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By John Matthews · Posted
I'm expecting some of this older Chinese glass to not be up to the crazy sharpness of the newer glass. For wide lenses, it's rather tricky with this camera. Sure, you could get the Laowa 6 or 7.5mm, but at that point, you might as well get another GoPro Mission 1 Pro, offering a second setup that is waterproof, etc. That's why I'm going more for the cheap stuff. I'll see this weekend if I can live with the softness of the 17mm f/1.4. Personally, I don't need the 1.4 unless in a pinch, but I'm secretly hoping that this lens can decently resolve 4k at 1.4 in the middle sweet spot of the lens. Anyway, I already have the S9 with the Laowa 28mm f/1.2 (my favorite lens of all-time). Two days ago, I was able to film a hedgehog eating at f/1.2 and 12000 ISO- the footage was so clean. Will do this weekend. Super-busy right now with teaching high-schoolers English though. :-) I'm really stoked about having smaller setups. Panasonic used to give us that in the past, but I think they've moved on; then they'll realize that had it right to begin with but it's too late (always late to the party). The whole setup with the 10, 17, and 25 with the body will be about 750g- that matters, especially considering the frame rates, codecs, and battery life. -
Yes, and I think that the right situation for it is the combination of when you want a small camera and you want to shoot impromptu things. If you're shooting in controlled environments then a larger camera probably makes more sense, which was sort-of my point, and probably not explained that well. I agree about it being a new category, it sort of feels like that to me in a way too. Cameras are all about combinations of features, and this one has some feature combinations that haven't really come together before. I can recommend the Laowa 7.5mm F2, it's really sharp, but not cheap. It's probably not the right choice now as there have been wider lenses brought out in recent times, but as a reference the Laowa is a great performer. I suspect that we're probably better off without it having AF. I suspect that (in the parallel universe where they did give it AF) the AF they gave it would have been pretty rubbish and also because it got AF it probably wouldn't have gotten any/many good MF features, so neither pathway would have been particularly useful. Back in the days before PDAF subject detection was really a thing I remember spending quite a lot of time half-hitting the shutter and then asking the camera "why did you focus on the background?!?!?". The problem then, as well as the problem now, is that when there are multiple things to focus on, the robots are choosing which one and often falling on their faces. I shoot MFT at F5.6 and at F2.5 on PDAF and CDAF models and it's great and focuses incredibly fast all the time, but only because either the DOF is so large that everything is in focus or I'm simply focusing on on the middle of the image. I have the TTartisans 17/1.4 and it's small and light and cheap, but wide open it's more of a "character lens" rather than a sharp one. It's good for emulating the softness of film in-camera, if you know what I mean! I also have the 50mm 1.2 and it's a bit better than the 17mm IMHO, but neither of them are high-end glass. Share some images with us if you're able! -
By John Matthews · Posted
After looking and foraging my various drawers in the house, I was able to find 3 Bell & Howell lenses from my grandfather: 0.7 inch, 1 inch, and 4 inch lenses. This was standard war-time military issue for war journalists. I also found 3 plastic Lomography lenses: I have ordered some inexpensive Chinese lenses too: 7Artisans 10mm f/3.5, TTartisan 17mmf/1.4, and TTartisan 25mm f2- a holy trinity for about 350 euros. From what I've heard, these lenses all suffer from poor corner performance; however, I'm throwing away 45% of that APS-C image anyway and only keeping the sharpest part. I figure those will be a perfect size too with the total kit under 1kg. I considered the Laowa cine lenses, but decided that they were simply too pricey for the concept of this kit. I'm bummed about not being able to use my AF M43 glass, but I love the limitations of straight up manual focus. I'll be shooting a lot with the 17mm this weekend. -
Maybe a few of you may find this useless but, sounds to me as some unique piece of gear, designed by origin, powered for casual shooter, a real pocket tele in fact: -
I replaced the button battery, and it looks like it's fixed. I took the main battery out for half an hour, put it back, and the date & time & settings were not lost.
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