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Definitely worth visiting at 50 bucks. Find your inner lomographer

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2018

This lens is far from perfect, but that's what makes it fun to use. What it gives you is a sharp center (a bit soft wide open), vignetted corners, and a great swirled bokeh that gives your images a surreal look. Think of it as a cheap Lensbaby or Lomo type that you use to get a retro imperfect look. It is a lens for experimenting with for an interesting look and feel, not a lens for a sharp, perfect rendition of what you see in front of you.

The lens is fully manual and pretty easy to use. One ring changes the aperture and one focuses the lens. You will need to be shooting in aperture priority or manual mode on your camera. I did find if you try to focus to far in one direction that you will start unscrewing the lens from the mount. This only happened for me the first couple of times I tried to use it and then wasn't an issue after I got use to how the lens worked.

So now the bad, chromatic aberration. The lens does suffer from chromatic aberration in bright light situations. I did notice purple fringing on some of my images.

At the price the other reviewers paid for the lens, I'd be a bit unhappy to, but at 50 bucks I see it as a fun lens that is pretty cheap.

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Kyle

Rip-off, rebranded C-Mount lens

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2014

This is what's called a C-Mount (or Cine Mount) lens, with an adapter plate that allows it to be used on Micro 4/3rds cameras. You can buy them for about $20-$30, such as this one from Rainbow Imaging http://www.amazon.com/RainbowImaging-Adapter-camera-Panasonic-Olympus/dp/B004WIMB9E/.

This is an attempt to rebrand and remarket them as "toy" or lomography lenses, and sell them at a massive mark-up.

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Chucktorious

Great, inexpensive lens!

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2022

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You can get the effect from this lens that you would pay far more for with a Lensbaby twist. Works better on Micro four thirds as well with getting the twist effect. Definitely a cool lens to have for unique effect for landscapes, portraits and more!

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vivan a. greco

ripoff

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2014

Couldn't agree more! Be warned! This is one of my favorite lenses, and is great fun, but don't spend a hundred bucks for the words "toy lens" on the bezel. This is the best 25-30 bucks you can spend, but this is a ripoff.

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