It’s a quite Sunday with no big news. But at least you have some fun (if you like Kai’s style) by watching his latest Olympus Body Cap Lens review!
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Entertaining. The 14mm f2.5 works a treat, and is still quite pocketable 😉
+1
Highlight of the review: it’s cheaper than the Leica’s body cap 🙂
P.S. For the fans, Alamby is at 5:46.
5:46 ? i must have missed her! shame on me!
The lens really intrigues me. I haven’t bought one yet, but it’s something I may do eventually. I have used a LOMO LC-A+ with it’s zone focusing and I loved it. I’m guessing this will give the same experience focusing wise. I just wish it was a fixed f/8 aperture with in an f/2.8 construction!
apologise if my way of thinking was wrong. For some reason I was thinking you get more light in the lens at f/8 on a brighter lens than a lens made with an f/8 aperture. Just realised it was a pretty stupid way of thinking! My bad!
cds79m — my take: it’s basically a reasonably-priced toy lens. It doesn’t give you the same weirdnesses that a Holga lens (or similar) will, but if you’re looking for a fun street photography lens, it’s pretty good (and relatively cheap). I keep one on my 2nd body instead of a cap — makes for a very slim package, and in a pinch it means the camera’s ready to go straight out of the pocket.
As Farrukh points out, the 14mm f/2.5 takes better pictures and isn’t *much* thicker — but costs 5 or 6 times as much. So whether it’s a good deal for you is really a function what you’re looking for.
Perfect lens for art-filters. 🙂
+1 it works perfectly if coupled with art filters. Many will think that it’s not “pure” photography, but it’s funny anyway.
i have this lens for a week now and so true good for art filters my body is a OMD
I have the Panasonic 14-42mm X PZ lens, and the low profile when closed makes for a very portable camera.
and with the pz14-42 you get the same mush and blurriness too, especially at 42mm 🙂
This guy is much better off reviewing Nikon.
Nikon fanboys are always much better off reviewing Nikon.
Kai should do other lens review instead of this one .
Where is the 75mm review fr Kai ?
The latest macro lens fr Oly ?
Yes , I agree with Kai on his final word in the review ,
“The performance of the lens doesn’t matter as it just a body cap ” .
Anyway i hope also Kai take a look on 17mm F1.8 soon.
Will be nice use this in streets in Hong Kong.
Robin Wong and Ming Thein posted two nice reviews of Zuiko17mm f1.8. By “nice” I mean that they showed how the lens performs taking well composed and suggestive photos. That’s what lead me to the decision of getting it and I’m using it a lot lately, since I love the 35mm FOV
I’d love to see those “suggestive” photos.
Google their name and you can find the photos in their blogs.
Too much work.
Also Steve Huff hadd a posting, he test E-M5 by 17mm F 1.8 and Sony RX1, so i look is FOV close to a 30mm.
LOL i mean not FOV but DOF, 😉
I thought you used the wrong word. Of course depth of field is different, but field of view is the same (well, 17.5mm is the same).
It’s a quite Sunday
This should be, “It’s a quiet Sunday.”
relax mate, just appreciate how good Ale’s English is rather than nitpick at the spelling mistakes.
Of coarse, I half noe problam braking owt the crypto key!
I still say it would make more sense to get the Pana 14mm or Oly 17mm instead of this “lens”.
i didnt realize kais opinion was so very important to some people!
I don’t see the video image and thus can’t get the link either.
you probably use an ipad 😉
Nope, I used my desktop Mac. I don’t have an iphone, ipad, isad, ifart etc. The video in the newer post shows up fine.
Are you sure he knows how to use one. He usually just swings them around and crouches down and points them, then returns to gabfest.
What the? The above Pei isn’t me
theres a moron going around doing it. I dont think theres anything the admin can do
Pretty soon we all need to log in before post.
Pretty soon we all have to log in before post