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The two body-cap lenses from Olympus are delightful ... small, good rendering, and a pleasure to work with. I have both of them and have used them quite a lot, particularly when I had the E-PL7 body. Your photos look very good, what were you using to defish the 9mm?Last week I read an article about the Olympus Body Cap / Fisheye 9 mm f8, a very cheap lens (less than 100 € here in the area) that when defished is somewhere equivalent to a 7 mm rectalinear on M4/3. Defishing works very well with the Sigma fisheye 10/2.8 set at 110% distortion. Then cropping square so the fuzzy corners are cut off and you've got a real poor man's digital SWC, or even a bit wider.
So rather than the > 600 € Laowa I decided to get this "el cheapo" lens for my EP-3 and try it out. If it doesn't work out it's an expensive body cap, but if it does give reasonable results it comes in an extremely light and portable package that I might take along more often.
Here's the first results, while cycling through Eindhoven from the shop to the parking garage where I dropped off the car.
You all be the judge if it's passing muster.
1: The river Dommel, in the background the city brewery
2: "Party Factory, 151 shots"
Btw, I don't think it's the type of shots we talk about on this forum :lecture:
3: Canopy
4: Scary mural
I used a bit heavy handed B&W conversion, which fitted the scenes I thought.
Thanks Godfrey, I have no doubt the technical quality of these images are way below what could be achieved with quality Hasselblad equipment (either digital or film) but that's indeed not the point, these are just for my own pleasure and sharing here so I agree "what the heck". Next Time I'll get the other body cap lens as well and see how I like that on my EP-3The two body-cap lenses from Olympus are delightful ... small, good rendering, and a pleasure to work with. I have both of them and have used them quite a lot, particularly when I had the E-PL7 body. Your photos look very good, what were you using to defish the 9mm?
Comparing imaging quality with the SWC using these small JPEGs isn't really a very useful comparison and the shooting options available given the small 13x13 mm sensor area are limited in much the same way as the Voigtländer 10mm shooting options on APS-C are ... But what the heck? Make great photos and fugettabout it. And save a bunch of money in the process! Can't complain about that!
I love the wide square meme, how you get there is really just an implementation detail!
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Indeed! Very liberating and fun! Nice work!I put my Pany 7-14 on the Pen-f, set it to 9mm and went for a walk by the river Wear this morning. Very liberating tbh, just set hyperfocal for most shots and go....
(oh and the Pen has square framelines!).
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You're making superb use of that little lens..Lobby of the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
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The truth?
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Both Olympus EP-3 + bodycap 9/8 fisheye, defished
Agree.You're making superb use of that little lens..
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