Opteka
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Fisheye Lenses
Not for fish, but perfect for taking fun pictures of your dog, cat, or bunny rabbit. Extreme wide perspectives from a fisheye lens create pet portraits with exaggeratedly long noses and elongated whiskers. They are also great for capturing action shots, like a dog in mid-frisbee jump. Check out these screw-on
Let’s face it: Shooting film and video isn’t just a job for most of us, it is something we love. Everything that we do contributes to creativity of the images that we make. But the toll the day-in and day-out work can take on our creativity can be devastating. Sometimes you just need a break, something to reinvigorate you, like a fun, non-professional optic. Sometimes you need a different challenge, working with a different set of limitations; experiment, explore, create without having to worry about others judging or the consequences of
Opteka, a Chinese optical manufacturer, has been producing manual-focus lenses and lens accessories for the consumer market since 2002. Like other lenses in this series, Opteka lenses are designed for photo enthusiasts who want to expand their lens choices without having to expand their credit line.
For this review we included two manual-focus Opteka lenses: the Opteka 50mm f/2 lens for Sony E-mount cameras, which has the FoV of a
Opteka is hitting the scene with a full range of manual focus prime lenses designed for a variety of mirrorless systems. Ranging from the dramatic and unique 6.5mm f/2 Circular Fisheye to the compact 50mm f/2, each of these lenses features a compact, all-metal design with manual focus operation and advanced optical designs to realize sharp, clear imagery. Opteka's new lineup is designed for APS-C or smaller sensors, and the lenses will be available for Micro Four Thirds, Sony E, Fujifilm X, Canon EF-M, and Nikon 1 lens mounts.
At the wide end
What defines an ultra-telephoto lens? Of course, it’s the “ultra” (or at times “super”) prefix that we are concerned with when talking about these lenses, which enable photographers to get a close-up view of something from which we normally remain very distant.
These lenses are used primarily for photographing wildlife, sports, journalism, and perhaps paparazzi or “stake-out” photography. If most readers are not going on a stake-out or stalking stars, let’s say a clear majority of ultra-telephoto lens users are photographing sporting events,