One of the funnest things you can do with your Micro Four Thirds camera (whilst sober and wearing clothes, at least) is to stick weird lenses on the front. Thanks to the mirrorless design, lenses from other cameras usually need to be held rather far forward, leaving plenty of space for adapters.
This opens up a whole world of retro lens experiments, but these adapters can drop (and in my case have dropped) the lens. Enter the Lo-fi Micro 4/3 Camera Lens from Photojojo.
The plastic-fantastic objective (the lens itself is glass) costs just $90, and fits right onto your Micro Four Thirds body, no adapter required (or rather “custom adapter included”). The focal length is 25mm (50mm equivalent), the manual ring will focus it down to 30cm (about a foot) and the apertures run from ƒ1.4 to ƒ16.
Yes, ƒ1.4. This, along with the odd color shifts and vignetting, is probably the main draw of the lens. Not only does it mean great low-light shooting (ƒ1.4 lets in double the light of ƒ1.8), it also gives super-shallow depth-of-field. and that means sharp subjects and very blurry backgrounds.
I might just get me one of these. Along with the Pinwide wide-angle pinhole, I’d have pretty much all my grunge photography needs covered.
Lo-fi Micro 4/3 Camera Lens [Photojojo]
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