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I'm about to poick up a G1, and was wondering what success people have had with wide angle attachment lenses. I've pretty much ruled out Canon's own WA lens since it doesn't allow for a filter to be attached in front of it. The next consideration was Tiffen's solutions. Their GI lenses are 43mm based, and their only 43mm WA is .75x. However, they have a 37mm lense (for something else) that will give .56x. Presently I'm using a Nkon 35mm SLR and find at the 28mm setting of my 28-105, I wish I had a 20mm fixed lense. Canon's 38mm setting will drop to 28.5mm with the use of a .75x lense. If I can put a .56x lense on the G1 however, I can get down to 21mm or so. Has anybody had any success mixing and matching lense adapters and lenses form different companies or am I just asking for trouble?
Forums like these are priceless. A very sincere thank you to all who respond.

Mark
 
Mark,

Raynox do a W/A converter for the G1 giving an equiv of a 24mm lens with only a little barrel distortion and comes with its own lens adapter. Using video converters aren't a good idea as they tend to be blurry towards the edges of the photo.

Dave Cracknell cpc
James Place Cameras
Mark said:
I'm about to poick up a G1, and was wondering what success people
have had with wide angle attachment lenses. I've pretty much ruled
out Canon's own WA lens since it doesn't allow for a filter to be
attached in front of it. The next consideration was Tiffen's
solutions. Their GI lenses are 43mm based, and their only 43mm WA
is .75x. However, they have a 37mm lense (for something else) that
will give .56x. Presently I'm using a Nkon 35mm SLR and find at the
28mm setting of my 28-105, I wish I had a 20mm fixed lense. Canon's
38mm setting will drop to 28.5mm with the use of a .75x lense. If I
can put a .56x lense on the G1 however, I can get down to 21mm or
so. Has anybody had any success mixing and matching lense adapters
and lenses form different companies or am I just asking for trouble?
Forums like these are priceless. A very sincere thank you to all
who respond.

Mark
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I've tried almost all the currently available w/a adaptors for the G1 and find the Canon .8x the best of the crowd on the whole. Filters, if you use photoshop, except for maybe polarizers and infrared filters, are a thing of the past with digital as far as I'm concerned. Their effects can be duplicted with the software. Polarizers, BTW, with wide angles, at least for sky darkening purposes, are usually unsatisfactorially un-uniform. You'll love the Canon lens--it is very sharp and excellent color contrast...as opposed to all others except, perhaps the B-28 from Oly, which I have not tried (HAVE tried the A-28 and it is not as good). Good luck.

Gordon
Alllen said:
Mark said:
I'm about to poick up a G1, and was wondering what success people
have had with wide angle attachment lenses. I've pretty much ruled
out Canon's own WA lens since it doesn't allow for a filter to be
attached in front of it. The next consideration was Tiffen's
solutions. Their GI lenses are 43mm based, and their only 43mm WA
is .75x. However, they have a 37mm lense (for something else) that
will give .56x. Presently I'm using a Nkon 35mm SLR and find at the
28mm setting of my 28-105, I wish I had a 20mm fixed lense. Canon's
38mm setting will drop to 28.5mm with the use of a .75x lense. If I
can put a .56x lense on the G1 however, I can get down to 21mm or
so. Has anybody had any success mixing and matching lense adapters
and lenses form different companies or am I just asking for trouble?
Forums like these are priceless. A very sincere thank you to all
who respond.

Mark
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Gordon Macdonald said:
I've tried almost all the currently available w/a adaptors for the
G1 and find the Canon .8x the best of the crowd on the whole.
Filters, if you use photoshop, except for maybe polarizers and
infrared filters, are a thing of the past with digital as far as
I'm concerned. .................> Gordon
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Thanks Gordon. You guessed it right off. Polarizers are the only filter I'd put on a wide angle. I know I'm only scratching the surface of photoshop, and I'm sure there's a lot more to discover. Perhaps a simple gradient would do what I'm looking for? Thanks agin.

Mark
 
Dave Cracknell said:
Mark,
Raynox do a W/A converter for the G1 giving an equiv of a 24mm lens
with only a little barrel distortion and comes with its own lens
adapter. Using video converters aren't a good idea as they tend to
be blurry towards the edges of the photo.
Click to expand...
Thanks Dave. I've been to the Raynox site and found two types of wide angles. The "pro" series and the "regular". I know the .77x pro has a filter size on the front of 62mm, which will allow me to use my current polarizer. The lesser series doesn't mention what filter size is on the front. At least I can't find it! Thanks again for your reply.

Mark
 
Many people, myself included, will place a polarizing filter on the back of an add-on lens, and other than a slight increase in the likelihood of vignetting this works pretty well. The main thing is to get a good, well-made polarizer so that it can bear the weight of the lens. I use an Oly B-300 tele (1.7x) with a rear polarizer frequently, and I have had no trouble; I am also very careful about supporting the lens. No vignetting at full zoom, with UV and polarizer on a Lensmate.

--rhb
Mark said:
I'm about to poick up a G1, and was wondering what success people
have had with wide angle attachment lenses. I've pretty much ruled
out Canon's own WA lens since it doesn't allow for a filter to be
attached in front of it. The next consideration was Tiffen's
solutions. Their GI lenses are 43mm based, and their only 43mm WA
is .75x. However, they have a 37mm lense (for something else) that
will give .56x. Presently I'm using a Nkon 35mm SLR and find at the
28mm setting of my 28-105, I wish I had a 20mm fixed lense. Canon's
38mm setting will drop to 28.5mm with the use of a .75x lense. If I
can put a .56x lense on the G1 however, I can get down to 21mm or
so. Has anybody had any success mixing and matching lense adapters
and lenses form different companies or am I just asking for trouble?
Forums like these are priceless. A very sincere thank you to all
who respond.

Mark
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Mark said:
Dave Cracknell said:
Mark,
Raynox do a W/A converter for the G1 giving an equiv of a 24mm lens
with only a little barrel distortion and comes with its own lens
adapter. Using video converters aren't a good idea as they tend to
be blurry towards the edges of the photo.
Click to expand...
Thanks Dave. I've been to the Raynox site and found two types of
wide angles. The "pro" series and the "regular". I know the .77x
pro has a filter size on the front of 62mm, which will allow me to
use my current polarizer. The lesser series doesn't mention what
filter size is on the front. At least I can't find it! Thanks again
for your reply.

Mark
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Mark,

I'm trying to figure all this out myself and think I want a WA and tele eventually.
With help, I stumbled onto this site for Raynox lenses:
http://www.digitaletc.com/lenses/canon/crt-1800.asp

Let me know what your research comes up with ... I may just follow suit.
:) Linda
 
Mark said:
I'm about to poick up a G1, and was wondering what success people
have had with wide angle attachment lenses.
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The widest possible angle for a G1 is ....... photostitch, and it comes with the G1 free! Ok, its not the same thing and will not work for scenes that have lots of movement in them. But since it comes with the camera you should try it first! You can even use photostitch on macros. It is even possible, after you learn to do the overlaps without the camera prompting, to take the pictures in RAW (obviously not panorama mode, must be P, Av, Tv or manual) convert to TIFF and stitch together the TIFF files. Here is the thread describing this:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=999060
Regards, Mike K
 
richard said:
Many people, myself included, will place a polarizing filter on the
back of an add-on lens, and other than a slight increase in the
likelihood of vignetting this works pretty well.
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I was hoping that was possible. I'd rather pick up a 43mm polarizer than a 72mm one. As for vignetting, I suppose it's all experimentation. Unfortunately, no shops around here will have a 43mm polarizer lying about. Thanks for the input Richard.

Mark
 
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