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So just recently (as in B&H just released it, Adorama doesn't even have it in stock yet) Olympus released a 9mm Fisheye "body cap" lens. It costs $100 which is twice the price of the "original" lens cap lens however FISH EYE.
You can get cheap knock off third party Fish eye lenses for about $300 which is 3x the price of this lens for the Micro 4/3rds. Which I've played with- they are manual aperture Manual focus lenses and the test shots I took when I was at Nat camera and tried the Canon version of the lens looked extremely dirty. As in you could see FLAWS in the glass like you were shooting through a beer bottle.
Really suprised at the quality of this glass. Yes its Manual focus (which isn't hard to use on a fisheye) and yes it is Fixed Aperture which makes it specialized. BUT after 15 minutes of playing with it I was able to get something Tact Sharp with only minor distortion around the edges where you'd expect it to be (even really expensive fish eye lenses do this)
Since it was very dark in my room yeah the ones that turned out the best used the flash and were close up to my subject, in this case the plush dog. It's a bit tricky to get the focus down but when you do I'm very impressed at the quality I get for $100.
In short- if you own an olympus or panasonic micro 4/3 rds and you are comfortable enough with shooting in Full Manual with manual exposure BUY THIS LENS if you ever wanted a Fish Eye but don't want to spend $400-800 on a specialized niche lens.
It does ok in P mode, but best results like this you are shooting in M. Remeber all you are adjusting is the ISO and shutter speed, so its just like you are shooting in Shutter Priority mode with manual metering. Its not all that hard.
You can get cheap knock off third party Fish eye lenses for about $300 which is 3x the price of this lens for the Micro 4/3rds. Which I've played with- they are manual aperture Manual focus lenses and the test shots I took when I was at Nat camera and tried the Canon version of the lens looked extremely dirty. As in you could see FLAWS in the glass like you were shooting through a beer bottle.
Really suprised at the quality of this glass. Yes its Manual focus (which isn't hard to use on a fisheye) and yes it is Fixed Aperture which makes it specialized. BUT after 15 minutes of playing with it I was able to get something Tact Sharp with only minor distortion around the edges where you'd expect it to be (even really expensive fish eye lenses do this)
Since it was very dark in my room yeah the ones that turned out the best used the flash and were close up to my subject, in this case the plush dog. It's a bit tricky to get the focus down but when you do I'm very impressed at the quality I get for $100.
In short- if you own an olympus or panasonic micro 4/3 rds and you are comfortable enough with shooting in Full Manual with manual exposure BUY THIS LENS if you ever wanted a Fish Eye but don't want to spend $400-800 on a specialized niche lens.
It does ok in P mode, but best results like this you are shooting in M. Remeber all you are adjusting is the ISO and shutter speed, so its just like you are shooting in Shutter Priority mode with manual metering. Its not all that hard.
Category Photography / Still Life
Species Dog (Other)
Size 1024 x 768px
File Size 608.1 kB
Yeah, and this is why a lot of people like mirrorless cameras for mounting vintage lenses. Other then setting an apeture and AF the sensor does all the work. You can work vintage lenses just fine in a P mode and it will compensate the ISO and shutter speed still to get good exposure. A lot of SLRs cant do this...
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