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Review on πŸ” 7artisans 7.5mm F2.8 II V2.0 Fisheye Lens: Wide 190Β° Angle of View for Olympus & Panasonic MFT M4/3 Mount Cameras by Joseph Montes

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great lens for the price!

I've only had a little time to play around with the lens but so far it's working quite well, especially for the price. The lens feels solid, the focus and aperture rings are very smooth, and the resulting images are far better than I expected for the price. This is definitely a great toy lens and it has good projection on the MFT sensor with not too much vignetting and absolutely no image cropping. The aperture ring is smooth - no stops at fixed aperture points. However, it is very convenient for video recording! There's no autofocus, but unless you're shooting close-ups you don't really need it as the Fisheye lets you set the lens to infinity. If you're doing serious indoor architectural photography or the like, I think this is a great option for a toy lens and a great addition to your lens collection as it's much wider than standard 12mm or 14mm+ zoom lenses. With a small post-correction for the expected barrel distortion, the pictures are simply great! I wish the lens had calibrations in the LensFun database for programs like ACDSee to automatically correct for distortion - then that would be perfect! I can send you some pictures to calibrate. Here are some photos taken with my Panasonic G6 with lens. I've included the uncorrected/edited versions so you can see the difference and potential with a little post correction.

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