one day, one camera, one lens
Sunday afternoon we headed off to the beach with Kyle's new birthday present - a White's metal detector. For this outing, I chose to bring only one camera and one lens. This is a foreign concept for me since I tend to drag my entire arsenal of gear with me and never use it all. My husband actually laughed at me and said I looked like I was leaving my babies home alone.
So here starts my "journey of enlightenment"... lightening up my load and spending more time with just one lens at a time.
The photos shown here are from the new Olympus 15mm f8.0 Body Cap Lens on the OM-D.
. While we didn't find any Spanish Doubloons, I did find a little treasure in this lens.
With no electrical contacts, this is a plastic body cap and lens in one. It simply has a lever that can be moved from infinity to 1'. While it is very similar to the results I have gotten with my Plastic Holga lens for Micro 4/3rds, I find the quality of the photos to be much better and the vignetting to be more subtle.
From www.getolympus.com:
Is It a Body Cap or a Lens? It’s Both. Olympus also introduces an intriguing new lens for its Micro Four Thirds line. The BCL-15mm f8.0 Body Cap Lens serves as a body cap when carrying the camera around without its interchangeable lens, and transforms to become a pan-focus snapshot lens to capture images. The lens is so thin – just 9mm thick – that it can easily be mistaken for a camera-mount body cap. With three glass lens elements in three groups, it can be used as a wide-angle lens equivalent with a single focal length of 30mm (35mm camera equivalent). In addition to daily use as a “pan-focus” lens featuring a wide angle, fixed f8 aperture and deep depth of field, it is compatible with manual focusing using a lever and capable of close-up shooting as close as 30 cm. A lens-protection barrier is provided so the lens can be mounted permanently on the camera and even put in a pocket together with the camera.
For $49. It's a fun little lens to add to your collection.
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