I’m pretty stoked or I’m a masochist (maybe both?) but I ordered the Yi M1 mirrorless camera. The price dropped to $350 and I had $100 in Amazon points.
Unlike @Isaac, I couldn’t manage to get a decent picture out of my Nexus 5x, so this is a carry-everywhere snapshot camera. I’m sure the Yi M1 will be more than up to the task of replacing my cellphone camera. I plan to slap a pancake lens on it so it’ll be quite portable!
It ships today and arrives next week, so I should have some sample RAW files for everyone to play with.
Nice! I will look forward to seeing the shots you get out of it. My “real” camera is also a M4/3, so it will be fun to talk lenses, etc. I just got the Olympus 9mm “body cap” fisheye as a super compact pancake lens for ultralight, ultra wide shots. Cheap too. Will be playing around with it, and figuring out how to “de-fish” it in DT or RT. My other pancake is the Olympus 14-42mm “ez” f3.5-5.6. It gets really small, and has pretty good autofocus and decent sharpness. Overall a fun pancake for travel and daily carry, if not the “best” optically. Enjoy the Yi M1 and please report back with pictures when you get it!
Yes, I saw the body cap fisheye, and I’m interested I’m that as well, but want to check the performance of the body before I put any more money into it! I’m open to any MFT lens recommendations, I was looking at the Olympus 19mm pancake.
Another option is to get a suitable adapter and use old manual lenses.
This is my current fancy and I have got M42 mount Carl Zeiss Jena MC pancolar 50mm f1.8 lens (44$) and ordered SMC Takumar 105mm f2.8 (52$) on eBay.
Putting the Zeiss Jena on Canon 6D, here are some of the early shots:
+1 for older lenses.
I use a pentacon 135mm 2.8 made in DDR and a Tokina 55mm 1.4.
Both are simply monsters.
Tokina is really sharp, while Pentacon has one of the best bokeh ever (15 blades)
To my knowledge Olympus doesn’t have a 19mm, maybe you meant the oly 17mm f2.8, 34mm equiv FL.
If don’t mind or you prefer a bit tigher and a bit more light ( well actually a full and a half stops) the pana 20mm f1.7 - first version - sells about same price, it’s the same size (pancake too) and it’s a very very nice little lens. Also no hood included. Sharp wide open and till ~3.2/3.5 circular bokeh ,-)
I agree with you, check if the new guy deserves a pair of nice shoes or just sandals
PD
If you need stabilization (i.e. video) and/or wider/more range, the pana 14-45 it’s not compact and Oslo not fast 3.5-5.6, but about same price and a good all arounder.
On the manual side if the camera’s good you can fit a nikkor (af) or an zuiko 24mm, if not so with a cheap minolta MD 24mm the sensor won’t get dust
And if goal number 1 is being cool - no matter what weight or price tag - and for hypsters to look at you with reverence, you go with the Minolta 21mm f/2.8 MC Rokkor-X and by all means the square (cinema) hood
Was waiting for your sample pictures! But the link you have included is not clickable. How to open the magnet link?
I tried copy/paste in a browser as well as utorrent client and it did not work.
just PM your mailing info and I’ll drop it in the mail for you.