Nikon 8-15mm Fisheye Real World Review: is this Lens Worth the Price?

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Nikon 8-15mm Fisheye "Real World Review": is it Worth the Price for this Camera Lens?
This is a Real World Review of the Nikon 8-15mm F3.5-4.5E ED fisheye lens. Finally Nikon has replaced it's aging 16mm f2.8 lens that at one time was awesome but now, not so much.
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I honestly think this lens should only shoot at two focal lengths, 8 and 15 and nothing in between. Shooting at 8mm gives you a completely round image and at 15 you get the traditional fisheye effect. For this Real World Review I took the lens out to the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as to the skate park to put it through its paces.
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@vonzfoto 6 лет назад

Jared, one reason we use fisheye for skateboarding are the factors needed to get a skate photo. You ideally want to get the area the skateboarder came from, the area the trick is done at ( ledge, rail, in the air, etc ) and the landing area. Fisheye usually captures all the above. Plus..it looks cool and the beastie boys would approve! R.I.P. MCA!

@nickreid5939 3 года назад

I cant believe he got bored with a fisheye lens at a skating Park.....smh!

@petevphotography 2 года назад

Is this the most cringe video ever? Yes. Is he a skateboard photographer? No, and god help us if he ever decides to dabbled furthermore. He’s just a RU-vid unboxer kook, but this is a good video about the lens despite him breaking every fisheye rule in skateboard photography. I’m definitely upgrading my Tokina 10-17 to this lens 🤣

@vonzfoto 2 года назад

@@petevphotography I use my Nikon 14-24 and it gets the job done very well.

@MachineElf1111 6 лет назад

Awesome review as per usual and super high-quality video as well.

@The06madmax06 5 лет назад

This is the best and most useful lens test/review video I've ever seen! Thanks for the vid.

@amirharodi3822 6 лет назад

Love your Chanel ! Keep on making great videos

@daletch1972 6 лет назад

great review.love the way you explain things in terms everyone can understand and not get over technical

@MachineMirth 6 лет назад

OK that workout montage was freaking great! 😂

@tylerHphoto 6 лет назад

That "crack" is called an expansion joint and it helps control cracking of concrete do to thermal expansion and contraction.

@ShutterMafiaStudios1 6 лет назад

great video jared, saw this lens and wondered about it. i love my 14-24mm and will stick with that thanks again and great to see you out shooting. peace to all.

@clairebenn1204 11 месяцев назад

Really helpful! I live in Scotland this will be grand for castles and other stuff. Cool video!

@jakeszetela6537 6 лет назад

Quality of this video is fantastic

@stepheneckert4006 6 лет назад

Jake Szetela thanks! We try!

@Gsxrtrix 6 лет назад

Stephen Eckert what are you using to shoot video (Non GOPro stuff)? Glass etc? Looks very very crisp and clear. Excellent color.

@stepheneckert4006 6 лет назад

Ben Derover thanks ben I just used a Canon XC10 for all the footage minus a gopro hero5 for jared's POV. It's a great run & gun camera for how we operate (I shoot flat and do a lot of post work though)

@Gsxrtrix 6 лет назад

Stephen Eckert awesome! Thank you. Very clean video for sure. Good work to say the least.

@stepheneckert4006 6 лет назад

Ben Derover im also now just realizing you're name is probably not actually Ben... 😐

@garysingerman2533 5 лет назад

Thank you,very informative.

@NobodyWhatsoever 6 лет назад

This video reminds me a little of when I bought one of those add-on fisheye adapters, and used it on my kit lens about nine years ago. I definitely had some moments of inspiration, but I also went a bit fisheye crazy. It was far too easy to do!

@Juhamies 6 лет назад

Haha "I think the building isn't straight" omg you got me there :D

@bobwoolcock 6 лет назад

I agree - most useful in interiors - in particular, a space capsule :) Good review.

@MatVicens4 6 лет назад

RAWlly great skate shots though man. Seriously.

@SK8RIDA2 6 лет назад

Thank you Jared much love n respect blessings to you

@Motoxlight 6 лет назад

R. Venters hecks yea dude, i saw the thumbnail and i was like "is that freaking RJ?!" Props dude

@sugarfreedaddie5995 5 лет назад

I shoot lots of skateboarding and wanted a 8mm. Just ordered one cant wait to use it

@MrSoftypolimer 6 лет назад

I LOVE FISHEYE. My first prime lens is 15mm Fisheye, as it was the most afforable (sort of) UWA option. The barrel effects can be properly fix in PS to avoiding the blur causing by LR's lens correction (It's not a simple task so it's best to create PS's action but it's not going to give a consistant result for each different shots). Using the lens just for the fisheye effects can be a bit diffcult, but there's a simple rule "keeping the main subject in the center area and try to be creative on the edge of the frame ", the very same rule for UWA portraits. I'ven't try going lower than 15mm fishyeye yet, but I imagine it's would be more difficult as the more thing will get inthe frame with stronger barrel effects.

@RyanHodgdon95 4 года назад

Hey Jared, I hope you read this comment! I love your videos first off, it would be really interesting if you took some time to research how skateboarding photography/videography is so different! In a sense of how much goes into actually doing it and different setups the professionals use! Would be really interesting. Have a good day my man

@jolbertopiragibe5621 6 лет назад

Great Review, I use then usually for Visual effects like 360degree picture HDRI (bracketing) I realise the "Sigma 8mm F3.5 EX DG Circular Fisheye" is way cheaper and I don't such strong fringe on the edges. But I guess at 15mm would be interesting for the fact we need take much more angles and with 8mm 2 to 3 angle. :) Thanks for the review!

@fredcourtois-photographevi902 6 лет назад

Thank you for this nice sporting 💪🏻 review. This is a nice lens but a little too much expensive for the usefulness, as you said, one or two photos then you change the lens. Anyway i'm from France 🇫🇷 and with your videos i love to improve my english,. Good job ! 👌🏻

@pangpangpengpeng 2 года назад

God , after so many years, this vid still solid as gold.

@guillemcuesta7660 3 года назад

Thabk you Jared, I'm about to buy the old 16 2.8.

@PaDamTuts 6 лет назад

Very nice vid :)

@a2roland 6 лет назад

Awesome!.... Thank You!!

@zamiapalm1 3 года назад

So helpful thank you. I want to get a good lens specifically for skateboarding photos, I only like the look of the lens at 15mm. Do you think I should maybe just get a normal wide angle lens then rather than a 15mm? I dont want to get landed on or hit in the face either so if there could be a bit more distance between me and the subject that would be best. Awesome review!

@HIBACHIGHOST 6 лет назад

Did anyone else think Jared's hair looked majestic in this video or was that just me? 😂

@stevel7005 5 лет назад

Jared, I just purchased a copy of this lens. The build and image quality is fantastic. I am looking forward to some creative photography with this lens. Is this lens worth the price, you ask, definitely!

@BloomfieldProductions 6 лет назад

So it was you that me and my dad saw walking down south st with that shirt my dad and I are fans of your work

@123413sid 6 лет назад

you should do a correction on the 12mm. That could be the sweet spot for corrections. I also would suggest fisheye hemi plugin for photoshop. It works great.

@BassPlayerAvailable 5 лет назад

Ey up Jared. Its nearly two years later now, do you still own this lens and how often do you use it? Have you found any more uses for it? Cheers

@BSHokke 11 месяцев назад

do you still see the barrel when using a diagonal fisher lens instead of a circular?

@djdottor 6 лет назад

Can you please do the Nikon 10-20 lens. Thanks

@ssaajjkkoo 6 месяцев назад

How you get that circle? When put on 8mm? I dont want to have circle.

@therarelement 5 лет назад

Fish eye portraits are dope

@gur262 6 лет назад

With the apsc (old Version)tamron10-24 you never get a circle, but its rectalinear and fully covers a fullframe from 15mm too. Using a focalreducer on an a7, the circle would probably be complete.

@ariesram74 6 лет назад

Rectal linear? LOL - love Fro Knows Photo!

@FantmVirus 6 лет назад

What is that shoulder strap you are using - looks pretty awesome

@KMocker 5 лет назад

3:27 "this is horizonical" and that is hysterical

@pegcityjay 6 лет назад

Last 3 seconds as good as any Marvel post-credits scene

@linoosprey3906 5 лет назад

Rudy Gauer hahahahaha

@MatVicens4 6 лет назад

@jaredpolin how do you feel about me saying they should've just built an updated 12mm f/2.8-f/4??

@user-gh3cr3vu2r Год назад

will the outer shape circle of the lense always appear in your shot on a fisheye

@thecolelaurain 6 лет назад

So excited for the 6d mark ii review!!

@DJLazinator 6 лет назад

The music that kicks in at 2:40 is awesome! -Link to source?

@fxrober 6 лет назад

What's with the blue "vignetting" inside the image circle at 8 mm?

@cloudguru3018 4 года назад

What mount do you use to mount that gopro on top of camera? Thanks

@photoSIMPA 5 лет назад

Très intéressant.. Merci!

@ogmike6444 6 лет назад

do you think the nikon 8-15mm is any wider than the canon 8-15mm as far as distortion goes? not focal length, I shoot my canon around 10/11mm to crop square out of it to recreate a hasselblad 30mm style 6x6 image. I want more distortion, im considering buying the 10.5mm fisheye and trying that becasue I know the distortion on that one is crazy.

@sugarfreedaddie5995 5 лет назад

i would have gotten a 8mm some time ago but i needed to replace my broken 18-55, so i got a 18-105 with vr and its almost payed for itself already. Id love a wide angle because i shoot allot of sport's and i also skateboard so a 8mm is amazing for this. i often like to get right in front of the skater then move out of the way you can get amazing shots like this.

@grebandcunha866 6 лет назад

I wonder how this would work on APSC camera

@neilhenderson1766 2 года назад

How would you compare this to the canon 8-15?

@JoeyDoingThings 6 лет назад

I think that once Adobe puts a profile in Lightroom, this lens will be pretty sweet corrected!

@shaopingyang7794 5 лет назад

Jared, can you suggest between nikon 16mm f2.8d and sigma 15mm ex dg for D850? Or anyone can give me suggestion?

@cubano85 6 лет назад

Personally, I don't like the circle effect but I think at 15mm looks pretty good. As you said Jared, this glass shouldn't be the 1st or 2nd lens someone own. Probably it gonna be my 7th buy.

@kmacdizzle 6 лет назад

A lot of the skate photogs that shoot fisheye get creative with the lighting i.e. Strobes and exposure length.

@tonyadamis4171 2 года назад

I have just one question -- should a fisheye be used sparingly?

@bburkett47 6 лет назад

I thought there was a Lightroom option to remove chromatic aberrations. Under lens correction

@ramiromares7617 6 лет назад

I bought a 300$ fisheye for my nikon d40x which is pretty outdated. It didn’t support this model and I had to return it. Which ones can I get for my camera?

@minakshivlogs20 5 лет назад

Which lens did you use for video recording?

@FaisalShawn 6 лет назад

Please do a Canon 800d (T7i) real world review.

@MrRyanMonroe 6 лет назад

360 photography is where the 8mm would be nice

@YearoftheMosquito 6 лет назад

🔥

@krisztianforgacs1316 6 лет назад

Hey, what camera strap is that? I think the Tink Tank logo was on your camera bag, isn't it? :)

@froknowsphoto 6 лет назад

+Krisztián Forgács it's a black rapid my own I shoot raw version.

@ChrisWheatley97 6 лет назад

I'm just here for the drone b-roll (spark?)

@stepheneckert4006 6 лет назад

Chris Wheatley it's actually the mavic, shot at 96fps (which I regretted later since the quality is superrr compressed at high framerates)

@manilamartin1001 6 лет назад

yes, I also am not too happy with my 96fps. It's still my favorite drone, though.

@flyguy8787 6 лет назад

Stephen Eckert Awesome shot @12:37 with the speed ramping edit. So that was mavic footage played at 96p the whole time until the 24p slow motion part? If so I'm impressed that the 96p's motion (at 96) looks as good as it does before the ramp down, normally when I see 60p played at 60p it looks unnatural but this didn't have that at all.

@ChrisWheatley97 6 лет назад

Ahhh I thought Mavic first but some of the shots I noticed looked a bit iffy on quality. Still love having the drone footage sprinkled throughout the video, definitely hits the mark. More of that, please :D

@stepheneckert4006 6 лет назад

Fly Guy it's baked in at 96fps so plays back natively at 24p in slow motion when brought into the timelime. I just sped it up 400% to play back at what a normal 24p would've normally looked like and then ramped down to 100% slow motion for certain parts

@davidtodd3435 6 лет назад

Jared, I would like to buy a fisheye lens, but would this lens work on the Nikon D5300? Any suggestion would be very helpful?

@olliewhitham6084 5 лет назад

David Todd it would work, but it’d be cropped by 30%

@bryanescalante2871 5 лет назад

Any lens made by nikon that's F-mount would work ... Any lens ...

@JosephCee 6 лет назад

"Clicky McClickersons" 🤣

@Bethos1247-Arne Год назад

RJ is a hero.

@HansPacker 6 лет назад

Ha! I would totally ask to take my picture with you, Jared, if I saw you on the street. You're famous!

@deandrethompson5341 5 лет назад

I'm just a photography noob, but shouldn't you use a tripod to ensure your horizon is straight?

@AnthonyHarden 6 лет назад

I own the Canon version of this lens. It's as sharp as the day is long just like the Nikon. Another use for this lens, and one thing I regularly use it for, is to create 360 panoramas for Google's indoor Street View for businesses. That's where it shines in my experience. Also, Jared, an excellent piece of software, and the industry standard as far as Google Street View is concerned, is called PTGui. It's excellent, and very affordable, software for stitching. It works far better, and more accurately, than Photoshop in this use case. Also also, heh, you need the in-between, 9-14mm for the above usage. Specifically around 11-12mm. :)

@NJA2k8 6 лет назад

I bet the shots of the fountain would look really nice near golden hour esp if they light it up

@NJA2k8 6 лет назад

Also for the skateboarder jumping over the garbage can, it'd be cool to isolate him with the sky in the background and not the tree. But great tutorial

@Fisheyland 4 года назад

been waiting for him to shoot it in DX format... guess he didn't want to cover that.

@dishwater63 6 лет назад

I know the guy skating in the vid. Knew him from way back in the day. So weird, what a small world.

@nathanshapiro2719 3 года назад

What Anthony Fantano is to music Jared is to photography

@JoeJ94611 5 лет назад

Wouldn’t the sun damage the camera ‘s sensor?

@spatulace 6 лет назад

Hello Jared! Great review. What do you think, will this be more risky to use in festivals and parties due the large field of view? You know, lasers damage camera sensors if they hit the lens, don't they? And while this lens shows pretty much 180° fov, will a laser beam hitting the glass element from the edges of the frame damage the sensor same as a direct beam with a "more normal" lens?

@johnhernlund539 6 лет назад

Jared with the guy jumping over the waste basket, just shoot a bunch of frames and stitch them together in post to show him approaching, going up, and then over...all in the same frame. Then submit the result to Thrasher...

@Motoxlight 6 лет назад

Dude!! That's my friend R.J. Venters skating! Wtf.. small ass world!

@carlosbartol9337 6 лет назад

What about use it on a Nikon d500 ? I think that a ~12-22 is pretty good. Anyone knows any alternative ?

@WalterVerburgt 6 лет назад

I have the new Tamron 10-24 g2. Really dig it. Also use it on a D500. Not a fish eye though. Provides very sharp images at higher apertures!

@ericguizzetti Год назад

When are we going to see 8-15 for Z or RF???😢

@19MEJIA93 5 лет назад

Fish eyes portraits look G af

@christosphillips3568 6 лет назад

Hey Jared , you really do love that D5 don't you???

@froknowsphoto 6 лет назад

+Christos Phillippou it's my camera so yes.

@christosphillips3568 6 лет назад

So do I bro ....so do I 👊

@ShutterMafiaStudios1 6 лет назад

most rugged camera on earth, and BEYOND!

@lonewolf7449 5 лет назад

The most awesome part of the video was "HORIZONTICAL"

@AidanGunn 6 лет назад

I came here to see Jared shoot some skate

@MrDmr3223 6 лет назад

What kind of lav mic are you using?

@froknowsphoto 6 лет назад

We use sennheiser G3's

@narcovice 6 лет назад

my fisheye lens is f2 to45 x not 8 to 15 for my j3 nikon

@averyquinn2544 6 лет назад

Was the dynamic range on the 6D Mark ii so bad there's no more RWR? Lol

@stepheneckert4006 6 лет назад

Avery Quinn we're editing it now. Coming very soon

@averyquinn2544 6 лет назад

Sounds good :))

@JoseFlores-se3jp 6 лет назад

love it, but something seems off about the arial footage

@stepheneckert4006 6 лет назад

Jose Flores shooting high framerate (96fps)with the dji mavic results in pretty poor resolution unfortunately. We found out the hard way

@JoseFlores-se3jp 6 лет назад

oh ok thank you, just wondering over still looks good.

@hankypanky4u 6 лет назад

Canon commercial before the video hits irony right in the balls

@djwavepad420 6 лет назад

Well if u want every thing in frame why not get a wide angle lens like a 24mm

@hempseedaddict 6 лет назад

Zero interest in fisheye, but interesting to see how you tried to find its best uses.

@ShutterMafiaStudios1 6 лет назад

highlights get blown out or overexposed, out of focus is not that. bokehalicious is what your after. dont confuse people. i cant spell, peace jared, wish you would switch your terms on that. LONG time watcher and lover.

@reneegross3218 5 лет назад

I have a Sony 30x

@haidukul 6 лет назад

There is creativity in the 8mm. You just need to have more imagination. I own an 8mm Sigma lens and I mostly use it in 360 degrees panoramas.

@nickreid5939 3 года назад

Thank you...Best comment....how can he get bored with a fisheye lens??...how can he say its not really a creative lens??....He needs to spend more time with that lens...

@enkioferidu3111 6 лет назад

This is on sale at b&h right now for 3 million dollars

@EElgar1857 6 лет назад

Did I hear Rectal-Linear?!?!

@Doucettedon Год назад

Rectal-linear huh?

@stewartmunrovideo 6 лет назад

Jared Polin looks good enough to eat !

@danimal818 6 лет назад

jared your images are so struggggg

@barneyw.robinson9657 6 лет назад

Is it worth the "purchase" price? The answer is NO. Why buy something that is so specialized when you may be able to rent it for just the shoot you need it for. Spend the money you save on having huge prints made of the one or two shots you get from the lens that you love.