O the left the 7-14mm followed by the 8mm fisheye and then the E-M5II with dot sight. Image copyright: SystemKameraForum
These are some real-life views of the new 8mm f/1.8 fisheye, 7-14mm f/2.8 and the dot sight accessory. These have been shared by the German SystemKameraForum (Please do not reuse without their permission!).
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71 Responses
7-14 mounted on the E-M5 II please.
I would really like to know if it is possible to mount the dot sight on the E-M1 or if the E-M1 will get its own dot sight… Could really use one…
Of course you can mount it on anything, there’s no connection with the camera!
Doesn’t it have an electrical connection(for the red dot)?
The sight has or should have its own battery.
Red dot sights are common on telescopes and rifles, and are easily adapted to a camera hot shoe
Specs page says it runs on a coin cell and can be used on any camera with an accessory shoe.
The rod dot sight looks so bad ass and MASSIVE on the e-m5 II. A bit overkill for the 12-50 😀 but It can be useful with the 300 f4. Speaking of that lens, any info on it???? CP+??
What’s the use of a dot sight?
Extremely low ligth photography? How do you focus in such conditions?
this picture explains it better
http://103.246.90.250:8080/ckeditorImageDefult/userUpload20140502174018===0.33016272813217973.jpg
Thanks for the reply, but I’m not sure I got it. 🙁
I was thinking the only thing the dotsight did was to project a red laser beam on the subject. 😛
So, it works by simultaneously showing you a wide framing while you get a zoomed view on the screen? Is it electronically coupled to the camera then, or is it purely optical?
And how does it help when taking pictures of BIF? Is it practical to keep framing on the dot sight and checking focus on the LCD?
Thank you.
Stick an OM zuiko 300mm lens on a M4/3 camera and try and track a bird in flight. The angle of view is so small it is quite difficult to find the subject of interest through the viewfinder – even if you keep your other eye open. This device gives you a wide angle field of view to easily find the target quickly.
I will definitely get one, just for fun!
It looks like rifle aim from Battlfield 4! 🙂
It does, but at $120 it wouldn’t have enough uses for me personally. Reminds me a bit of the grid framing sight on underwater cameras.
http://i1351.photobucket.com/albums/p794/An0nemu5/Forum/Grid%20viewfinder_zpsknaosnus.jpg
It’s purely optical (as far as I know) & so just stop & think how you have to half press the shutter button to get the lens (like the 75-300) to get close to focus (so it isn’t just a total blur) before you can actually see the subject to take the photo. By using this red dot sight (which can be adjusted in position to suit hotshoe height, focal length & distance) & lining it up with the subject & using the screen as well you are likely to get the shot much quicker than without it.
It would also help a lot if olympus introduced a focus limiter in the software, preventing focus hunting in unwanted areas. combined with this you would get a lot easier lock on a distance target with a big tele. There are plenty of dot sights out there for roughly 1/3 of the price, but not colapsible and made for a rail which you have to adapt to hotshoe or find a way to stick it to your lens without lateral movement, So if it works definitely a nice handy gimmick to have for my em1/50-200swd/tc2.0
Laser pointer and dot sight are two different things: the laser pointer would indeed project some light on the target but this only helps if you are not aiming on the sky as you would loose reference once you are off target.
The red dot sight has a little screen and projects a red dot on it. As long as it is aligned with the lens, it allows you to track or reacquire a target and than take pictures of it. This works better than the laser pointer, means no eye hazard for the target and does not give away that you acquired target. Also having the laser for in the middle of the picture is not always preferred…
I use mine for birding and shooting other moving objects without using the EVF or LCD screen.
It’s like an electronic gun sight that puts different size/shape/color crosshairs on the target. It’s a metal ring with a clear glass element that displays the electronic crosshair on it. It mounts in the hotshoe and requires a simple bit of alignment.
To use it, You hold the camera in front of you (like a point & shoot), align the RDS crosshair on your target and press the shutter release. That way you can follow the target and see everything around, too. It’s pretty effective, kinda like playing Call of Duty with a camera. 😉
I use mine for video of moving subjects (e.g. dance performances.) Once you’ve zoomed the lens to the angle of view you want for a particular shot, it’s more comfortable to track the subject by looking at the dot sight than by using the viewfinder. With the dot sight, you can keep both eyes open and see what’s happening surrounding your main subject.
wide view optical tracking while lens is set to tele close-up and focus shoot of a relative small amount of the center of that dot sight. The dot sight does not zoom, you keep an overview! Handy for sports, birds, things where you need to keep an overview of things happening around the center while shooting a close-up. Easier to find that lock on that single bird in the sky or in the trees. Only thing, a bit expensive (dot sights for guns are a fraction of this) and relative big compared to that small em5ii… might be very handy though assuming AF does what it should do!
hopefully this means the new 300 is on it’s way quickly…
That 7-14. You could lose yourself looking into that front element. You can see why it won’t be cheap. A beast.
Sadly it will released on Summer (northern emisphere) only….
I’m waiting from this lens since a loooot! Let’s hope this time it’s true 😀
oly may claim it to be the first camera dot sight (on the sp100), but aftermarket they allready exist, actually seeing these pictures (https://www.google.nl/search?q=camera+dot+sight&espv=2&biw=1218&bih=939&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=JYLYVKvTLZPwaM7RgogH&ved=0CFEQsAQ), bolting one to the tripod collar of my 50-200swd (sufficiently raised to pass lens hood and camera housing) might be a better solution as olympus one.,,
That’s right. I bought a red dot sight two years ago from Brando.com for about $40. It works pretty well. I doubt the Olympus RDS will be as reasonably priced.
It’s $129. Whether you’ll consider that reasonable is another matter. The cheap adapted rifle sights don’t seem that cheap once you compare them to the Olympus one. What remains to be seen is how well the Olympus sight works in practice. It’s definietely something I’d consider, even at that price.
It’s not something I use very often, so $40 wasn’t too much to pay. How much “better” the Olympus RDS is remains to be seen, though. It will have an Oly logo, which is worth a lot, of course. 😉
…but not worth nearly as much as the Leica branding on the Panasonic products! 🙂
Seriously though…I would like to see a competent, thorough review of the product. Looks like a lot of tech & engineering went into it, anyway…..
Here are some more images. Mine is an RD-400 Electro-Dot sight. You can get it and a hotshoe rail mount separately. Mine came as a complete kit.
http://www.lelong.com.my/rd400-tactical-4-reticles-electro-green-red-dot-sight-scope-ebest-153703969-2015-08-Sale-P.htm
Too bad you cant even use the viewfinder with that thing popping in to your forehead though 😀
I have one of those $40 dot sights too; I use it on my Panasonic GH2 for video. It’s useful, but it’s awkward since it’s made for a rifle (complete with Weaver-style scope mounting rail) with a plastic camera accessory-shoe mount stuck on it. It’s very fiddly to get the dot adjusted to match the optical axis of the lens, and then it will go out of alignment if you so much as touch it. Assuming the Olympus one is decent at all, it’ll be worth $129 to me. The fact that its collapsible design will make it easier to store in an equipment case is a bonus.
so the 7-14 doesnt take filters? was wondering if it can be used with a screw-on ND filter for long exposures
Sadly, I don’t think it can take screw-on filters.
Maybe they’ll do some gelatin nd filters? or well…we will have to spend a lot of money on plates, ecc. but that woul also imply sacrificing portability.
You can use front filter plates. Just like with Panasonic 7-14mm.
Yeah, as I thought. Too bad I already have a complete set of 62mm screw-on 🙁
I prefer them for their portability (and cost eheh). But well, if’ll get the 7-14 2.8 I might as well go for them.
Think what would have happened if Olympus would had designed the rear of 7-14mm f/2.8 Pro to have a slot to place a 37mm thin filters with adapter and then rotate that filter around? Oh how bad reflections inside 🙂
Pop on solutions should be possible that are also been used for the Nikon or Panasonic lenses. With 3d printing these days it shouldn’t take long until they’re available
Or a couple rubber bands and a 4×6 filter.
Maybe they will put a filter drawer on the back end of the lens like on my beautiful SMALL Panasonic Fisheye. Damn…the Oly Fisheye is a BEAST and will cost a fortune!!!!
Looks like not some type of big adaptor.
I kind of wish Olympus would add Averaging mode to the Live Composite. This will simulate a long exposure. Now with Lighter mode used in Live Composite which is nice for star trails, fireworks and light painting, but is not for simulating long exposures.
What a beatyful 8mm fisheye!
I will definitely replace my Samyang 7.5mm with this new Olympus beast. Samyant is a great lens for the money, but it’s too tiny for my hands, and I constantly put my fingers on its front element, and usually my fingers are on 30% of my shots corners.
Also autofocus is very welcome for close-up work!
I bet you cold buy at least 4 Samyang 7,5mm for the price of one 8mm Olympus fisheye.
yes, here in Russia you can as well buy 10 Lada Kalinas for the price of one BMW X6.
I see plenty of BMW’s around.
But not even 10 Lada Kalinas?
Do we have a price for the 7-14mm lens?
Lemme guess, a shitload! 😉
Probably less than Nikon 14-24 f/2.8 🙂
Buuuut it’s not really a 2.8. Big money for little lenses. Tamron’s 15-30 2.8 is coming out for like 1100.00. I fail to see the value in this lens over 1k…and we all know it’s going to be WAY more than that.
Yes, it’s really a 2.8…
No it isn’t. You don’t understand. It is here f/2.8 but in the unicorn land it is f/5.6, or f/18, depending from whom unicorn you are asking….
It is f2.8 but will have a depth of field equivalent to f5.6
of a full frame camera
YES it iS F2.8 – Fnumber (relative Aperture) is a Ratio of FL to Physical Aperture (entrance pupil). So it is is accurately labelled as F2.8, with the correct light intensity. What you are referring to is the Physical Aperture, which of course is smaller than the Full Frame lens you are thinking of. Don’t confuse Aperture with F number.
The DOF may look like an F5.6 image on FF but the light will not be the same therefore F2.8 is F2.8. The whole reason it was invented was for light exposure, not DOF measurments.
That 7-14mm f2.8 is a big puppy! It dwarfs the EM1!
So, let’s not hear about how huge and heavy the Panasonic 7-14mm f4 is EVER AGAIN!
How big is it compared to the 12-40?
How’s this?
Thanx, thats bigger than the 17.5/0.95, and might be too big for me :S
Actually, just as in the photo you used in your reply to OM-G!, the 7-14 isn’t much bigger than the 12-40 (OK, about an inch longer). It looks disproportionally big since the E-M5 II has the skinny little 12-50mm kit lens on it.
7-14 looks beautiful…dot sight is fascinating but I will keep my Rokinon fisheye…I do not really need AF on a fisheye
Red dot sight, nice.. now I can have same one for my AK-47 and my Pen! (joke)
“Dot site accssory”- is this a camera or a machine gun?
Why not both?
7-14 is going to be a must have lens for the system. Great job Olympus!!!! Now, unless Panasonic fills out it’s pro zoom range with a 6-12mm F/2.8 I’m going with this Olympus.
both these lenses will be mine.
It’s interesting that the hood of MZD 714 is so deep(compared to ZD714 and other ultrawide), it seems be a unconventional design
it is so that front lens moves back and worth and now it is in 14mm position, as you can see. Meaning it is in travel shape where you can get lens cap on it.
It does seem strange. A moving front element would be uncommon for this type of lens, wouldn’t it?
The ZD714 has a moving front element. It moves back and forth when autofocus.
But not so much.
The proportions of that sight are like Alien’s head to its body.
LOL
I was amazed how big it is. Like why Olympus? Why not make it then more compact with physical rubber cover that is taken off from it? Well. If it doesn’t have parallax error it is good buy.
It’ll look good on my e5 with the big tuna.
Going to have to find a way to still use my flash and better Beamer tho..
That 8mm/1.8 looks pretty sexy . . .