Peleng 8mm on the 7D

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Barry_Green

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The Peleng 8mm is *seriously* wide on the 7D. I mean, it's wide. Take a look at this:

Peleng-CamBelles.jpg


Now, to illustrate how wide this lens is -- the glass was THREE INCHES away from the chart! That chart is basically an 8" tall, 12" wide image, and from three inches it fills the screen from top to bottom. The camera is twenty inches away from the wall, and it can see from corner to corner! This lens is seeing about 16' wide from twenty inches away.

Unfortunately yes, there is some corner vignetting. It's mild, but it's there in all four corners. Still, $300 for a lens that's giving about 160 degrees of horizontal field of view, that's pretty awesome...
 
I'm getting a little dizzy looking at it. Not sure that I would ever use an image that looks like that though.. It's wide for sure.. no doubt about that lol. Just looks so weird and unnatural though.

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Begin... I sit on hills like Lorenz... until the rain... starts... pouring down...o-range...
 
lol thats like a hotel peephole... damn might need to get one and shoot a throwback inline skate video... 1995 here I come!!!!
 
Barry_Green said:
The Peleng 8mm is *seriously* wide on the 7D. I mean, it's wide. Take a look at this:

Peleng-CamBelles.jpg
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Hey Barry, just wondering if this pic is a still or a grab from video?

I'm particularly interested if it vignettes when cropped to 16:9 in video mode?
 
vip77 said:
Hey Barry, just wondering if this pic is a still or a grab from video?

I'm particularly interested if it vignettes when cropped to 16:9 in video mode?
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Still? What's that? :D

It's a video grab, and that minor vignetting is visible in the stills. Someone mentioned the idea of using a tiny extension tube to get rid of the vignetting, which might mess up infinity focus but with such a wide lens maybe it'd still reach infinity. I have the lens in M42 mount so when I get back I'll try to remember to just unscrew it some and see if that helps the vignetting and focus still be possible...
 
Wow that's wide. You should put up a list of all the charts you own Barry! I'd love to hear it.

Now throw on a 2000mm and cut back and forth between the 8mm and the 2K like crazy
 
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