mtcoothaman Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

I visited a motorbike exhibition at our Gallery of Modern Art to try out a recently purchased Olympus OMD-10-II (used ) and the Oly 15mm body cap lens. This lens is said to be the "worst ever "by DXO. Some of the pics were good but others not so, as I must have flipped the focus lever to the wrong setting.

The exhibition was great and some of the better shots are here.

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joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

They're pretty nice!

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

DXO failed to recognize that the lens is a very well corrected triplet lens - compared to the beginning triplets of photography. Come on now; what kind of over all quality does one expect from a simple triplet lens? It was never intended to totally replace any normal 15mm lenses. It is designed more towards the street photography using the larger bodies and as a "ready-to-shoot" body with lens lens cap ("f8 and be there"). It is designed as a fun lens just like the 9mm lens cap lens is. The really serious photography is done with the normal 15mm lens. Your body cap lens image quality will degrade as one goes further away from center. But as your photos show, it can still be a useful lens. A much better review of the lens and it's true purpose can be found at Image Resource. Although there is nothing wrong with the DXO's review, sometimes DXO only looks from the technical side, not a practical or fun side.

Ourspolair

The bikes you have featured are amazing! As for the lens - you are learning that it has some limitations, but it doesn't stop you from making some great images. Have fun! Thanks for sharing - please stay safe.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

One more note: Although the lens has focusing stops for zone focusing, it does truly manually focus throughout the full range.

mtcoothaman Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

The exhibition is drawn from all over the world and ranged from the old bikes I showed plus newer bikes, off road, custom bikes and even the Burt Munro bike that set the speed record in 1967 at Bonneville. I ran out of battery and could no target pics of all!

I was treating the lens as an experiment in fun and trying to see how it performs.

mtcoothaman Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

thanks

I have read many of the reviews and regard it as a fun item.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

You are using it the way it is to be used - a good quality fun lens. That is the way I use mine. For more serious stuff, I pull out the zoom lens. Of course, the zoom lens is not even close to the thin lens cap lens in size and weight. And I am still thinking about getting the 9mm lens cap lens too. It is not that expensive for an "f8 and be there" lens.

Abo

Cool work.

Seems the creator of the Minerva, never heard
the euphemism "A third wheel".

I think it would look great with just 2... I guess there are such examples... fortunately.

John from gpwmi Loc: Michigan

Interesting set of bikes, MTC. Gear seemed to work well on these.