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7Artisans 18mm UFO Lens

Started Feb 25, 2021 | Discussions thread
23speaker23 Contributing Member • Posts: 557
Re: 7Artisans 18mm UFO Lens

istscott wrote:

23speaker23 wrote:

istscott wrote:

1gregory1 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKcAZrDMgHE-- review

That video is with extension tubes. It's actually pretty decent in that context. I also have a video with normal landscape photos. The vignetting is... rough.

https://youtu.be/3LalrrQmHw8

I haven't attempted to use this in a city setting. It might be okay, but the vignetting is so extreme that I think it's got to be a thing the photographer really really likes the look of to consider this lens. The same is true for the Rockstar 10mm, but that has a bit more versatility because it can focus.

Pergear has a similar lens that was recently released. It appears to do better with vignetting (from the videos I've seen), but they don't offer it in EF-M.

This stil does not answer why.

The simplicity and size... 22/2 is not that bigger nor more complicated.

Honestly... why would you bother buying and carrying an ILC with this lens as compared to a phone?

I bought the two bodycap lenses because they looked interesting. I had seen the Olympus m4/3rds ones and was curious.

Who lives in a world of complete functional justification? I don't care much about absolute resolution even though these cap lenses do a decent job there. Phone ergonomics are a joke even if I still use one for photos occasionally. I already have a 22mm. It's fine, though the thickness difference is noticable, especially if I still had an m100 series camera (sold that off a while back, oops)

Okay... I get the 'was curious' part. I thought I was missing something on the functional side. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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