Olympus 8mm f/1.8 Fisheye PRO is a professional fisheye lens for Micro Four Thirds compact cameras, offering excellent build quality, performance and image quality. Mark Goldstein has just posted a full review of this great lens at photographyblog.com. He recommended it overall rating 4.5 stars. It is now in stock and shipping in most US stores.
From the review “Holding the title of The World’s Fastest Fisheye, this f/1.8 lens really comes into its own in indoor environments where the use of a tripod isn’t possible (or indeed allowed). We did miss the push-pull manual focus ring with a marked distance scale, as featured on the other Olympus lenses, but the snappy autofocus almost makes up for its absence. Weather-proofing is a nice feature, but we’re not sure how many photographers will actually benefit from it…” Read the full review
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