Sigma 8/3,5 EX DG Circular Fisheye Lens for Nikon
This is one of the most widely used lenses for shooting virtual tours ever. Google knew what they were doing when they chose this lens as one of the recommended lens for shooting in their Business Views program. It is a spherical fisheye which captures the angle of view of 180 degrees on a full-frame cameras in a form of a circular image and on cameras with an APS-C sensor in the form of a cropped circle up to 180 degrees diagonally. To create a virtual tour, you only need 3-4 photos depending on the camera type and so you'll be done with your shooting in no time. The lens gives a measurable relationship between the angle and distance, making it ideal for scientific and technical applications for measurements. As a benefit for photographers it can be easily used in automatic stitching software. These programs are usually able to assemble a stitched 360-degree view automatically from the pictures taken by this lens. The lens also captures everyday theme in a new creative way and given the minimum focusing distance and a huge angle of view to your creativity has no limits.
Technical parameters:
- Optical components: 6 groups, 7 elements
- viewing angle: 180°
- min aperture: 32
- min focusing distance: 20 cm
- max ratio: 1:13.9
- filter diameter: Bayonet SIGMA in the rear of the lens
- size: 73.5x62 mm
- Weight: 320 g
The lens comes with 4 year warranty and 1 year international warranty.
