My buddy works for the company that distributes these. They’re recycled Kodak dispo camera lenses that they put on 3D Printed Oreo cases. It’s pretty cute lol. Much better than those $50 overpriced “urn”? instagram lenses or whatever since it’s the same exact lens.
Tell your friend that if they could get them for APS-C I'd buy to use in place of a camera body cap. I've been drilling body caps to turn them into pinholes and using those as the body cap, this looks like it would be just as effective to protect the body but would also make for a halfway usable lens in a pinch if needing to take a picture before being able to mount a proper lens.
Yes but Chris is too busy playing up to his American viewers, like so many other British youtubers.... Crisis of identity or Chris's off identity, here.
this lens DOES NOT LOCK IN PLACE. however 5 minutes with a file/dremel/razorblade and you can make a little notch on the outer rim for the lens locking stud and it firmly stays in place with no light leaks :) I use this on my a6400 and with the built-in flash it is really fun to make disposable film photos
This lens is from a Fuji Quicksnap, and it is one of the best disposable lenses imo. The only issue with adapting them however is the distortion and corner resolution, as disposable cameras have a curved film back to negate some of the inherent image quality issues of the single element plastic lens. But it's all just a bit of vintage fun for cheap!
I love the Oreo lens, it's super fun to shoot! Got mine for 12€ from Aliexpress. They come in L39 and M-mount as well. And there's also a shorter APS-C version, 25mm with the back cookie removed.
Worth mentioning that these don't lock into your camera's mount. So once it's on you can just twist it out without using the release button. This of course means there's a risk it'll fall off.
You can 3D print an ‘Oreo’ style camera body cap for a bit of fun, think I got mine from Makerworld - again, nothing to do with the biscuit pepper but a bit of fun
I ripped out my own lens from a 35mm film camera and then designed and printed my own case for it. Cost me all of basically nothing and I'm getting some pretty stylized retro looking shots!
I made my own on the back of an RF body cap and its awesome! But, imo it only becomes awesome when you add a film preset to the images which basically gives you a disposable camera image (basically worth it just for the nostalgia ❤❤)
I had looked at this the other day. I was thinking it would be a good replacement for the standard body cap. That way the camera is always protected but you actually have a lens on in case you want to do a random snap while on the go.
Olympus made a bunch of these for their OM-D e-M10 series. Called 'bodycap lens' and came in 9mm fisheye and 15mm for around $75 with glass elements they gave good results.
I wonder if we could at least fix a little bit of the contrast by painting the inside with some musou black paint. Got a bottle laying around and it slightly increased the contrast of the already amazing Sony 135mm 1.8 GM. I painted on a piece of paper and wrapped the paper on the inside of the lens cap and it worked perfectly
@@jeroenvdw It's gonna be a bit more than €20 if it's coming from China and going to EU. You would be better off with looking for an old camera with this kind of lens - some cheap film compacts had fixed focus lenses - or use a donor old disposable camera and a body cap and make one yourself. Even a new disposable camera costs just €15 or less. About your 135/f1.8. The lens hood (or lens cap, how you call it) is suppose to block external light like the sun. It also stays out the view of your actual image. The light hitting the inside of the lens hood will not enter the actual lens. So it has close to zero impact on your contrast. Unless the inside of your lens hood is shiny naked metal or gold. Most are black or layered with a mat or non-reflective coating.
@ already ordered for 20 euros and about the lens hood idk, I tested before and after on a tripod with same lights and noticed a difference in contrast.
Depending on how tight it stays on the camera, seems like good fun to just keep it on instead of a regular body cap. Doesn't look like it protrudes too much to be a bother.
IMO when looking at the screen size the images looked surprisingly good. Of course any pixel beeping is out of the question. One should set the image resolution to the minimum.
It all sounds worse than it is. The lens is primarily used for people and leisure shots or street photography. In other words, for images in which you hardly need to retouch and where, with modern cameras, you ask yourself why you need so many pixels. I decided to export the images in a final size of 2400 x 1600 pixels, which is more than enough for a 10 x 15 cm print and then the optical errors and high ISO values are hardly significant anymore. They are still visible but that is the intended purpose to get the desired look. In contrast to a smartphone, you have the complete RAW process including AI denoising (e.g. with DxO PureRAW), freely adjustable ISO and freely adjustable exposure time. And if there is too little light, just use your flash! This gives the photos an additional snapshot aesthetic that can be used creatively. Outside in daylight, just set 1/125 second and ISO 200 and forget it. With flash indoors set it to 1/60 and ISO 800. On the SONY a5000 it feels like a toy and fits in every pocket.
it might be better once Adobe offer lens corrections though 😛, when you turned it around and saw the backside i thought it would be much worse than it actually was, not that i would use one if was given to me, as with the like of Jufifilm and Canon who ask for the items back, did these ask for it to be reutrned? 🙂
I made something like this a while back by gutting a Kodak disposable camera and drilling an appropriately-sized hole in a spare body cap. It's fun... for a bit, then quickly becomes old. I guess could get more out of it with a helicoid or something, but I never got around to it.
I have it in RF and I was disappointed. It seems like the R5 II refuses to activate the IBIS when no lens is registered. The center is even less sharp than it appears in tests.
If IBIS was activated with this "lens" on the body, your IBIS would be doing its thing if you only had a lens cap on. It's a lens cap in the shape of a cookie. With a tiny plastic lens in the middle.
Better get a vintage manual focus prime lens around the same focal length in my opinion. Quality is so poor you better off using the kit-lens and applying a lomography filter after!
I think this is a great little toy lens to play with......Question is does it have a USB-C connector for firmware updates and a tripod lens collar ? LOL Really enjoy your videos, Thank you
I prefer to buy old cameras that no longer work to try to remove their lenses without breaking them so that I can then glue them to an adapter that also serves to focus 😁
You're joking right? Never heard of an aperture? Or seen compact film cameras? Or heard of pinhole cameras where they use a needle to make a hole in a lens cap? Close your lens down to F10 and see how small the hole is.
@caleidoo the closed iris blades sure, but I've never seen a normal lens with a rear lens element (which I assumed is what projects light on the sensor) this tiny
@@Lackmind I'm not hear to explain the basics of photography to a random stranger. I've given you a small fraction of a list of examples of lens/cameras with equally small aperture opening and/or glass elements and mentioned the distinct small aperture. All of this should give you a head start. But apparently, it's not enough and on top of that, you don't know how to navigate in this immense source of information called The Internet. It's not looking very promising.
I have to disagree about this being better than pinhole lenses. I bought the Pinwide, years ago, a fun pinhole lens to use. The advantage with that is, everything is equally soft, from millimetres in front of the lens, to infinity. That's the only pinhole lens I've enjoyed using on a digital camera, but one day I'm going to get a medium format digital camera, just for pinhole photography. This lens looks fun, but I can't help feeling the effect could be reproduced with software, unlike pinhole, that's hard to reproduce.
Good for $15-25 but I keep seeing people trying to sell those dispo lenses for $50-60. For that much I'd just pay a little more and grab a Viltrox 28mm f4.5 pancake for like $80.
Came here for the amusing commentary! Not much interest in these lens cap lenses. I'm so thirsty for a good pancake lens that I'm still vaguely interested in this though. Best I've found so far for FE is the Samyang 35mm f/2.8, but even that is not quite as small as I'd like to see.
Check out the new Viltrox 28mm f4.5. Or if you are fine with manual focus the Brightin Star 28mm f2.8. Though it needs a slim adapter from M-mount it is still smaller than the Samyang
Why??? Just, why does this thing even exist? 🤨 Fun? How is putting this thing on any camera that it could be attached to only to get absolutely horrible results, fun? I wouldn’t waste even one dollar on it. Use it toward buying some Oreo cookies instead and enjoy.
It's fun to millions of people when used on a disposable camera the last couple of decades. Why is it suddenly horrible if used a camera you don't throw away? I fail to see the logic.
"deconstructed abstract nothingness of darkness"
My buddy works for the company that distributes these. They’re recycled Kodak dispo camera lenses that they put on 3D Printed Oreo cases. It’s pretty cute lol. Much better than those $50 overpriced “urn”? instagram lenses or whatever since it’s the same exact lens.
I called them out on their predatory practices and they blocked me SO FAST
Tell your friend that if they could get them for APS-C I'd buy to use in place of a camera body cap. I've been drilling body caps to turn them into pinholes and using those as the body cap, this looks like it would be just as effective to protect the body but would also make for a halfway usable lens in a pinch if needing to take a picture before being able to mount a proper lens.
@@TWX1138 wym for aps-c? Its a full frame lens that should fit aps-c as long as you get the right mount for it.
the one in the video isn't 3d printed
@@TWX1138 Why have a body cap on a camera? If you want to keep it in a coat pocket, there are some decent pancake lenses.
On the other hand... £15 worth of *actual* Oreos sounds quite appealing... 😊
Yes but Chris is too busy playing up to his American viewers, like so many other British youtubers....
Crisis of identity or Chris's off identity, here.
@@Badonicus I had no idea that the American's were so into photographs of Aberystwyth.
@@Badonicus That's a weird comment. Oreos have been available and popular over here in the UK for a couple of decades now
this lens DOES NOT LOCK IN PLACE.
however 5 minutes with a file/dremel/razorblade and you can make a little notch on the outer rim for the lens locking stud and it firmly stays in place with no light leaks :)
I use this on my a6400 and with the built-in flash it is really fun to make disposable film photos
Petition to have every manufacturer use this cute front design on all their pancake lenses!
Those 12 elements in 8 groups have always been troublesome.
3 elements in 2 groups (chocolate cookie, vanilla filling)
This lens is from a Fuji Quicksnap, and it is one of the best disposable lenses imo. The only issue with adapting them however is the distortion and corner resolution, as disposable cameras have a curved film back to negate some of the inherent image quality issues of the single element plastic lens. But it's all just a bit of vintage fun for cheap!
This look is just what I'm after for my creative work....love it!
This plus the film sims make it look like those old kodak dispo cameras. It was probably on my camera the most last year
Now I know what to do with my old X-T1! 😏
I love the Oreo lens, it's super fun to shoot! Got mine for 12€ from Aliexpress. They come in L39 and M-mount as well. And there's also a shorter APS-C version, 25mm with the back cookie removed.
I literally laughed out loud when I saw the flare test. Props to them for the cute novelty lens, though.
Worth mentioning that these don't lock into your camera's mount. So once it's on you can just twist it out without using the release button. This of course means there's a risk it'll fall off.
i fixed this by dremeling a small notch right where the lens lock stud is, works perfect and no light leak
I have a similar disposable camera lens that is my lens cap. Always have it in me. Looks terrible, but it’s still charming!
Gives me nostalgic feelings for those disposable cameras we used in the late 90's... but I'd rather have a real cookie tbh.
You can 3D print an ‘Oreo’ style camera body cap for a bit of fun, think I got mine from Makerworld - again, nothing to do with the biscuit pepper but a bit of fun
I have had one of these fun little lenses on my Fuji cameras for several months now. Looks good and fun to use.
Looks like a fun lens on a fun sunny day. Enjoyed your Review!
I came here knowing "yep, this is going to be bad" but there is some entertainment value in hearing how bad 😅
Why didn't you shoot your usual test chart?
The lens's minimum focus distance is too long
I ripped out my own lens from a 35mm film camera and then designed and printed my own case for it. Cost me all of basically nothing and I'm getting some pretty stylized retro looking shots!
I made my own on the back of an RF body cap and its awesome! But, imo it only becomes awesome when you add a film preset to the images which basically gives you a disposable camera image (basically worth it just for the nostalgia ❤❤)
I had looked at this the other day. I was thinking it would be a good replacement for the standard body cap. That way the camera is always protected but you actually have a lens on in case you want to do a random snap while on the go.
Olympus made a bunch of these for their OM-D e-M10 series. Called 'bodycap lens' and came in 9mm fisheye and 15mm for around $75 with glass elements they gave good results.
I wonder if we could at least fix a little bit of the contrast by painting the inside with some musou black paint. Got a bottle laying around and it slightly increased the contrast of the already amazing Sony 135mm 1.8 GM. I painted on a piece of paper and wrapped the paper on the inside of the lens cap and it worked perfectly
It's a plastic lens, it will always lack contrast and have lots of aberrations. A speck of paint won't change that.
@@caleidoo Probably, I'll test it out, just bought the thing for €20 on Aliexpress
@@jeroenvdw It's gonna be a bit more than €20 if it's coming from China and going to EU. You would be better off with looking for an old camera with this kind of lens - some cheap film compacts had fixed focus lenses - or use a donor old disposable camera and a body cap and make one yourself. Even a new disposable camera costs just €15 or less.
About your 135/f1.8. The lens hood (or lens cap, how you call it) is suppose to block external light like the sun. It also stays out the view of your actual image. The light hitting the inside of the lens hood will not enter the actual lens. So it has close to zero impact on your contrast. Unless the inside of your lens hood is shiny naked metal or gold. Most are black or layered with a mat or non-reflective coating.
@ already ordered for 20 euros and about the lens hood idk, I tested before and after on a tripod with same lights and noticed a difference in contrast.
Depending on how tight it stays on the camera, seems like good fun to just keep it on instead of a regular body cap. Doesn't look like it protrudes too much to be a bother.
on one of the product reviews of this I've seen that's what they actually did. it's basically a body cap with a lens on it.
This was my thought also.
I've been wondering if it actually clicks into the mount at all. Is it fixed there, or can it be rotated out at any time?
Could not find it for L-Mount unfortunately. Any hints?
Have one for Sony FF, actually very artistic and with proper vintage preset can give a picture almost like a real point-and-shoot back in the days!
I just live your reviews, this is no exception 👌🏼
The optic does benefit from focusing even if its original usage didn't include that. There are conversions with manual focus control.
Yes I've seen custom 3d printed versions with helicoids
1:06 Fun fact: "Keks" also is the German word for cookie :)
IMO when looking at the screen size the images looked surprisingly good. Of course any pixel beeping is out of the question. One should set the image resolution to the minimum.
So Lomography style?
Eat this, Canon! (quite literally)
It all sounds worse than it is. The lens is primarily used for people and leisure shots or street photography. In other words, for images in which you hardly need to retouch and where, with modern cameras, you ask yourself why you need so many pixels. I decided to export the images in a final size of 2400 x 1600 pixels, which is more than enough for a 10 x 15 cm print and then the optical errors and high ISO values are hardly significant anymore. They are still visible but that is the intended purpose to get the desired look. In contrast to a smartphone, you have the complete RAW process including AI denoising (e.g. with DxO PureRAW), freely adjustable ISO and freely adjustable exposure time. And if there is too little light, just use your flash! This gives the photos an additional snapshot aesthetic that can be used creatively. Outside in daylight, just set 1/125 second and ISO 200 and forget it. With flash indoors set it to 1/60 and ISO 800. On the SONY a5000 it feels like a toy and fits in every pocket.
this will enter the ranking of the worst lenses ever reviewed by this wonderful channel
i fancy myself a fun novelty lens every now and then
it might be better once Adobe offer lens corrections though 😛, when you turned it around and saw the backside i thought it would be much worse than it actually was, not that i would use one if was given to me, as with the like of Jufifilm and Canon who ask for the items back, did these ask for it to be reutrned? 🙂
I made something like this a while back by gutting a Kodak disposable camera and drilling an appropriately-sized hole in a spare body cap. It's fun... for a bit, then quickly becomes old. I guess could get more out of it with a helicoid or something, but I never got around to it.
I have it in RF and I was disappointed. It seems like the R5 II refuses to activate the IBIS when no lens is registered. The center is even less sharp than it appears in tests.
If IBIS was activated with this "lens" on the body, your IBIS would be doing its thing if you only had a lens cap on. It's a lens cap in the shape of a cookie. With a tiny plastic lens in the middle.
Better get a vintage manual focus prime lens around the same focal length in my opinion.
Quality is so poor you better off using the kit-lens and applying a lomography filter after!
At least a "Camera Obscura", what else should we expect❗😅
You should try the Pentax 110 lenses. I picked up a 24mm lens and its ridiculous.
Ah so it's a lens cover!
I think this is a great little toy lens to play with......Question is does it have a USB-C connector for firmware updates and a tripod lens collar ? LOL Really enjoy your videos, Thank you
in CN its about 8 bucks
But is it milk resistant? Thanks for the content!
How is that fair? Even with an OREO, Chris takes better pictures than me 😍
The images remind me of my first camera, a Kodak 126 Instamatic (though the film was a square format). LOL
Keks means Cookie in German, by the way.
I prefer to buy old cameras that no longer work to try to remove their lenses without breaking them so that I can then glue them to an adapter that also serves to focus 😁
Fun!! For the right price
How can such a tiny piece of glass cover the entire FF sensor I wonder? It is so much smaller than the sensor itself
You're joking right? Never heard of an aperture? Or seen compact film cameras? Or heard of pinhole cameras where they use a needle to make a hole in a lens cap? Close your lens down to F10 and see how small the hole is.
@caleidoo the closed iris blades sure, but I've never seen a normal lens with a rear lens element (which I assumed is what projects light on the sensor) this tiny
@@Lackmind You really need to read up on the basics of photography.
@@caleidoo caleidoo You could alternatively provide the answer to my original question instead of simply pointing out my ignorance on the matter
@@Lackmind I'm not hear to explain the basics of photography to a random stranger. I've given you a small fraction of a list of examples of lens/cameras with equally small aperture opening and/or glass elements and mentioned the distinct small aperture. All of this should give you a head start. But apparently, it's not enough and on top of that, you don't know how to navigate in this immense source of information called The Internet. It's not looking very promising.
I have to disagree about this being better than pinhole lenses. I bought the Pinwide, years ago, a fun pinhole lens to use. The advantage with that is, everything is equally soft, from millimetres in front of the lens, to infinity. That's the only pinhole lens I've enjoyed using on a digital camera, but one day I'm going to get a medium format digital camera, just for pinhole photography. This lens looks fun, but I can't help feeling the effect could be reproduced with software, unlike pinhole, that's hard to reproduce.
Good for $15-25 but I keep seeing people trying to sell those dispo lenses for $50-60. For that much I'd just pay a little more and grab a Viltrox 28mm f4.5 pancake for like $80.
Not for me, but it's nice to see more and more stuff available
Actually image quality is great considering it’s just a tiny piece of a single glass.
Most disposable cameras have plastic lenses. Looking at the images, not a surprise.
>Me with a beer ready to watch Christopher smoke some garbage piece of crap. :D
And people bought that lens due to, well, "character"
Came here for the amusing commentary! Not much interest in these lens cap lenses. I'm so thirsty for a good pancake lens that I'm still vaguely interested in this though. Best I've found so far for FE is the Samyang 35mm f/2.8, but even that is not quite as small as I'd like to see.
Check out the new Viltrox 28mm f4.5. Or if you are fine with manual focus the Brightin Star 28mm f2.8. Though it needs a slim adapter from M-mount it is still smaller than the Samyang
Disaster zone 😂
You’d be better off buying a disposable, using it and then gutting the lens after it’s done
I guess Hydrox lens probably wouldn’t draw as many views.
You don't get it. At all.
It’s an expensive lens cap
I'd rather have the Viltrox 28mm f/4.5
Still waiting for the Nikon Z version. Fixed aperture is bit of a deal breaker though. You want those small apertures for street photography.
Keks is German for cookie.
I'd buy it if it was ten quid.
N thanks
Keks means biscuit :D
Kind of bizarre imagining that the Pocket Dispo would have any kind of competition, but somehow I'm not mad at it.
i think nokia phones do better
Why??? Just, why does this thing even exist? 🤨 Fun? How is putting this thing on any camera that it could be attached to only to get absolutely horrible results, fun? I wouldn’t waste even one dollar on it. Use it toward buying some Oreo cookies instead and enjoy.
It might be fun if I were to DIY it, but buying it premade means no enjoyment from the process of creating/adapting it
Because it give a look that modern lenses don’t. Throw a flash on the camera and you are ready to shoot 90s and early 00s fashion portraits.
It's fun to millions of people when used on a disposable camera the last couple of decades. Why is it suddenly horrible if used a camera you don't throw away? I fail to see the logic.
Why buy a great camera and use a shitty lens?
With Fujifilm's film simulation you can end up with very retro results
kek
Personally, I fail to understand the fun factor of such a "fun lens".
I guess everyone with a disposable camera had a really awful time using it. Just miserable. Not a single picture with a smile came out of it.
@@caleidoo 🤣