26mm f/6 Omnar
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Archiver
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Omnar? Sounds like a lens company created by Cookie Monster. 😆
Taipei-metro
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the lens is based on, or a replica of a Canon AF-10 point and shoot camera lens!
Omnar web site;
'The Omnar CN26-6 makes use of the 26mm f/6 optics from a Canon AF10 point and shoot camera...'
the 26mm F6, 3-element(?!) with plastic and glass lens ( China Made ) now made in UK for US$1,306.69 in M mount, wow made in UK, Worth Every Penny
click to go to Canon Camera Museum
Omnar web site;
'The Omnar CN26-6 makes use of the 26mm f/6 optics from a Canon AF10 point and shoot camera...'
the 26mm F6, 3-element(?!) with plastic and glass lens ( China Made ) now made in UK for US$1,306.69 in M mount, wow made in UK, Worth Every Penny
click to go to Canon Camera Museum
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Taipei-metro
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if it's Onnar, おんな, that's 'Woman' in Japanese 👩🦰👩🦰👩🦰
Beemermark
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Another more than $1000 slow lens that has to be worse then anything out there. Buy a 28mm elmarit (any version) or even an VC.
nhchen
Nathan
Fixed aperture too. You would have thought they would have at least tried to put some aperture blades in there for that price.
yossi
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It would be $138.88 if it were made in China 😉the lens is based on, or a replica of a Canon AF-10 point and shoot camera lens!
Omnar web site;
'The Omnar CN26-6 makes use of the 26mm f/6 optics from a Canon AF10 point and shoot camera...'
the 26mm F6, 3-element(?!) with plastic and glass lens ( China Made ) now made in UK for US$1,306.69 in M mount, wow made in UK, Worth Every Penny
click to go to Canon Camera Museum
cboy
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Why such an obscure focal length with a high price tag for a repurposed fixed focal P&S lens? It doesn't make sense to me. It's not a lomography lens with any special character does it?
Archiver
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I kind of like the idea, but wow, a fair chunk of money for a rehoused Canon P&S lens, rangefinder coupled or not.
Coldkennels
Barnack-toting Brit.
"The front doublet and middle element glass, followed by a fixed aperture disc, then a rear polycarbonate element. The coated elements help keep the contrast relatively high, with the rear polycarbonate – given the right angle of light – creating a rainbow flare the sort that is more commonly associated with cameras such as the Vivitar UWS, but to a lesser degree."
That's a very fancy way of saying "this is a cheap plastic lens we've made a very expensive housing for".
Skyllaney did a fantastic job of totally overhauling my collapsible Summicron last month. I don't understand why they're also engaging in nonsense such as this.
That's a very fancy way of saying "this is a cheap plastic lens we've made a very expensive housing for".
Skyllaney did a fantastic job of totally overhauling my collapsible Summicron last month. I don't understand why they're also engaging in nonsense such as this.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
Hamish Gill, the creator of this Omnar lens and the company that makes it, is a decent fellow and trying to create some specialty lenses. It's a new effort and I know he'll put a lot of effort into making a quality product, albeit it may be somewhat off-beat. It's not going to be a competitor to the Leica (or other) lens offerings ... it's going to be different, and it may be quite interesting in that difference.
Just like the LLL 28mm six-element lens in another thread, with stuff like this I believe that if you're interested enough, you just have to try one and see whether it does The Thing for your photography. If it does, great; if it doesn't, eh? It's the price of experimentation with limited production specialty items. Stay away if you are risk averse; buy if you are an experimentalist and have the spare change to play with. 😉
G
Just like the LLL 28mm six-element lens in another thread, with stuff like this I believe that if you're interested enough, you just have to try one and see whether it does The Thing for your photography. If it does, great; if it doesn't, eh? It's the price of experimentation with limited production specialty items. Stay away if you are risk averse; buy if you are an experimentalist and have the spare change to play with. 😉
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Retro-Grouch
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Nowhere does it say that this is from Skyllaney, unless you follow the link to 35mmc, where Hamish Gill also states that the lens was his idea. I can believe it; that website is far too enmeshed with the Lomography mindset for my taste: expired film in junked point-n-shoots, lots of light leaks, lack of any technical knowledge, and hipsters playing at photography. No thanks. It really shocks me as well that Skyllaney is going down this path.
Archlich
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We've gave "Meyer Optik Görlitz", or NetSE, the chance. This one doesn't even bother to veil the lens's origin so it looks like the same thing all over again.
Well, the market will speak for itself.
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Archlich
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Not just China made, but likely also China-designed, the body at least. This camera closely resembles the Seagull SC-188 camera, of which new old stock is still available in China for ¥150 or $21.
Seagull in its final film years had churned out quite some bit of basic P&S with weird lenses like 25/8, 26/6, 27/5 and 29/4.5, mostly for export, so the AF10's 26mm lens was a giveaway. The SC-188 was likely further outsourced to smaller manufacturers, as I managed to find two more doppelgangers, "Ringhrm M307" and "Rekam NeoS":
Then there's the (possibly 28mm) pan focus version sans the AF mechaism, like this "Vivitar Onki 336" that has a myriad of siblings out there like a Samsung ("Fino 25DLX"). I wouldn't be surprised if other major Japanese OEMs besides Canon were found to have repackaged the same design.
Great news that the Vivitar says "lens made in Japan" - so there is a chance for the £999 Omnar to have Japanese optics too!
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WoodallP
Pragmatist Barnack lover
Thanks Godfrey, I’ve met Hamish a couple of times at shows. He is a great chap who loves what he is doing. He is offering a choice that we don’t have to accept but some will. There are other forums than this and he runs one of the good ones.
Coldkennels
Barnack-toting Brit.
It's right down at the bottom of the page:
Here's a controversial take that isn't going to make me any friends: while Hamish might be the nicest guy, he can't write for toffee.
I saw 35mmc when he first started it (we ran in the same circles on Twitter back in the day) and didn't think much of it. I was amazed to find out that the site was not only still running but actively thriving years later. But then I'm similarly skeptical of other such projects; for instance, KosmoFoto is a hellish website laden with ads and shockingly bad writing, but presumably on the strength of SEO and self-promotion alone, it's seemingly everywhere and doing well enough to be repackaging Fomapan 400 under a "private label" rebranding.
I hate the internet sometimes.
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