I agree. $90 lens appeared to perform well in the couple shots I've seen. Jack
----- Original Message ----- From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <[email protected]> To: "PAW Picture-A-Week project" <[email protected]>, "PDML" <[email protected]>, "SeePhoto Talk" <[email protected]>, "BAPhotoShooters BAPA" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 9:17:35 AM Subject: PESO 2015 - 017, 018 - GDG Basically playing with a lens to learn it, I saw this street scene and the hallway lamp in a new way due to the full-frame fish-eye rendering of the lens. https://flic.kr/p/r96q7m https://flic.kr/p/qctvQx I doubt they're great art … but I do think they're fun. The lens is the Olympus Body Cap Lens 9mm f/8 Fish-eye, a tiny little thing that costs about $90 new. Not a bad value given the performance I see coming out of it. The focusing is manual, you have only f/8 to work with, and the lens cap is built into the focusing mechanism (flip the lever to the red dot and the lens is covered). It's very thin and weighs nothing, allows you to slip one of the Oly Pen cameras into a jacket or large trousers pocket easily. There's a hyperfocal detent in the focusing mechanism too, so it's very fast to use for average picture taking. The in-body image stabilization and extended DR/sensitivity of the current model cameras it fits makes an f/8 lens into a much more useful/versatile lens than it would be otherwise. Fun stuff! Olympus also make a rectilinear 15mm f/8 Body Cap Lens, if you'd like a similarly small and light standard wide-angle lens. It's only $50. :-) enjoy! G "Mars is the only known planet inhabited entirely by robots." -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
