JonathanF2
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My daughter's favorite lens is the Olympus 9mm f/8 BCL. She usually records videos and takes photos with it. It's a simple and straight forward pancake lens. Since I don't shoot M43 anymore, I figure I should migrate her camera to Sony!
I recently picked up a cheap minty used Sony NEX-5T body (had only 60 clicks) for my daughter mainly to use with my Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL (with an M43 to E-mount adapter) and as an APS-C back-up to my A7III bodies. Also the other reason I went with the NEX-5T was due to picking up the OEM pink Sony case for like $3.50 USD on Amazon Prime!
It gives it that extra cute factor!
Regarding the Olympus 9mm BCL, the image circle is a bit smaller than an APS-C sized sensor. If shooting JPEG, you can use the clear zoom and just shoot it at 1.2x crop which cuts away the corners, but still leaves a wider FOV than on an M43 sensor. Shooting raw, you can either just compose with vignetted corners or shoot in 16:9, either way the raw data will include the un-cropped image. Once using your raw editor of choice, I found a 117% image scale sufficient enough to crop out the corners. You loose some image data, but on the plus side I created a preset for de-fishing using the Samyang 7.5mm f/3.5 Fisheye de-fish lens profile correction. With the scale plus de-fish you have more leeway to straighten/compose the image than you would with an actual M43 4:3 raw file! You'd probably be better off with a 24mp APS-C body, but those cost a bit more!
Olympus makes some great lenses, if they had gone FF I'd rather be shooting with their cameras instead of Sony!
Here's how it looks on-camera:
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
A few image samples:
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
Image samples de-fished:
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
I recently picked up a cheap minty used Sony NEX-5T body (had only 60 clicks) for my daughter mainly to use with my Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL (with an M43 to E-mount adapter) and as an APS-C back-up to my A7III bodies. Also the other reason I went with the NEX-5T was due to picking up the OEM pink Sony case for like $3.50 USD on Amazon Prime!
It gives it that extra cute factor!Regarding the Olympus 9mm BCL, the image circle is a bit smaller than an APS-C sized sensor. If shooting JPEG, you can use the clear zoom and just shoot it at 1.2x crop which cuts away the corners, but still leaves a wider FOV than on an M43 sensor. Shooting raw, you can either just compose with vignetted corners or shoot in 16:9, either way the raw data will include the un-cropped image. Once using your raw editor of choice, I found a 117% image scale sufficient enough to crop out the corners. You loose some image data, but on the plus side I created a preset for de-fishing using the Samyang 7.5mm f/3.5 Fisheye de-fish lens profile correction. With the scale plus de-fish you have more leeway to straighten/compose the image than you would with an actual M43 4:3 raw file! You'd probably be better off with a 24mp APS-C body, but those cost a bit more!
Olympus makes some great lenses, if they had gone FF I'd rather be shooting with their cameras instead of Sony!
Here's how it looks on-camera:
NIKON D750
50.0 mm f/1.8
50mm
f/7.1
1/125s
ISO 400
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
A few image samples:
NEX-5T
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1/500s
ISO 100
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
NEX-5T
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1/200s
ISO 100
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
NEX-5T
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1/250s
ISO 100
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
NEX-5T
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1/250s
ISO 100
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
Image samples de-fished:
NEX-5T
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1/320s
ISO 100
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
NEX-5T
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1/60s
ISO 125
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
NEX-5T
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1/60s
ISO 125
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
NEX-5T
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1/60s
ISO 125
Sample images taken with the Sony NEX-5T + Olympus 9mm f/8 Body Cap Lens BCL + M43 to E-mount adapter by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
