3rd party wide angle lens for Mavic 3

[SkywalkerFeng]

Case, a company specializing in making optical filters, just released the first 3rd party wide angle lens designed for Mavic 3. Interestingly, there are two different versions: a wide-angle and a cinema lens, both are wider than the main camera lens on Mavic 3.

Currently they are only available for sale in China.

I expect other manufactors to release similar 3rd party lens in near future.

 

[adcimagery]

That uncoated glass in the first product photo looks like it'll flare like crazy. Curious how this actually performs. I'd probably just shoot a panorama over this - with it being attached to the front, I feel like you'd be stuck with that FoV unless you want to land, switch back, etc.

 

[SkywalkerFeng]

That uncoated glass in the first product photo looks like it'll flare like crazy. Curious how this actually performs. I'd probably just shoot a panorama over this - with it being attached to the front, I feel like you'd be stuck with that FoV unless you want to land, switch back, etc.

Nothing is confirmed, until Case publishes a more detailed spec, or someone posts a review about its performance.

BTW, I think these two accessories are more useful to videographers than photographers. Without it you can't get a wider field of view when shooting videos.

 

[jonatious]

Been waiting for this, I knew many third party companies are going to release such accessories

 

[kodiak]

Very interesting to see these 3rd party options. I've had the DJI wide angle lens on order since the day I ordered the M3. Still waiting on it to ship- hopefully soon.

What I'm most curious about is how we can use ND with these wide angle lenses. The stock filters won't be compatible. It would seem we need filters that go between the front glass and adapter.

 

[Point Zero]

Very interesting to see these 3rd party options. I've had the DJI wide angle lens on order since the day I ordered the M3. Still waiting on it to ship- hopefully soon.

What I'm most curious about is how we can use ND with these wide angle lenses. The stock filters won't be compatible. It would seem we need filters that go between the front glass and adapter.

That's a very good point.

How would you be able to use all the ND filters you purchased when using the wide angle lens. The only solution I can see is a wide angle ND filter set.

Seems like a little bit of an oversight, like who honestly wants to buy two sets of the same ND filters for one drone.

Still it will make a few third party developers fairly happy.

 

[alex_markov]

Very interesting to see these 3rd party options. I've had the DJI wide angle lens on order since the day I ordered the M3. Still waiting on it to ship- hopefully soon.

What I'm most curious about is how we can use ND with these wide angle lenses. The stock filters won't be compatible. It would seem we need filters that go between the front glass and adapter.

Most likely there will be no ND filters for them - consider the weight on a gimble to handle But I can live without it

 

[fiddlepilot]

They should make the front of these lens shaped like the front of the bare camera. That way you can stack an ND filter on it.

 

[Point Zero]

They should make the front of these lens shaped like the front of the bare camera. That way you can stack an ND filter on it.

Wouldn't that be something!

If that is at all possible considering the difference in sizes?

 

[johnmont250]

Could prob fit a camera butter nd filter over the wide angle part

 

[kodiak]

Apparently the OEM DJI wide angle adapter does not allow the machine to do hyperlapses while installed. The limitation can be bypassed by removing one of the magnets in the housing but still, I'd rather not and what a classic example of absurd DJI workflow. My bet is that the optics with the DJI unit are superior to 3rd party but it makes me wonder if 3rd party adapters also exhibit this limitation.

 

[jephoto]

Very interesting to see these 3rd party options. I've had the DJI wide angle lens on order since the day I ordered the M3. Still waiting on it to ship- hopefully soon.

What I'm most curious about is how we can use ND with these wide angle lenses. The stock filters won't be compatible. It would seem we need filters that go between the front glass and adapter.

Possibly get old school gel NDs, cut them to fit inside the wide angle filter.
Back in film days used to do this with some color correction filters to tape to rear elements of lenses like the 16mm fisheye or when there weren’t glass ones available for what we needed. Crude but effective

 

[jephoto]

Hard to find but not impossible

KODAK 2 INCH WRATTEN GEL ND FILTERS SET OF 2 0.1/0.6 | eBay

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[C.W.]

Very interesting to see these 3rd party options. I've had the DJI wide angle lens on order since the day I ordered the M3. Still waiting on it to ship- hopefully soon.

What I'm most curious about is how we can use ND with these wide angle lenses. The stock filters won't be compatible. It would seem we need filters that go between the front glass and adapter.

Very few wide angles will have an ND but I have seen one

Freewell Wide Angle & Anamorphic Lens with ND Filter Compatible with Mavic 3/Mavic 3 Cine https://a.co/d/1AxhA79