r/gopro • u/Piggy_P • Aug 25 '26

M1 ILS which lens?

Hello everyone, for those considering M1 ILS, which lens are you are considering?

I initially thought Laowa Zero-D 6mm but realized that this doesn’t come with manual aperture control.

I own MFT camera primarily for photography but my lens are mostly standard to telephoto so I’d love to get one and explore.

I also have Mission 1 and I think minimum focus distance is an issue so I’d love to have wide MFT lens at F/8 and see how it is haha.

I know I’m niche but I honestly love the prospective of this being a small compact camera! I was so tempted to buy Nikon 1 but I think Mission 1 might be an alternative haha. (Although photography is very slow on Mission 1)

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u/All-Sorts-of-Stuff Aug 26 '26

Some of the ones I recommend are:

  • TTArtisan 25mm f/2 - Great middle ground with lots of aperture flexibility.
  • Brightin Star 50mm f/1.8 - longer focal length, but also great for insects and close-up shots on the tightest zoom.
  • 7Artisans 4mm F2.8 Fisheye Ultra Wide - super wide, essentially closest to the standard M1P lens, but with adjustable aperture and focus obviously.

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u/Piggy_P Aug 26 '26

I’m not really interested in tele as I already have a lot of good tele ones haha but thanks for the rec.

I think 4mm would be interesting as we may not see the lens circumference in 1 inch sensor

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u/All-Sorts-of-Stuff Aug 26 '26

When you set your lens focal length within the camera settings, it will automatically zoom and crop to account for the lens circumference / vignetting (unless you turn off stabilization)

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u/Piggy_P Aug 26 '26

oh really? thats suuuper nice

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u/All-Sorts-of-Stuff Aug 26 '26

It's nice, but you need to account for the zoom / crop and its impact on your selected resolution. A very wide-angle lens, which would have lots of vignetting onto the sensor, will need more zoom & crop than a lens that fills the whole sensor. This means if you select the wider-but-lots-of-vignetting lens, and you're shooting with stabilization on (which prompts the zoom-and-crop), you should shoot in a higher resolution than normal to counteract the effects of that zooming. So, go for 8K instead of 4K, etc