herman_w Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Hope others will find this information helpful. On a tight budget for a wider angle lens, I did some expermenting. Bought a quality Olympus add on Wide Angle lens ( WCON-08)on Ebay for $10.00 and a step-down ring 58-55 and fitted to the Kit 18-55 lens. This gave me a 0.8 reduction in focal length.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimonkey Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 I am interested in this... Want to show us some pix before and after the attachment for comparison? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimonkey Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Looks like there's a fair amount of chromatic aberration, what do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herman_w Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 This may be a better example. Just shot this mounted on my 50mm 1.8<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bueh Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 No, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjb Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Some pix I took a while back. CA is too much for most but some may be happy. http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00KKxM HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jo7hs2 Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Well, it isn't as bad as I was expecting, but I wouldn't spend $10 on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars c Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 As if the kitlens isnt bad enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Michael Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 > As if the kitlens isnt bad enough.< Well it is all relative: I picked up my copy of the kit lens for about US$25 / AUS$44 , when I bought a 20D and a Flash and some memory. Having looked at both the photo attachements, IMO I am getting much much more than 4 times the value for money out of the kit lens, than I would out of the $10 wide angle gizzmo. But I would not buy a lens baby either, because there to me is no value for the dollar spent either. WW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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