It’s 2025, and the latest innovation of the photography industry is a lens that is similar to a famous cookie, made of re -developed parts.
It is said that ‘add the authentic form of disposable film cameras in your mirror lace (camera) with real film optics’. retro-pia.comA website selling lenses.
The claim that this is a real film optic is really correct, because the lens element is taken from a straight disposable camera, after which today’s most famous mirror -laser camera is worked on in the lens lens Mounts, including Sony, Canon, Military Filem and more.
I wish it was a joke.
Of course, I bought it for myself, but incredible $ 39 / £ 30 that an Instagram ad was selling it (and it’s 30 % of the original price).
Instead, I went straight to the source – separated with Alexpress and only £ 12 (about $ 15)) – 168 ore cookies at the same price. It was not lost to me that the price is actually cheaper than you pay for a disposable camera these days. Two weeks later, the worst lens I have ever used to arrive before the French family trip to Paris.
Can something be so bad, good?
The lens has about 32 32 mm focal length, a fixed f / 11 aperture and fixed infinity focus – everything more than 5 feet / 1.5m should focus. At least that theory is.
All this is made of plastic, including the lens mount. Instead of lenses, it would be more appropriate to describe this device as a wide lens cap.
From any objective move, the lens is makrooh. It cannot be classified as sharp, so do not expect any good details. Here is the important woginating, which, of course, increases its retro role. Everything is soft, and here the lens is decreasing.
To make it clear, I love Chrome Bezals, metal barrels, minimal coatings, and vintage lenses characterized by the choice of lens flames. My favorite lens is 50 mm F/1.4 e -lens from the 1960s.
Nevertheless, the cookie lens shows the role of the vintage and increases it to an alarming extent, which has tried to escape for decades and millions of yen.
So why has this creative Instagram marketing work been a constant presence on my Sony camera?
First of all. The Oreo -style lens has literally changed my lens hat. It is so thin that keeping it on your camera does not matter all the time. My Sony Alpha is ready to go, pull, and take a shot at any moment. I’m not even worried about camera settings – what will happen, what will happen.
I used the lens as if I would do disposable camera, take snap shots of family and moments, and honestly, image quality doesn’t matter.
Let’s be real for a minute – 99 % of our images are seen on screens that are smaller than 10 inches, which contains less than 4K (about 8 8 megapixels). You exempt. Looking at the pictures that are now thinking that ‘they don’t look too bad’.
This is against everything I am, as a peeking camera reviewer and photographer. Still, there are occasions when this is the moment that matters rather than optical virtue.
The fact is that the aesthetic of the 1980s / 90s is now considered a retro, which is a 40 -year -old person. I have the original prints from disposable cameras that have the same veggies, the lack of definition and vice versa that arises from this lens.
Adobe Lightroom (of course on my phone) with compatibility, photos of my children are similar to 6×4 inch prints that I have in my childhood. There is something very old about it.
There is also a freedom that comes with this poor quality lens. Taking a suitable mirror -lace camera that costs about $ 2500 / / / / / £ 2,000, sets it in aperture preference and auto ISO, and converting it into a point and shoot camera, which has no concern for field or focus, is free. Stop worrying about settings and pixels, and instead occupy the moment!
A terrible trick?
Suppose you want to drop your prospects, such as TEMU, Alexpress or sellers on Amazon, this is the cheapest ‘new’ lens that you will ever buy for your camera.
Continuing positive, the practical skills of the lens are very good. It is extremely small and light, and can stay on your camera.
It is also widely available-Prair Retropia site Sony E, Canon RF, Canon EF-M, Nicon Z, Fijfalm X, MFT, Elika M, Elika M and more are a list of reproduced disposable camera lenses.
However, this lens is not your only option. Weltrox AF 28mm F4.5 The lens is almost the same size, features autofoxes, and has significantly better images produced, despite the more assurance, the price of the price of $ 100 / £ 90 (or 1,260 original ores). You can leave this lens on your camera and enjoy it like ‘Oreo’ lens.
You might tell you that I have a similar/hateful relationship with the Orion lens – its optical standard should be in the past, and this is a terrible trick.
What I would say, though, it has taken me a valuable lesson – which can sometimes trigger our creativity to work with obstacles and step out of our comfortable areas. We can see the world differently.
Perhaps the next time I am shooting portraits, I will start using the on -camera flash, editing the images to edit a chronic wiggus, which will add a little bit of blonde to the highlights, and the disposable camera will fully enter the aesthetic, when it is fully fired.
