alaska trip and I really think this lens would be worth getting. It’s one of those once-in-a-lifetime trips so I want to take the best shots that I can! Thank you for this review!! 🛳
Hi again Rob, one additional comment. I read that the purple fringing you noticed is linked to some kind of incompatibility between Panasonic lens and Olympus Camera. If you were using your lens on a Panasonic camera you would not get it. Would be interesting to confirm it it is correct. I think it was explained in one of Terry Lane's videos.
hi sir.. what is the 1 stop and 2 stop ? you write in your video iso 3200 +1 stop... and this lens is expensive thats why i buy samyang 7.5mm fisheye. but yes this olympus lens is really amazing with auto focus.
It creates a separate jpg image with the correction. You can always apply the correction to the raw file in Workspace, then export as .tiff to retain full image data for editing outside of Workspace.
I love my Oly 8mm f1.8 but my new favorite ultra-wide that is the new king of Real Estate photography is the Laowa 6mm T2.1 with 121° rectilinear goodness.
Thanks Rob: I never fully understood this lens, as a fisheye at that price, but I didn't know it was "rectifiable" so easily. I shoot a lot of architectural images and assumed it would be no good for me. I was wrong!
Hi. It's not 180 as far as I can tell. More like 170. The picture is not a true fisheye perspective, so it's not circular. Any pictures in the video where you see distortion is the unedited full image.
Thanx so much for your very informative videos. I have learned so much about my E-M10 MKII. I downloaded Olympus Workspace and was able to import fisheye images and found the user's manual, but it was absolutely no he[p in how to apply fisheye correction. Perhaps you could do a step-by-step video about this. I found Hugin daunting and perhaps Workspace is more straightforward.
@@RobTrek No, trying to de-fish. It seemed too complicated so I gave up. It appears that in Workspace you choose whether you want slight, medium or full correction and the program does the rest, but I couldn't get to that point. The manual tells you what you can do without telling you how to do it.
@@pterosonus Are you using the 8mm fisheye pro lens? Workspace should have an auto setting so you don't have to do anything but check a box. Check the links in my latest video. I zipped 3 pictures you can work with.
Good video! I have a Pansonic 20mm as a street lens for my Olympus PL and have noticed that purple fringing and distortion. Especially noticeable with architecture shots. My Olympus 17mm lens is a bit heavier but has no bad habits. Panasonic has clever camera designs but seems to be careless with optical basics.
@@RobTrek I am sure your observations are correct. I naively though MFT lenses are simply interchangeable. Experience is that thing you get immediately after needing it!
This is a superb lens Rob, I purchased it for astrophotography and it works well wide open except for violet halos around stars which can be corrected using masks. Here is an example I made recently with 5 images of 30 seconds. files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/terrylovejoy/o7uLyrMb-set1-defringe-2000px.jpg
Very nice shots, but $900 is steeeeeep! You can justify it with your work in real estate, but I would imagine the limited utility of fish eye just doesn't warrant that price for most people.
Thanks. I probably would not have bought it for personal use unless I was really into astrophotography. But since it will fix my purple flaring issues for work, it was easier to swallow the price.
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Your enthusiasm with gear that works for you and gives results unexpected comes across very well in your reviews. I have no pro lens, my olympus primes I think you have also, when it comes to image quality of the olympus 1.8 primes in comparison to your pro lens, would you use one over the other or is it only in the build that is different? Thank you again for a terrific review.
Thanks. In addition to build quality materials, the pro lenses are sharper wide open. Not enough to justify the cost for personal use, but I'd say if you use a particular focal length for paid work it's worth it.
I think this the 1st Pro lens that you really praise as being worth forking out the extra dollars for above the cheaper alternatives. Certainly caught my attention!
This was an easier choice for me since I can use it for my paid work. It was still a hard pill to swallow!
flowers with a fisheye look very cool
Fun trying new things!
Hi, Rob. I absolutely love your videos and insights. I have the 8mm fisheye and agree wholeheartedly with your comment. It is a surprisingly versatile lens and I love working with it. 😊
Thanks!
Hi Rob,
I also bought the Olympus 8mm PRO fisheye last week 😁. Yes, a truly incredible lens that beats all other fisheyes I've ever used. Indeed, as a professional cave expeditions photographer (in my deep and murky past) the fisheye lens was something of a speciality of mine.
The trick with getting to grips with a fisheye is to use it to the exclusion of any other lens for a week or a fortnight. With no other lens available, you have to find out how to use it. No other choice. (Obviously, that's not something you can risk in your professional real estate job, but for amateurs, working exclusively with just one lens is the best way to learn about it.)
As something of a fisheye expert, I'll deal with your other points in my reply to your second fisheye video. So, everyone out there, please look for Rob's follow-up video on the fabulous Olympus 8mm fisheye PRO lens.
Rick
Thanks, Rick. I really don't do this lens justice. It's pretty much a single purpose lens for me with a little astrophotography planned.
Thanks Rob, this lens I had a demo of from an olympus rep when I bought my em5 mk3 and amazed how much it image it pulled in and the correction was unbelievable.
You kind of want a pair of glasses to do the same thing.
For me indoor shots is where this lens shines, meetings, parties, presentations, equipment rooms and so on.
Yes, it's a great lens for all those things. Worth the price.
Thanks for this great review! Today i received my olympus 8mm f 1.8 mft lens. I have one question. I want to use it with my panasonic g9. Does the fisheye distortion correction in the olympus workspace work if i use a panasonic camera? Thanks
Hi. Unfortunately it doesn't work when I put my 8mm onto my GX85. Also, Workspace will not open Pansonic raw images, only the jpgs. Sorry for the late reply.
Thanks for the video. I was curious if you considered the Laowa 7.5mm f2.0, which is rectilinear out of the box, or the Panasonic Lecia 8-18mm f2.8-4?
Yes. I looked at the Laowa but I got a great deal on the Olympus 8mm ($340 off). I didn't see the need for the Panasonic since I already owned the 7-14mm.
Thanks so much Rob. I got a really good price on this lens ($600 refurbished) and am really looking forward to trying it out. I had my doubts because of it being "fish-eye" but your excellent examples and explanations convinced me! Thanks for your great teaching and information.
Thanks.
Thanks for your review!
Is it possible to use 8mm 1.8 lense with gh-5 as an action camera with a camera helmet? Gopro freezing too often and I need something reliable. Size and weight is not important for me whhle filming important projects. Im afraid of distortion with 8mm fisheye. Will it make more problems then gopro 7 superview distortion?
You will have to correct fisheye in post processing. It's very easy to do in Davinci Resolve. Not sure about other software. I'm not familiar with gopro products so can't compare.
@@RobTrek Thanks for your answer. I need to try by my own. My filming process is a bit specific 😁
Great video, thanks once again!
I have the Pen F, do you know if this camera has the ability to de-fish the 8mm Olympus lens as well?
Thanks. Don't see a defish option yet. Seems like an easy firmware update, so lets wait and see. In the meantime, Workspace will do it easily.
Thank you for this interesting feedback on this Lens. Would you consider it is better than the Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 for astrophotography ?
The 8mm will be superior because you can save at least 1 stop of light = 30 sec vs a more desirable 15 sec exposure.
@@RobTrek thank you ! And thanks for your videos !
Thank you for this video Rob. Do you know if can we take videos with the Em1m3 + 8mm fisheye pro + fisheye compensation? I read that video is disabled for the combo using Em1m2. Happy holidays and be safe!
Unfortunately the fisheye correction is disabled on the e-m1m3 as well.
@@RobTrek Thank you
“Rectal linear” lens vs the 8mm Pro...I get it now! Thanks for your perspectives and experiences with architecture in mind!
It's a great lens for architecture. I just did an update to this lens on a real estate photo shoot I did.
Very cool lens - Thanks!
The angle of view is wild! I had to look up my Olympus 7-14mm as well as the Panasonic 7-14mm maximum angle of view, and those are 114º vs 180º for the 8mm fisheye you have here. Weird but true. I have a Meike 6.5mm manual fisheye ($129 but sharp as a razor and no CA that I have seen!) that is 190º -- Yipes! With that, for great rectilinear images, I need to use a software plugin called Fisheye Hemi after first enlarging the "canvas size" by 15% or so in Photoshop. [
That Meike is a great alternative. I have the older version for my Nikon. I looked at that Hemi plugin but was not convinced it would fully defish my lenses. Thanks for that tip on enlarging the canvas! I need to try that with my other fisheye lenses.
@@RobTrek I should clarify about the Meike (didn't want to stuff too much detail into comment above), I use the Fisheye Hemi and then fine tune with the lens correction filter. I do have your email if you would like a typical example "before and after" image.
Thanks. I tried your suggestion today and it worked. With a little practice, I can save some presets maybe for specific lenses.
I bought this lens last year for a Milky Way shot and got excellent results using the Imadio Fisheye-Hemi Plugin mentioned by AerialLensVideo. A good tutorial can be found at Lonely Speck (www.lonelyspeck.com/defish/). The tradeoff is wider FOV with Hemi plugin but not takes work versus the Olympus software conversion which gives better and easier correction but with loss of FOV.
One question Rob? Why did you choose the Panasonic and not the Olympus 9-18? Now that I switched to Olympus, I’m so confused because we have so many options. I prefer to buy pro lenses but the pro wide angle is bulky and I have to buy an extra accessory for the filters. Thank you for your awesome tutorials.
I wanted the widest angle possible for my paid work in architectural photos and I don't really need filters for that.
Hi Rob, did you make a decision on your panorama/ 3D ? Thanks for your video!
I haven't purchased anything yet, but I looked at how streamline the process was vs. results. If the software stitched the images and created an accurate pano with very few steps, then it's a winner. However, if the stitching doesn't go well, how easy is it to tweak settings to get better results? So what I found so far is Photoshop does a decent job most of the time but is hard to correct if stitching doesn't go well. Panorama studio did even better than photoshop and was way faster. However, it to lacked easily correcting bad stitching. PTGui offered the best stitching and tons of other features for batch processing but was harder to use and double the price. For the enthusiast/hobby photographer, I'd recommend Panorama Studio. For Pro work, the PTGui.
Rob Trek As always thank you for your generosity in sharing information. I was following your videos as I liked your balanced approach to subjects. I recently realized that you are doing real estate photography which I’m very interested in exploring. I’m due to retire from government next year and want to work with my camera for the last part of my working life. Have to ask if you are using Panos in your real estate work?
Not really. They don't mix well with other photos. I include them time to time for larger sites like a strip mall or office building.
Wow!!! That is gorgeous! It makes a any shot more interesting! I’m still a beginner but I’m trying to decide what lenses to bring for our Alaska trip and I really think this lens would be worth getting. It’s one of those once-in-a-lifetime trips so I want to take the best shots that I can! Thank you for this review!! 🛳
Thanks. It's a great lens! If you don't mind manually focusing, there are much cheaper alternatives. The Laowa 7.5 f/2 or Meike 6.5 fisheye.
Hi again Rob, one additional comment. I read that the purple fringing you noticed is linked to some kind of incompatibility between Panasonic lens and Olympus Camera. If you were using your lens on a Panasonic camera you would not get it. Would be interesting to confirm it it is correct. I think it was explained in one of Terry Lane's videos.
Yes, I've heard same. I don't have a Panasonic camera to test for myself though.
That's a beautiful lens Rob. I'm looking forward to some street vlogs with you using this lens.
It's really nice. It better be at this price! I can only justify it because of my work.
hi sir.. what is the 1 stop and 2 stop ? you write in your video iso 3200 +1 stop... and this lens is expensive thats why i buy samyang 7.5mm fisheye. but yes this olympus lens is really amazing with auto focus.
Thanks. The stop is a unit of light that is two times brighter at each stop. These units are shown in your live view EV meter.
Hi Rob, do the in camera "Fisheye Compensation" on the EM1 mk2 work for RAW or is the correction for JPEG only?
It creates a separate jpg image with the correction. You can always apply the correction to the raw file in Workspace, then export as .tiff to retain full image data for editing outside of Workspace.
@@RobTrek Thx Rob, what I was thinking, appreciate your quick response.
I love my Oly 8mm f1.8 but my new favorite ultra-wide that is the new king of Real Estate photography is the Laowa 6mm T2.1 with 121° rectilinear goodness.
Wow, that’s really wide!
What do you think about the Laowa 7.5 f2?
Looks like a great lens. I almost bought it myself. Great alternative for almost half the price!
Insightful review , great work
Glad you liked it!
Thanks Rob: I never fully understood this lens, as a fisheye at that price, but I didn't know it was "rectifiable" so easily. I shoot a lot of architectural images and assumed it would be no good for me. I was wrong!
Yes, the ability to defish this lens is what primarily sold me on it. Add on the f/1.8 and it becomes very useful for many things.
@@RobTrek i absolutely agree!
The specs say that this lens has a 180 degree field of field. Is that corner to corner or radially. Does the pictures come out as circles?
Hi. It's not 180 as far as I can tell. More like 170. The picture is not a true fisheye perspective, so it's not circular. Any pictures in the video where you see distortion is the unedited full image.
Thanx so much for your very informative videos. I have learned so much about my E-M10 MKII. I downloaded Olympus Workspace and was able to import fisheye images and found the user's manual, but it was absolutely no he[p in how to apply fisheye correction. Perhaps you could do a step-by-step video about this. I found Hugin daunting and perhaps Workspace is more straightforward.
Thanks. Are you trying to use hugin to stitch photos?
@@RobTrek No, trying to de-fish. It seemed too complicated so I gave up. It appears that in Workspace you choose whether you want slight, medium or full correction and the program does the rest, but I couldn't get to that point. The manual tells you what you can do without telling you how to do it.
@@pterosonus Are you using the 8mm fisheye pro lens? Workspace should have an auto setting so you don't have to do anything but check a box. Check the links in my latest video. I zipped 3 pictures you can work with.
@@RobTrek Perhaps the problem is that I'm using the Rokinon 7.5mm FE.
Good video! I have a Pansonic 20mm as a street lens for my Olympus PL and have noticed that purple fringing and distortion. Especially noticeable with architecture shots. My Olympus 17mm lens is a bit heavier but has no bad habits. Panasonic has clever camera designs but seems to be careless with optical basics.
Thanks. Panasonic corrects a lot of these issues in their own Panasonic cameras. Olympus probably does same.
@@RobTrek I am sure your observations are correct. I naively though MFT lenses are simply interchangeable. Experience is that thing you get immediately after needing it!
This is a superb lens Rob, I purchased it for astrophotography and it works well wide open except for violet halos around stars which can be corrected using masks. Here is an example I made recently with 5 images of 30 seconds. files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/terrylovejoy/o7uLyrMb-set1-defringe-2000px.jpg
Beautiful shot! I can't wait to get out there and try for myself.
I see lens fever struck again. Congrats!
Thanks. It's awesome!
Looking forward to seeing more images from this lens. Thank you.
Keep an eye out on my instagram. I'll probably try some astrophotography soon.
Very nice shots, but $900 is steeeeeep! You can justify it with your work in real estate, but I would imagine the limited utility of fish eye just doesn't warrant that price for most people.
Thanks. I probably would not have bought it for personal use unless I was really into astrophotography. But since it will fix my purple flaring issues for work, it was easier to swallow the price.
I bought the panny 8-18mm about 6 mo ago. It’s a nice lens, but I haven’t really used it. Fish eye would be a fun lens.
Yes, just for fun every now and then!
your Awesome Man!
Wow! Thanks.
Fish eye for real estate? I thought no re photographer ever uses it.
It's more commonly used for 360 images.