In addition to daily use as a "pan-focus" lens featuring a wide angle, fixed f8 aperture and shallow depth of field, it is compatible with manual focusing using a lever and capable of close-up shooting as close as 30 cm.

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The BCL-15 f8.0 Body Cap Lens serves as a body cap when carrying the camera around without its interchangeable lens, and transforms to become a pan-focus snapshot lens to capture images.

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The aperture will adjust from F2.9 to F8 without any prompting, and the shutter will set itself anywhere from one-thirtieth of a second to one-one thousandth of a second.

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