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[/shoplink]If you really need to travel light than it really doesn’t get smaller than this. SLR magic announced a new Toy Lens Pinhole Lens for m43 that is already available for $49.99 on [shoplink 29484 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
UPDATE: There are three reviews of this lens at Artsdoc.com, Fuzzeyeballs_1 and Fuzzeyeballs_2.
You can find some image samples on the same ebay page. This is not the first time I see such pinhole lenses. You can find many of them on eBay and sold by asian stores:
– Skink Pinhole Pancake Pro Lens Kit for Olympus PEN on [shoplink 21696 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
– Pinhole Cap Lens for m43 on [shoplink 21697 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
– Skink Pinhole Pancake Creative Kit for Four Thirds on [shoplink 21698 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
One more news: Kirk Tuck reviewed the Panasonic-Leica 25mm lens at TheOnlinePhotographer: “The 25mm Summilux is quickly becoming the anchor in my small system. I’m loathe to take other systems out anymore. The addition to a product line of an exceptional optic (or three) can make all the difference in the world.“…couldn’t agree more 🙂
Leica lens price check at [shopcountry 23110].
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link fix:
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/03/kirks-take-leica-25mm-summilux-review.html
“new Leica 15mm” ?? my dreams come true…
Well, you can have old Leica 15mm or 16mm. If you have really deep pockets. 😀
Unfortunately just typo, but 17mm Leica would be nice. New Voigtlaender looks ok, but still could be better. And with AF maybe..
That begs the question.
So far, of the Leica-M catalog, we have the equivalent of the macro Elmar M-90 and of the Summilux M-50.
http://us.leica-camera.com/photography/m_system/lenses/
If at all, which one is next? 😀
Summilux M-35 certainly would get a warm reception.
+100,.. Yupp ,.. I agree as M43 system right now is growing faster than any other mirrorles camera,.. We really need more primes and fast zooms
+100
I guess that is a typo 😉
Looks awesome! Way smaller and cheaper than the Sonnatar 25/1.1! 🙂
The pinhole is probably f144 though….. $50 for a hole?!?!?
It is not just a hole but can be mounted and comes with protection! Cheap hole! 🙂
Leica 15mm?
You’ve first heard it here :).
Please don’t tell my wife when I buy the Leica 🙂
Highly recommend the Wanderlust pinwide http://wanderlustcameras.com/products/pinwide.html
For sure, and an extreme angle, love this adapter!
The Wanderlust does not work on all micro43 mount cameras.
Well on the website they say the one which would not work is a video camera, an AF 100 model or something like that, they don’t list any photo camera.
Can you be more precise ?
The reason you can’t use the Pinwide on the Panasonic video camera is that the neutral density filter mechanism sits in front of the sensor and interferes with the Pinwide which is deeply recessed into the camera to be as wide as it is. I have used the Pinwide and recently tested the SLR Magic pinhole and they seem pretty similar. I’ll do a comparison as soon as it stops raining or I finish building my ark.
I’m with Nino. I bought one when they first came out last year and I am pretty happy with it. It’s well built and helps support small busuness. I notice that they are still only US$39.99.
I’ve published a couple of pics at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonytulloch/6809420064
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonytulloch/6955531245
I’m not too sure what produced the brown mark. Originally I thought I had done something to the sensor, but it was fine when I put the standard zoom back on it.
To expand on Patrick’s comment below, the website states it’s only the Panasonic AF-100 camcorder that cannot take the Pinwide. The photos I took were a 1/15 and 1/8 respectively (ISO 400 on a sunny day). A camcorder (and I guess the video on my E-PL1) wouldn’t be able to cope with that.
I’ve got my $40 value from it.
Oddly enough, I get exactly the same chromatic aberration, in what looks to be exactly the same part of the image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartley/6801289392. Taken with pinwide on a GF1
11:53 min youtube “review” of E-M5 with Robin Wong and Eric Kim. Robin claims clean pictures up to ISO 6400.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB_JpqDk0Tw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Yeah, how can you forget the Pinwide! Those guys actually did a kickstarter to get the thing built (m43 exclusive, at that), and pulled it off. I got mine off the Kickstarter, but you can just go buy one now.
It’s a nice little piece of kit. Obviously the photo quality, from a resolution/sharpness standpoint is awful–it’s a pinhole camera, after all–and you need great light and ridiculously long exposures to get anything–again f100+ aperture, what do you expect–but it’s well-built, feels nice, and comes in a cute little tin.
It is also, unlike most of these, REALLY wide-angle; the pinhole is recessed well beyond the edge of the body–it’s only a few mm away from the sensor. Fun to play with, and cheap enough to buy as a toy.
He also claims that “Nothing beats optical viewfinders”
2 lenses under Leica’s name for M4/3 doesn’t seen enough . I need tele primes lens with huge aperature from Leica . No MF but AF please . 15mm sounds ok & welcome .
Fifty bucks? How about a $5 plastic body cap and a very small drill bit?
That doesn’t work very well–you need an extremely fine hole to make a pinhole camera work properly.
The Pinwide, at least, also has the fact that it’s not just a camera cap with a hole, it’s way recessed, to give a much wider angle than just a hole in a cap.
It’s still 50$ for something that cost 25 cents to produce…
Is there a lens on the market tirk kuck does NOT hype?
The most expensive hole I’ve ever seen. Would be better if money spent for other holes…
Lol 😉
I think that if you take a body cap and make a tiny hole in it, you’d get the same results by yourself ! No need to pay so much for it. Get a set of body caps and experiment by yourself.
I just asked SLRmagic they said it is recessed to 12mm FL and works on the AF100 as well.
$50 for a body cap with a hole drilled in it?
That seems about $45 too much to me…
I hate SLR Magic and their garbage, it makes the whole Micro 4/3 system look cheap.
Agreed. It’s important to note that SLR Magic is not an official Micro Four Thirds partner. I had my suspicions, but they’ve taken things too far this time…