This Weird Lens is NOT a Lens (but it's a Lens)

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If you are interested, the project is in it's crowdfunding stage and the lenses are available for $219.

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[jmoyet]

Kinda just looks like an out of focus mess rather than a "vintage look".

[ZhuYuan]

You can afford a super sharp lens on that price.

[Xombie]

As a photographer that loves lomography and pinhole lenses, I would love to have it, but no way would I spend nearly $500 on it. I could see $50 or so, but at $500 they can keep it.

[alchemist_x]

ngl I'm embarrassed to say I spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to wipe that chunk of dirt in the promo video off my screen before I realized it was actually IN the video. That said, as a pixel peeper who chases sharpness... yeah, this lens isn't for me at any price point, let alone the better part of $500. If I wanted pinhole, I'd just poke a hole in a front body cap for free.

[mhaustria]

It would be interesting to hear where the price point comes from. Did you have a chance to ask them? Otherwise I agree 100% with you! I think this could be easily 3d printed and upgraded with a metal pinhole insert -> Thingverse has some ready to download...

[TSGEnt]

Thanks for this. A hole in tinfoil put on my extension tube (no lens of course) produces the same type of image. The bonus is, I didn't spend $430 to do it!
Btw, you better look at cleaning your sensor. Yikes. 😉😆

[DaedalusYoung]

0:47 "The lens recreates the look of old photos..." The problem with that statement is that old photos did _not_ look like this. They're thinking about old film scans that were made for TV, interlaced and low resolution, that were later de-interlaced and upscaled.
You can compare, for example, Beatles music videos. Older videos come from analogue SD sources, while newer scans are rescanned in HD, if not higher resolution, from the original film negatives.
Old photos don't look like fuzzy pinhole photos, they're much crisper and richer in colour.

[Marma]

That’s a very honest review, and the result was to be expected. Thank you Mathieu for the video

[Biovirulent]

Agreed. Nearly a pointless lens, the c mount lenses can be stopped down to a pinhole/slit and are a small fraction of the price, despite having more uses, made of metal and having glass

[lanolinlight]

The thing I hate about the hipster vintage lens/ retro craze is its simplistic mindset about "old photographs." The crude idea is "old" = soft, muted, grainy, dreamy. It's a condescending, unimaginative way to view the past, images and tech. Yet that marketing approach is the only way something as silly as this pinhole lens could sell. It's for people who don't really look at images, just give a quick glance before applying a crude label--vintage, retro, awesome, epic, cinematic, etc...

[rockhills]

Asking them to go from $400 to $60 is a big jump 😆 you’d have a lot of pissed of backers. It’s why I’m hesitant to support crowd funding deals because I had something similar happen with an electronics product. I thought it was a good deal and then a short while after the kickstarter later it was sold on Amazon for almost for half off.

[maxmuenchow]

That is quite frankly hilarious. Thanks for taking an objective look

[smallrtech]

iit's crazy, 400+ $ is way too much, even a nifty fifty is cheaper! And you can get 5$ old school lenses that perform better and have real character on flea markets.

[housemusic]

I did have made my own 120 film pinhole cameras. And to do so, you need to make some calculation to get the best of both world in terms of sharpness and film covering.
My setup is pretty simple, and I use a 6X6 frame with 50mm focal length on 0.30mm hole. It is a little less sharp than 0.26 pinhole, but give no vignetting at all.
To my eye pinhole is only a good idea if you use at least medium format film. On full frame it is always blurry because of diffraction.

And for people who know how to build one, you can find easily laser drilled pinhole on the internet. Far better than hand drilled ones.

[refard]

J'en avais trop marre de recevoir des pubes pour ce kickstarter, mais je suis content d'enfin la voir en action!

[andresm]

is that dirt that ends up on the sensor? I was actually wondering how they kept the sensor chamber sealed, I guess they don't?

[MicaelWidell]

Haha I am happy I didn’t spend any time and effort reviewing this lens 😅 reminds me of the Holga dslr lens. Worst shooting experience ever.

[raynerhandrian]

I thought there was dust on my screen while watching this video

[jc.baptiste]

It's like "green washing" applied to photography : "vintage washing". Looks like the "vintage" terms is just beeing used to sell very poor quality, basic design.

[sharpvidtube]

I used to use 10x8 inch paper for pinhole photography. Medium format film was good too. Tiny digital sensors are too small. The Pinwide was the best I tried, as it pushed the pinhole nearer the sensor. Should forget the normal rules of photography with pinhole, be more experimental, get very close to your subject, but have something interesting in the distance, they will both be in focus.