Today I'm taking a look at the 7artisans 18 millimeter f/6.3 fixed aperture fixed focus lens.
It's basically a body cap lens like the Olympus ones. But the Olympus ones have focus. This one
does not. And it's on the EF-M system so I've got the M5 right here. You can see very very compact
especially the low profile. The build quality is metal the actual mount and it also has this little
plastic thing adhesived onto the front that has information like the aperture and focal length.
On mine it's not perfectly centered. The lens should be very simple to use. There's not much
to it. You've got your aperture which is fixed. So you're just gonna do iso and shutter speed...
Put better gloves on. It's a little brisk. This definitely doesn't have the same minimum
quality focus as a action camera for sure.
I'm thinking this is going to be nice for going into the city.
Of course my style is more so closer up stuff. See my action camera set up.
Actually really enjoy the simplicity of this. So all I'm doing is adjusting the shutter speed.
So you can see from here all the way up to there what is going to be decently in focus.
Just how lenses work. It's not going to be perfectly in focus. It's going to fade in to..
you know.. what you consider acceptably sharp. All I'm doing here is adjusting the shutter speed
as I need to get the histogram looking decent.
When I was using this with an M50 for video I didn't
have peeking on. So that might have helped out...
Oh wow there is a huge amount of vignetting.
Got some nice reflections here. Okay, I'm in a second area. Heavy reflections...
Something like this would be really nice on the M100.. M200..
type camera. Some of the older ones. So you don't need to care about focus.
And it's super super compact. I sold my M100 a while back so I'm kind of sad about that.
(giggles) totally bomb-ed that one! I do really enjoy the simplicity of this,
but there are a lot of drawbacks. Maybe if they did have some type of little switch on here
to shift the lens groups or something. Make it more versatile.
Definitely has somewhat limited use here.
When the sun hits the side of this lens you get weird weird stuff.
Let's take that iso back down...
A limited latitude at f/6.3...
Some things for the convenience and the small size.
With the lens like this nothing you do will change the vignetting because you can't
adjust the aperture. With this lens you're gonna have to like what you get straight up.
Trying to utilize the lines, the shadows on the ground.
Oh wow, that... is it low quality glass what's going on here?
I literally can't take a photo in that direction.
Didn't quite work out as I planned, but we got some photos out of it!