Olympus Body Cap Lens Review - CHEAP & SWEET! - BCL-15
825Olympus Body cap Lens review, Blunty tests out the new, inexpensive, "toy" bodycap lens from Olympus, the BCL-15.
"Is It a Body Cap or a Lens? It's Both.
Olympus also introduces an intriguing new lens for its Micro Four Thirds line.
The BCL-15 f8.0 Body Cap Lens serves as a body cap when carrying the camera around without its interchangeable lens, and transforms to become a pan-focus snapshot lens to capture images.
The lens is so thin -- just 9mm thick -- that it can easily be mistaken for a camera-mount body cap. With three glass lens elements in three groups, it can be used as a wide-angle lens equivalent with a single focal length of 30mm (35mm camera equivalent).
In addition to daily use as a "pan-focus" lens featuring a wide angle, fixed f8 aperture and shallow depth of field, it is compatible with manual focusing using a lever and capable of close-up shooting as close as 30 cm. A lens-protection barrier is provided so the lens can be mounted permanently on the camera and even put in a pocket together with the camera." - Olympus BCL-15mm press release.