Olympus Vintage Art Filter 1

[48 mm] Everything seems fine with this filter. The threads are deep and solid. I can't tell that the extra 1% transmission is missing. 98% is just all right with me. Came in a kit with the NIKKOR 400/4.5 Z

[Aluminum] I use this for black & white photos on my vintage Olympus Pen half frame, I couldn't be happier with the results. Solid high quality filter at a very reasonable price. No complaints here!

[Universal] The Olympus vintage camera bag is matching the "Retro" look of the Pen-F. Well design: the Pen-F, (3) lenses, (1) flash and a spare battery are all fitting.

I use this for black & white photos on my vintage Olympus Pen half frame, I couldn't be happier with the results. Solid high quality filter at a very reasonable price. No complaints here!

[1.94 lb] This is really a one of a kind lens. I have a lot of vintage manual focus lenses and some modern fast lenses like the Olympus Pro f1.2 lenses. Unlike a lot of the vintage lenses, this lens is really well optimized wide open. This is like the Olympus Pro f1.2 lenses that are made to be very sharp wide open. Many of my faster vintage lenses have a completely different character wide open. This lens keeps a consistent character and feel as you stop it down just like the Olympus Pro f1.2 lenses do. A lot of modern manual focus lenses don't have a hard focus stop at infinity and a lot of the cheaper ones don't have accurate distance scales on the lens barrel, but this lens does. It's just like my vintage lenses that you can focus with careful measurement and stop at infinity. While a lens like this is good for shallow depth of field, these are especially good for hand held nightscapes since they work so well wide open, and if you have them focused at infinity you can get all the stars. On my Olympus bodies, I set one of my function buttons to magnify. I also set the option LV close up mode 1. This way when you half press the shutter button, it closes the zoom view and brings you back into your regular view so you can check your composition before you release the shutter. With magnify, I feel like it's so much easier to get sharp focus even with lenses where it's hard to see what's in focus such as the f8 bodycap lenses. It's a really versatile lens, but if you want to try some handheld starscapes, I recommend trying it. For my regular photography I do tend to stop it down for more depth of field, but I do like how the character of the lens shines through even when stopped down. I also shoot large, medium, and full frame miniature format, but I love the way this lens looks and I think it's worth getting a micro 4/3 body just to be able to use this and try it out.

[0.07 lb] I like to put a filter on my lens, and this one looks great with my olympus pancake zoom.

[1/4"-20 Male] still keeps the vintage look.

[0.1 lb] This filter has a slight brown cast. I use it by first taking a custom white balance, then screwing on this filter. Looks like vintage color film. Good quality and minimal, if any, distortions from the use of this filter. There are three strengths currently available. If the effect is too strong you can use the Nude/FX 1.

[Steel] Scooped up some vintage glass filters and they are a teeny bit big but the filter holder really does work regardless of size. Makes experimenting more fun because I don't need to stress if the filter will fit.

Scooped up some vintage glass filters and they are a teeny bit big but the filter holder really does work regardless of size. Makes experimenting more fun because I don't need to stress if the filter will fit.