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Panasonic DMW-GWC1 on the Olympus 12mm F2

Started Oct 4, 2015 | Discussions thread
vinyltap
vinyltap Forum Member • Posts: 72
Re: Panasonic DMW-GWC1 on the Olympus 12mm F2

Hithertoo wrote:

I'm going to assume that unless you get a converter that's really shallow in depth and really wide it's going to vignette badly because there's simply not enough zoom to overcome the depth of the average converter. It's the size of the accessory not the optics itself that is causing the vignette.

I've tried various wide adapters on my Panasonic LX7 which also has a 24mm lens and they all vignette badly whether they are Olympus or Canon or anything else. In the end 24mm is fairly wide, if you want to go wider you'll have to look at the Olympus 9-18 or Panasonic/Olympus 7-14.

Well put. Unlike the Pan 14 which Ive owned that accepts a variety of converters (I used a Sony), to my big dismay, the Oly 12 won't work with anything out there. I last tried the $160 Raynox. The converter will have to be crazy short...if someone wanted to mill & reattach it might work. Quite a few us would like ultra wide prime with decent aperture but...

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