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Olympus 12mm lens

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Olympus 12mm lens

- So, Rich, continuing on with our experimentation of some wide angle lenses here, we have this Olympus 12mm lens, and this is probably the most compact, lightweight lens we used, but it also happened to be the most expensive one that we experimented with. - One of the most expensive, I actually think the Panasonic one is a little more. - Oh that's right. That's true - But part of that is, you're getting an official lens from a camera maker. So, you buy an Olympus lens, a Panasonic lens, it's a bit expensive, but this is really small and it's nice in that it's both auto focus and manual focus. - Yeah, this is kind of a cool little feature here, that I think is unique to this lens, I haven't seen many like this. Here is your focus ring right here, but it has a neat feature: when it's pressed forward like this, it's in auto focus mode. So, if you're on a camera that supports auto focusing, it will do that. Pop it back like that, you're into manual focus lens. So, instead of a switch…

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