The choice for native micro four-thirds lenses are quite limited, but it is growing. The latest one to join the family is this 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens from Panasonic. This will give it an equivalent of 16mm field of view on full-frame cameras.
The good guys over at DPreview have posted a preview and some sample images of the lens in question. Expected retail price is USD 799 for those in the US, and 790 Euro for the Europeans.
If that’s too much for you, you can always go for a Samyang 8mm f/3.5 which is available for FT mount (NOT mFT!) and other mounts so you can just take your pick based on what adapter you have. It’ll be manual focus, of course, but with these kinds of lenses, the depth of field is usually so large it doesn’t really matter and the general opinion is that it appears to be a decent performer.
You can find the Samyang 8mm f/3.5 new on eBay complete with mFT adapter and shipping for about half the price of the Panasonic fisheye.
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