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13.3.2016

Video experience with the Olympus 9mm fisheye and Panasonic GH4.I bought this (incredibly) cheap lens for video work with a GH4 in 4K so this review concerns itself with that.4K mode on the GH4 crops the sensor by a factor of about 2x; a 9mm becomes an 18mm in 35mm terms so it makes sense to go wide as you can on a micro four thirds camera.There has to be some adjustments first. You will be shooting manually (no electronic connections to the camera) You can connect direct to camera, no adaptor needed. You have to select "shoot without lens" in the cameras menu and shutter is fixed at f8 (more on that later). Focus is via a lever that the front that at various stops first opens the lens hood then allows you to focus close to infinity.With peaking assist on (those blue highlight that let you know it's in focus) you can adjust the lever on the fly and it's very easy to keep sharp (just remember not to get your fingers in shot!) Talking sharpness this lens is pin sharp for the most part. In photos you will note some slight softening towards the corners and some CA in contrasting areas (branches of trees against white) but on video these are hardly noticable. If you shot in 4K and downsize to 1080p these effects pretty much disappear. The barrel distortion is typical of a fisheye and I quite like the effect but I've found I could defish the footage in Photoshop with minimal fuss (expect HUGE rending times at 4K!)The main worry was the f8.0 f stop. Outside no problem but indoors and in low lighting I found I had to crank the ISO up to 1600/3200 (whilst shooting 1/60 sec) There is noticable noise at these speeds, however, this can be again reduced to almost nothing when shooting in 4K and downsizing to 1080p. The sharpness of the lens means you can also crop the 4K footage to 1080p for closer shots and still have very sharp usable footage. In bright conditions this lens is fantastic with no problematic flare (although I quite like a bit of lens flare in video)I was thinking this was going to be a filler lens for shoots my 12-40mm Olympus Zuiko pro lens couldn't manage but now I'm excited to get more footage with this lens. It's so small and light it makes the whole camera easier to use and the new perspective it offers feels more epic and cinematic, especially if you add some black bars top and bottom!For the price- a fantastic lens and a great one for creative shots and home movie blockbusters! ;)
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8.12.2018

This is a review of the 9mm f8 body cap lens. Small, light, cheap, easy to slip into the gear bag? Yes to all of them. I also have the 7.5mm Samyang fish-eye, and the Olympus 15mm body-cap lens. So I have some frame of reference.The 15mm body-cap lens is very good and I recommend it. As we all know. micro 4/3 focal lengths have to be doubled to get the 35mm equivalents. So the 15mm body cap lens is equivalent to 30mm - almost a wide angle. Minimal distortion, and I use it for fireworks shots.The new 9mm is very similar in operation. No filter mount - no need for a filter. No removable cap - no need for a removable cap. The glass area is small, so the chance for harm is small. Focusing is manual,but difficult to get wrong in view of the natural depth of field from an f8 lens with fixed f8 aperture (if you are in doubt, the hyperfocal is one click past the infinity setting). The pictures are good with some of the classic fish-eye distortion of verticals (see my photo attached). And when you use a fish eye, that is what you are looking for.My 7.5mm Samyang does distort more than the Olympus 9mm. And the Samyang feels nicer to use - but at the end of the day. the Samyang costs more and is heavier - so there is a greater chance that you will be carrying the 9mm rather than a larger lens.Fish eye lenses should be used sparingly - or else the effect gets boring. On this basis, it makes sense not to overspend on the fish-eye. And on that basis, if you have a micro 4/3 body, then the Olympus 9mm will be a good addition to your kit bag. Recommended.
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6.7.2016

I bought this to use as a "always with me" superwide lens - it isn't a true fisheye, more a normal lens with lots of barrel distortion. After some initial disappointment (more on this later) I'm now happy, it actually performs in some ways better than the expensive 9-18 that I had tried and rejected for its poor edge performance.My first copy of the 9mm was very disappointing, with poor edges and the whole right side was blurry and "smeared", clearly bad QA. I ordered a replacement and this was fine, so it's always worth checking :-)I already had a "proper" fisheye - the superb Samyang 7.5/3.5 - but it's not a lens I'd carry "just in case".The Olympus 9mm "semi-fisheye" is not in the same class as the Samyang but is so small and light I can always have it with me, and the best lens is always the one you have with you, not the one you left at home.The rest has already been said - very sharp in the centre, much softer at the edges. I'll add that the light falloff (darkening) of the corners is far less than I expected which surprised me, and the colour rendering is really good. It can be corrected in software to produce rectilinear images if you want, but the corners suffer in the process so probably best to keep the distortion or accept that you'll need crop the edges after "defishing".All in all a decent little lens - so long as you get a good one.
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18.2.2016

I researched this pancake lens for a long time before finally biting the bullet on the item. It wasn’t the price that was the issue (as this is incredibly cheap by lens standards), but rather that it seemed almost too good, and there was also supposedly better quality pancake lenses available at around the £200 mark.However, I’m really glad I went for this. I took it out in the countryside at the weekend and despite its limitations (fixed f-stop and the fact that it doesn’t ‘talk’ to the camera as such), this is a really great ultra-wide angle lens.If you shoot with the horizon in the middle of the image,it is difficult to tell that this is a fish eye lens and requires no amendments in post to ‘de-fish’.I used this lens in twilight for a time-lapse sequence and the footage came out great.It’s not ground breaking, but to achieve great wide angle shots you can’t go wrong with this. It’s absolutely tiny, easy to use, and totally affordable.When shooting in my GH4’s 4K mode this shoots like a premium lens.Obviously it doesn’t handle well in low-light, so you can forget it for filming at night-time, but for long exposures at night and daylight photos, you cannot go wrong here.Another great lens from Olympus.
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7.11.2017

An invaluable addition to every camera bag. This is clearly never going to outperform many of the much bigger 'proper' lenses out there, but for many uses it is 'good enough'.One recent occasion where it saved me a trip was when I had to photograph the base of an external wall as evidence of its condition. What I hadn't realised was that there was no space to do it with any of my regular lenses in my bag, setting this on minimum distance I was able to get an overlapping series of images that did the job perfectly, everything was curved, but we could live with that.For regular use make sure that your camera is level and it will capture pretty good wide angle images. Focussing is a non-problem apart from close-ups.For in-body IS make sure you set a suitable focal length manually, or turn it off.I have come across one example that seemed to have a focussing issue, but it was a bit battered by the time I tried it, so probably not a good idea to play catch with it.At this price it is a no brainer.One word of caution, dismantling one is not a good idea, these things are far more intricate than you might think. (I was playing with a scrap one thankfully).
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19.10.2017

Before purchase I checked out many reviews. Nearly all were okay/good mostly in favour one way or another. However, they didn't mentioned details and opinions that I now see and have.Comes in a regular blue & white Olympus box with the lens in a bubble bag complete with a rear cap (important) and very brief instructions. There's an extended 6 months warranty offer which includes a good monthly on-line Olympus magazine which I already have for my OM-D E-M102 (love it).So everything was very Olympus, a good thing.Although very light it doesn't feel flimsy with a proper click on and opening. I took one or two using snaps the camera's art filters and they were great fun....GREAT FUN,now that sums up this little piece of magic so I thoroughly recommend it.Most reviews were quite clear that to get good sharp images you need good lighting or preferably a nice bright sunny day. If the Sun does shine and things don’t go to plan I’ll be back to edit my opinion.Okay a proper fisheye lens might give better results but they are too big and too heavy for my liking. Minimum bulk is always my aim with photography and the less weight and size I carry the better.
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15.11.2016

If your expecting tack sharp corner to corner images, look elsewhere. If your buying this as a fun lens or even as a lens to use for landscapes and you're not expecting the world, I'd say, just buy it.It's ultra small and light, the build quality is nowhere near as bad as you would expect for the price and this thing is way sharper than it has any right to be. Sure the corners are a little soft but the centre of the image is very good, the images are perfectly usable for putting online, which lets be honest is where most photographs end up these days, or just viewed on a tablet/laptop screen.You simply cannot get wider without paying many times what this costs. Sure it's manual focus but don't let this put you off,there are 3 settings for the focus, closest focus, hyperfocal distance, and infinity. I would say, unless you need something close to the lens to be in focus just leave it at it's hyperfocal setting, it's field of view is so wide along with it's fixed f/8.0 aperture, everything will be in focus anyway.Is it the world's best lens? No, of course not. I prefer to think of it as the world's best body cap!
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10.4.2014

Not had this for very long and only taken about 30 pictures, half inside, half outside.I read a few internet reviews before I bought the lens so I new what to expect. If you are hyper critical and value image quality over all other considerations, it is best if you avoid this lens.However, I really like the lens. Because I do not print very large images the image quality is acceptable. If anything, better than I expected from reading the reviews.The huge benefit of the lens is that it is tiny and the incredibly basic focusing (only four positions, one being closed) means that for most shots there is no need to worry at all about focusing because of the large depth of field.Just set the lens focus lever to what I call normal, and then forget about it until you want to take a picture of something very close (.2m if I remember correctly).The lens is manual and your will need to find your way through the cameras menu to allow the camera to take a picture "without a lens".I have used it with a Lumix GF3 and the combination results in a very small camera that will slip inside a coat pocket.
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19.1.2015

I bought this for my Panasonic GX7. It works very well, and gives some fun, distorted Lomo-esque results.Just one thing with the GX7: there's no data communication between the lens and the camera, so you have to set the focal length manually in the Stabiliser menu. But there's no way of setting the focal length to exactly 9mm - the choice is between 8mm and 10 mm. In the short time I've have the lens I can't see any difference between the two, and I'm not sure if pictures would be any crisper if there were a 9mm option. You also have to switch on Shoot Without Lens in the custom settings.Also, as others have mentioned, remember that you also have to set the focus manually on the lens itself.I find the focus adjuster quite light - it could do with a bit more of a positive click between close, distant and infinity.Looking forward to experimenting with it a bit more.Having done a bit more experimenting, I'd say it's an ultra-wide rather than a fisheye. Still fun though.
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13.9.2016

This lens falls into the ultra-wide angle/fisheye region. So distortion at the image edges is to be expected, and in a way is kind of the point with the lens. Images can be de-fisheyed using Photoshop or Lightroom, but that takes away the charm of the lens. Images are quite sharp, certainly acceptably so, and the lens behaves itself very well. Neither Camera Raw or Lightroom have a built-in lens profile for this lens (unlike all the other micro 4/3 lenses which are handled automatically) but there is a profile available if you use Adobe's lens profile downloader, which is an added bit of complexity. The profile isn't particularly good either. I find it's easiest to accept the very noticable distortions and regard them as an artistic feature.If you're looking for a conventional ultra-wide lens with full correction of barrel distortion then this isn't the one for you, but if you want perfectly usable distinctive fisheye images then this does the job very well indeed.
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24.4.2019

I have been a happy Olympus OM-D user for a number of years now, and continue to love the user experience and image quality. One lens missing from my kit is a fisheye and after testing, I was ready to go ahead and buy the 8mm f1.8 PRO. Thinking about how often I would really need such a specialist lens, and after reading alot of product reviews thought I would give this 9mm Body Cap a go. I am not disappointed, its easy to use and image quality is okay; at f8 you will need a bright sunny day to get the best results but at this price, its fantastic!Yes if you want the fisheye look for professional work, then you absolutely should get the 8mm PRO, because the image quality is stunning.If you want to take the occassional photo where the fisheye can help capture the scene in the way you want, then I would highly recommend this 9mm Body Cap Lens.
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5.4.2018

After reading many reviews, I wasn't expecting much from this lens, however the results are actually pretty good.Used it for the first time at a wedding, takes a bit of fiddling round to get the exposure right, but the results are pretty good. Ok, it's not pin-sharp around the edges and as you would expect, there is a fair bit of distortion.For me, the lens was about being able to pop my Panasonic GX1 in my pocket and take it anywhere.Just one thing to note, if your camera uses electronic aperture controls (like the GX1), you cannot use aperture priority to preset camera to f8, it simply will not allow aperture.to be set. Instead, use shutter priority and set to 125 and adjust as needed.You may also need to set your camera to shoot without lens as it will not detect the lens.All in all, a great, cheap, fun lens!Read full review...
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6.1.2015

A great value lens, really functional. I agree with N.Cannon who says it is great when you get the setting right, and you do need to be mindful of this, it is almost like a throwback to the old days of fixed focus lenses, as the small lever that controls the lens cover also controls focus from close up (22cm), mid distance & infinity. I didn't realise this for the first few days & was almost at the point of returning it when I picked up the handbook & realised my error. Simple fix, just read the handbook! I'm using with a PEN ELP7 but it does not fit my Four Thirds E500 DSLR, this lens is Micro Four Thirds only. Not a big problem, the PEN has a lot of advantages,my E500 might be on its way out soon....
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4.10.2014

Surprising quality if you get your settings right.Don't get me wrong,this isn't going to give you the stunning shots a fully fledged fish-eye would from say Samyang (other lens producers are available) but it is more than a Lomo-esque toy lens, with real glass elements, you can, with enough light ( it's F8) get pretty decent results! And it's a great deal of fun, simple to use with just a few settings.The price is a great selling point, as is it's size, slightly larger than a lens cap, if after wetting your appetite with this, you can then upgrade to a fully fledged fish-eye, still, this is a load of fun and a decent introduction to the world of fish-eye lenses

16.4.2017

Just bought this little gem from Park Cameras who price matched Amazon @ £82.99. I have it on an EM10 mk2, and having only owned it for a couple of days I'm so far very impressed, in fact I wish I had bought it ages ago! Makes photography super fun and you find yourself getting really creative. Quality is OK. If they made a metal version with a slightly more positive sliding lens cover I'd buy it. I've not found I have to adjust any settings on the camera, just slide straight on. I still have the more expensive 17mm Prime too but I think at the moment this 9mm will be my weapon of choice! Buy it!!

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