Choosing your lens
With so many different lenses out there, which one do you go for?
For most photographers, and videographers, being creative with lenses is one of the reasons they love what they do. Each project can come with its unique challenges so choosing the correct lens for a job is crucial.
Odin gives you a better creative choice as you can easily replace the supplied standard lens with any other lens you feel might improve the quality of your project. If you have a distant object you can use a telephoto lens to frame your subject nicely, or if a customer needs a close-up shot you can use any suitable macro lens available on the market. There’s a lens for every occasion…and wallet!
You’re free to pick whatever you choose. Either CCTV or photographic, lenses can be used as long as they conform to the below requirements,
- C mount or CS-mount (C-CS adaptor supplied with Odin)
- Lens is no more than 100mm / 4” in length
- Lens outer diameter is not more than 55mm / 2”
- Back focus: Adjustable (12.5 mm–22.4 mm)
There are some other considerations to take into account, like vignetting and a few others, but without getting too technical you are free to experiment with any lens you want to try. Remember, your Odin comes supplied with a standard lens so you don’t need to worry about lenses if you don’t need to, but if you do want to try something different, no problem, pop in a few compatible lenses if you have any to hand!
See below to help you decide which standard lens to choose with your Odin purchase. Please note - all of these lenses have been tested with Odin and no vignetting issues. We have also added a few other CCTV lens suggestions that can be found online at reasonable prices:
3.2mm 120° Wide Angle Lens (Standard supplied option)
Description
This lens provides a 120° Horizontal Field of View. It produces that "fish-eye" look made popular by GoPro cameras and can give you fantastically dramatic wide angle images. This lens can be chosen as your standard lens option
Specification
- Optical Format: 1/7″
- Focal Length: 3.2mm
- Aperture: Max F2.0
- Field of View (FOV): 120°(H) on Odin Camera
- Focus Type: Manual
- Mount: CS mount
- Back Focal Length: 5.94mm
- MOD: 0.3m
- Dimension: Φ28×30mm
- Weight: 54g
5mm 73° Standard Universal Lens (Standard supplied option)
Description
This 5.0mm CS-Mount Lens provides a 73⁰ Horizontal Field of View on 1/2.3" type sensors and is rated for 12MP. It's a good balance between being not too wide or narrow on the Odin. This lens is best if you do NOT want that extreme "fish-eye" GoPro look to your images. This lens can be chosen as your standard lens option
Lens Specification
- Optimized for 4K Cameras with 1/1.7″ & 1/2.5″ image sensors
- CS-Mount
- Aperture: F2.0,
- Field of View (FOV): 73°(H) on Odin Camera
- 35mm EFL - 24
- Focal Length: 5mm
- Focus type : Manual
- Dimension: Φ28×31mm
- M.O.D 0.3m
- Weight: 50g
2.8-12mm Varifocal Lens (Lens suggestion)
Description
This varifocal C-mount lens with an adjustable aperture range (up to F1.6), is compatible with both your Odin camera.
Specification
- Optical Format: 1/2″
- Focal Length: 2.8-12mm
- Aperture: F1:1.6
- Field of View (FOV): 125°(H)-43°(H), 120°(H)-38°(H) on 1/2.3″ Odin Camera
- Focus Type: manual
- Mount: C mount
- Back Focal Length: 17.53mm
- MOD: 0.3m
- Dimension: Φ44.5×58.5mm
- Weight: 140g
16mm Telephoto Lens (Lens suggestion)
Description
The 16mm 10MP Telephoto lens offers a high level of zoom, for targeting your camera on specific subjects.
Specification:
- Optical Format: 1″
- Focal Length: 16mm
- Aperture: F1.4-F16
- Field of View (FOV): 24°(H)
- Focus Type: manual
- Mount: C mount
- Back Focal Length: 17.53mm
- MOD: 0.2m
- Dimension: Φ39×50mm
- Weight: 133.7g
35mm F1.6 Macro C-Mount Lens (Lens suggestion)
Description
Unbelievably Beautiful Images: F1.6 large Aperture constructed with 12 blades, make your Odin Camera take dream quality facula photos with its out of focus areas and wonderful bokeh. Excellent Performance: Good build quality for sharp images and performs well even in low light conditions. Perfect for close ups, portraits, children shots or animals.
Specification
- Optical Format: 2/3″
- Focal Length: 35mm
- Aperture: F1.6-F16
- Field of View (FOV): 18°(H)
- Focus Type: Manual
- Mount: C mount
- Back Focal Length: 17.525mm
- MOD: 0.3m
- Dimension: Φ50×35.5mm
- Weight: 108g
That's not all though, you can even use your Canon EF, EOS, or Nikon F lenses with a suitable C mount adaptor. There are plenty of reasonably priced adapters to choose from on Amazon or photographic websites.
So, there are a galaxy of options and possibilities to choose from if you so wish, far too many for this blog post to tackle. Just know that if you want to play with lenses Odin is open to experimentation!
