Yasuhara plans to make a crazy Vest Pocket Kodak lens for m43!
Yasuhara will make a m43 vintage lens like the one you see here from the Vest Pocket Kodak!
Yasuhara announced that the new Madoka 180 degrees fisheye lens will ship in late March. And there is also one more crazy surprise: They also plans to make a modern version of the Vest Pocket Kodak camera lens for m43 (Click here to see that cam on eBay). If you think that’s a joke read the press release at http://www.yasuhara.co.jp/m/index.html (Click here for the google englih translation). We will get a nice foldable lens…I really love that!
Here is the Madoka 180 fisheye press release:
“Yasuhara announced a new fisheye lens for Mirrorless cameras Sony, Olympus and Panasonic with Sony NEX (E-mount) and micro 4/3 mount. It will be called “Madoka 180” (180 degrees). Links below direct to two image samples you can find on Yasuhara.eu page in full size version.
Madoka 180 image sample No. 1
Madoka 180 image sample No. 2
Here are the basic specs of the Sony E-mount version:
- The lens will have f/4 aperture
- Compact size
- Length: about 40mm
- Diameter: about 60mm
- Weight: about 200g
The first Yasuhara Madoka will be released for Sony E mount this spring. Madoka will be available for sale on Yasuhara.eu page at the end of March – begining of April 2012. The company is planning to release also a special software for the images taken with Madoka lenses.”
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P.S.: Really nice fisheye lenses have been made by Samyang/Rokinon:
The Black Samyang 7.5mm lens is available on eBay (Click here).
The Silver Samyang 7.5mm lens is available on eBay (Click here).
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franck
4 months ago |First….
Ranger 9
4 months ago |From the Google translation:
“Know a single person named Beth everyone says or ‘I have to really taste that Ballmer’”
Yup, can’t argue with that. And the pictures do look nice.
Fish
4 months ago |“Remove the single Beth Hood” method of abstinence
Vivek
3 months ago |LOL! Some of you have actually read those lines literally!
Kaspar
4 months ago |hilarious translation by Google…
Bob B.
4 months ago |…but I want it to come with the bellows and high-tech viewfinder, too!!!!!!
thevoiceoverman
4 months ago |Hilarious lens. Can’t wait to see it on a camera.
spanky
4 months ago |I have an adapted VPK meniscus lens for m43. It does take nice photos. Best used in bright lighting.
KingArthur10
4 months ago |The question I have: will the Madoka 180 have the inscribed circle on u4/3? If not, I won’t buy it. If it’s just a mount adapter from e to u4/3, it’s going to be a cropped circle.
I want this for planetarium production, and without the full circle, I have to stitch photos to get the full 180 and can’t shoot 180 video.
Archer Sully
4 months ago |Wow, someone else who does plane-arium work. Which one? I’m an (very!) ocasional contributor at Fiske in Boulder.
KingArthur10
4 months ago |I run the small Pacific Planetarium in Bremerton, Wa. I use to work at the Clyde W. Clark Planetarium in Portsmouth, Oh. Absolutely love it.
I also work for a planetarium production company, and the ability to more easily produce things for customers and my audiences would make an instant sale for me (and maybe a recommendation for customers).
raines
4 months ago |What?! Crazy, I grew up in Bremerton.
KingArthur10
3 months ago |The new planetarium is in the old Firestation #1 on Pacific Ave right next to the Red Cross and near Uptown Auto. If you’re ever back in the area, look us up!
Archer Sully
3 months ago |Perhaps there’s some networking possibilities here. Fiske is getting into digital planetarium production in a big way, and collaborators are (likely) welcome. Of course, budgets are tight, but what budget isn’t in the science education world? Send an email to archer “.” sully “@” gmail “.” com and I’ll try to hook things up.
Planetaria are one of the original multimedia environments, and I’m curious to see where it all leads to.
Cheers!
MP Burke
4 months ago |Surely a 180 degree circular fisheye lens should be about 4mm focal length for four thirds and 6mm for APS-C. These lenses do have their uses as you say and somebody ought to make one for mft.
KingArthur10
4 months ago |The 4/3 sensor is taller in total ratio than the 2×3 sensors of the APS world, so maybe 4-4.5mm would work (according to my quick math, 4.3mm would fit a circular fisheye), with video in 16×9 aspect ratios means we need enough black space at the top and bottom to fit in frame, so 4mm is probably the best bet (maybe even 3.8mm).
Now, I’d be happier if I could easily shoot in 4/3 video, but that’s not likely to happen any time soon.
Fan
4 months ago |I use the Sigma 4.5mm APS-C circular lens on Micro Four Thirds via Nikon adapter.
The image circle is ideal for MFT.
It is a little small on APS-C. I don’t know why they made it so small, but it seems to be made for APS-C in 16:9 crop mode.
You can see some circular images shot with Sigma here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68603035@N04/sets/72157628003716441/
A smaller lens would be great though.
Tom Duff
4 months ago |Stills look great. Do you know if you still get full circle shooting video? I have a GH-1 and would love to be able to do full-circle video.
Archer Sully
3 months ago |Tom,
Did you invent a “device” back in the early 80′s?
Fan
3 months ago |Full-circle video would only be possible if you could shoot in 4:3 mode, not in 16:9. As soon as there is any cropping, the circle is cropped too.
KingArthur10
4 months ago |Thanks for the info, Fan. I actually have that on a video production list. The small circle for APS-C cameras makes it the only real option for video without stepping up several grand in production costs.
I’ll have to look into it for 4/3 photography, though. Timelaps shots should be easily doable with this. Thanks again for the first hand experience!
Now I just have to convince the camera manufacturers to allow us to shoot using the sensor’s full aspect ratio.
bidou
4 months ago |I use a peleng 8mm for this kind of work with a 5d mkII. Not the sharpest lens i’ve ever seen, but work well for a cheap price. Not m43 thought.
MP Burke
4 months ago |“There are also good in the world that do not know how happy sloppy. What are you going to visit also know that living somewhere beautiful actress of the phantom retired a long time ago that uncouth. I am so uncouth technician, you would be dragged in front of a lens of 100 years ago, however.”
This really makes me want to buy it, whatever it is,
flash
3 months ago |+1
Juan Caliente
4 months ago |Will they make a pinhole camera with m4/3 mount next?
How about a Rolleiflex box camera with m4/3 mount?
Geoff
3 months ago |Someone already has…………..
Juan Caliente
3 months ago |Can you post the link?
achiinto4
3 months ago |Just searh in eBay, pin hole is just a body cap with a hole. 10$ or so?
Rodlof
3 months ago |Wasn’t that ‘Wanderlust Cameras’ for the pinhole?
Vivek
3 months ago |Easy to cobble these up. Just too easy. Why someone bothers making it, marketing and selling it?!?
Charlie
3 months ago |I’m confused.
Dave
3 months ago |For a pinhole, google “wanderlust pinwide”. 11mm f90 (centre) to f122 (edges). Cheap, compact and far better than i’d be able to do. Pinhole is recessed into the body of the camera to get the wide angle…. Some of my pictures taken with it are here:
http://Www.davefletcherphotography.com/pinhole
And here (also includes some non pinhole shots)
http://Www.davefletcherphotography.com/playground
Jeremy
3 months ago |Unrelated to this specific article, but I want to say thanks for posting a direct link to the non-translated article. The google translate link doesn’t work well on mobile, and it’s helpful for those of us who can read the article in the original language.
Matt
3 months ago |Keep in mind: It’s not just ‘a’ kodak vest pocket lens, it’s the meniscus lens, a single element lens that is VERY popular for pictorialist results in Japan.
flash
3 months ago |Thanks, now it makes sense. I did not get that it was a single element lens. Looking at the images it is clear. I guess the older Vest Pocket Kodak’s had a single element meniscus lens, I believe the later ones had a triplex style.