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I got mine secondhand and it's the one from the old Olympus IS 35mm camera. It just screws on the end. It's only a factor of 0.8 but it's enough.
It has a huge piece of glass so quite useless in flash as it casts a shadow.
I understood when I got it that it was sort after by Canon owners!
 
mrk-mrk said:
Chris, Whats it mean when the wide angle is a .5x vs one that's .79x
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The UZI has an equivalent field of view (compared to a 35mm film camera) of a 38-380mm lens. If you put a .5x teleconverter lens on the UZI, you would have a field of view equivalent to a 17-170mm lens. However, whether such a lens will give you a good picture is a different question. Most of the 0.5x teleconverters were junk. The wide angle page I posted had a link to the 2 wide angle lenses I bought (Kenko KNW-075 and Tiffen), both of which were 0.75x lenses, and would give you roughly a field of view of 27.5-275mm. IIRC, the Tiffen was sharper at full wide angle, but was unusable at any zoom other than wide angle, while the Kenko was usable at all zoom levels. I don't use either my Kenko or Tiffen any more, and have been considering e-bay'ing them (assuming I can still find them). Email me if you want to talk about them....
 
I build cabinets and need the one you think will turn out the best pictures when taking a shot an E.T. center or kitchen. I saw one at a place called B&H it is a raynox hd-6600
 
mrk-mrk said:
I build cabinets and need the one you think will turn out the best
pictures when taking a shot an E.T. center or kitchen. I saw one
at a place called B&H it is a raynox hd-6600
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Back when I wrote my page about wide angle converters, I certainly thought about the hd-6600 since it came in a 49mm thread, but I never got one. According to the Raynox pages, it was made for a video camera rather than a digital camera, which might mean it might or might not mean anything in terms of the optics. However a lot of the cheaper tele-converters made for video cameras, didn't work as well for digital cameras, which needs more resolving power.

Another concern is that wide angle lenses often times bend straight lines, which might not be what you want to show off your cabinets. Some post processing software has the ability to straighten out the lines.
 
You have to be careful in choosing WA lens or telextenders for digital cameras. Many of those available are made for videocameras and don't have enough resolution for digicams with 2-Megapixels or more. I have a great old WA lens that I've used for years on S-VHS and Hi-8 camcorders.

But, when I tried it on my Olympus C-2100UZ, it lowered the optical resolution quite a bit. I'd stick with WA lenses that are marketed specifically for Megapixel still cameras or film cameras.

Now that I have a bunch of you C-2100UZ users cornered, will someone tell me if you can use a Smart-card that has more capacity than 64Mb?
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Steve McDonald
 
Hi

I have used the Olympus WCON-07 on my UZI with great results (as I remember). Actually I did not use it much as I am more a tele guy... ;-)
As mentioned on Michael WEB page you will need a stepup ring from 49mm to 55mm.

Kind regards Jørgen
http://www.pbase.com/jchriste
 
Jørgen Christensen said:
Hi
I have used the Olympus WCON-07 on my UZI with great results (as I
remember). Actually I did not use it much as I am more a tele
guy... ;-)
As mentioned on Michael WEB page you will need a stepup ring from
49mm to 55mm.

Kind regards Jørgen
http://www.pbase.com/jchriste
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I have a B28 which is now available as a Wcon 08... If you can find a B28 it'll be cheap compared to the Wcon but virtually identical...It works well too but the 07 would be a better slightly wider choice... One of the benefits of the Oly adapters is, they're all good enough to be good on more cams than not... The same cannot be said about a lot of other lenses... My B28 works as well or better on my Fz30 as it does on my C2100 & e100rs... Actually it even works well on my 8080 but with a slight vignette due to the 8080 being a 58mm thread... And for the $100 or less one can be had for it's not the most expensive choice niether... Be careful of some 08's though... some models are bayonet mounts for specific Oly cams that require a tube adapter... The D model is a bayonet mount specifically for the 8080 if I have my suffixes right.. If there's a B model it'll probably be a 63mm thread for the old E10/20 but that will still work too, just need to get a 49-63mm step up instead of the 49-55 needed for the B28 & regular 08 & 07....
The pickens are getting slim here

http://stores.ebay.com/Olympus-Auctions_Lens-Lens-Accessories_W0QQcolZ2QQdirZQ2d1QQfsubZ9QQftidZ2QQtZkm
There are both the 07 & 08 available

But it's official Oly & while they purport them to be refirb, for whatever reason, my b28 came brand new without so much as a fingerprint on it but be careful some bidders get so out-of-hand they end up paying higher than retail -list but more often than not a deal or at least the same price as available elsewhere is the more norm....

They have quite a selection today... Last week there were barely two items available & I haven't seen more than 1 page in quite a while...There used to be several pages of just lens adapters alone.... My B28 only cost me $35 complete in-spite of it being the same as the 08 that normally goes at least twice as high...

Ya might also try a general EBay search as well, if ya don't mind trying used... Or do a search on Google or shopper.com & you're sure to get some reputable "New" sellers as well as a few not so reputable... Check back here & run em through reseller ratings prior to buying if you have doubts about any of them...

I've ½ a mind to place a bid myself but, I'm really not all that W/A inclined & you need one more than I do.. No need to have another bidder drivin' your price up eh???

The 07x & 08x or (B) are all ok requiring either a 55 or 63mm stepring... Avoid the C & D due to thier being Bayonet mounts...
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Rossuziers said:
I have a B28 which is now available as a Wcon 08... If you can find
a B28 it'll be cheap compared to the Wcon but virtually
identical...It works well too but the 07 would be a better slightly
wider choice... One of the benefits of the Oly adapters is, they're
all good enough to be good on more cams than not... The same cannot
be said about a lot of other lenses... My B28 works as well or
better on my Fz30 as it does on my C2100 & e100rs... Actually it
even works well on my 8080 but with a slight vignette due to the
8080 being a 58mm thread... And for the $100 or less one can be had
for it's not the most expensive choice niether... Be careful of
some 08's though... some models are bayonet mounts for specific Oly
cams that require a tube adapter... The D model is a bayonet mount
specifically for the 8080 if I have my suffixes right.. If there's
a B model it'll probably be a 63mm thread for the old E10/20 but
that will still work too, just need to get a 49-63mm step up
instead of the 49-55 needed for the B28 & regular 08 & 07....
The pickens are getting slim here
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Ummm, I thought the E-10/E-20 has 62mm filter threads. There was a 0.8 Bcon for the E-10/E-20. If memory serves, it was a heavy teleconverter. I imagine it will work on the UZI, but I would hesitate to put it on a camera whose lens extended in/out.
 
You're probably right Mike.. No doubt 62mm it is..... But the c2100 has no such extending lens & it handles the pretty large B300 with no signs of collapse, not to mention this



& I did screw the slightly smaller but still too large for an extending lens, B28 on my 8080 but was real careful & made sure not to zoom the lens any to prevent it from extending with all that weight on it... but then again I wasn't suggesting the OP'r to do the same with an 8080... i was just using it as an example of it's quality even on a cam that one normally wouldn't associate with it... Granted not up to the 08D quality but I was pretty surprised it worked at all...
Michael Meissner said:
Rossuziers said:
I have a B28 which is now available as a Wcon 08... If you can find
a B28 it'll be cheap compared to the Wcon but virtually
identical...It works well too but the 07 would be a better slightly
wider choice... One of the benefits of the Oly adapters is, they're
all good enough to be good on more cams than not... The same cannot
be said about a lot of other lenses... My B28 works as well or
better on my Fz30 as it does on my C2100 & e100rs... Actually it
even works well on my 8080 but with a slight vignette due to the
8080 being a 58mm thread... And for the $100 or less one can be had
for it's not the most expensive choice niether... Be careful of
some 08's though... some models are bayonet mounts for specific Oly
cams that require a tube adapter... The D model is a bayonet mount
specifically for the 8080 if I have my suffixes right.. If there's
a B model it'll probably be a 63mm thread for the old E10/20 but
that will still work too, just need to get a 49-63mm step up
instead of the 49-55 needed for the B28 & regular 08 & 07....
The pickens are getting slim here
Click to expand...
Ummm, I thought the E-10/E-20 has 62mm filter threads. There was a
0.8 Bcon for the E-10/E-20. If memory serves, it was a heavy
teleconverter. I imagine it will work on the UZI, but I would
hesitate to put it on a camera whose lens extended in/out.
Click to expand...
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The Amateur Formerly Known as 'UZ'pShoot'ERS' 'Happy Shootin' Comments, Critique, Ridicule, Limmericks, Jokes, Hi-jackings, EnthUZIastically, Encouraged... I Insist!



* [email protected] * http://www.pbase.com/rrawzz * EffZeeThreeZero / CeeEightZeroEightZeroDoubleUZee / CeeTwoOneZeroZeroUZee / EOneHuderedAreEss
 
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