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Thanks very much for all the info. I think I'll be getting the Rokinon soon. I've seen nothing but good results and reviews and the price is much more attractive than the Lumix.Tullio: when you have the camera perfectly level with the fisheye the distortion is very much controlled, depending on what may be in the foreground. This lens, and the panny 8mm fisheye which is even better, are both excellent. When used with the Hemi plug in for Photoshop which only partially defishes -- it makes vertical lines perfectly vertical; it's a spherical defishing, not a rectilinear one -- it produces an image very much like the old panoramic film cameras with a swinging lens (e.g., a Widelux). It's a good alternative to stitching multiple images for a panorama.
I had the Samyang for a few weeks and then tried the Panny. They are both great fisheyes, but the Panny has much better color and microcontrast, and is a bit sharper in the corners.
I also have the Panny 7-14mm, but I expect that I'll use the fisheye a lot too, maybe even more. When I want to use an ultrawide I often like doing panoramas and these fisheyes with the Hemi plug produce great images. You do not get a lot of smearing like you get with a rectilinear defishing program. And the fisheyes are a lot smaller than the Panny 7-14mm.
Using the GH2, I recently printed a few desfished images to 25" wide on my Epson 3800 and they're fantastic - as good as 24" prints I made on my original Canon 5D. I have over 10 years experience doing high quality digital printing so I'm fairly experienced out how to extract the most from an image in post.
You can get great large prints from the GH2 if you shoot at base iso of 160. It's still very good at higher isos, but if you want to print large, you should stick to the base iso as much as possible.
I think you mean that it defishes to a cylindrical projection, because it starts out as a certain form of spherical projection.When used with the Hemi plug in for Photoshop which only partially defishes -- it makes vertical lines perfectly vertical; it's a spherical defishing, not a rectilinear one --