Showcase Olympus 8mm f/1.8 PRO

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Just really keep loving this lens.
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-Joe

 

[soundsun]

This lens continues to be a lot of fun.

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Look up! Done Jakue Plaza, Bilbao. by Phil Calvert, on Flickr

 

[David A]

Back to defishing this lens.

A while ago I made the following post:

I haven't been able to come up with a way of de-fishing the 8mm until now.

Amin Sabet started a thread on de-fishing the Rokinon 7.5mm in LR using the Sigma 8mm fisheye profile. I'd tried a couple of other profiles and they weren't all that successful but I tried the Sigma one and it works pretty well.

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So at least that's one quick way of de-fishing the 8mm for anyone who's interested.

Some time after that one of our members provided a link to a modified profile he had made for the Panasonic 8mm fisheye and I tried it. I think it works better than the Sigma profile Amin suggested. I've done a quick look for the exchange about that profile but haven't been able to locate it so I'll look again further to see if I can find it and I'll edit this post to include the links if I can find it.

In the meantime, I think we have a game changer. There's a new new guided upright transform in the update to Lightroom CC which came out today. If you defish the image first using a profile and then using the new Lightroom feature to draw 2 vertical lines, one on the large building under construction on the right and one on a vertical line to the left of the frame on the building there, you can correct the residual keystoning effect in the image and end up with this:

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Now it's starting to look like a more rectilinear lens.

Summary, if you have Lightroom CC the combination of a profile to defish the image plus using the guided transform produces a really good result. The profile can work really well but the guided upright transform can put the icing on the cake in a very nice way in my view.

 

[David A]

I found the post which provided the 8mm Panasonic fisheye profile here:

Panasonic 8mm f/3.5

I've been using Bruce McL's profiles since he posted them and I prefer them to the Sigma profile Amin suggested. The version of my image above with the LR guided upright transform applied was done using one of Bruce's profiles.

I remember having an exchange with Bruce at the time but it must have been via private message since it is not in the thread in which his post appears.

 

[Richard Moor]

Istanbul

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[Richard Moor]

Istanbul

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[Richard Moor]

Istanbul

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[Richard Moor]

Istanbul

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[Richard Moor]

Istanbul

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[Richard Moor]

Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul

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[Levster]

Playing with my new lens:

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[leungw]

Lower Manhattan.

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[Underwater]

The first one is with Live Composite- I aborted it when I saw the headlights coming off the mountain, which is probably why the star trails fade off- I kind of like the effect. I posted a similar pic in the 7-14 Pro thread, and you can see how much more light the f1-8 picks up with just a little bit longer exposure (but lower ISO). The second shot was a 25-second exposure, and captured a couple of shooting stars (cropped for embiggening purposes).

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[leungw]

The four-billion-dollar train station.

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[Giiba]

I've yet to fully get used to this lens but I feel I am learning.

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and some night sky images

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[GRIDDD]

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[rav]

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Olympus India send me this lens to use and review on my blog. Fun lens some test shots

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[soundsun]

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Zubizuri bridge at night by Phil Calvert, on Flickr

 

[rav]

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[Phocal]

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Really great use of the fisheye lens. I may have to break my no new lens policy until some EM1 mk2 reviews come out for this lens. I love my bower 7.5mm but would really love something with autofocus for an upcoming idea I am going to attempt this Saturday.