Canon or Olympus tele and wide lens for G3

I'm still looking for a tele and wide angle lens for my G3 and can't decide whether to go for the Canon TC-DC58N and WC-DC58N on a lensmate adaptor, or the Olympus TCON-17 and WCON -7 on a Canon G3 55mm adaptor. I've gone off the Kenko KNT tele and the Tiffen and Raynox wide angle because people have said about the vignetting and purple fringing on this forum, but I will get the Hoya macro set from lensmate. Can anyone help me decide? Where is the best place to buy them (I'm in the UK). Any samples would be helpful. Please treat this as a beginner query. Thanks in advance.

Hi Fran 63,

Fran 63 said:

I'm still looking for a tele and wide angle lens for my G3 and
can't decide whether to go for the Canon TC-DC58N and WC-DC58N on a
lensmate adaptor,

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...I have had these combi's: nice, crisp, clean.

See my website (G3 galleries) for samples: if lensadapter is used it is mentionned in the comments ;-))

Fran 63 said:

or the Olympus TCON-17 and WCON -7 on a Canon G3
55mm adaptor.

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..the Olympus and Canon are considered the best... either one will do, just let price and availability prevail here ;-))

...OTOH, there is NO SUCH THING as a 55mm G3 Canon Adapter: the Canon G3 adapter is 58mm.

To mount 55mm lenses, you'd have to use either a Lensmate 52mm adapter and stepupring, or a Canon OR Lensmate 58mm adapter and stepdownring ;-)), the Lensmate is available through Lensmateonline (could save order/shipping costs? ;-))

Fran 63 said:

I've gone off the Kenko KNT tele and the Tiffen and
Raynox wide angle because people have said about the vignetting and
purple fringing on this forum, but I will get the Hoya macro set
from lensmate.

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...another wise choice ;-))

Fran 63 said:

Can anyone help me decide?

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...see above ;-))

Fran 63 said:

Where is the best place
to buy them (I'm in the UK). Any samples would be helpful. Please
treat this as a beginner query. Thanks in advance.

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U R welcome, as I am in the Netherlands I wouldn't know a seller in UK... perhaps another poster can be helpfull here?

Kindest regards,

Max@Home
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http://www.pbase.com/max_at_home (mind you, use underscores!)

Thanks for your help Max, at least I'm on the right track ... at last. This is where I found out about the Canon 55 mm adaptor, they recommended it for the Olympus lenses.

Sorry, forgot to include the site! http://www.pemaraal.com/canon.html

Hi again, Fran 63,

Fran 63 said:

Sorry, forgot to include the site! http://www.pemaraal.com/canon.html

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...seems to be the backward-engineered brandless one, have heard about it's existence before, never saw a pic up till now ;-))

...it's your money, but I would stick with either Lensmate or Canon, their products are known good, Lensmate also has a very good aftersales-reputation (if anything is wrong, exchange it is easy and they do not fuss...)...

...it is the first time also I have heard of pemaraal.com...

;-)) ...but OK, for $15 perhaps they deserve the 'benefit of the doubt' ;-))

Again, my kindest regards,

Max@Home
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http://www.pbase.com/max_at_home (mind you, use underscores!)

The website was mentioned on this forum, way back, as a cheap site for Olympus lenses and mentioned the adaptor. But I think I'll stick with the tried and tested Lensmate ones!

Thanks again for your help Max.

I don't have a G3, but I have a G6 and I also have the Olympus wide and tele you mentioned. I use them with a lensmate 52mm adapter and 52-55mm step-up rings. I can highly recommended both of them. Between them I figure I have a 24.5 - 238mm range, that's 9.7 to 1. They neither cause any loss of light as far as I can tell.
....Fred

I just posted a Canon one on Ebay today.. mint condition. Had a G3.. bought a Pro 1 a couple of months ago.
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Am I correct in thinking that neither the Canon nor the Olympus tele and wide lenses have front threading? Therefore I would not be able to use filters or a lens hood etc with them? Is there any way around this? Or other good lenses that do have front threading? Thats gonna be a real pain in the bum for me :-(

Couple of shots via A95 and G6 with canon wide adaptors.
can post more if needed.

http://www.pbase.com/haunted_chipshop/image/42617328

I use the Canon Wc Dc58 and the oly tcon 17 on my G2 and am happy with both. Neither have filter threads but i have used a circular poloriser between the lenses. If you allow for vignetting when framing and crop later it works fine.

This was shot with the Tcon http://www.pbase.com/glisglis/image/42380101 and this with this with the WC Dc http://www.pbase.com/glisglis/image/23288219 both using the lensmate and a step ring.
Hope this helps Ian
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Great pictures Ian. Do you have any you can post that you took using the filter in between the camera and lens?