Astrhori 12mm f/2.8 Fisheye Review
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The Astrhori 12mm f/2.8 Fisheye lens is a bit heavy but has excellent build quality and provides stunning unique images. It has great sharpness across most of the frame and low color fringing, making it a fun and valuable lens for the price.
The Astrhori 12mm f/2.8 Fisheye lens produces razor-sharp images with excellent contrast. The images captured with this lens are unique and stunning, making it a valuable investment at $260.
Pros
- Excellent build quality
- Stunning unique images
- Great sharpness
- Valuable for the price
Cons
- A bit heavy
- No weather sealing
- Focused breathing
The lens has excellent build quality and a metallic design, despite being a bit heavy and lacking weather sealing.
The Astrhori 12mm f/2.8 Fisheye lens retails for $260 and is available for L Nikon Z Mount, Canon RF, Fuji Mount, and Sony e-mount. Despite its manual focus, it is a full frame lens and is incredibly fun to use for capturing fisheye images, offering a field of view of 185 degrees. The lens weighs 750 grams and does not have any weather sealing, but it has excellent build quality and a metallic design. The lens exhibits some focused breathing, but the focus and aperture control rings work smoothly with enough precision. The lens can focus down to 20, and despite some optical problems at f/2.8 when shooting against light, it delivers excellent sharpness and low color fringing overall.###The lens produces razor-sharp images with excellent contrast at f/2.8, and even at smaller apertures, it maintains great sharpness. The images captured with this lens are unique and stunning, making it a valuable investment at $260.
The lens exhibits some focused breathing, but it delivers excellent sharpness and low color fringing overall, making it a fun and valuable lens for the price.
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Christopher Frost
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