The 8mm f/3.5 HD Fisheye Lens with Removable Hood for Canon from Samyang gives you a 167° view with dramatic, exaggerated perspective when used with an APS-C camera, or a powerful circular image floating in the frame when used with a full frame digital camera or 35mm film camera. With hybrid aspherical lenses and multi-layer coating, you will produce sharply defined images with a minimum of flare and ghosting. The 8mm lens focuses as close as 12" (30.48 cm) from the lens. This version of the 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye lens comes with a removable lens hood that provides glare reduction and lens protection, but can be removed to offer an increased and unobstructed angle of view when shooting at full frame digital or 35mm.

• The Samyang 8mm F3.5 AS MC Fisheye CSII DH Lens features a detachable lens hood (DH), otherwise is the same (optically and mechanically) as the non detachable hood version.

• Samyang 8mm F3.5 Fish eye CS II is built for APS-C, but it can also be used on full-frame cameras with the lens hood detached. On full-frame cameras.

• The optical construction of the lens is 10 elements placed in 7 optical groups. The Samyang 8mm Fisheye CS II features an aspherical hybrid lens and the latest anti-reflective multi-coating (MC) to minimize flare and ghosting.

• Fisheye lenses are also popular for special effects use where distortion and field curvature, exaggerated perspective, or extreme depth of field are desired. Groups such as skateboarders turn to this Samyang fisheye CS II for skate videos and photography to document their exciting moments.

• The Samyang 8mm fisheye lens offers some of the best optics in a lens for its class, and exceptional value for money. A specialist lens, affordable to every photographer.