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Hi Kazutoku, thank you very much for posting your findings, they were very useful to me. Now I must find the best price for Tiffen lenses in England.

Question purely of interest: did the TC-DC58N allow any zoom adjustment before vignetting on the G2?
Thank you again
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Trevor.
 
Thank you for following up this thread. The answer to your question is 'YES'. I can zoom between 14mm - 21mm (G2 soom covers 7mm - 21mm) before vignetting when I use TC-DC58N.
T.A.N. said:
Hi Kazutoku, thank you very much for posting your findings, they
were very useful to me. Now I must find the best price for Tiffen
lenses in England.
Question purely of interest: did the TC-DC58N allow any zoom
adjustment before vignetting on the G2?
Thank you again
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Trevor.
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v(^o^) (^^)/
 
Dear Kazutoku San,

Your testing are most interesting. BTW, have you test Raynox WA DCR-6600PRO.

I find that when used with G2 at the widest setting and the camera at F2.0, there is significant chromatic abberation, and the resolution around edge is falling quite low.

Do you think it is common for WA convertors or this model is inferior?
kazutoku said:
Hi, I'm Kazutoku. My pages are often referred to by many people in
this forum. So I've just made some pages for G2. I checked whether
new Canon converter lenses TC-DC58N & WC-DC58N for G3 can be used
for G2. I've got interesting (or reasonable?) results. Please enjoy
my pages.

http://kazutoku.cside21.com/G1andG2/G3tele/index_eng.htm

http://kazutoku.cside.com/G3wide/index_eng.htm

My English G2 page
http://kazutoku.cside21.com/G1andG2/report1_eng3.htm

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v(^o^) (^^)/
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Alien L said:
Dear Kazutoku San,

Your testing are most interesting. BTW, have you test Raynox WA
DCR-6600PRO.

I find that when used with G2 at the widest setting and the camera
at F2.0, there is significant chromatic abberation, and the
resolution around edge is falling quite low.

Do you think it is common for WA convertors or this model is inferior?
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Thanks for your posting. I've never tested DCR-6000PRO, but I have a friend who conducted extensive tests on that lense. I'm not sure if he tested at f2.0, but it's worth visiting his page.

http://www.i-port24.com/G-Photo/ray066.htm

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v(^o^) (^^)/
 
Interesting!

Looks like the new tc-dc58n with its 1.75x tele is nice. That makes optical zoom of 7x. After looking at your pages, I was not sure if their was vignetting anywhere on the G3? Can you please confirm if their was any negatives or vignetting?

Thanks.
 
AndrewTX said:
Interesting!

Looks like the new tc-dc58n with its 1.75x tele is nice. That
makes optical zoom of 7x. After looking at your pages, I was not
sure if their was vignetting anywhere on the G3? Can you please
confirm if their was any negatives or vignetting?

Thanks.
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As for G3 and TC-DC58N, I can get good pictures. No vignetting.

Look at this page which is not yet tranlated into English.
But you can look at picutre itself. I compared TC-DC58N and B-300.

http://kazutoku.cside.com/G3tele/index.htm

Original files are here.

http://www.photohighway.co.jp/ImageView0.asp?key=826.524132&un=36823&m=2&pc=0&pos=1

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v(^o^) (^^)/
 
looking at the bigger images, the right image is b-300 or no? isn't that much clearer & sharper than the left image?
kazutoku said:
AndrewTX said:
Interesting!

Looks like the new tc-dc58n with its 1.75x tele is nice. That
makes optical zoom of 7x. After looking at your pages, I was not
sure if their was vignetting anywhere on the G3? Can you please
confirm if their was any negatives or vignetting?

Thanks.
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As for G3 and TC-DC58N, I can get good pictures. No vignetting.

Look at this page which is not yet tranlated into English.
But you can look at picutre itself. I compared TC-DC58N and B-300.

http://kazutoku.cside.com/G3tele/index.htm

Original files are here.

http://www.photohighway.co.jp/ImageView0.asp?key=826.524132&un=36823&m=2&pc=0&pos=1

--
v(^o^) (^^)/
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Many thanks indeed. It confirmed me that the Raynox is performing poorly on the widest X0.66 even at lower aperture. It may be more worthwide to stay with Canon though at higher price.
kazutoku said:
Alien L said:
Dear Kazutoku San,

Your testing are most interesting. BTW, have you test Raynox WA
DCR-6600PRO.

I find that when used with G2 at the widest setting and the camera
at F2.0, there is significant chromatic abberation, and the
resolution around edge is falling quite low.

Do you think it is common for WA convertors or this model is inferior?
Click to expand...
Thanks for your posting. I've never tested DCR-6000PRO, but I have
a friend who conducted extensive tests on that lense. I'm not sure
if he tested at f2.0, but it's worth visiting his page.

http://www.i-port24.com/G-Photo/ray066.htm

--
v(^o^) (^^)/
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AndrewTX said:
looking at the bigger images, the right image is b-300 or no? isn't
that much clearer & sharper than the left image?
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Sorry for a late answer. Yes, the right image is B-300.
But TC-DC58N gives us a clearer image than other 3rd party tele converters.

The price B-300 is very high now and difficutl to get. TC-DC58N is worth its price.

--
v(^o^) (^^)/
 
What is your impression about the G2 vs G3 vs 5700? What conclusions have you come to, if any?
kazutoku said:
Hi, I'm Kazutoku. My pages are often referred to by many people in
this forum. So I've just made some pages for G2. I checked whether
new Canon converter lenses TC-DC58N & WC-DC58N for G3 can be used
for G2. I've got interesting (or reasonable?) results. Please enjoy
my pages.

http://kazutoku.cside21.com/G1andG2/G3tele/index_eng.htm

http://kazutoku.cside.com/G3wide/index_eng.htm

My English G2 page
http://kazutoku.cside21.com/G1andG2/report1_eng3.htm

--
v(^o^) (^^)/
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hey,

i'm confused.

http://kazutoku.cside.com/G3tele/index.htm

on this link, you say the canon gives us clearer image than other 3rd party converters? isn't the right image (b-300) clearer than the canon? their apperas to be a lot of purple blurr around the blown up image on the canon and its not their on the olympus?

Maybe they were taken on different days? when i look at the full images, the sunlight looks brighter on the canon.

hope all this makes sense?

Take care!
kazutoku said:
Sorry for a late answer. Yes, the right image is B-300.
But TC-DC58N gives us a clearer image than other 3rd party tele
converters.
The price B-300 is very high now and difficutl to get. TC-DC58N is
worth its price.

--
v(^o^) (^^)/
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AndrewTX said:
hey,

i'm confused.

http://kazutoku.cside.com/G3tele/index.htm

on this link, you say the canon gives us clearer image than other
3rd party converters? isn't the right image (b-300) clearer than
the canon? their apperas to be a lot of purple blurr around the
blown up image on the canon and its not their on the olympus?

Maybe they were taken on different days? when i look at the full
images, the sunlight looks brighter on the canon.

hope all this makes sense?

Take care!
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You'll understand what I said if you look at this page.

http://kazutoku.cside.com/telecon/index.htm

I tested some tele converters on G3. As you know after looking at the page above, B-300 is best and TC-DC58 (for G2) and LD-20T are better. Other lenses are so so. After that test, I got TC-DC58N and compared it with B-300 on G3. Considering the result of all tests, I think that TC-DC58N is not as good as B-300, as good as TC-DC58 or LD-20T, and better than other 3rd party lenses, for example, Raynox 1.85x and so on. Therefore, TC-DC58N is relatively good one.

Does it make sense?

Forget about the original files page I listed because it includes some G2 and tele converters pictures and is misleading. Sorry for yoru confusion.

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v(^o^) (^^)/
 
Justme said:
What is your impression about the G2 vs G3 vs 5700? What
conclusions have you come to, if any?
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It's very difficult question. All cameras are good tools to take photos. If you don't need high macro abilty and high-powered zoom, take G2 or G3. These cameras give people very good images. G3 gives us a little wider dynamic range, a little higher resolution (though both are 4M pixels), good control. But it also givies a lot of CA to us especially in night scene. 5700 is all-in-one camera, that is, all-round player. Macro photos and high zoom photos are easily taken without any additonal lenses. The color of images is not as vivid as G2 or G3. This might be a matter of people's tastes. And one more thing is that all cameras are relatively slow in AF or replay of images. I think it's depends on your use which one you choose out of three cameras.
Justme said:
http://www.pbase.com/tulip_festival
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I watched photos. So impressive. Thank you for your pictures.

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