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G10 + Lensmate + Canon 2x Tele-Converter (TC-DC58C)

Started Dec 23, 2008 | Discussions thread
OP Al Ruscelli Senior Member • Posts: 1,190
Re: More Photos of the Lensmate G10 Adapter Parts

Well...it seems as though the complexities associated with creating a good Lensmate adapter (or perhaps more appropriately, "adapter system") for the G10 were such that it far surpassed (in design concept and execution) the simpler single adapters of the past. A lot of questions were raised and speculations made about how the adapters would work, why they were set up as "multi-stage," how this affected wide versus telephoto photography, how the pieces and parts were supposed to work together, etc.

My main purpose for this thread was the discovery that one could indeed couple the old 2x converter with the new Lensmate adapter, which came as a big surprise to me. Again, I still might not be recognizing some obvious flaw in the use of the old 2x converter with the new adapters, but it seemingly works just fine (with only minor limitations that mirror the limitations of the adapters/converters used with the G9).

Ben Hermann started a related thread, but I didn't want the tele-converter aspect of this to be lost in his A+B Lensmate adapter thread, so I started a new one. Unfortunately, that also gave me an excuse to post more photos of the rest of the adapter parts....so I did.

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