Last time, I was confuse to decide which thing that I would buy on that time. Either a lens or camera that the focal length almost the same. Both are have good review and price for such a wide angel lens and camera. I was looking for street and travel camera that could bring to anywhere which such a pocket and good quality. This kind of type is suit with rangefinder camera that great in the field for such a compact quality camera to bring a long. I decided between Lomo LC-Wide with 17mm minigon or Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5. Many of my friends that I asked to choose between this thing and the result was draw. After I look overall from what I need in the street I finally choose the LC-Wide.
After few days I tried on the field, and processed it. I didn't make a mistake to choose this compact travel camera. The great thing about this camera is compact and wide. Most of people didn't realize if I took their photo by this camera. The middle of the lens is sharp and probably the corner of the camera is soft. The vignette probably not so harsh but it's there. The weakness for this camera is only the viewfinder that not match from what we looked at and what the result will come out with. After I saw some of my picture maybe slightly increase the range from what I saw before.
A lot of people probably will complaint with the price that really expensive for this kind of camera. Maybe most of them will say " Why this kind of plastic camera cost me a lot!?". The only thing that I can say to you is "can you get a wide angel camera with this pocket size camera for this kind of price with a great lens inside?". Probably most of you guy that don't know about the market price of camera or lens, usually for wide angel lens for SLR for Full-Frame lens it cost around 700$-2000$, and for rangefinder lens it will around 700$-3100$ that cost you a lot more and that is only the lens not include with the camera body. Imagine that.
Is it worth to buy it or not. Hmmm.... how do I say it. YES!!! If you really like a good travel camera to go and want a good quality this camera I can recommended to you. Just if you buy this camera, Don't forget to buy some external viewfinder for it ( if you really needed) probably around the size 15mm or 21mm it already make your composition much well compost.
All the photo was taken with Lomo LC-wide. The film color I used Fujifilm Pro 400H and the B&W with Ilford XP2 400.
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