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Rokinon 7.5mm lens

Rokinon 7.5mm lens

From the course: Video Gear: Cameras & Lenses

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Rokinon 7.5mm lens

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- Alright we're taking a look at another Rokinon lens, this one is particularly considered a fish eye so earlier we showed you a 14 mil, a 16 mil, remember it depends on the mounting system. A lot of you are shooting micro 4/3rds because the GH4s, OMDs, pocket cameras, things like that, in this case this is the widest one I have in my kit. It is what seven and a half? - Yeah this is a seven and a half lens and you can see that it's, if I take the back cap off there, this is a tiny tiny lens. Now Rokinon or Sam Yang or some of the other brands that it's marketed under have gained a lot of popularity in the past couple years and when it comes to cropped image sensors like micro 4/3rds, it can be difficult to go wide. And this is an extremely wide lens at 7.5 mil and it's designed to be a fish eye so the distortion that you see in this lens Rich is on purpose. - Yeah and let's take a look at some of that distortion. I mean the thing is at F3.5 it was a little bit dark. It's kind of funny…

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