if you are a photographer who wants to be light, fast, and not into so many different settings that you forget to photograph what is in front of your eyes, then this is the right one for you. I am into manual shooting and i come from film era. The retro quality and color outcome is also a plus. The image quality is far more than enough for me. I dont like glass like look of digital lenses, and this lens make me concentrate into the events right in front of my eyes, I live the scene, I live the moment, and I dont have to adjust the apeture, shutter etc every other minute and forget to take photos.

7Artisan's 18mm F6.3 fixed aperture prime lens is a bit of an oddity. Sharpness falls off towards the corners, vignetting is present, and you may notice some visual distortions and flaring. But in exchange for compromising on these things, you get a remarkably good value manual prime lens in a body cap form factor.Attached to my Panasonic Lumix GF2, I snapped these pictures whilst out and about. And that is very much the beauty of this lens, especially when paired with a small M43 camera. It's beyond portable; on the body, it's maybe the thickness of three phones. It's really well constructed and solid feeling, but definitely not heavy, making the entire package easily pocketable. You can take your camera everywhere with you, and whip it out at your leisure.One huge downside is that you cannot attach a lens cap onto it, which is going to require some careful pocketing/storing and mindfulness to wipe off the front lens element before using. I've seen some 3d printed caps for it that cover the entire lens, so I may print one of those off. At the moment though, a fabric sunglasses bag keeps it nice and safe.

I use mine on my old Olympus E_PL3 that I dug up from my storage closet, so now I have a nice compact package and I can easily slip it into my pocket. Great on a micro 43 camera with its 36mm equivalent focal length and no big issues with corner sharpness. It's sharp enough, the colours look great too, with some "character". When I want near-perfect sharpness or need more light, I'll use my 20mm Lumix lens, but that one's more bulky, and doesn't instantly focus. You can just preset this little thing at infinite... and shoot. And, it's really a lot quicker, simpler and definitely more fun to use than a smartphone.

Per giocare va bene ed è anche un ottimo "tappo" per il corpo macchina, ma per fotografare ci vuole altro. Se si azzecca la messa a fuoco il centro è discreto, i bordi sono inguardabili. Mi fanno abbastanza ridere tutti quelli che scrivono che è buio; sapete cosa significa f/6.3 ? Per il prezzo pagato non mi aspettavo niente di diverso. Lo tengo e ci gioco.

This is a GREAT lens, the only problem is that your photos will get a heavy and strong vignetting at the point that even in post is hard to remove, It is not the best performing in low light, but if you don't mind that much, this lens is outstanding.

El móvil hace mejores fotos, incluso uno malo. Lo único bueno es el tamaño. Pero no merece la pena. Caro para lo que es. Se debería vender como una tapa de sensor sin más.

Rispetto i cap dell' olympus lo trovo poco grandangolare e ugualmente buio cosi da limitare gl iscatti in situazione di scarsa luce...peccato. L'ho reso dopo un apio di prove