Meike 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye CS SLR
Fisheye lens • Digital era
- Announced:
- · August 2016
- Production status:
- ● In production
- Country of design:
- · PRC (People's Republic of China)
- Original name:
- · MEIKE 8mm 1:3.5 FISH-EYE CS
- Class:
- · Slow APS-C-format diagonal fisheye lens
Abbreviations
| FISHEYE | An ultra-wide angle lens with strong uncorrected barrel distortion and extreme angle of view. |
Specification
| Optical design: | |
| APS-C | |
| 8mm | |
| F/3.5 | |
| 11 elements in 8 groups | |
| Diagonal (full-frame) fisheye | |
| Canon EF [44mm] | |
| Nikon F [46.5mm] | |
| 200° | |
| Diaphragm mechanism: | |
Diaphragm type: | Manual |
Aperture control: | Aperture ring |
| 9 (nine) | |
| Focusing: | |
| 0.10m | |
| <No data> | |
Focusing modes: | Manual focus only |
Manual focus control: | Focusing ring |
| Physical characteristics: | |
| 540g (mount not specified) | |
| ⌀77×84mm (mount not specified) | |
| - | |
| - | |
| Accessories: | |
| Removable front filters are not accepted | |
| MK-EW77 - Bayonet-type petal-shaped | |
| Not available |
Source of data
- Manufacturer's technical data.
Typical characteristics of fisheye lenses
- Extreme angle of view (at least 180° diagonally);
- Circular types (the image circle of the lens is inscribed in the image frame) or diagonal types (cover the entire image frame);
- Usually of equidistant projection type, with the distance from the picture center to any given point always proportional to the angle from the optical axis to that point;
- Huge barrel distortion;
- Short closest focusing distance (0.20 - 0.30m with 35mm full-frame prime lenses);
- Very large depth of field, eliminating the need for autofocus or precise manual focusing;
- Due to the extreme angle of view and convex front element, front filters cannot be used;
- Often equipped with a filter turret with swivel-mounted filters;
- Often come with a small, built-in petal-shaped lens hood (*).
(*) Some APS-C models have a detachable lens hood, which allows such lenses to be used on 35mm full-frame cameras as circular fisheyes.
From the editor
According to the manufacturer, the lens can also be mounted on 35mm full-frame SLR cameras, but in this case it will function as a circular rather than a diagonal (full-frame) fisheye lens.
Please note that this lens was also released for mirrorless camera mounts. We decided to record it separately in our database.
Lenses with similar focal length
| ■Canon EF mount (1) | |||||||||
| Zenitar 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye MC | A | 8 - 6 | 0.15m | -- | 2016 ● | ||||
| ■Canon EF mount (5) · APS-C | |||||||||
| 7Artisans 7.5mm F/3.5 Fisheye | M | 11 - 8 | 0.29m | -- | 2023 ● | ||||
| Samyang 8mm F/3.5 CS AS IF Fisheye MC akaBower 8mm F/3.5 CS AS IF Fisheye MC akaRokinon 8mm F/3.5 CS AS IF Fisheye MC akaVivitar Series 1 8mm F/3.5 CS AS IF Fisheye MC akaWalimex Pro 8mm F/3.5 CS AS IF Fisheye MC | M | 10 - 7 | 0.30m | -- | 2009 ● | ||||
| Samyang 8mm F/3.5 CS AS IF Fisheye UMC II DH akaBower 8mm F/3.5 CS AS IF Fisheye UMC II DH akaRokinon 8mm F/3.5 CS AS IF Fisheye UMC II DH akaVivitar Series 1 8mm F/3.5 CS AS IF Fisheye UMC II DH akaWalimex Pro 8mm F/3.5 CS AS IF Fisheye UMC II DH | M | 10 - 7 | 0.30m | -- | 2012 ● | ||||
| Risespray 8mm F/3 Fisheye CS SLR akaJintu 8mm F/3 Fisheye CS SLR | M | 10 - 7 | 0.10m | -- | ● | ||||
| Kelda 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye CS akaDorr 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye CS akaNeewer 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye CS | M | 10 - 7 | 0.30m | -- | ● | ||||
| ■Nikon F mount (9) | |||||||||
| Nikon AI-S Fisheye-Nikkor 8mm F/2.8 | A | 10 - 8 | 0.30m | -- | 1981 ● | ||||
| Nippon Kogaku Fisheye-Nikkor 8mm F/8 | M | 9 - 5 | -- | 1962 ● | |||||
| Nippon Kogaku Fisheye-Nikkor 7.5mm F/5.6 | M | 9 - 6 | -- | 1966 ● | |||||
| Nippon Kogaku / Nikon Fisheye-Nikkor Auto 8mm F/2.8 | A | 10 - 8 | 0.30m | -- | 1970 ● | ||||
| Nikon AI Fisheye-Nikkor 8mm F/2.8 | A | 10 - 8 | 0.30m | -- | 1977 ● | ||||
| Sigma MF 8mm F/4 Fisheye | A | 10 - 6 | 0.20m | -- | 1988 ● | ||||
| Sigma MF 8mm F/4 Fisheye ZEN | A | 10 - 6 | 0.20m | -- | 1992 ● | ||||
| Sigma MF 8mm F/4 Filtermatic Fisheye | A | 11 - 7 | 0.20m | -- | 1982 ● | ||||
| Zenitar 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye MC | A | 8 - 6 | 0.15m | -- | 2016 ● | ||||
| ■Nikon F mount (3) · APS-C | |||||||||
| 7Artisans 7.5mm F/3.5 Fisheye | M | 11 - 8 | 0.29m | -- | 2023 ● | ||||
| Risespray 8mm F/3 Fisheye CS SLR akaJintu 8mm F/3 Fisheye CS SLR | M | 10 - 7 | 0.10m | -- | ● | ||||
| Kelda 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye CS akaDorr 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye CS akaNeewer 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye CS | M | 10 - 7 | 0.30m | -- | ● | ||||
| ■Interchangeable mount (2) | |||||||||
| BelOMO Peleng A 8mm F/3.5 Fisheye MC [T] | P | 11 - 6 | 0.22m | -- | ● | ||||
| Spiratone 7mm F/5.6 Fisheye [T] akaHanimex 7mm F/5.6 Fish-eye | P | ? - ? | -- | ● | |||||